Executive Masters Degree in

the Political Economy of

Europe

The European Institute is pleased

to announce the launch of a new

Executive Masters Degree in the

Political Economy of Europe

starting in December 2013, which offers working professionals the opportunity to

earn an LSE Master’s degree while pursuing a full-time career. The programme is

aimed at candidates with strong academic credentials and substantial work

experience. The courses in the Executive Masters degree in the Political Economy

of Europe are taught by experienced teaching staff in the European Institute at the

LSE. Students attend eight one-week sessions at the LSE campus in central London.

Evaluations consist of essays as well as written take-home exams. A key

component of this Executive degree is a dissertation of up to 6,000 words on a

topic individually selected. Students receive special research training and support

on and off campus to guide them through their dissertation. You can read more about the Executive Programme on page 6 in the Sixty-Second

Interview.

EI’s PhD student Mogens Hobolth has recently defended

his PhD Thesis on ‘Border Control Cooperation in the

European Union: The Schengen Visa Policy in Practice’ and

has very successfully passed with no revisions! Mogens’

supervisors were Dr Eiko Thielemann and Dr Jennifer

Jackson-Preece. The viva examiners were Prof Simon Hix

and Prof Sandra Lavenex.

This is fantastic news and the EI would like to say

‘Congratulations, Mogens!’

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Charlotte Milne joined on 18 February as the new

Executive MSc Programme Manager. Charlotte will be

responsible for the new Executive Political

Economy of Europe degree which is starting in

December 2013. Charlotte, original ly from

Cambridge, joins us from London Business School and has

vast experience in executive programmes, including MBAs,

MiMs and MiFs. You can find more out about Charlotte and

the Executive MSc in this month’s Sixty Second Interview.

Ashley Thomas joined on 11 February as the new MSc

Programme Manager, replacing Natalie Dawkins. Ashley, who

hails from California, has a wealth of experience of programme

management from her previous roles also at London Business

School. You can get to know Ashley better next month as she

will be the lucky April Sixty Second Interviewee!

Dr Kenneth Morrison is joining LSEE as a

research associate. Dr Kenneth Morrison is Senior Lecturer in

Modern European History at De Montfort University,

Leicester. His principal research interests lie in the field of

Southeast European studies with emphasis on ethno-religious and

ethno-political conflict and the historical process of nation and

state building in communist and post-communist states. Kenneth

has previously held posts at UCL School of Slavonic and East

European Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London and

Aberdeen.

Four LEQS – LSE ‘Europe in Question’ papers have been published recently:

Costa-i-Font, Joan. 'Fiscal Federalism and European Health System

Decentralization: A Perspective' LEQS Paper No. 55, December

2012

Teixeira, Pedro. 'The Tortuous Ways of the Market: Looking at the

European Integration of Higher Education from an Economic

Perspective' LEQS Paper No. 56, January 2013

De Grauwe, Paul. ‘Design Failures in the Eurozone: Can they be

fixed?’ LEQS Paper No. 57, February 2013

Aranki, Ted and Macchiarelli, Corrado. 'Employment Duration and

Shifts into Retirement in the EU' LEQS Paper No. 58, February 2013

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Arrivals

New Publications

EI’s PhD student Sonja Avlijas co-authored chapters in two books which were

recently released, as follows:

‘Regionalization and Regional Development in

Serbia’ (with C. Guglielmetti), in Palermo F. and Parolari S.

(eds.) Regional Dynamics in Central and Eastern Eu-

rope: New Approaches to Decentralization. Brill,

Leiden, Boston (chapter 8).

‘Simulating Policy Reform: Distributional and

Poverty Outcomes of the New Social Welfare Law in

Serbia’ (with M. Arandarenko et al), in Ruggeri Laderchi C.

and Savastano S. (eds.), Poverty and Exclusion in the

Western Balkans – New Directions in Measurement

and Policy, Springer.

Hellenic Observatory’s GreeSE Paper No.67 was recently published. It was

written by Daniel M. Knight and it was on ‘Famine, Suicide and Photovoltaics:

Narratives from the Greek crisis’ (February 2013).

Dr Damiana Otoiu, LSEE Visiting Fellow, had her article ‘Property restitution’

published in: Lavinia STAN, Nadya NEDELSKY (eds.), Encyclopedia of Transitional

Justice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Damiana also received a

fellowship to be a Visiting Fellow at the Centre d'études et de recherches

internationales at Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (CNRS-Sciences Po Paris) in June -

July 2013.

Decentralization and Local Development in

South East Europe

LSEE’s latest publication ‘Decentralization and Local

Development in South East Europe’ was written by

Dr Will Bartlett, Dr Sanja Maleković and Dr Vassilis

Monastiriotis. Many of the papers appearing in the

book were originally presented in a conference

organised by LSEE in Zagreb in May 2010.

An article by Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis titled ‘A very Greek crisis’ was published

in the latest issue of Intereconomics (vol.48,1, pp.4-9), in the Forum ‘Austerity

Measures in Crisis Countries – Results and Impact on Mid-term Development’.

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New Publications

Events

Friday 1 March 2013, 12.00-13.30, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB, LSE

'My Mediterranean’

Prof David Abulafia, Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University

Chair: Dr Helen Moore, Corpus Christi College Oxford

LSE European Institute Perspectives on Europe Series public lecture - LSE Literary

Festival

Friday 1 March 2013, 13.30-16.45, venue tba to attendees only Conference Title: ‘Turkey and the Middle East: A Changing Relationship’

Session 1: 'Turkey as an Economic Example to the Arab Countries'

Speakers: Mina Toksöz, Emerging Markets and Country Risk Consultant

Prof Şevket Pamuk, LSE European Institute

Chair: Fadi Hakura, Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Session 2: 'Turkey and Regional Developments in the Middle East'

Speakers: Muhammed Ҫetin, Deputy-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs

Committee, Turkish Grand National Assembly

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Professor, Sabancı University, Istanbul

Chair: Sir David Logan, Chair of British Institute in Ankara

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference (jointly with Chatham

House)

(NB: This event is not open to public. Attendance by invitation only)

Saturday 2 March / Monday 4 March / Wednesday 6 March / Friday 8

March 2013, LSE campus

1st Hellenic Forum 'GREXITING the crisis'

Speakers include: Kevin Featherstone, George Kaminis, Manos Matsaganis, Elias Mossialos, Nicos Christodoulakis, Paschos Mandravelis, Elias Papaioannou,

Dimitri Vayanos.

Organised by the LSE Hellenic Society and supported by the Hellenic

Observatory

Saturday 2 March 2013, 13.00-14.30, Wolfson Theatre, NAB

‘Poetry and Politics: how well do they mix?’ Speakers: Carola Luther, Michael McGregor, Dr Llewelyn Morgan

Chair: Richard Bronk, LSE European Institute Visiting Fellow

A Wordsworth Trust / LSE Literary Festival Event

Monday 4 March 2013, 18.30-20.00, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB, LSE

‘Why I am a Euro-optimist’

Speaker: Alain Juppé, Former Prime Minister of France

LSE European Institute Perspectives on Europe Series public lecture

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 18.00-19.30, COW 1.11, Cowdray House, LSE

'God Save the Green': renewable energy programmes in the Greek economic

Crisis’ Speaker: Dr Daniel Knight, National Bank of Greece Post; Doctoral Research

Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE

Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar

Events

Thursday 7 March 2013, 18.30-20.00, Thai Theatre, NAB, LSE

‘Let’s Get Europe Moving’

Speakers:

Peter Sutherland, Chairman of the LSE Court of Governors; Special

Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Migration, Former

EU Commissioner and Director General of the WTO

Loïc Tribot La Spière, Director General of CEPS, Centre d'Etude et de

Prospective Stratégique

Chair: Dr Waltraud Schelkle, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy

LSE European Institute Perspectives on Europe book launch, in association with

Centre d'Etude et de Prospective Stratégique

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 18.00-19.30, COW.1.11, Cowdray House, LSE

‘Post-Communist metamorphoses or the 'nomenklatura neighbourhood -

Privatization and political elites in Romania’

Speaker: Dr Damiana Otoiu, LSEE Visiting Fellow, University of Bucharest

Organised by LSEE Research on South East Europe

Thursday 14 March 2013, 18.00-19.30, COW 1.11, Cowdray House, LSE Book Launch: 'Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans'

Speakers:

Prof Adam Fagan, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Joanna Hanson, Principle research analyst for Albania, Kosovo and

Macedonia, FCO

Dr Armine Ishkanian, Lecturer in NGOs and Development, Department of

Social Policy, LSE

Chair: Dr Denisa Kostovicova, Senior Lecturer in Global Politics, Department

of Government, LSE

Organised by LSEE Research on South East Europe

Thursday 14 March 2013, 18.30-20.00, Venue tbc to ticketholders only

‘Greece's way out of the crisis’

Speaker: Alexis Tsipras, President of Syriza-USF (Opposition Party, Greece)

Hellenic Observatory Public Lecture

Tuesday 19 March 2013, 18.30-20.00, TW1.G.01, Tower 1, LSE

‘The (Very Deep) Roots of Greece’s Crisis: A Historical Reassessment’ Speaker: Prof Stathis N. Kalyvas, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political

Science; Director, Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University

Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar

Events

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Wednesday 20 March 2013, 18.30-20.00, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB, LSE ‘Euro-crisis and Greece’

Panel:

Petros Christodoulou, Deputy CEO, National Bank of Greece

Dr Daniel Gros, Director, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels

Prof Charles Goodhart, Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance; Director,

Financial Regulation Research Programme, LSE

Prof Michael Haliassos, Chair for Macroeconomics and Finance, Goethe University

Frankfurt; Director, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt

Panel discussion organised by the Hellenic Observatory and the Hellenic Bankers

Association-UK

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 18.00-19.30, COW.1.11, Cowdray House, LSE

‘A comparative perspective on reckoning with the past in the post-conflict Balkans’

Speaker: Dr Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Goldsmiths

Organised by LSEE Research on South East Europe

……. with Dr Bob Hancké, Programme Director of Executive Masters Degree in

the Political Economy of Europe and Charlotte Milne, Programme Manager of

Executive Masters Degree in the Political Economy of Europe.

Bob, you are the Programme Director of the

new Executive Masters Degree in the Political

Economy of Europe starting in December 2013.

Can you tell us a few things about the content of

this programme, its duration and its aim?

BH: The basic idea is to use our excellent existing

courses in the Political Economy of Europe degree as a

basis for a degree geared towards people with full-time

jobs, several years professional experience and a

developing interest in different aspects of the Political

Economy of Europe. The crisis of EMU suggests that many of the areas in European

economic integration are tightly linked, and our aim is to highlight how and why they

are. Think for example, of how the construction of the Single Market in services,

welfare state reforms in some of the EU's member-states, and the evolution of EMU

might influence each other. The teaching is organised in eight week-long seminars

immediately after and before Michaelmas, Lent and Summer Terms. Since the degree

is geared towards full-time professionals, it is spread over two years, which implies

that there are four weeks a year with study in residence at the LSE in London. All the

rest -- such as office hours, essays, examinations, etc. -- will be possible off-campus.

The seminars are preceded by regular, light homework in preparation of the

seminars, and followed by essays and exams.

Sixty-Second Interview

Sixty-Second Interview

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How will this new Executive programme benefit its graduates? BH: Many Executive degrees are there for the candidates that want to 'move on' --

start a different career. While there is no doubt that some of our graduates will have

that opportunity, we hope for a slightly different audience as well: those who work in

the Foreign Office, say, or in the strategy division of a large multinational company or

investment bank, or in lobbying organisations associated with the Brussels scene, and

who recognise that their job requires them to understand more about fields adjacent

to those where they are working now. For them, and for their companies, this degree

is, as it were, a further training opportunity. Rather than moving into new jobs, these

are people who need this type of knowledge to do their current job better.

How can one seek more information about the programme? BH: There are several ways: contact our Programme Manager Charlotte Milne or me

directly by phone or email, visit the website of the Executive Masters degree, or use

the LSE's Executive Masters portal. All the essential information is there, and we will

work to find anyone who is interested whatever information might be missing. Charlotte, welcome to the EI! You are the new

Programme Manager for this Executive Masters

Degree. Can you tell us a few things about your

previous work experience, what do you expect

to achieve in your new role and what challenges

do you anticipate? CM: Before starting at LSE I worked at London

Business School as a Programme Manager on the

Executive MBA programme. My current role at LSE

really interested me as I will be working on different

projects and with many different skateholders across

the school. My main challenge is setting up the new programme and ensuring that

everything will run smoothly whilst the students are on campus and their time

throughout the programme.

Tell us a few things about Charlotte. Where are you from, what do you

like to do in your free time etc.

CM: I am originally from Cambridge, I moved to London 5 years ago. In my spare

time I love to cook (well try to) watch movies and attend as many music festivals and

gigs as my wages will stretch too!

Any hobbies or other activities you would like to take up if you had more

time?

CM: More music festivals, baking, reading and learning a language.

Where would you most like to travel and why? CM: Around the UK (not for the weather!) – there are so many beautiful beaches

and countryside that I haven’t explored that I would love to see.

Name three things you cannot do without.

CM: Diet coke, my phone and my family (not necessarily in that order!)

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With which famous person would you like to have dinner, and why?

CM: Russell Peters – so he can entertain me with jokes all evening.

What is the most brave thing you have ever done? CM: I am literally terrified of heights, I can barely climb a ladder without it

normally resulting in tears. For a team building exercise at my previous

workplace we had to climb a wall. I was going to opt out, but this meant my

team would lose so I did it, but only because my competitive side came out!

1 March: LSEE’s Dr James Ker-Lindsay is speaking on a panel entitled

'Forging a Trans-Atlantic Policy on Secession' at a conference 'Secession

Redux: Lessons for the EU' at the Center for European Studies, University of

Texas at Austin.

1 March: Hellenic Observatory’s Dr Nikolas Skoutaris is participating in a

conference on the 'Political Institutions in the Republic of Cyprus' in Nicosia

organised by the University of Cyprus and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Cyprus).

4 March: Prof Paul De Grauwe is participating in Conference on EU-Brazil

Relations in Brussels.

8 March: Prof Paul De Grauwe is giving a keynote lecture on the Eurozone

at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik.

11-14 March: PhD student Sonja Avlijas is leading a 4-day workshop on

‘Independent Eastern Europe? - Poverty and Inequality in Central and Eastern

Europe in the 21st Century’ at the Central European Conference in Hungary.

16-17 March: Prof Nicholas Barr is giving a keynote lecture on ‘Income-

contingent loans and higher education financing: Theory and practice’ at a

conference on Income-Contingent Loans, Education and Labour Markets: Policy

and Beyond, International Economic Association Roundtable, Dhurakij Pundit

University, Bangkok.

20 March: LSEE’s Dr James Ker-Lindsay is giving a guest presentation on

'The Foreign Policy of Counter Secession' to the City Law School and the

Department of International Politics at City University London.

21 March: EI’s PhD student Giovanni Faleg is speaking at the European Coop-

eration in Science and Technology (COST) Final Action Conference on ‘EU’s Role

in Multilateral Crisis Management’ at the Austrian National Defence Academy in

Vienna. Giovanni is presenting his study on the UK and Italian perspectives on the

Common Security and Defence Policy.

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21-22 March: Prof Nicholas Barr is giving a keynote lecture on ‘Designing

pensions: Lessons, pitfalls and some solutions’ at the conference on Rethinking the

Economics of Pensions, London.

23 March: Prof Paul De Grauwe is giving a keynote lecture at the ‘25èmes

Rencontres au Sommet Deauville’, France.

23 March: EI’s PhD student Giovanni Faleg is speaking at the Ralf Dahrendorf

Roundtable ‘Pooling and Sharing in the EU - Pipe Dream or Converging Reality?’,

organised by the European Liberal Forum and sponsored by the European

Parliament.

25 March: Prof Paul De Grauwe is participating in a debate on the future of

the Eurozone organized by the Spinelli group of European Parliament, Brussels.

29 March: Dr Simon Glendinning is giving a paper at Memphis University,

USA, on ‘The End of the World Made with Men in Mind’.

Prof Iain Begg Prof Iain Begg spoke to Spiegel Online

on 6 February about the in-out debate

for Britain and the UK. ‘All these studies

have to be treated with caution," Iain

said adding that ‘the influence of the EU

on the domestic economy is grossly

exaggerated.

Iain also spoke to BBC World News on 8 February commenting on the cutting

the EU budget.

The UK has always been a ‘reluctant European’, Iain told Forbes India on 18

February. ‘For the UK, the economic dimension of EU membership has nearly

always been more prominent than the political goals’, added Iain.

On 22 February, Iain spoke to France 2 on the Irish economic recovery.

Iain was interviewed on 26 February by NTN24 on the crisis in Italy and its effects

on the Eurozone and the financial markets.

EI in the News

EI in the News

Dr Anne Corbett

Dr Anne Corbett has written a story for the Times Higher

Education Supplement (Web) on 21 February entitled ‘From

where I sit - 'Brexit'? It's cold outside’. While the rest of

Europe, with its many world-class universities, strengthens the

cooperative Bologna strategy for mobility and the circulation of

ideas, my email correspondence suggests that bright minds are

already rejecting the pricey British option and its "Little

England" aura’, Anne wrote.

Another article by Anne Corbett was published in the University World

News on 23 February under the title ‘The global language of influence’.

Prof Paul De Grauwe

rof Paul De Grauwe spoke to Bloomberg on 6 February on the eurocrisis

and said ‘The crisis has never been over […. ] If this reversal goes on we’ll get

a new stage and the ECB will have to act or it will lose credibility’.

Prof Paul De Grauwe and former member of the Belgian parliament Yuemei Ji

have written an analysis for Eurasia Review on 22 February entitled ‘Panic-

Driven Austerity In The Eurozone And Its Implications? This was also picked

up by the Daily Telegraph and the Economist.

Paul was mentioned in a Financial Times story on 27 February by Martin

Wolf under the heading ‘The sad record of fiscal austerity’. ‘A leading and, in

my view, persuasive proponent of a contrary view is the Belgian economist,

Paul de Grauwe, now at the LSE. He has argued that eurozone countries’ debt

crises resulted from European Central Bank policy failures. Because of its

refusal to act as lender of last resort to governments, they suffered liquidity

risk – borrowing costs rose because buyers of bonds lacked confidence they

would be able to resell easily at all times. That, not insolvency, was the

immediate peril’, wrote Wolf. The FT story was also picked up by other

media sources such as the Irish Times.

Prof Kevin Featherstone

Prof Kevin Featherstone’s latest article for Greek paper Kathimerini entitled

‘Who would really be king?’ was published on 10 February.

Dr James Ker-Lindsay Dr James Ker-Lindsay gave an interview to Danas on 8 February commenting

on the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo. The article’s title is ‘Serbia Made

a Step towards the Recognition of Kosovo’.

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EI in the News

James was quoted in the article ‘Symbolism for Presidents, Prime

ministers for Talks’ in Politika on 6 February commenting on

developments in Serbian politics.

James spoke to Sky Turk on 8 February commenting on Turkey's

relations with the European Union, Cyprus and the Kurdish Issue.

On 22 February, James spoke to the World Politics Review’s

Catherine Cheney on the recent presidential elections in Cyprus, saying

that ‘Cyprus Runoff May Determine Its Economic Fate’.

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis

Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis was quoted in an article by Southeast European

Times on 18 February entitled ‘Austerity drives down Greek deficit’. ‘There's a

big worry whether the government will be able to collect the taxes and discontent

is great on the streets … [but] the measures taken have been progressive’, Vassilis

said.

Tim Vlandas

EI’s PhD student Tim Vlandas was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor

story on 28 February commenting on the Italian elections saying ‘I think it is

fairly safe to recognize that austerity policies have, at least so far, not worked.

This is especially true in Greece, where after significant overall reductions in

fiscal spending, the debt level is as high and unsustainable as before’.

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