Recent presentations

Conference Host: 'South Africa: a year on from the Election conference' organised by James Hamill at Leicester September 2009.

Conference Paper at ECPR, Potsdam September 2009: J Simon Rofe 'A Multilateral and/or Internationalist United States after Bush’s War on Terror? Prospects for Washington's relations with a globalised world.'

Conference Paper at BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group conference, UEA September, 2009: 'Presidential Manoeuvres in the Dark: Understanding Isolationism and Internationalism in the handling of Public Opinion of Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.'

Recent publications

Tara McCormack: 'Power and Agency in the Human Security Framework', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 1, issue 21, 2008 pp.113–128

J Simon Rofe: 'Lord Lothian’s Ambassadorship to Washington August 1939-December 1940' in British Embassy in Washington between 1939 and 1974, John Young, Saul Kelly and Michael Hopkins (eds.) (NY & Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009)

J Simon Rofe: 'An Abortive Special Relationship? - US-Russian Relations in the Post Cold War World', with Dr Alex Marshall, in America’s Special Relationships – Foreign and Domestic Aspects of the Politics of Alliance, John Dumbrell and Axel Schafer (eds.) (Oxford: Routledge, 2009)

Future planned publications

James Hamill, Quiet Diplomacy South Africa and Zimbabwe (NY & Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010)

Kelly Staples 'Statelessness, Sentimentality and Human Rights: a critique of Rorty’s liberal human rights culture' Philosophy and Social Criticism, Volume 36, 2010

J Simon Rofe and Alison Holmes, The London Embassy – 70 Years in Grosvenor Square 1939-2009 (Palgrave 2011)

J Simon Rofe and Andrew Stewart, Diplomats at War: The American Experience (Republic of Letters, 2012)