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Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster

The Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is the postgraduate and postdoctoral research center in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster. CSD offers a one-year, full-time M.A. in International Relations and Political Theory, an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. Rising domestic and international academic and media interest in the work of CSD has ensured its reputation as a center of original and excellent research unlike any other in Britain. CSD’s achievements were recognized in the recent national HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise (1996) with a 3A Research Rating placing CSD at the joint top of the New University Ratings in Politics and International Relations.

Additional Materials from Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster: Policy Briefs

General Working Papers

Title: Politics and Passions: the Stakes of Democracy
Authors: Chantal Mouffe
Date: January 2002

Title: For a State of Peace: Conflict and the Future of Democracy in Sudan
Authors: Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Date: January 2002

Title: Between the Living and the Dead: The Politics of Irish History
Authors: Bernard Rorke
Date: January 1999

Title: Managing Variety: Issues in the Integration and Disintegration of States
Authors: Margaret Blunden
Date: April 1997

Title: The European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy
Authors: Richard Whitman
Date: October 1996

Title: European Democracy at the Russian Crossroads
Authors: Irene Brennan
Date: April 1996

Title: Renewing Local Representative Democracy: Councillors, Communities, Communication
Authors: Keith Taylor
Date: March 1996

Title: The 1996 Intergovernmental Conference
Authors: Richard Whitman
Date: December 1995

Title: The Betrayal of Bosnia
Authors: Lee Bryant
Date: August 1995

Title: The Making of a Weak State: The iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1906
Authors: Moslem Medhi
Date: May 1995

Title: Islam and the Creation of European Identity
Authors: Tomas Mastnak
Date: September 1994

Title: Uncertainty and Identity: The Enlightenment and its Shadows
Authors: Chris Sparks
Date: August 1994

Title: Nations, Nationalism, and The European Citizen
Authors: John Keane
Date: October 1993

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CSD Bulletin: Autumn 1997

Title: The University in a Democracy
Authors: Margaret Blunden
Date: August 1997

Title: Rorty's Nation
Authors: Jonathan Ree
Date: August 1997

Title: Revolutions Remembered
Authors: Eszter Pal, Bernard Rorke
Date: August 1997

Title: Race and Representation
Authors: Robert J. McKeever
Date: August 1997

Title: Justice as a Larger Loyalty
Authors: Richard Rorty
Date: August 1997

Title: Eleven Theses on Communicative Abundance
Authors: John Keane
Date: August 1997

Title: 'Rogue Nation' versus 'The Great Arrogance'
Authors: Ali Tajvidi
Date: August 1997

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CSD Bulletin: Spring 1998

Title: The European Union's International Identity
Authors: Richard Whitman
Date: April 1998

Title: Remapping China: Boundaries, Identities, Difference
Authors: Harriet Evans
Date: April 1998

Title: R.I.P., Che Guevara
Authors: Niels Jacob Harbitz
Date: April 1998

Title: Presidential Performance
Authors: George C. Edwards
Date: April 1998

Title: Parties in Congress
Authors: John E. Owens
Date: April 1998

Title: Liberalism and Security
Authors: Barry Buzan, Ole Waever
Date: April 1998

Title: Human Rights in China: Rethinking the Debate
Authors: Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Date: April 1998

Title: After Polanyi
Authors: Claus Offe
Date: April 1998

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