The latest research news from around the School of Government and Society.
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- This podcast was part of the workshop on Somalia: Negotiating the balance between 'African Solutions' and international responses. This presentation by Professor Paul Williams (George Washington University) focused on how actors outside the continent have responded to crises in Somalia and particularly their support for AMISOM, outlining the challenges to AMISOM which remain for the most part unresolved.
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- Tuesday 4th September 2012
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- The School of Government and the Institute of Conflict, Cooperation and Security (ICCS) recently (11 July 2012) hosted an event on Somalia: Negotiating the balance between 'African Solutions' and international responses.
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- Thursday 30th August 2012
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- This podcast was part of the workshop on Somalia: Negotiating the balance between 'African Solutions' and international responses. This presentation by Jonathan Fisher (Research Fellow, IDD, University of Birmingham) linked to a previously published paper by Jonathan in African Affairs (July 2012) which explored the reasons for Uganda's 2007 intervention in Somalia as part of AMISOM.
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- Thursday 30th August 2012
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- This podcast was part of the workshop on Somalia: Negotiating the balance between 'African Solutions' and international responses. This presentation by Dr Knox Chitiyo (Chatham House) reflected on African involvement in responding to crises in four case studies.
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- Thursday 30th August 2012
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- Stephen Jeffares discusses studying doctoral research at the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham.
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- Tuesday 28th August 2012
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- Giving up on international negotiations over the Iranian nuclear issue would be a tragic mistake, write Dani Nedal and Nicholas J. Wheeler. This article is part of our securities studies research agenda series.
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- Thursday 23rd August 2012
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- The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2011 co-edited by Dr Tim Haughton (CREES, Government and Society) has just been published.
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- Wednesday 22nd August 2012
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- Professor Tony Bovaird of INLOGOV has joined the research team of Grant Thornton and ECOTEC Research and Consulting (now Ecorys), which has been commissioned by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to conduct a three-year Meta-Evaluation of the Impacts and Legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
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- Thursday 16th August 2012
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- Little more than a year after its secession from Sudan, South Sudan remains crippled by twin economic and security crises. Leaders north and south of the new international border need to rise to the challenge of reaching a comprehensive settlement, writes Professor Stefan Wolff.
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- Wednesday 15th August 2012
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- Dr Tim Haughton (CREES) wrote an article entitled, An SUV on a Road to Nowhere? Solidarity, Unanimity and Vulnerability in the European Union for the Johns Hopkins University SAIS's Center for Transatlantic Relations.
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- Tuesday 14th August 2012