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Spring Semester 2012

Classes start Monday, 20 February.

Prof Andonova wins grant

The Swiss National Science Foundation recently announced its decision to award funding to a research project headed by Professor Liliana Andonova entitled “Governance Entrepreneurs. International Organisations and Public-Private Partnerships”.
The project aims to produce a book-length work that will document and explain the rise of global public-private partnerships in the multilateral system and their impact on global governance objectives.

Events 

24 May 2012, 12.15-14h, VC 201

"Gangs of Dili: Authority and Order in an Urban Ghetto"
Colloquium with Jovana Carapic, IHEID
  
   
1 June 2012, 18.30h, Villa Barton

Political Science Annual BBQ at Villa Barton. Come and celebrate the end of the academic year and the beginning of summer at the annual Political Science bbq. The department will provide food and drinks, however feel free to bring along additional food and drinks.

Past Events

04 May, 10.15-12h
Colloquium with Michael Zürn, WZB: "International Authority and its Politization"

23 April, 12.15-14h
Colloquium with Peter Burgess, PRIO: "An Ethics of Security."

19 March, 12.15-14h
Colloquium with Jana Krause, IHEID: "Patterns of Ethno-Religious (Non)Violence: Comparative Findings from Indonesia (Ambon) and Nigeria (Jos)."

27 February, 12.15-14h
Colloquium with Lucile Eznack and Alessandro Nai, UNIGE

8 December, 12.15-14h
Colloquium with Elena Gadjanova: "Why recent Constructivist approaches to identity politics talk the talk without walking the walk and what to do about it."

23 November, 19:30h
Political Science Department Annual Fondue Dinner

18 December, 2011, 15.-16.45h
Colloquium with Andrew Hurrell, Oxford: "Emerging Powers and Global Order."

10 November, 2011, 12.15-14h
Colloquium with Rachelle Cloutier, IHEID: "The Ties that Bind? Liberal Democracies, Conflicting Norms & Foreign Policy Dilemmas".

20 October, 2011, 12.15-14h
Colloquium with Jonas Pontusson and Damian Raess, University of Geneva: "The Politics of Economic Crisis: Towards a Comparative Analysis of the 1970s and the Great Recession of 2008-09".  

30 September 2011, 14.15-16h
Colloquium with Stathis Kalyvas, Yale: "Did Marxism make a Difference? Marxist Rebellions and National Liberation Movements"

28 September 2011
Political Science Welcome Drinks

September 20, 12.15-14.00h
Colloquium with Barry O'Neill, Professor, UCLA: "Nuclear Weapons and Clear Lines"

Political Science Annual BBQ: Friday 3 June, Rigot courtyard from 6pm

Come and celebrate the end of the academic year and the beginning of summer at the annual Political Science bbq. The department will provide food and drinks, however feel free to bring along additional food and drinks.

May 26, 12.15-2pm: 
Colloquium with Vally Koubi, Professor, ETH Zurich.

Optional: Wednesday 25th May, 18h30 (AJF)
Seminar with Prof. Scott Barrett, University of Columbia: "Climate Futures: Institutions, Technologies, and Catastrophes"

http://graduateinstitute.ch/cies/home/calendar.html?evenementId=111187

Optional: Wednesday 11 May, 18h00-19h00 (CIES, Voie Creuse, 5th floor, 516)
Seminar with Jorg Balsiger, ETH-Geneva: "Regional governance in international environmental politics." 
http://graduateinstitute.ch/cies/home/calendar.html?evenementId=111186

Doctoral Retreat 2011

NB: All first and second year political science doctoral students must attend both retreat sessions.

Session 1: (Complete)

Session 2: 13 May 2011

Location: Salle 6, John Knox Centre

Presentations by second-year students 
15 page paper to be submitted prior to the retreat (exact due date to be confirmed)

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May 5, 12.15-2pm:
Colloquium with James Der Derian, Professor at Watson Institute for International Studies, “11/9, 9/11 and 2/11:  ‘To write history means giving dates their physiognomy.’”

Optional: April 19, 4.15-6pm (CCDP, in Rothschild):
Colloquium with Ned Lebow, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, “Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations.”

Optional: Monday 4 April 12:15–14:00 UniMail M4276
A PhD session by Heidrun Bohnet (Université de Genève) entitled "Refugee Settlement Patterns and Conflict: Security Implications for Refugees and Hosts." Discussant: Jérôme Elie.

Optional: Wednesday 6 April 12:15–14:00 UniMail M4276
A workshop session with Gary Marks entitled "From Federalism to Multilevel Governance: Estimating and Explaining the Territorial Structure of Government." Discussant: TBA.

Optional: Monday 11 April 12:15–14:00 UniMail M4276
A workshop session with David Chandler (University of Westminster) entitled "From the External World to the Inner World: Rethinking 'Human-centred' or 'Agent-centred' Understandings of Development and Conflict." Discussant: Annabelle Lever.

Optional: Wednesday 13 April 12:15–14:00 UniMail M4276
A workshop session with Laurent Tischler (Université de Genève) entitled "(Dé)tendre la grammaire normative pour penser la lutte contre les discrimations (à l'embauche): le cas de la Suisse." Discussant: Annabelle Lever.

Thursday April 14, 12.45pm-2pm Rigot R*:
Colloquium with Pierre Allan, Professor of Political Science at UNIGE, “Is a Just Peace Possible Without Thin and Thick Recognition?"

Optional: Monday 18 April 12:15–14:00 UniMail M4276
A PhD session with Roy Gava (Université de Genève) entitled "The Politics of Swiss Banking Regulation." Discussant: Jonas Pontusson.

Optional: Wednesday, 16 March (12:15–14:00, UniMail M4276)
A workshop session by Johannes Lindvall (Lund University) entitled “The Reform Capacity of Coalition Governments”. The discussant will be Pascal Sciarini.

Optional: March 23, 6pm (CIES)
Colloquium with Thomas Bernauer, Professor of Political Science at ETH Zurich, "Climate Variability, Economic Growth, and Civil Conflict."

March 24, 12.15-2pm (Rigot, R3)
Colloquium with Dr. Basak Cali, Visiting Scholar, “The Motivational Landscape of Compliance: An Analysis of Human Rights Judgments in Europe.”

March 3, 12.15-2pm:
Colloquium with Nicolas Onuf, Visiting Professor, “Relative Strangers: Reflections on Hospitality, Social Distance, and Diplomacy.” 

Doctoral Retreat 2011

Session 1: 25 February 2011

Location: Villa Moynier

Presentations by first-year students
10 page paper to be submitted prior to the retreat (exact due date to be confirmed)

Professor Sandra Lavenex, University of Lucerne

18:30 Thursday 9 December 2010

Theme: "The EU as a functionalist Hegemony"

Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, 132 rue de Lausanne, Site Barton

No registration required

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Dr. Daisy Ebeniro, Visiting Scholar

14:15-18:00 Monday 6 December 2010

"The Role of Women in Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria"

Pavillon Rigot, R2

International Relations/Political Science Annual Fondue Dinner

7:30pm Thursday 2 December 2010

Where: Cave Valaisanne, Plainpalais

Cost: Students: 30 CHF per person;  Faculty: 37.65 CHF per person

RSVP required with payment by 6pm Monday 29 November to Nell Williams in office Rigot 38 (available on Mondays 4-6pm and Wednesdays 10-12).

Amélie Barras, LSE/Université de Genève and Xavier Guillaume, Université de Genève

12:15-14:00 Monday 29 November

Workshop: "The Safety of Authenticity: Ali Kebap and the Swiss Political Imaginary of Foreignness"

Salle M4276, University of Geneva

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Professor Christian Reus-Smit, European University Institute

16:15 - 18:00 Monday 22 November 2010, Rigot 2

"Individual Rights and the Making of the State System"

Pavillion Rigot, R2

Dominic Rohner, University of Zurich

Monday 15 November 2010, UNIGE (room tbc)

Theme: "Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War;" co-authored with Massimo Morelli, Columbia University / EUI

Discussant: Simon Hug

Professor Gary Goertz, University of Arizona

12:15 - 14:00 Thursday 11 November 2010, Rigot 2

Theme: "Descriptive-Causal Generalizations: 'Empirical Laws' in the Social Sicences?"

Robert Keohane, Professor of International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Tuesday 2 November 2010, 18:30 (Public lecture - registration not required)

"The Regime Complex for Climate Change: Inaugural lecture of the Centre for International Environmental Studies"

Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, 132 rue de Lausanne, Site Barton

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Political Science Doctoral Seminar with Robert Keohane, Professor of International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Tuesday 2 November 2010, 14:15-16:00

Theme: Research

Attendance required for first-year Political Science doctoral students, and open to other Political Science doctoral students. All students must read the assigned readings prior to the seminar.

Room S2, Villa Barton

Roland Paris, Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa, University Research Chair in International Security and Governance.

Friday 29 October 2010, 14:30-16:00 (no registration required)

"The Irrelevance of 'Policy Relevance'? Academic Research and Policymaking on Fragile States."

The discussion will chaired by Professor Keith Krause, Professor and Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP).

Room CV 201, 16, rue de la Voie Creuse, Site Voie-Creuse, Geneva

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Political Science Welcome Drinks 2011

Thursday 30 September, 6pm 
Pavillon Rigot (courtyard if great weather, R2 if not so great)