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Dr David Williams, HoD

David Williams joined the Department in September 2006. Previously he was a Junior Research Fellow in International Relations at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and a Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. Dr Williams is the Head of the Department of International Politics.

Research

David’s research interests are in the area of the international relations of development. David has just finished a book on the World Bank and ‘Good Governance’ entitled, ‘Liberalism, Governance and Sovereignty: The World Bank and Domestic Transformation in International Politics’.

David’s current research interests are in the area of the connections between development and global governance, and between liberal political theory and the practice of state-building and development.

Publications

D. Williams, working paper, Governance, Security, and ‘Development’: The Case of Money Laundering

Recent and forthcoming publications include:

‘The World Bank and the Liberal Project’, David Moore (ed.), Banking on Hegemony: Critical Essays on the World Bank’s Development Discourse (forthcoming, 2007).

‘"Development" and Global Governance: The World Bank, Financial Sector Reform and the "Will to Govern"’, forthcoming, International Politics.

‘The Consolidation of Peace in Africa’, Centre for International Studies Working Paper, IS001, May 2005. With Jane Boulden, S. Neil Macfarlane and Jochen Prantl.

‘Aid, Sovereignty and Ownership’, Global Economic Governance Programme Working Paper, 2006.

Consultancy

Co-author of a study ‘The New Imperialism: Britain and the Security Challenges of the Next Decade’, for the Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre, UK Ministry of Defence, April 2002.

Core researcher and co-author for Canadian Department Foreign Affairs and International Trade funded project on institutional cooperation and the consolidation of peace in Sub-Saharan Africa, July 2004.

Teaching

Currently David is teaching modules on international organisations in global politics, global political issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and development and global politics.

PhD Supervision

I welcome applications from prospective PhD students in the broad area of the international relations of development.

Administration

For 2007-2008 David will be director of the MA International Politics. He will also be coordinator of the research student seminar series.