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Dr Ted Svensson, who finished his PAIS Phd last year, has won the Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in International Relations/Comparative Studies for 2010.

The judges said :

This dissertation provides a theoretically rich and empirically informed examination of the complex processes that shaped the production of national independence and citizenship in India and Pakistan. By judiciously deploying critical social theory and skilfully interpreting extensive archival material, it is able to map the mythologies of state formation in political theory and the formation of state mythologies during the independence and partition processes on the sub-continent. The analysis of dynamics such as communal violence, diaspora networks, internal migration, class antagonisms, religious affiliation, and caste marginalisation reveal the ways that dominant mythologies shape the very limits of political possibility and representation within any nation-state. In doing so, this dissertation engages with vital questions about power, identity, authority, and authenticity in the mutually constitutive development of political structures and political identities. Moreover, at a time when the potential for dramatic constitutional change and socio-political transformation is once again emerging globally, one of the key implications of this study is to remind us of how any period of political transition produces opportunities and foreclosures, certainties and uncertainties, traditions and novelties, and practices of memorialisation and wilful forgetting. All are deployed in order to discipline the ambiguities of ‘foundational’ moments in politics, lest the radical contingency of constitutions, national identities, and the forms of authority they enable be revealed.

Congratulations, Ted!

Dear All,

I am delighted to be able to inform you that the has recently conferred the title of Academician upon Wyn Grant.

This is, of course, recognition of Wyn's highly distinguished scholarship and contribution to the Politics discipline, and especially through the .

I am sure you will join me in congratulating Wyn on this very prestigious achievement.

Chris

Christopher W. Hughes
Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies
Head of Department, Politics and International Studies

Stuart Croft has been appointed to the ESRC Council as the representative for the Politics and International Studies discipline.

ESRC Council members play a key role in deciding strategy, objectives and resource utilisation.

This is yet another mark of Stuart’s important standing as a scholar and in the profession, and will provide essential leadership for the discipline in a time of transition.

Each year PAIS sends 5-10 delegates to the annual International Studies Association Annual Convention; this year, we are sending no fewer than 16 to the convention in Montreal over 16-19 March.  This year's convention is entitled 'Global Governance: Political Authority in transition'. 

More information about ISA and the convention is available on the .

The application form and details on how to apply for ESRC Doctoral Training Centre scholarships are now available on the PAIS website.  The deadline for applications is 28 April 2011.

Check out the PhD Funding page for all the details!