News Archive October 2007
29/10/2007
UACES Conference: Exchanging Ideas on Europe: Rethinking the European Union
Edinburgh, UK
1-3 September 2008
PANEL PROPOSAL
Call for Papers for a panel proposal on "Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU Democracy Promotion Efforts in the Middle East"
for the UACES Conference on Exchanging Ideas on Europe: Rethinking the European Union to be held in Edinburgh, UK, 1-3 September 2008.
Paper proposals for this panel must be made by 7 December 2007. Kindly send a title, a 150/200- word abstract, full postal address and notification if you are or are not a UACES member.
Panel Title: Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU Democracy Promotion Efforts in the Middle East
This panel brings together papers on key issues related to the field of EU democracy promotion in the Middle East which generally assumes or asserts a normative dimension. Papers will seek to explore these unchallenged assumptions and assertions which are of crucial importance in both the strategic and tactical pursuit of EU policy in this area and the perception of relevant social actors in the region itself. The main objective of this panel is to identify the self-understanding among EU policy actors of this normative driver of policy and how this understanding is received among actors in the Middle East region. Perceptions within the region of EU democracy promotion policies are undoubtedly negative across the board. Regimes ignore or resist them, liberal social actors question their sincerity and Islamist social actors perceive them to be a new form of colonialism with no credibility or legitimacy. This panel focuses in particular on the way such understandings and perceptions in the EU and the Middle East can be studied from various theoretically-informed and/or multidisciplinary perspectives.
Through its focus on the specific self-understanding of the normative dimensions of EU policy and how this understanding is interpreted by those who are the targets of its policy in the Middle East, this panel aims to bridge the gap between those studies which emphasise the prevalence of the EU's 'normativity' in its democracy promotion policies towards the Middle East and those which maintain that there are region-specific peculiarities for the lack of democratization in the region.
The main substantive focus of this panel is thus to explore the various ways in which International Relations and European Studies can foster an understanding of why the outcome of EU efforts at promoting democracy in the Middle East are inevitably poor and unproductive.
Dr Michelle Pace, Research Councils UK fellow
BISA Working Group on International Mediterranean Studies convenor
www.bisa.ac.uk/groups/ims/ims.htm; ERI seminar series convenor
www.eri.bham.ac.uk/seminars/seminars0708.htm; ERI post-graduate
admissions officer
http://www.eri.bham.ac.uk/study/PhD/PhDProspectiveStudents.htm;
Member, editorial board, Mediterranean Politics
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13629395.asp
European Research Institute
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK
Tel. +44 (0) 121 414 8222
Fax. +44 (0) 121 414 7329
Email: m.pace@bham.ac.uk
Web: http://www.eri.bham.ac.uk/pace/
28/10/2007
Joint Israeli – Palestinian Summer Programme
Joint Jewish-Christian-Muslim Summer Programme
A Religious Mosaic in the Holy Land
Political Science and Middle East Studies
Galillee College, Israel, July 2nd - August 5th, 2008
It is my pleasure to announce the official opening of registration to the Galillee College 2008 summer programmes.
The main goal of these programmes is to enable participants to form their unique personal impressions of the region, by providing a framework that allows for immediate and unfiltered exposure to the daily realities as experienced by the peoples in the region. Through lectures and study tours, participants will gain a better understanding of the range of responses offered by the religiously and ethnically varied populations to the complex issues routinely encountered in this region.
It would be appreciated if you could bring this programme to the attention of the students at your university. A limited number of tuition scholarships will be available to qualified candidates. Interested students should contact Ms. Shoshi Norman, the Programme Director via e-mail: snorman@galilcol.ac.il.
I thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Joseph Shevel, Galillee College President, Israel
26/10/2007
‘The Politics of Regional Identity. Meddling with the Mediterranean’ by Michelle Pace available in paperback
‘The Politics of Regional Identity. Meddling with the Mediterranean’ was selected for third group of politics titles to be made available in paperback as part of the Routledge Paperbacks Direct programme and is now available from the dedicated website.
Routledge Paperbacks Direct is a recent initiative that makes the best of Routledge hardback research publishing available in paperback format for authors and individual customers. It was formally launched in May 2006 with approximately 100 titles and Routledge are releasing more titles on a regular basis. The paperbacks will be sold to individuals via the dedicated website.
25/10/2007
RENCONTRES "CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES ET FORET MEDITERRANEENNE"
Après le succès des deux premières journées de visite, les inscriptions continuent pour le Colloque final qui aura lieu les 8 et 9 novembre 2007 à l'Hotel de Région à Marseille.
Déjà plus de 200 personnes sont inscrites, mais il reste encore des places :
Programme de ces journées et bulletin d'inscription:
http://www.foret-mediterraneenne.org/evts.htm
25/10/2007
Lecture: "Morocco's Islamists and the Parliamentary Elections of September 2007: The Strange Case of the Party That Did Not Win"
By Michael Willis, St Antony's College
Location: The Library, The Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford
On 31 October 2007 at 5.15 p.m.
All welcome
Michael J. Willis PhD
Mohamed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies
The Middle East Centre
St Antony's College
Oxford University
Oxford
OX2 6JF
UK
Telephone: (44) 01865 284753
Fax. (44) 01865 274529
23/10/2007
Bulletin of the Association d'Antropologie Mediterranee - new issue
http://adam.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/adam_news/numero_lettres//adam_news_40/adamNews_40.htm
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