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CENTRE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES

Monday 8 February 2010

Beginning from 1 January 2010, the Department of Economics and International Studies has established a Centre for Global Studies. The existence of the Centre recognises the increasing interest in Global Studies at Buckingham following the successful creation of the MA programme in Global Affairs. New members of staff and visiting lecturers as well as Master's and DPhil students have deepened the presence of the subject area at the University, and the Centre is there to provide a central point for all in the University community whose work has a global dimension to it. The Centre is happy to provide a suitable background and address from which to construct grant applications, to be the host for any meetings or seminars that members of the Department may want to hold, and to enter into co-operative arrangements with other bodies across the world.

At Buckingham, the Centre has become the home of the MA programme in Global Affairs and will form part of a group of Centres which the research and graduate teaching interests of members of the Economics and International Studies Department have created: the Max Beloff Centre for the Study of Liberty and the Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (BUCSIS). The Centre for Global Affairs is also planning to introduce a series of short courses on Global Governance and on other aspects of Globalisation in the near future.

The Director of the Centre is Professor Richard Langhorne who has come to Buckingham as Professor of Global Politics after being Director of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University 1987-1993, Director of Wilton Park at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1993-1996 and the founding Director of the Graduate Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University in the USA 1996-2008. Among his publications are The Coming of Globalization (2001), The Practice of Diplomacy (with Keith Hamilton 1995, 2nd edition 2010), Diplomacy and Governance (2004), Diplomacy (with Christer Joensson, 3 volumes, 2004), The Essentials of Global Politics (2006).

Report by the Department of Economics and International Studies and the Web Team