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November 2014
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EI Latest
News
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Arrivals
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New
Publications
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Sixty-second
Interview
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Events
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&
8
Staff calendar 9
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EI in the
news
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Contact us
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Note from the editor
A warm hello to all staff, students and friends of the European Institute! I’m delighted to join you whilst Loukia is on maternity leave.
My first big announcement is that Loukia gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday 26
October—we wish her and her new family many congratulations.
My first few weeks at the EI have been very enjoyable, not least because of the
many friendly faces and the variety of activities and
events on offer. The opening of the new Saw Swee
Hock student centre (pictured above) was a particular
highlight!
I’m looking forward to co-ordinating a host of interesting events in Michaelmas Term, and would encourage as many of you as possible to come along and get
involved.
With best wishes,
Catherine
Events & Communications Manager
November 2014
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EI Latest News
News from our Head of Institute
Interested in ideas? (You probably wouldn't be
checking this newsletter if you weren't!) Then be
sure to make room in your diary for the official
launch of the EUTOPIA website at 18.30 on 17
November when, with the help of a panel of eminent
thinkers, you will have the opportunity to scratch,
stretch and test some of the concepts at the very heart of 'Europe' and the current
debate about the EU's founding principles, including the Four Freedoms, ' solidarity'
and the idea of an 'ever closer union'.
Professor Maurice Fraser
Other news
Philippe Legrain is setting up a non-partisan movement
to campaign for a European Spring: a more dynamic, decent
and democratic Europe, at europeanspring.org. Students
are encouraged to get involved and to contact Philippe
through the site, or directly.
On 15 October Prof Iain Begg appeared before the High
-Level Group on Own Resources, chaired by Mario Monti,
to present ideas on the future financing of the EU.
News from our PhD student cohort
Roch Dunin Wasowicz, one of our PhD students, opened the Twentieth Century
Polish History seminar series at the Department of Contemporary British Culture at
the Polish University Abroad in London. He presented a paper ‘The Rainbow is
burning: Analysing public art as the locus of the Polish symbolic conflict
over LGBT rights, the nation, and Europe’.
On 6 November, PGR student Paula Zoido-Oses will be in Melbourne talking at a
conference in Deakin University entitled ‘Crisis and Reconfigurations: 100 years
of European Thought Since 1914’.
November 2014
Arrivals & Departures
We welcome Çağlar Keyder as Centennial Professor at the EI and
Department of Sociology, LSE. He is also Professor at the Department
of Sociology, Boğaziçi University. He will be giving his inaugural lecture on 11 November.
A fond farewell to Céire Coleman, who has done a fantastic job covering events and comms since Loukia’s departure. Many thanks to
Céire!
Arrivals at LSEE - Research on South Eastern Europe
Dr Mihail Arandarenko has joined as a Visiting Fellow from 1 September 2014 to 31 March 2015. He is Professor of Economics at the Faculty
of Economics, Belgrade University and Chairman of the Board of the Belgrade based Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN).
Dr Dimitar Bechev has joined as a Visiting Fellow from 13 October
2014 to 31 July 2015. He teaches international politics at Sofia University
and has published extensively on EU foreign policy, the Balkans, Central
Eastern Europe and Turkey.
Didem Buhari-Gulmez has joined as a Visiting Fellow from 6 October
2014 to 5 October 2015. Her research at LSEE is sponsored by
TUBITAK post-doctoral fellowship and involves a tridimensional approach to state recognition: European Union, World Polity and the contested state with a special focus on the cases of Kosovo, Crimea and Cyprus.
Dr Burhan Can Karahasan has joined as a Visiting Fellow from October 2014 to July 2015. He is Assistant Professor in Economics at Piri Reis
University. His current research at LSEE will focus on the spatial imbalances in human capital development at local level in Turkey, with specific
emphasis on education policies and its cross comparison with Southern
European countries.
Dr Sherrill Stroschein has joined as a Visiting Fellow from 1 September 2014 to 31 July 2015. She is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
in Politics in the Department of Political Science at University College
London, and director of the master’s program on Democracy and Comparative Politics. Her publications examine the politics of ethnicity in democracies with mixed ethnic or religious populations.
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Sixty-Second
Interview
New
Publications
Dr Alison Johnston, who graduated from LSE
in 2011, has recently been published in Comparative Political Studies in collaboration with Bob
Hancké and Suman Pant: ‘Comparative Institutional Advantage in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis’. November 47:
1771-1800.
Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis has co-written the following paper: ‘An
analysis of revealed allocation criteria of regional public investment in
Greece’ in European Urban and Regional Studies, vol.21, No.4, pp.445462.
His paper ‘Convergence through Crisis? The Impact of the Crisis on
Wage Returns across the Greek Regions’ will be published in November in Region et Developpement, vol.39.
We are delighted to inform you about a few new
publications in the discussion paper series LEQS –
LSE ‘Europe in Question’:
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'The regional impact of EU association
agreements: lessons for the ENP from
the CEE experience' by Vassilis Monastiriotis, Dimitris Kallioras and George Petrakos
(LEQS Paper No. 80, October 2014).
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'Governing by Panic: The Politics of the Eurozone Crisis' by Associate
Prof David M Woodruff (LEQS Paper No. 81, October 2014).
In October, PhD candidate Jonathan Marley published 'New
Model Armies: Rethinking military purpose in post-conflict Southeastern Europe' in the Journal of Regional Security.
Prof Iain Begg has written a chapter on ‘Fiscal Transparency’ in
the Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency, edited by Forrsbaeck and Oxelheim.
Publications from the Hellenic Observatory
Economic Crisis, Social Solidarity and the Voluntary Sector in Greece by
Dimitri A Sotiropoulos, Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Observatory and Dimitris Bourikos in Journal of Power, Politics & Governance June 2014, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 33-53.
The social situation of Greece under the crisis; Basic socio-economic data
for Greece, 2013 by Dimitri A Sotiropoulos, Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Observatory. Report published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, May 2014.
Civil Society in Greece in the Wake of the Economic Crisis by Dimitri A
Sotiropoulos, Visiting Fellow, Hellenic Observatory. Report published by Konrad
Adenauer Stiftung and ELIAMEP, 2014.
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Sixty-Second Interview
Interview
Sixty-Second
...with Clara Cook, Administrative Assistant at the European Institute.
Clara, thank you for being our November
interviewee! To start things off, can you tell us
where you are from originally and what is your
hometown famous for?
I was born in Tokyo, Japan, but my parents are American and when I was around 4 years old we moved to
London. I became a British citizen when I was 9 and I
have only ever lived in one British city: London! What
is London famous for? Absolutely everything! It is one
of the best cities in the world in my opinion, although I
do have a soft spot in my heart for Berlin, Tokyo and
Stockholm.
Do you have any hobbies?
Too many in fact! My hobbies at the moment are papercraft (I like to make my own
envelopes and do origami), knitting, reading history books, writing and photography. I
just got involved in the making of a documentary film about the women’s peace movement in England before WWI, which is very exciting. But my big passion is photography. Someday I hope to make it my profession.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose and why?
You mean besides London? If I could live anywhere else, I would probably choose a
country with a more socialist society, such as Sweden, Denmark or Norway. I would
say Japan, because I love it there, but it is so far away from my parents and they
would miss me.
Do you have any special talents?
Well, I can gargle Beethoven’s Ode to
Joy and make an origami crane in 3
minutes (not at the same time!). I
know the names of 200 international
cheeses as I worked in a deli for a
year and I can speak pig Latin. I have
also had training as a cat socialiser at
Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, so I
can solve a lot of feline behavioural
problems. To this day most of the
above have proved utterly useless in University Administration or in life generally.
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Sixty-Second
Sixty-Second Interview
Interview
Where will we find you 20 years from now?
Hopefully I will own a little flat somewhere, have written a few books, published some
poetry, had a photography exhibition, raised a kid or two with my husband, still have
all my teeth and hair and perhaps own a cat. I might even be lucky enough to have got
to the front of the queue on the waiting list for an allotment from our local council.
If you had the time, what would you like to learn?
I would really love to learn how to sing or play a musical instrument. I would also love
to learn how to screen print and dance. Perhaps Salsa or Swing dancing.
Name three things you cannot do without.
My husband, my camera and Avocado Hummus (or failing that: coffee).
What advice would you give to this year's class of incoming students?
Savour being at uni, because it is some of the best years of your life, surrounded by
like-minded individuals, intelligent conversation, and the chance to learn and explore
in an international environment that fosters fairness and exploration. Also time flies
when you are having fun and before you know it you will be leaving your student days
behind you to start work.
If you could book any guest speaker for an
LSE public event, who would you choose?
Well, for a living person, I would choose Hans
Rosling or the Dalai Lama. If I could bring someone back through time (through some sort of
amazing feat of technology), I would probably
book Julius Caesar or Elizabeth I. Maybe even
Richard III, just to ask him whether he really did
murder his nephews in the Tower and how he
feels about being buried in a parking lot in Leicester for so many years.
How do you spend your lunch hour?
It depends on the day! I normally write in my blog, visit the LSE Craft club, drop by
the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, go eat frozen custard in
Covent Garden with my colleagues or listen to music and knit in the Saw Student
Centre. There are so many things to do and places to eat at LSE, I am spoilt for
choice!
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Sixty-Second
Interview
Events
Monday 3 November 2014, 18.00-19.00, Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor
Old Building
‘Guest Lecture: Long standing stability in South East Europe: from security
to economic growth’
Ditmir Bushati, Albanian Foreign Minister
Organised by LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe
Tuesday 4 November 2014, 18.00-19.30, Cañada Blanch Room, COW 1.11,
Cowdray House
‘Political Economy of Unemployment in the Western Balkans’
Dr Mihail Arandarenko, Belgrade/LSE
Organised by LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe
Tuesday 4 November, 18.30-20.00, New Theatre, East Building
‘Food Policy: ethics for your kitchen and beyond’
Luc Bovens, Elena Rivilla Lutterkort and Duncan Williamson
Chair: Joe Mazor
Organised by the Forum for European Philosophy
Friday 7 November 2014, 18.30-20.00, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
‘Public Debate: What is 'modern' about Modern Greece?’
Professor Molly Greene, Princeton University, Professor Vassilis Lambropoulos, University of Michigan, Professor Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Hellenic Observatory Director
Organised by the Hellenic Observatory
Tuesday 11 November 2014, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, Old Building
‘The Limits of Transformation from Above: Turkey since 1914’
Professor Çağlar Keyder, Centennial Professor at the European Institute
Chair: Dr Esra Özyürek, Associate Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish
Studies at the European Institute.
LSE European Institute inaugural lecture
Tuesday 11 November 2014, 18:00-19:30, Cañada Blanch Room COW 1.11
Cowdray House
‘The Newly Disadvantaged: Responses to rapid socioeconomic change in
Greece’
Alexander KENTIKELENIS, Research Associate, King's College, University of
Cambridge
Organised by the Hellenic Observatory
Wednesday 12 November 2014, 18.30-20.00, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
‘The Greek Orthodox Church and the Economic Crisis’
His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias and Almyros
Organised by the Hellenic Observatory
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Sixty-Second
Interview
Events
Thursday 13 November, 18.30-20.00, Wolfson Theatre, NAB
‘Ethics Matters in the Family’
Adam Swift
Chair: Gabriel Wollner
Organised by the Forum for European Philosophy
Monday 17 November 2014, 18.30-20.00, Old Theatre, Old Building
‘What Europe?’
Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford; Professor Renaud Dehousse, Professor at Sciences Po and holder of the Jean
Monnet Chair in Community Law and European Political Studies; Professor Jan
Zielonka, Professor of European Politics, University of Oxford; Giuseppe Laterza,
Chairman of Laterza Publishing
LSE European Institute ‘Perspectives on Europe’ public discussion with Eutopia magazine
Tuesday 18 November 2014, 18.00-19.30, Cañada Blanch Room, COW
1.11, Cowdray House
‘The 2013 Belgrade-Pristina Normalization Agreement - What has it delivered’
Dr Joanna Hanson, LSE
Organised by LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe
Tuesday 25 November 2014, 18.30-20.00, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
‘Democratic Politics in a European Union under Stress’
Professor Damian Chalmers, Professor in the Department of Law LSE; Professor Simon Hix, Professor in the Department of Government LSE; Professor
Catherine de Vries, Professor at the University of Oxford
Chair: Professor Sara Hobolt
LSE European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public event and book launch
Tuesday 25 November 2014, 18:00-19:30, Cañada Blanch Room COW
1.11, Cowdray House
‘Banal, benign or pernicious? The relationship between religion and national identity from the perspective of religious minorities in Greece’
Effie FOKAS, Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
(ELIAMEP), Athens, and Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Organised by the Hellenic Observatory
Thursday 27 November 2014, 18.00-19.30, Cañada Blanch Room COW
1.11, Cowdray House
‘Book Launch-Resolving Cyprus: New Approaches to Conflict Resolution’
Dr James Ker-Lindsay, Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South
East Europe
Organised by LSEE and the Hellenic Observatory
Thursday 27 November, 18.30-20.00, Hong Kong Theatre
‘On Progress and Human Development’
Paul Anand, Catherine Audard and Jonathan Wolff
Chair: Gabriel Wollner
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Staff calendarInterview
25 October: Visiting Senior Fellow Anthony Teasdale spoke on 'The May 2014
European elections and the new European Parliament' at a Konrad
Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) conference at Wilton Park, UK.
27 October: Associate Prof Joan Costa-i-Font gave the keynote speech at the 15th Annual Conference Italian Health Economics Association (AIES), Ca'Foscari University of Venice.
End of October: Dr David Spence organised and hosted a
week-long visit to the United Nations and its agencies in Geneva.
The aim of the visit was to encourage 33 students to expand their
practical knowledge of international law and institutions.
29 October-1 November: Associate Prof
Spyros Economides led a workshop on ‘European Security
Strategies: The EU as a Strategic Security Actor in the 21st century’ at the EISA Exploratory Symposia, Rapallo, Italy.
3 November: Associate Prof Spyros Economides is speaking on a panel discussing ‘What should be the Foreign Affairs priorities of the new European Commission?’ at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
5 November: Prof Iain Begg is speaking at The 6th annual African Central Banks Reserve Management conference in Johannesburg on ‘Europe’s crisis: what next?’
6 November: Associate Prof Jonathan White is giving an invited seminar
presentation on ‘Authority after Emergency Rule’ at the University of Cambridge.
13 November: Prof Paul de Grauwe is in Brussels taking
part in a panel debate on ‘inequality and the future of capitalism’ organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies.
19 November: Associate Prof Mareike Kleine gives a
talk at the University of Sheffield on ‘Informal Governance in
the European Union’.
20 November: Prof Nicholas Barr is giving three lectures on higher education as
part of the LSE Masterclasses in Social Sciences: Schools, Universities and Labour Markets, Fundación Ramon Areces, Madrid.
20 November: Prof Paul de Grauwe is in Paris giving a presentation at the conference ‘la zone euro: où en est-elle? Où va-t-elle?’ organized by CEPII.
20 November: Prof Iain Begg is organising a ‘brainstorming workshop’ at CEPS in Brussels on ‘Education, Social Investment and the Europe 2020 Strategy’.
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Staff calendarInterview
20-21 November: Prof Sara Hobolt is giving a paper
‘Government Responsiveness and Legislative Behavior. The Impact of Domestic Constraints on Decision-Making in the Council
of the European Union’ (co-authored with Dr Sara Hagemann and Chris Wratil) at a conference on ‘Advances in the
study of democratic responsiveness’ at the University of
Gothenburg.
27 November: Dr Will Bartlett will be a key-note speaker
at a lecture at the Faculty of Philosophy of the ‘St Cyril and
Methodius’, University in Skopje, Macedonia
27-28 November: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis is presenting his paper ‘The evolution of wage returns across the Greek regions during the crisis’ at the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference in London. The paper will be published in the
Conference Proceedings.
27-28 November: in Perth, Australia, Prof Paul de Grauwe is presenting on
‘Monetary and Financial Integration in Asia: Lessons from Europe’ during a Conference on Economic and Financial Integration in Asia.
28 November: Prof Iain Begg is speaking at The Limassol economic forum in Cyprus, on ‘Recovery, stagnation or relapse: assessing the EU’s economic prospects in
the aftermath of the crisis’.
EI in the news
Dimitar Bechev, of the EUROPP blog, was quoted in the Oregon Herald, Turkish Weekly,
MSNBC Newsweek, Globe and Mail, Baltimore Sun,
Le Matin Online and Jydske Vestkysten on 6 October, speaking in response to the Bulgarian elections.
He also authored an article titled 'Can the EU
clean up politics in enlargement countries?
Turkey as a case in point' in Open Democracy
on 20 October.
Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis:

Gave a live TV interview to Popi Tsapanidou at STAR Channel (Greece) on 17
October about the rising spreads on Greek government bonds and the plans
for an ‘early exit’ from the Memorandum agreement.
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Was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on their coverage of the recent economic and political developments in Greece, in the 10-12 October issue.
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His article ‘(When) does austerity work’, published in the Cyprus Economic
Policy Review (vol.8, no.1), was covered by Stockwatch, Cyprus, on 10 October.
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EI in the news
Prof Kevin Featherstone wrote an Op-Ed for
Kathimerini, Greece, on 19 October entitled
‘Acting European, thinking Balkan?’ in which
he noted the increasing similarity between Greece
and her Balkan neighbours in terms of international
measures of performance concerning governance.
Prof Paul De Grauwe was quoted in Reuters
UK, Mail Online UK, Oman Tribune, Lebanon Daily
Star, GlobalPost and Yahoo! News on 7 & 8 October, saying "The depreciation of the euro is necessary. But it is not sufficient".
Associate Prof Jonathan White’s recent journal article on ‘Left and Right in the
Economic Crisis’ was cited and discussed in the Wall Street Journal, 28 September.
Dr James Ker-Lindsay:
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Was quoted in the article 'President says: I had
no other choice', Cyprus Mail, 7 October.

Was cited in the article 'Serbian Albanian détente postponed, not cancelled, after footballing farce' in the Financial Times on 21 October.

Was quoted in the article '’Putin parade' a sign
Serbia still close to Russia' in Monitor Global
Outlook, 16 October.
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Gave a live interview on Football Violence Between
Serbia and Albania on CNN and Sky News on 15
October.
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Was interviewed on the Scottish referendum in the
article 'Шкотска, одложени снови' RTS (Serbia),
30 September.
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Was cited in the article 'Istinsko pomeranje napred', in connection with the
forthcoming EU enlargement reports in Danas (Serbia), 23 September.
Prof Iain Begg discussed European Union demand for £1.7 billion additional funds
from the UK due to strong economic results on BBC Radio 5, 24 October. He was
also quoted in the Economic Times on 24 October.
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