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News
Prof Patman's recent media interviews
Paul Henry on Colonel Gaddafy's whereabouts: Link
Mark Hathaway on Channel 9 TV: Link
TVNZ's Breakfast programme, 12 September on post 9/11 world: Link
Opinion piece in the World Section of Stuff News: Link
Gordon Harcourt, News at 8, 10 September on 10th anniversary of 9/11: Link
Paul Henry on Afghanistan conflict, Radio Live, 14 September: Link
Prof Patman's recent media interviews
Interview with Greg Boyed, TVNZ's News at 8, Wednesday, 3 August, on new wave of cyber attacksTVNZ Link
Interview with Marcus Lush on Radio Live on Mubarak's trial, 4 AugustRadio Live Link
Prof Patman discusses TVNZ's News at 8 (10 July) to mark the independence of South Sudan.TVNZ Link
Prof Patman SAS involved in Kabul firefight and on the Key meeting with Obama and Afghanistan implications.NewsTalkZB MP3 Audio Link
Prof Patman's interview on Afghanistan
Attack illustrates Afghan forces' inadequacies. TV1 Interview
US troop withdrawal economically motivated. TV3 Interview
Prof Patman's recent interviews on Gadaffi & Obama
Prof Patman's selection of links for radio, press and TV interviews on the attack on Gadaffi & Bin Laden's death
Audio of interview on Newstalk ZB {mp3}
On TV3: Hone Harawira's Comments a Mistake
Interview on TVNZ's Close Up programme with Greg Boyed
Interview with Rachel Smalley, TV3, Firstline
TVNZ's News at 8 on Ghadaffi killings in Tripoli
Prof Patman's interview re Ghadaffi
Prof Patman's talks to Radio Live on Friday, 1 April on the Defection of Libyan Foreign Minister
Listen here
Prof Patman's interview re Ghadaffi
Prof Patman's talks to Greg Boyed to TVNZ's News at 8 on Colonel Ghadaffi's interview with BBC, CNN and The Sunday Times
Full story here
Politics Preliminary Lectures: Friday 25th Feb 2011
POLS100 Level CASTLE 2 @ 1:30pm 30 mins
POLS200 Level CASTLE 2 @ 2:00pm 30 mins
POLS300 Level BURNS 1 @ 2:30 pm 30 mins
POLS400 Level BURNS 7 @ 3:00pm 30 mins
2011 Summer School Examination Timetable
POLS207 MONDAY 21 FEBRUARY
@9:30AM QUAD 2
(Geology Building 1st Floor).
POLS331 MONDAY 21 FEBRUARY
@2:30PM HUMAN NUTRITION G10
(Science 1 Building ?Ground Floor).
POLS332 THURSDAY 24 FEBRUARY
@2:30PM ARCHWAY 2
(Archway Lecture Theatres).
Semester 1 - All level Honours Advising Timetable
Tuesday 15 Feb, 2.00-4.00, Lena Tan, in office (4N9, Burns)
Wed 16 Feb, 10.00-11.00, Jim Headley, in office (4S1 Burns)
Wed 16 Feb, 11.00-12.00, Lena Tan, in office (4N9 Burns)
Thursday 17 Feb, 10.00-12.00, Jim Headley, in office (4S1 Burns)
Friday 18 Feb, 3.00-5.00, Lena Tan, in office (4N9 Burns)
Monday 21 February, 2.00-4.00, Jim Headley, in office (4S1 Burns)
Tuesday 22 February, 1.00-3.00, Jim Headley, main Politics course advising (ground floor Burns)
Prof Patman's recent media interviews
Proff Patman talks to Peter Shaw on Radio Rhema in Auckland
New staff members
The department welcomes 2 new staff members from Jan 2011.
Dr Iati Iati's research interests are focussed on the social and political implications of the 'good governance agenda' for Pacific island countries.'
Dr Iati will be teaching 2 politics papers at 300 and 400 level.
Dr Nicholas Khoo's research interests cover Chinese foreign policy, the international relations of Asia, international relations theory, and Cold War studies.'
Dr Khoo will be teaching Pols 103, Pols 308
Prof Patman's recent media interviews
Radio: UK Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary to NZ
Visit of President Hu to Washington
UK to watch impact of new visa rules on Kiwis
Nuclear Free Policy Accepted - Wikileaks
ODT Tue, 21 Dec 2010
New Zealand did not give an inch on its nuclear-free legislation, which the United States quietly accepted, reflecting the superpower's waning influence, an international security expert says.
Prof Robert Patman, of the University of Otago, said for him the most fascinating disclosure of the NZ WikiLeaks cables so far was the apparent acceptance by the US after the 2005 election that New Zealand would not budge on the nuclear issue.
Full story here
Prof Patman's recent media interviews
Radio interview with Will Pollard on the fall out of Wikileaks for New Zealand
Discussion on US Secretary of State Clinton's visit to New Zealand on The Nation programme on TV3
NZ and the US: the road to reconciliation. ODT Nov 4
Interview with Greg Boyed on TVNZ's News at 8
Interview on Auckland's Newstalk ZB
Prof Patman's recent media interviews
Radio interview with Will Pollard on the fall out of Wikileaks for New Zealand
Discussion on US Secretary of State Clinton's visit to New Zealand on The Nation programme on TV3
NZ and the US: the road to reconciliation. ODT Nov 4
Interview with Greg Boyed on TVNZ's News at 8
Interview on Auckland's Newstalk ZB
Prof Patman on Chinese International Radio
The recent violence highlights fears about the stability of Iraq as the US formally ends combat operations this month. By the end of next year all American troops are due to leave the country. For more we are joined by Robert Patman who is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
You can listen to the interview here
Prof Patman on Afghanistan
Prof Patman's Interview with Neil Waka on News at 8 for TVNZ 7 with respect to New Zealand combat fatality in Afghanistan. Interview here
Interview with Hank Schouten of The Dominion Post with respect to New Zealand's recent combat fatality in Afghanistan. Stuff Website Link
New Department HOD
Prof Nel will be on leave until Feb 2011. His tenure as Department HOD has now expired. Prof Harris takes over the responsibility as HOD for the following three years.Please contact the Head of the Department, Prof William Harris.
Please also contact Prof Harris if you are a current or prospective PhD student.
Dr Jim Headley is the acting Director of the MIntSt programme.
Professor Bill Harris HOD
Office 4C13
Email: will.harris@otago.ac.nz
Phone ext: 8360
Office hours: Tuesday 2-4pm
Research Day: Friday
General McChystal
Prof Patman interview with Greg Boyed on News at 8 for TVNZ 7 with respect to the General McChystal's crisis in Afghanistan:
You can watch the interview here. TVNZ Video
New paper on Offer in 2nd Semester 2010
POLS 333 ST: Security Challenges in the Pacific.
This course explores the contemporary security situation in Oceania. At a theoretical level, it aims to convey the multidimensional character of the concept of security, which embraces not just military but also environmental and socioeconomic aspects.
Link to the 300 level papers
You can download the full course details here in PDF form
Professor Patman Media interviews
Media interviews by Professor Patman recently
Interview with Marcus Lush on Radio Live
Situation complicated in Israel - Channel 9 TV Interview
Discussing the Israel/Gaza flotilla incident. Breakfast TV
Robert Patman - Somalia and the March to 9-11 [YouTube interview]
"Poll: Most Kiwis want SAS out of Afghanistan" TVNZ
"Kiwis favour bringing SAS home from Afghanistan" Dominion Post article
Honorary Degree for Emeritus Professor of Politics Jim Flynn
The University of Otago will confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on one of its most eminent scholars, Emeritus Professor Jim Flynn, at a graduation ceremony this Saturday.
Vice-Chancellor Professor David Skegg says Professor Flynn's scholarship in areas including intelligence research, the "race and IQ" debate, and the defence of humane ideals has earned him international renown.
"In particular, his discovery and clarification of the large gains in IQ over time in many countries, which became known as the 'Flynn Effect', is widely acknowledged as a seminal contribution in the area of intelligence research," Professor Skegg says.
More content. Read the full University of Otago article here.
Student's Urged to Read More
University of Otago scholar Emeritus Prof Jim Flynn is urging university students to read more works of great literature to overcome a "love-of-reading deficit" arising from teenage culture.
Prof Flynn was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree by the university at a capping ceremony at the Dunedin Town Hall on Saturday and gave the graduation address.
From the Otago Daily Times ODT Article here...
Robert Patman On TVNZ
Robert Patman Commentary
Strategic Misjudgement and the Origins of 9/11
For many observers, 9/11 was a transformative event. As President Bush put it in an address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001: "All of this was brought upon us in a single day - and night fell on a different world."
Robert Patman On TVNZ
Robert Patman looks at Key's trip to Afghanistan
Full Video here at TVNZ website
Robert Patman On TVNZ Breakfast Show
Robert Patman looks at Key's Washington visit
Full Video here at TVNZ website
Ambassador Huebner's visit to Otago
Pics from Ambassador Huebner's Visit to Otago available at his Facebook Page
read moreAmbassador Huebner's Flickr Photos'
Robert Patman discusses the nuclear arms treaty
Watch Robert Patman with Greg Boyd on TVNZ. (April 09, 2010)
Professor Stan Taylor on TVOne
Professor Stan Taylor, an American intelligence expert from Brigham Young University on the GCSB
Watch this interview with Greg Boyd of TVNZ (April 09, 2010)
Candidate groups may come to fore
With changes to Dunedin's ward system creating a large urban ward for the central city, sitting councillors and new candidates are reviewing their options for the campaign ahead. David Loughrey reports.
Success in politics rests heavily on having a name that voters recognise.
While that has always been the case, changes to the ward system in Dunedin this year will mean more candidates to choose from across a wider area.
University of Otago political studies lecturer Associate Professor Janine Hayward says those choices will be made in an environment where many people do not put in the work to inform themselves about the candidates and the issues.
"Regardless of what they're saying, candidates just need to be known," Assoc Prof Hayward said.
Full story from the ODT. (10 April 2010)
Dr Nicholas Khoo
The Politics Department at Otago is happy to announce the appointment of a specialist on China and Security Studies to our growing number of staff. Dr Nicholas Khoo will join us in Jan 2011, and will present a 300-level paper on Chinese Foreign Policy during the second semester of 2011.
Nicholas has a B.A. Hons (University of California), an M.A. (Johns Hopkins), and a PhD. (Columbia). His research interests cover Chinese foreign policy, the international relations of Asia, international relations theory, and international security. He was previously Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the MA Programme in International Relations and Security at the University of Liverpool (UK), and has held a visiting faculty appointment at the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. His most recent publication, entitled Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance (1964-1991), will be published by Columbia University Press.
Prof Patman on TVNZ
Prof Patman spoke to Greg Boyed (News at 8) on President Obama's State of the Union address. Click on the chapter 2 segment for the interview in question. (28 Jan 2010)
Prof Patman talks to Greg Boyed (News at 8) on the Democrat defeat in Massachusetts. Click on the chapter 2 segment for the interview in question.. (21 Jan 2010)
William Kennedy Prizes in Politics for 2009
Congratulations to the following students who were awarded the inaugural William Kennedy Prizes in Politics for 2009.
Gemma Cornelissen, for the best honours dissertation. Gemma's dissertation was entitled 'Trade and Human Rights: The Case of the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement'.
Leigh Harding, who has been offered the award for the best performing 300-level student, proceeding to 400-level Politics.
Leah Rangi, who has been offered the award for the best performing Maori 300-level students, proceeding to 400-level Politics.
Professor Patman Televison Interviews
Prof Patman interview given on global trends on TVNZ 7 News at 8 Saturday, 2 January
Prof Robert Patman discusses situation in Yemen with TVNZ 7 News at 8 4th January 2010.
Radio Interview
Interview with Michael Laws on Radio Live this morning with regard to Hilary Clinton's forthcoming visit to New Zealand.
(13mb MP3 file)
Five doctorandi for Politics in 2009
The Department has had its best year so far in terms of completed PhDs. Four successful candidates received their doctoral degrees at the Graduation ceremony on 16 December, while a fifth will receive his degree early in 2010. In addition, the University of Otago has decided to award an honorary doctoral degree to Prof Jim Flynn, an emeritus professor in the Department.
The successful doctoral students (and the themes of their theses) are:
James McIlraith (Preventive diplomacy in the United Nations system and civil conflict).
Andreas Reitzig (Transtasman perceptions of defence and defence cooperation).
Marjolein Righarts (Natural disasters and civil conflict).
Jonathan West (Environmental history of the Otago Peninsula) -- joint Politics and History doctorate.
Jacky Zvulun (New Zealand local elections and voter participation).
The photo below was taken at a pre-graduation reception that the Department held to honour our doctorandi and their families.
From left to right: Drr Jacky Zvulun, Janine Hayward, Marjolein Righarts, Prof Philip Nel (HoD), and Dr James McIlraith.
Professor Robert Patman Humanities Lecture
Video of Professor Robert Patman's Inaugural Professorial Lecutre.
Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics.
Link to Video: Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given October 16, 2008
Professor Robert Patman on TV
5th Nov TVNZ Breakfast TV
NZ troops in Afghanistan Breakfast speaks to international relations professor Robert Patman about the situation for our troops in Afghanistan, after they came under fire from insurgents.
NZ Political Studies Association Conference.
Otago's strong participation at the annual conference of the New Zealand Political Studies Association, 29 November -- 1 December 2009
Staff and students of the Department of Politics will again in large numbers participate at the NZPSA annual conference, to be held in Auckland from 29 Nov to 1 Dec 2009. Making sixteen appearances in total, the most of any university in New Zealand, Otago's contingent will deliver papers on Political Philosophy, New Zealand politics, and International Relations, and take part in a number of roundtable discussions on political marketing, teaching Politics, and Maori political representation.
See attached programme for detail.
After the Wall Conference Review.
On the evening of 9 November 1989 thousands of East Berliners converged at Bornholmer Strasse and demanded the immediate opening of the border that separated East from West Germany. Although the East German government had passed an act lifting travel restrictions for East Germans, their plan was to gradually introduce the new regulations.
The people of East Germany could not wait, however, and in dramatic scenes they started to clamber over the Wall that separated East and West Berlin since 1961. In the process, they changed the history of Germany, of Europe, and of the world forever.
On November 9, the Department of Politics and the German Programme of the Department of Language and Cultures, with assistance from the German Embassy in Wellington, held a commemorative conference attended by a range of International speakers. They included Dr Mary Fullbrook (University College, London), Prof Ruediger Steinmetz (University of Leipzig), Prof Michael Zuern (Science Centre for Social Science Research and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin), and literature, politics, and history experts from Australia and New Zealand.
Click for larger image.
Contributors focused on the consequences of reunification of Germany since 1989, both in terms of how individuals and households reacted to the change, and how the state and economic interest groups adjusted.
New Zealand Media & Environment Forum
Dr Salinger taking Q&A at the Media and Environment Forum at the Otago Museum
Salinger scathing
"A leading climate scientist, Dr Jim Salinger, is urging more open science communication, and takes issue with an overly "corporate" approach adopted by some Crown-owned science agencies." {ODT 11/11/09}
Dr Salinger was a participant in the recent Media & Environment Forum.
Professor Patman on Breakfast with Paul Henry
International Relations expert Professor Robert Patman of the University of Otago Discusses continued violence in Afghanistan with Paul Henry on TVNZ's One Breakfast show.
Professor Patman on One News
Prof Patman on Breakfast TV
International Relations expert Professor Rob≠ert Patman of the University of Otago Discusses how much damage the goal of achieving democracy in Afghanistan has done.
Special Summer School Paper
The Department of Politics at the University of Otago will have a special visiting lecturer for its upcoming Summer School session.
Professor Stan Taylor, one of America’s leading experts on intelligence and counterintelligence will teach a course (POLS 331) entitled “U.S. Intelligence and National Security".
He brings a unique combination of high-level policy experience as well as years of teaching experience. Taylor was one of the first senior staff members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. He played a key role in drafting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, the controversial legislation that President George W. Bush decided to ignore in the wake of 9/11. Taylor also worked on several significant pieces of legislation, including the Agent Identities Act, and prepared several highly classified studies for the Senate. In 1979, he staffed a Senate Committee trip to Moscow to discuss a pending disarmament treaty between the Soviet Union and the U.S. That trip included a meeting with the aging Soviet ruler, Leonid Brezhnev.
He has published widely and has a chapter in each of three leading Handbooks on Intelligence including the upcoming Oxford Handbook on National Security Intelligence. Taylor has won “best teacher” awards at Bentley College in Boston and Brigham Young University in Utah.
He has also taught at the University of Wales at Swansea and the University of Kent in Canterbury. In 1993 he was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Otago and was also a visiting professor here in 2006.
New Zealand Media & Environment Forum
Format: Panel discussions
Speakers include:
Metiria Turei,
Jim Salinger,
Don Nicolson
Topics:
- Environmental activism and alternative environmental media
- Journalist and source relations in environmental reportage
- Reporting on Copenhagen & the science of climate change
- Environmental science and freedom of speech
- Reporting on politics and the environment
- Everyday life and environmental reportage
Brought to you by the Department of Politics, the Centre for Science Communication, and the Political Communication, Policy and Participation Research Cluster at the University of Otago.
For more information and to register visit
Friday 6 November 2009
Hutton Theatre,
Otago Museum
419 Great King Street
Dunedin
Click here to download the PDF information sheet
After the Wall
A Conference to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Dunedin Keynote Speakers include:
Prof Mary Fullbrook, University College London
Prof Rüdiger Steinmetz, University of Leipzig
Prof Volker Rittberger, University of Tübingen
8 – 10 November 2009
Hutton Theatre,
Otago Museum,
419 Great King Street,
Dunedin
Click here to download the PDF information sheet.