DIRECTOR
Professor Mark Phythian

MANAGEMENT BOARD

Dr Annika Bergman-Rosamond
Dr Angus Cameron
Adam Quinn
Dr Simon Rofe
Dr Gillian Youngs

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Professor Cynthia Enloe
Clark University

Dr Lene Hansen,
University of Copenhagen

Professor James McCormick,
Iowa State University

Dr Shlomo Shpiro,
Bar Ilan University

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ENQUIRIES:

[email protected]

• Seminars 2008/09

CeDIS acts as a focal point for the Department’s research in international politics and international relations theory. It also provides a forum for the organisation, discussion  and dissemination of research in these areas, both nationally and internationally. Its immediate membership comprises staff from the Department of Politics and International Relations, but also staff in other departments in the University, such as Media and Communication Studies and Geography, who have shared research interests, giving the work of CeDIS a valuable interdisciplinary quality. However, CeDIS aims to reach out to a wider and international audience to inform and generate discussion of themes and issues in international politics. Its events are open to all.

CeDIS has hosted a range of academic seminars, workshops and conferences involving staff from Leicester and leading figures. Most recently these have included:

• The March 2005 Issues in American Foreign Policy conference. This resulted in the publication of two books:
   
  • David Ryan & John Dumbrell (eds.) Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Legacies and Ghosts (London, Routledge, 2007)
     
  • John Owens (ed.) America’s War on Terrorism: New Dimensions in US Government and National Security (Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2008)
     
• The November 2005 Church and British Foreign Policy conference, where the keynote address was given by the Secretary of State for International Development, the Rt. Hon. Hilary Benn, and the papers from which were collected together and published as:
   
  • Timothy Blewett, Adrian Hyde-Price and Wyn Rees (eds.) British Foreign Policy and the Anglican Church: Christian Engagement with the Contemporary World (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008)
     
• The May 2007 Christian Ethics and Military Practice conference, which brought together academics and practitioners from the Church, military and NGOs.

• The September 2006 US Foreign Policy and the ‘War on Terror’ conference, which marked the launch of the BISA Working Group on US Foreign Policy. CeDIS remains closely involved with the Group. Its newsletter, Argentia, is edited by CeDIS members Adam Quinn and Dr Simon Rofe.

Current Plans

CeDIS members are currently involved in organising a series of conferences focusing on Global Ethics in the 21st Century. The first of these, War, Ethics and Justice in a Post-9/11 World, will be held at the University on 9th June 2008. The event is part of a major research focus being developed at Leicester on war and the war on terror, ethics and justice, and includes an ESRC seminar series Gillian Youngs is currently running with Simon Caney (University of Oxford) and Heather Widdows (University of Birmingham) on Ethics and the War on Terror: Politics, Multiculturalism and Media.

It will be one of the first conferences to explore in an integrated way historical questions and theories of war and justice and recent issues raised by the so-called 'war on terror' and the war in Iraq. There are three main strands in the conference:

• National Military Ethics
• Intelligence Ethics
• Femininities, Masculinities and Difference

Further details and registration form