24 July 2007

Report on Cambridge/GPPi New Protectorates Conference now available

On 24 July 2007, the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) released a summary report on its joint conference on "The New Protectorates: International Administration and the Dilemmas of Governance", held on 6-8 June together with the Centre for International Studies at the University of Cambridge. The event took place at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge (UK). The goal of the workshop was to discuss contributions to an edited volume on the "theories of governance" underpinning contemporary “protectorates” such as Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, East Timor and Iraq. The workshop is part of the New Protectorates project that the Centre for International Studies at Cambridge and GPPi started with a meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio conference center in February 2006.

The report provides summaries of paper contributions by distinguished scholars such as Christopher Clapham (Cambridge), Wolfgang Seibel (University of Konstanz), Richard Caplan (Oxford), Mats Berdal (King's College London), David Keen and Spyros Economides (London School of Economics), Maj.Gen. (ret) John Drewienkiewicz, Aswini Kanta Ray (University of Delhi) and William Burke-White (University of Pennsylvania), as well as papers by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Cambridge/GPPi) and Thorsten Benner, Stephan Mergenthaler and Philipp Rotmann (GPPi).

The New Protectorates project is led by James Mayall and GPPi Fellow Ricardo Soares de Oliveira of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge in collaboration with GPPi’s Thorsten Benner, Stephan Mergenthaler and Philipp Rotmann. The Cambridge Conference was generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Additional support was provided by CRASSH.

The conference report, including the program and list of participants, is available for download here.

For further information please contact Thorsten Benner.

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