Research Papers

Listed below are some of the research papers produced by the department's staff in such areas as African studies, history, international relations, politics, sociology, and international crime.

 

Paper Author Research Area Synopsis
Cape Verde: Is Marketing Good Governance Enough?  Roy May and Bruce Baker

2008 		African Studies, Politics  This report is the outcome of British Academy funded research in Cape Verde. It was undertaken in November 2008 and involved interviews with 26 key informants including government ministers, MPs, senior civil servants, local government leaders, journalists, NGOs, security officers, academics, business leaders, journalists, and local people on the islands of Santiago, San Vicente and Fogo.
Marxism, Passions, and the Collapse of Communism in Russia Alexander Chubarov

2007		 History This paper argues that the system, set up in Soviet Russia from the blueprints of Marx and his Russian followers, closed all the “safety valves” that exist in a market economy. The imposition of strictly centralised planning and rigid regulation stifled personal initiative and entrepreneurial talent as the driving force of economic development, breeding stagnation and the decay of the entire system. 
Out of Africa: The human trade between Libya and Lampedusa Salvatore Coluccello and Simon Massey

2007
 International Crime, International Relations Between 2000-2005 the reported incidence of people trafficking and smuggling from North Africa to Europe has escalated. The article examines the nature of criminality involved in people smuggling and trafficking with specific reference to the sea route between Libya and the Italian island of Lampedusa, 180 miles north of the Libyan coast. The article’s chief objective is to provide a greater understanding of the mechanisms and processes involved in smuggling/trafficking.
Governmentality, Ontological Security and Ideational Stability: Some Preliminary Observations on the Manner, Ritual and Logic of a Particular Art of Government  James D. Marlow

2002 		 Sociology, Politics This article looks at the manner in which modern governmentality (i.e., the rationality of governance) bears on feelings of insecurity and uncertainty that are seemingly commonplace in our 'Age of Anxiety’. Its basic argument is that governments today, perhaps unconsciously rather than consciously, provide a significant background element of the, as it were, ‘intertext’ (an intersecting web of discursive semblances) of present day ‘ontological security’ and associated ideational stability.