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11 June 2010 |
Conference in Honor of Robert Jervis
 Together with the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace (Columbia University New York) the Institute of Political Science organized a conference in honor of Robert Jervis's 70th birthday. The contributions to the conference will shortly be made available in form of a Festschrift. The conference was held at the Kelogg Center, New York City.
Download conference poster (PDF) with authors and titles of all contributions...Photo: Robert Jervis, Thomas Schelling, James Davis (f.l.t.r.)
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20 May 2010 |
James Davis comments on European Bailout Protection Act
"I think what you see is the Republican Party trying to mobilise its base, trying to find issues it can use to discredit the Obama administration," Professor James W. Davis says in a Deutsche Welle interview.
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15 April 2010 |
James Davis at the Sicherheitspolitisches Forum Tübingen
Professor James W. Davis, head of the IPW-HSG, contributes a lecture on „Global Zero – Wünschenswert und Machbar?“ to the Sicherheitspolitisches Forum Tübingen, organized by the Academic Association for Security Studies.
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3 April 2010 |
Distinguished NMUN Delegation
 A BIA elective course taught by Kaspar Schiltz and Ulrike Baumgaertner allowed 14 participants from the University of St. Gallen to participate in the "National Model United Nations", representing Iceland at the U.N. headquarters in New York. During one week, more than 2'000 students from around the world  discussed solutions for pressing problems of global politics.
The delegation successfully introduced a couple of resolutions and was decorated with two awards, one for their "Outstanding Position Papers" and one as a "Distinguished Delegation".
The deadline for next year's application is June, 7, 2010. Please visit www.nmun.ch for more information.
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16 March 2010 |
ISS Forum: James Davis elected to Advisory Board
Professor James W. Davis, head of the IPW-HSG, has been elected to the Advisory Board of the International Security Studies Forum (ISSF), a collaboration among the International Studies Association's International Security Studies Section (ISSS), the journals International Security, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, and H-Diplo to promote the discussion of recent journal articles and new books on international security studies topics through a series of article reviews, roundtable reviews of books, roundtable forums, and essays.
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8 February 2010 |
Daniele Caramani: Methodology in comparative media studies
Professor Daniele Caramani, head of the IPW-HSG, contributes a lecture on "Small-N Comparison: Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Fuzzy Sets and Boolean Algebra" to the Zukunftswerkstatt 2010: Methodik vergleichender Medienforschung organized by the Ulrich Saxer Foundation (IPMZ, University of Zurich).
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5–7 Feb. 2010 |
James Davis at the Munich Security Conference
 Professor James W. Davis, head of the IPW-HSG, participated in the Munich Security Conference and chaired the 5th Transatlantic Forum at the CSU party headquarters on February 5th with high-ranking members of the transatlantic security community.
Photo: Professor James W. Davis confers with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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26 January 2010 |
NATO in Afghanistan and Pakistan
A transatlantic and non-partisan group of foreign and security policy experts including IPW-Director James W. Davis releases its first report on Mobilizing NATO for Afghanistan & Pakistan.
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23 January 2010 |
James W. Davis: Kritik an der Afghanistan-Strategie
"The U.S. and Europe mistake the means for the ends all the time", Professor James W. Davis says in an article published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Download PDF...
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18 January 2010 |
James W. Davis and Miriam Meckel: Web Campaigning in Germany and the U.S.
„Was im Wahlkampf das Erfolgsrezept der Obama-Kampagne war, scheint in der realen Politik zum Stolperstein für den Präsidenten zu werden“, Professors Miriam Meckel and James W. Davis noticed in today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Download PDF (article in German)...
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13 January 2010 |
CLEA: New data release
The new data release of the Constituency-Level Election Archive (CLEA) is now online and can be accessed from http://www.electiondataarchive.org/. The dataset and documentation currently include 590 elections from 34 countries. Future releases are being planned that will include more countries and additional elections.
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8-11 Jan. 2010 |
Daniele Caramani at Stanford University
Professor Daniele Caramani presented a paper at a workshop on "The Origins of Institutions in Europe" at Stanford University and gave a presentation at the research seminar of the Department of Political Science.
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16/17 Dec. 2009 |
Advances in Comparative Methodology: Daniele Caramani in Dublin
Professor Daniele Caramani taught a two-day course for the European Foundation on "Advances in Comparative Methodology" at the Business School of University College Dublin (Industrial Relations and Human Resources Group).
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6-8 December 2009 |
The New World (Dis)Order? James Davis in Munich
Professor James W. Davis presented a paper "Ontological Disorder? Non-Traditional Threats to the Security of the State" at a conference "The New World (Dis)Order? Old Problems – Realist Answers" sponsored by the University of the Armed Forces Munich and the Academy for Politics and Current Affairs of the Hanns-Seidel Foundation.
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12 November 2009 |
Daniele Caramani and Oliver Strijbis participate in NCCR Workshop
Professor Daniele Caramani, head of the IPW-HSG, and Oliver Strijbis took part in the NCCR Democracy workshop in Berne and presented a paper entitled "What's the Denomindator? Political Representation and the Restructuring of Political Boundaries".
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4 November 2009 |
Innocence at the Expense of Responsibility
Professor James W. Davis, head of the IPW-HSG, gives a talk on "The (Good) Person and the (Bad) Situation: Rescuing Innocence at the Expense of Responsibility" at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
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2/3 November 2009 |
 Governing Private Security: Perspectives on the Public/Private Divide
A workshop on "Governing Private Security: Perspectives on the Public/Private Divide" has been co-organised by C SET-IPW and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
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1 November 2009 |
Kick-off post-graduate school Berne/Fribourg Gender Prescripts and Transcripts
Christine Scheidegger participated in the kick-off session of the post-graduate school Berne/Fribourg Gender: Prescripts and Transcripts. During three years the post-graduate school supports PhD students beside their disciplinary education in their doctorate with an additional interdisciplinary specialisation in Gender Studies. Homepage...
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22 October 2009 |
Democracy in the 21st Century
Upon invitation of the Mayor of Leipzig, Professor James W. Davis, Head of the IPW-HSG, delivered an introductory address at the first International Leipzig Conference on Democracy.
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September 2009 |
Grants for SNF Research Projects
Professor Daniele Caramani received a three-year grant from the Swiss National Foundation for the project "Democratisation and the Emergence of Responsive Party Systems in Latin America" (project in collaboration with Simon Bornschier). Furthermore, the NCCR-SNF project on "Supra-National Democratisation in the European Union" was extended for a further four years (starting a collaboration with Kurt Imhof and Jens Lucht of the the Forschungsbereich Öffentlichkeit und Gesellschaft, University of Zurich).
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12 September 2009 |
Swiss Inter-Cantonal Politics: Silvano Moeckli in Solothurn
Professor Silvano Moeckli delivered a keynote speech at the annual conference of the Société Suisse pour les questions parlementaires/Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Parlamentsfragen in Solothurn which focused on the possibility of democratic deficits in inter-cantonal and inter-communal cooperation. An extended version of his talk is now available online. Download... (PDF in German)
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10-12, 15-26 Sept. |
Ethnic Party Mobilization
Oliver Strijbis took part in the 5th ECPR General Conference in Potsdam and presented a paper co-authored with Michal Kotnarowski, University of Warsaw, on "How to Measure Ethnic Party Mobilization". From September 15th to September 26th, he will attend the ECPR Standing Group Summer School on 'Political Parties and European Democracy' in Florence and present a paper on "Survival or Revival? The Electoral Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities in Europe since 1918".
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7-8 Sept. 2009 |
A Memorial for German Heroes?
On Sepember 7th an article entitled "Ein Nationalfriedhof für deutsche Helden" by Prof. James W. Davis was published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). The following day Professor Davis was interviewed by DeutschlandRadio. Listen or read...
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3-6 Sept. 2009 |
The Europeanisation of Electoral Politics
Prof. Daniele Caramani took part in the APSA Panel on Modeling Party Performance over Time and Space and presented a paper on "The Europeanisation of Electoral Politics: An Analysis of Converging Voting Distributions in 30 European Countries, 1970-2008".
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10-15 July 2009 |
Future Challenges to Comparative Politics
Professor Daniele Caramani participates to IPSA's World Congress (Santiago de Chile) in a panel on Future Challenges to Comparative Politics. He is presenting a paper entitled "Of Differences and Similarities: Is the Explanation of Variation a Limitation to (or of) Comparative Analysis?" The proceedings will be published in European Political Science in 2010.
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22 June 2009 |
Barack Obama and Transatlantic Relations
Professor James W. Davis moderated a panel discussion at the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich on the occasion of the publication of a new book edited by Dr. Reinhard C. Meier-Walser which is devoted toward the analysis of the impact of the foreign policy agenda of U.S. President Barack Obama on transatlantic relations. The book includes a chapter by James W. Davis, "Washingtons Krieg gegen den Terror – Lehren aus den Fehlern der Bush-Administration". The full text can be downloaded from here.
 Reinhard C. Meier-Walser (Hrsg.) (2009). Die Außenpolitik der USA. Präsident Obamas neuer Kurs und die Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen. München: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.
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19-21 June 2009 |
Comparing EU Policies: Transport Policy
Dirk Lehmkuhl attends the first workshop of the project on The Joint-Decision Trap: Comparing EU Policies at the Institute of European Integration Studies (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Vienna. Professor Lehmkuhl is in charge of the Transport Policy part of the project.
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18 June 2009 |
Explaining U.S. Support for Dispute Settlement Mechanisms
At a conference "Valuing International Trade Rules", organized under the auspices of the World Bank in honour of Prof. Heinz Hauser, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of St. Gallen, Prof. James W. Davis and his co-author Prof. Andrew P. Cortell (Lewis & Clark College) presented a paper: "Valuing International Trade Rules: Explaining U.S. Support for Dispute Settlement Mechanisms".
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17-18 June 2009 |
Understanding Regional Democracy: The Constituency-Level Elections Archive
Daniele Caramani and Oliver Strijbis participate to a conference on "Understanding Regional Democracy" (part of ESRC seminar series on "Democracy After the Nation-State") at the European University Institute in Florence, June 17-18. They are presenting the project on "Constituency-Level Elections Archive", an enterprise of the Institute of Political Science (IPW-HSG) in collaboration with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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12-14 June 2009 |
Russia, China, and the Structure of World Politics
Together with Professors Steven Walt and Richard Cooper of Harvard University, IPW-Director Prof. James W. Davis delivered an analysis of the implications of current developments in Russia and China on the structure of world politics at a conference organized by Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in Talloires, France.
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12-13 June 2009 |
The Transformation of Football in Europe. A Case of Europeanisation?
Dirk Lehmkuhl and Olivier Siegrist attended an author's workshop at the University of Amsterdam. They are in charge of the section on Swiss Football.
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Mai 2009 |
Silvano Moeckli: Das politische System der Schweiz verstehen
An accompanying exercise book to Professor Silvano Moeckli's successful monograph on the Swiss political system has been published in May, 2009.
 Moeckli, Silvano (2. Aufl. 2008). Das politische System der Schweiz verstehen. Wie es funktioniert – Wer partizipiert – Was resultiert. Altstätten: Tobler Verlag.
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May 2009 |
Political Data Yearbook
Professor Daniele Caramani, head of the IPW-HSG, has been appointed Co-Editor of the Political Data Yearbook. He will serve as Co-Editor with Tim Bale, University of Sussex, for two years beginning from September, 2009.
 The Political Data Yearbook is an annual special issue of the European Journal of Political Research.
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1-5 May 2009 |
Matthias Meyer-Schwarzenberger in Linköping
Matthias Meyer-Schwarzenberger presented a poster at a ESF Conference on 'Post-crisis States Transformation: Rethinking the Foundations of the State' in Linköping, Sweden.
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6-7 March 2009 |
Daniele Caramani in Berlin: In Honour of Peter Flora
In honour of Peter Flora, Daniele Caramani (IPW-HSG) co-organized a symposium on "Comparing the Trajectories of European Societies" with Jens Alber (WZB Berlin) and Stein Kuhnle (Hertie School Berlin). Professor Flora, a pioneer in the field of comparative historical sociology, turned 65 on March 3, 2009.
At the symposium Professor Caramani presented a paper on Electorates and Party Systems in Europe.
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26 February 2009 |
Oliver Strijbis at the Polish Public Opinion Research Center
Oliver Strijbis and Michal Kotnarowski present a paper on "How to measure ethnic party support with constituency electoral data?" at the Polish Public Opinion Research Center, Warsaw.
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7-8 February 2009 |
James W. Davis attends Munich Security Conference
Professor James W. Davis, head of the IPW-HSG, attended the Munich Security Conference and chaired the fourth CSU Transatlantic Forum in the run-up to the conference.  Panelists included James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State, USA; Amb. Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative of the United States of America for Afghanistan and Pakistan; Amb. Kurt Volker, Permanent Representative of the US to NATO; the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence of Canada; Dr. Franz Josef Jung, Minister of Defense, Germany; Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Member of the German Parliament and newly appointed Minister of Commerce and Technology; Christian Schmidt, Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Berlin.
During the conference, US National Security Advisor, Gen. James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.) called for restructuring NATO from a purely defensive to a security alliance more attuned to the challenges of the 21st century. Prior to his appointment by President Barack Obama to the National Security post, Gen. Jones was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute's Centre for Security Economics and Technology (CSET) (see 1 December 2008).
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8-9 January 2009 |
 SPSA Annual Congress 2009 at the University of St. Gallen
For the first time after 38 years, the Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA) was hosted by the University of St. Gallen. More than 120 political scientists from all political science departments at Swiss universities gathered on the University's campus to present and discuss their recent and ongoing research projects and results. The topics of the workshops included European studies, electoral behaviour, the welfare state, international relations, political theory, as well as research methodology.
 The conference was crowned by a plenary session with Peter J. Katzenstein, Professor for International Studies at Cornell University. A long-serving pioneer of his discipline, Professor Katzenstein delivered a far-reaching keynote lecture on Global Governance and the co-existence of civilisations.  His theoretical and methodological criticism of the famous "Clash of Civilizations" hypothesis allowed Professor Katzenstein to elaborate on the current financial crisis from an unorthodox viewpoint. A panel of discussants, chaired by James W. Davis, reacted to his statements: Thomas J. Biersteker (Graduate Institute, Geneva), Francis Cheneval (Oxford University) and Katharina Michaelowa, University of Zurich.
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18 December 2008 |
Daniele Caramani at University College Dublin
Professor Caramani was invited as guest lecturer at University College Dublin – School of Business. He co-taught a continuing education course with Dr. Roland Erne in the Industrial Relations group on "Designing International and Comparative Employment Relations Research". Participants to the course were researchers of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions (Eurofund), a EU body.
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4 December 2008 |
Daniele Caramani visits the University of Leiden
Professor Daniele Caramani, Head of the IPW-HSG, will give a Brown Bag Lunch talk at the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden: "Of Differences and Similarites: Is the Explanation of Variation a Limitation to (or of) Comparative Politics?"
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1 December 2008 |
Gen. James L. Jones, Member of the CSET Advisory Board, Named Barack Obama's National Security Advisor
US President-elect Barack Obama named his National Security and Foreign Policy Team in Chicago today. General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.) a member of the International Advisory Board of the  Centre for Security Economics and Technology (CSET) at the Institute of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, was named National Security Advisor. General Jones was an officer in the the US Marine Corps for 40 years and served as Commandant from 1999 through 2003. From 2003 through 2006 he was NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. After his retirement from the Marines, Jones became Chair of the Bard of the Atlantic Council of the United States, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce's Energy Institute, and joined the Board of Directors of The Boeing Company. With his appointment to the new US Administration General Jones will leave the CSET Advisory Board effective immediately. CSET is proud of its association with General Jones, is pleased with his new appointment, and wishes him all success in his new position.
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November 2008 |
Daniele Caramani: Comparative Politics – Reprint available now
Professor Caramani's edited textbook on Comparative Politics, first published in January, was already out of stock in the summer. It is now available again. The collection of introductory essays by renowned political science authors comes with a comprehensive Online Resource Centre.
 Daniele Caramani (2008), Comparative Politics. London: Oxford University Press.
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19. November 2008 |
Ulrike Baumgärtner at the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
Ulrike Baumgärtner held a seminar on "Friede durch Entwicklung" (peace via development) at the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen.
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11 November 2008 |
Professor Caramani visits Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies
Professor Daniele Caramani visited the Institute for Advanced Studies and delivered a guest talk on "The Integration of European Electorates and Party Systems: Nationalisation and Europeanisation Compared".
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8 November 2008 |
How Did the «Black Kennedy» Beat the Clinton Machine?
In a number of newspaper articles and interviews Professor James W. Davis has commented on the US presidential election. In the Samstagsinterview, Der Bund published on November 8 Professor Davis states: "Er hat die Clinton-Maschine besiegt. Das war die grösste Leistung, weil die Clintons über viele Jahre eine gut funktionierende Organisation aufgebaut hatten, mit einem Netzwerk in ganz Amerika."
In the St. Galler Tagblatt of November 6 Professor Davis comments: "Die Entscheidung, die Rassenfrage zu thematisieren, hat sich [...] als richtig und weitsichtig erwiesen. Eine Mehrheit der Amerikaner nahm seine Botschaft wohlwollend auf.
On swissinfo.ch, November 5, Professor Davis expresses the hope that "we certainly have turned a page in history and can start to look forward to a very different and positive future."
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7 November 2008 |
Ulrike Baumgärtner at the University Tübingen
Until Dezember 13, 2008 Ulrike Baumgärtner will give a course on "Einführung in wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Fach Politikwissenschaft" at the University Tübingen.
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6 November 2008 |
Professor Davis at the Swiss Innovation Forum
A new President for the U.S. – what implications for Switzerland, Europe and the world? Professor James W. Davis, Head of the IPW-HSG, analysed the US presidential election and its consequences at the Swiss Innovation Forum.
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4 November 2008 |
 Professor Davis on the US Presidential Election
Starting at 11:30 p.m. Professor Davis spoke in front of the US Consulate in Frankfurt am Main leading into an exciting election night that determined the next US President.
The next morning at 6:30 a.m. Professor Davis participated in a panel discussion alongside Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and Dr. Martin Thunert (Heidelberg Center for American Studies).
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30 October 2008 |
Professor Davis Heads Workshop at the University of Vienna
Professor Davis led a Workshop (October 28-30) dealing with "processes of conceptualization in social theory and practice" at the University of Vienna. The Workshop not only offered an in depth analysis of concepts and conceptualizetion in the social sciences, but also provided the participants with an opportunity to present and improve their research designs.
Additionally Professor Davis participated alongside Charles Hadley (University of New Orleans), Josef Melchior (Vienna School of Governance) and Christoph Prantner (Der Standard) in a panel dealing with the US elections. The panel was held by the center of graduate studies in sociology (University of Vienna) and the graduate section of the Austrian association of political science.
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July 2008 |
Daniele Caramani: Introduction to the Comparative Method With Boolean Algebra
A brief and accessible introduction to the comparative method with basic guidelines for comparative research by addressing all key methodological issues, ideal for students of public administration, policy, sociology, political science, social psychology, and international relations.
 Daniele Caramani (2008), Introduction to the Comparative Method With Boolean Algebra London: SAGE.
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9 July 2008 |
No peace without women!
Ulrike Baumgärtner will chair a panel on Wege zu einer neuen Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik. Kein Frieden ohne Frauen! held by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in cooperation with TERRE DES FEMMES e.V., Hochschulgruppe Konstanz, at the University of Constance. More...
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28 June 2008 |
 Professor Davis meets German Minister of Defense Dr. Franz Josef Jung
German Minister of Defense Dr. Franz Josef Jung, former Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Werner Hoyer, MdB, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, MEP, and Professor James W. Davis discussed the European foreign and security policy at an Open House at the Bundeswehr University, Munich.
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June 2008 |
Silvano Moeckli: Das politische System der Schweiz verstehen
The second edition of Professor Moeckli's Das politische System der Schweiz verstehen has appeared only one year after the first publication of the book. More information (in German)...
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May 2008 |
Matthias Meyer-Schwarzenberger: State-building in the context of postmodernity
If the term state-building designates the construction or consolidation of certain aspects of statehood which are however distinctive of modernity: what, then, is the goal of state-building in times of postmodernity? This question is the subject matter of Matthias Meyer-Schwarzenberger's Master's thesis.
 Matthias Meyer-Schwarzenberger (2008), Nation-, State- und Capacity-building: Modernisierungstendenzen im postmodernen Kontext? Saarbrücken: VDM-Verlag.
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14 May 2008 |
US Security Policy after George W. Bush
The Honorable Walter B. Slocombe, United States Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Planning during the Clinton Administration and former Senior Advisor to the Provisional Authority in Iraq visits the IPW on May 14-15, 2007. On May 14, Mr. Slocombe will speek to students in Professor Davis' class "American Grand Strategy" on the future of US Security Policy after George W. Bush. On May 15, he will meet with doctoral students to discuss contemporary strategic challenges facing the US and its allies.
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8 May 2008 |
Swiss Counter-terrorism Policy
Dr. iur. Daniel Frank, Deputy Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs visited the Institute for Political Science and discussed Swiss counter-terrorism policy with HSG Students in the seminar "Sources of Terrorism" tought by Professors James W. Davis and Michael Schefczyk.
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22 April 2008 |
University of St. Gallen to host ECPR Joint Sessions 2011
The Institute of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen (IPW-HSG) has been chosen to host the ECPR Joint Sessions 2011. We are very much looking forward to this opportunity to welcome Europe's leading political scientists to St. Gallen.
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11-16 April 2008 |
Daniele Caramani chairs ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop
Together with Dr. Ingrid van Biezen (University of Birmingham) Professor Caramani co-chairs the ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop on The Nationalisation of Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe.
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7 March 2008 |
University of St. Gallen hosts NCCR Annual Workshop
The annual workshop of the NCCR Democracy Module 1, "Expanding democratic governance in the international realm", took place at the University of St. Gallen. The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) are a research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation to promote long-term research projects in areas of vital strategic importance for the development of science in Switzerland, for the economy of the country, and for Swiss society.
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8 February 2008 |
James W. Davis at the Munich Conference for Security Policy
On the eve of the Munich Conference for Security Policy IPW-Director, Professor James W. Davis, once again moderated the high-level Transatlantic Forum convened by Minister Reinhold Bocklet, MdL, Chairman of the International Commission of theChristian Social Union.  Panelists included CSU Party Chairman, Minister Erwin Huber, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Ambassador Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance and Implementation, Paula DeSutter, Member of the German Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Defense, Christian Schmidt, Member of the Bundestag and CDU/CSU Speaker in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, former U.N. Ambassador and senior foreign policy advisor to the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton. Other participants included the German Ambassadors to Washington and London, current and former members of the European Parliament, including Dr. Otto von Habsburg.
Photo: H. Maetzke.
Read also James Davis's recent comment on international security policies published in the Bayernkurier.
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1 February 2008 |
Welcome to St. Gallen: Prof. Dr. Dirk Lehmkuhl
We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Dirk Lehmkuhl to the University of St. Gallen on February 1st. Professor Lehmkuhl will head the newly-established Chair of European Politics. His personal homepage is under construction.
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January 2008 |
Daniele Caramani: Comparative Politics
Professor Caramani's edited textbook comes with a comprehensive Online Resource Centre.
Daniele Caramani (2008), Comparative Politics. London: Oxford University Press.
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20 January 2008 |
Constituency Level Electoral Archive
From 16 to 20 January Oliver Strijbis, Assistant to Professor Caramani, visited the University of Michigan and organized the NCCR project "Constituency Level Electoral Archive."
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16 January 2008 |
Daniele Carmani at the University of Constance
Professor Daniele Caramani visited the University of Constance and gave a talk on "The integration of European Electorates: National and European Perspectives."
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15 November 2007 |
German national security advisor visited the IPW-HSG
German national security advisor and University of St. Gallen Alumnus Dr. Christopher Heusgen visited the IPW and discussed the contemporary challenges confronting German foreign policy.
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9 November 2007 |
Initiative for Intercultural Learning at Washington, DC
From October 29 to November 9, 2007 IPW-Director Professor James W. Davis accompanied the University of St. Gallen student group "Initiative for Intercultural Learning" on a visit to Washington, DC and New York. A busy schedule included briefings by high level government officials, including the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning, Dr. Thomas Mahnken; the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Mr. Kurt Volker; the head of the Washington office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Mr. Hilary Shelton.
 Mr. Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs speaks to HSG Students on the state of transatlantic relations.
 Swiss Students discuss issues of US-Swiss bilateral relations with the State Department Desk Officer for Liechtenstein and Switerland, Ms. Yvette Sint-André.
 Dr. Thomas Mahnken, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense briefs HSG Students on future challenges of US Defense Policy.
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Oct./Nov. 2007 |
Daniele Caramani at the University of Michigan
On November 7th Daniele Caramani delivered a talk on "The Integration of European Electorates and Party Systems: Comparative and European Integration Perspectives" at the Center for European Studies, University of Michigan. On this occasion a collaboration about an online electoral data archive was established.
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19 October 2007 |
Konferenz Internationale Kommunikation
IPW Director, Professor James W. Davis, Ph.D. and Professor Dr. Miriam Meckel, Director of the University of St. Gallen Institute for Media and Communication Management (MCM) presented a joint project on Global Media in the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin. More information...
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September 2007 |
James W. Davis elected to the SGIR Steering Committee for International Relations
At the Pan-European International Relations Convention sponsored by the Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) held in September in Turin, IPW-Director Professor James W. Davis was elected for a 3 year term to the Steering Committee for International Relations, the group responsible for promoting European research in International Relations.
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September 2007 |
DIA program launched
The new Doctoral Program in International Affairs and Political Economy was launched with the Fall Semester 2007. Visit the DIA online...
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28 June 2007 |
„Wessen Wille? Welche Ordnung? Eine Replik auf Zürn et al.“
Prof. James W. Davis comments on an argument produced by Michael Zürn, Martin Binder, Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt and Katrin Radtke in a Forum in the German Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen.
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12 June 2007 |
Silvano Moeckli: Das politische System der Schweiz verstehen
New publication by Silvano Moeckli, with a preface by Micheline Calmy-Rey. „Politik ist ein Kampf um Macht. Aber sie ist auch das Bemühen um Ausgleich, um breit abgestützte Entscheide unter Rücksichtnahme auf Minderheiten.“
Moeckli, Silvano (2007). Das politische System der Schweiz verstehen. Wie es funktioniert – Wer partizipiert – Was resultiert. Altstätten: Tobler Verlag.
More information on the pages of the Tobler Verlag
Book review, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 9 November 2007
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30 May 2007 |
James W. Davis: „Afghanistan needs general conscription“
An article by Prof. James W. Davis appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on May 30th, 2007. The article can be downloaded right here (in German).
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April 2007 |
 New York: BIA students awarded at the Model UN
Again, a group of students attending the BIA-elective "National Model United Nations" has succesfully participated in the world's largest UN simulation at New York. The delegation, representing Sierra Leone, has been awarded with one of the prestigious awards for "Outstanding Position Papers".
More Information, also on the application process for the NMUN 2008
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2 April 2007 |
Collaboration with VBS: Research Centre for Security Economics and Technology
The IPW-HSG with the support of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (VBS), is establishing a new Research Centre for Security Economics and Technology (SiWiTec). The new research centre is an interdisciplinary institution directed toward the analysis of the conceptual, organizational, economic, and technological dimensions of state-provided security. It will aim to ensure a high level of information exchange through the establishment of an international network with other institutions working in the field of security economics.
Media release in PDF format (available in English, French, German, Italian)
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12. Februar 2007 |
Daniele Caramani gewinnt Vincent Wright Prize
Prof. Daniele Caramani, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft und Direktor des IPW-HSG, ist für seinen Artikel "Is there a European Electorate and What Does it Look like? Evidence from Electoral Volatility Measures, 1976–2004" mit dem "Vincent Wright Prize" für den besten Beitrag des Jahres 2006 in der Zeitschrift West European Politics ausgezeichnet worden. |
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9. Februar 2007 |
 James Davis moderiert Transatlantic Forum in München
Prof. James W. Davis, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Internationale Beziehungen, führte bereits zum zweiten Mal den Vorsitz beim "Transatlantic Forum". Das von der Christlich-Sozialen Union (CSU) veranstaltete Treffen bringt am Vorabend der "Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz" Experten der Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik aus Deutschland und Amerika zusammen, um über aktuelle Herausforderungen der transatlantischen Partnerschaft zu beraten. Im Anschluss an das Forum nahm Professor Davis an der 43. Münchener Sicherheitskonferenz teil.
Photo: H. Maetzke.
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4. Januar 2007 |
Die Mär von der guten Bombe: Artikel von Ulla Jaspers in der taz
Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2007, ist in Die Tageszeitung der Artikel von Ulla Jaspers erschienen. Als PDF finden Sie den Artikel hier. |
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August 2006 |
Schweizerische Neutralität: Artikel von Alois Riklin in der NZZ am Sonntag und Radio-Interview
Unter dem Titel "Bundesrätliche Trauerspiele" hat Alois Riklin am 6. August 2006 in der NZZ am Sonntag einen Artikel zur Neutralitätspolitik veröffentlicht. In der Radiosendung "Kontext" auf DRS 2 hat sich Alois Riklin am 15. August weiter zur "Schweizerischen Neutralität" geäussert. Wenn Sie das Gespräch abspielen möchten, klicken Sie bitte auf das Lautsprechersymbol oder auf "Hören".
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Mai 2006 |
James Davis und Christoph Frei am ISC
Im Rahmen des 36. St.Gallen Symposiums traf Prof. James W. Davis, Ph.D. an der Special Session zum Thema Can European Integration Inspire Regional Co-operation in East Asia? mit den Herren Harunhiko Kuroda, UHAO Ai und Urs W. Schöttli zusammen. Prof. Dr. Christoph Frei sprach zusammen mit Ronald Nehring zum Thema: What to Expect from US Politics?
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April 2006 |
HSG-Delegation am National Model United Nations (NMUN)
 Vom 11. bis zum 15. April 2006 nahm eine Delegation der Universität St. Gallen an der UNO-Simulationskonferenz NMUN in New York teil. Unter der Leitung von Dr. Beat Habegger und Kaspar Schiltz vertraten die Studentinnen und Studenten die Interessen der Slowakei in neun UNO-Gremien. Zudem wurde die Delegation vom UNO-Botschafter der Schweiz Peter Maurer und vom stv. UNO-Botschafter der Slowakei Michal Mlynár empfangen. Abgerundet wurde der Besuch durch eine UNO-Führung mit dem Pressechef der schweizerischen Mission Ruedi Christen sowie einem Treffen mit dem HSG-Alumni Club New York.
Bericht in der Juli-Ausgabe von Prisma
Bewerbungsmodalitäten fürs NMUN 2007
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April 2006 |
Prof. Davis in Afghanistan als Teil einer NATO-Delegation
 Professor James Davis war im April für einige Tage als Teil einer Delegation des Oberbefehlshabers der NATO in Afghanistan unterwegs. Unter anderem führte er Gespräche mit dem Verteidigungs-, dem Wirschafts-, dem Bildungsminister und mit dem Staatssekretär für Wasser und Strom. Mehr dazu im Artikel vom 13. April in der Süddeutschen Zeitung.
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