The Constitutional Issues surrounding devolution in the UK

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Iain McLean, Professor of Politics and fellow of Nuffield College, the British Academy and the Royal Society Edinburgh, has published widely on constitutional issues. His Whats wrong with the British Constitution? co-won the WJM Mackenzie Prize for the best politics book of the year, and he was a member of the Independent Expert Group advising the Calman Commission on Scottish Devolution. McLean is joined by Professor Will Hutton.

Going into Politics? Tales from an Academic in Westminster

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Professor Marc Stears reflects on his experiences. Marc Stears is a Professor of Political Theory and fellow at University College. He is the author of Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics and is one of the co-editors of the widely discussed The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox. He is currently visiting fellow at Britains leading think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, and he works closely with many of Britains most prominent politicians on questions of political strategy and communication.

Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Facebook Revolution? Social Media as Orientalist Mediation

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Miriyam Aouragh examines the useful and useless roles of the internet in the Arab revolutions by critically revisiting mainstream narratives on its role.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Fear of Tahrir: Turkish Perspectives on the Egyptian Revolution

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Kerem ktem presents a critical reading of Turkish public debates and the policies of the ruling party in Turkey on the Egyptian revolution.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Contesting Democracy: Discursive Patterns Before and After the Egyptian Uprising

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Andrea Teti critiques European discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Revolutionary Egypts Relations with Surrounding States: Internal Transformation, External Realignment and Regional Security

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Fred Lawson examines the reconfiguration of Egyptian foreign policy since the revolution, particularly with respect to relations with Iran and Ethiopia.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Panel 5: Competing Visions of Tahrir: Trickster: Taufiq Ukasha, the Perpetuation of Liminal Crisis and the Shaping of Counter-revolutionary Discourse

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Walter Armbrust examines the counter-revolution through the lens of television talk show host Taufiq Ukasha, a trickster prone to generating perverted forms of social knowledge.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

Panel 5: Competing Visions of Tahrir: In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypts Ongoing Social Drama

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Mark Peterson examines meaning construction and the iterations of Tahrir Square gatherings in the unfolding experience of the ongoing revolution.

An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.

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