PhD studentships, University of Reading

Reading University Leverhulme Programme on The Liberal Way of War

Nine Studentships

Applications are invited for nine three-year studentships (to cover
> Home/EU fees and full maintenance)
> to study for a PhD in Politics, Law, History, or Languages and
> EuropeanStudies'' as part of the University
> of Reading''s Leverhulme-funded Programme to investigate The
> Liberal Way
> of War: strategy, ideology, representations
> (http://www.reading.ac.uk/spirs/research/spirs-leverhulme.asp).
> Successful candidates will be Associates of the Programme, will
> play a
> part in all of its events, and may
> contribute to its publications.
>
>
> The Programme will study the ways in which liberal states have
> reconciled themselves to fighting wars.
> Such states can only sustain the will to fight if they can represent
> what they are doing as being
> consistent with their liberal values. One well-established
> way of doing
> this is to treat the zone of
> conflict as a kind of privileged space in which the usual rules
> do not
> apply. But technological developments
> (instantaneous communication) and ideological shifts (the spread of
> belief in a global rights-based order)
> are making it hard to preserve the old distinction between the
> zone of
> conflict and the home society.
> Ad***ional problems are caused by situations in which there is
> (or seems
> to be) an enemy within to be resisted.
> The Programme brings together military strategists, political and
> cultural historians, political
> scientists and theorists, and international lawyers to look at various
> aspects of this development.
>
> Enquiries are welcome from students in any discipline who wish
> to join
> the team or to work alongside it under the supervision of one of its
> members. Possible topics might include historical/cultural
> case studies
> of episodes of conflict (and subsequent peace-building efforts) from
> 1920 to the present day, studies of military strategy and tactics
> (including counter-intelligence and surveillance), international
> relations theory (with special reference to the ''liberal peace''),
> doctrinal or historical accounts of human rights law, and
> projects in
> relevant fields of political theory. For further
> information and
> application forms, please email e.j.joyce@rdg.ac.uk, briefly stating
> your likely area of study. The closing date, which will be
> strictlyenforced, is 28 January 2009.
>
>
> Dr Dominik Zaum
>
> Lecturer in International Relations
>
> University of Reading
>
> Whiteknights
>
> PO Box 218
>
> Reading, RG6 6AA
>
> Phone: +44 118 378 6108
>
> http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=3D9780199207435