Shelley M. Deane

Assistant Professor of Government

Spring 2008

  • Introduction to International Relations (GOV 160)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Government (GOV 291)
  • Ending Civil Wars (GOV 330)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in Government (GOV 402)
Phone (207) 725-3630
Title Assistant Professor
Department GOVERNMENT
Work Location 205 Hubbard Hall
E-Mail sdeane@bowdoin.edu
Shelley M. Dean: Bowdoin College: Government and Legal Studies

Education

Ph.D., Department of Government, London School of Economics (LSE), 2004.
M.A. in International Relations, University of Warwick, UK. 1995.
B.Soc.Sci. (2:1) (Hons) Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK, 1994.

Teaching and Research Fields

International Relations, Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics, Irish Politics, Political Violence, Factionalism, Ethnic Conflicts, Civil Wars, Peace Processes, Security Studies, Bargaining, Negotiation.

Publications

Instituting Peace: Third Party Mediation and the Mitchell Effectin Journal of Intervention and State Building. Pending Publication

Crime Corrupting Credibility: Problems of Shifting from Paramilitary to Parliamentary the IRA and the PLO considered Special Edition Journal of Civil Wars Pending Publication.

From Belfast to Bosnia: Piecemeal Peacemaking and the Role of Institutional Learning. (co-authored) Journal of Civil Wars 7:3 (Autumn 2005) 219-243.

Academic Conference Papers

Instituting Peace: Third Party Principles and the Mitchell Effect,  Paper for the International Studies Association  (ISA) Annual Conference, Chicago, March 3, 2007

Legislative Lesson Learning from Elsewhere: Comparative Counter Insurgency Legislation since 2001, Paper for the Liberal Democrats Lawyers Conference Exeter College Oxford April 1, 2006

Crime Corrupting Credibility: Problems of Shifting from Paramilitary to Parliamentary the IRA and the PLO considered, Paper for the International Studies Association, (ISA) Annual Conference, San Diego, March 25, 2006.

Packing A Peace: Explaining Political Shape shifting in Hizballah, Sinn Fein and the PLO. Political Studies Association Ireland, (PSAI), Belfast, Northern Ireland. October 21, 2005 (with Michael Kerr LSE)

Following Big Brother: ETA, the IRA and Peace Process Policy Learning. Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Belfast, Northern Ireland. October 21, 2005 (with Olivia Nunez QUB).

Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone? Social Movements' Message and Their Voice in Politics. American Political Science Association, (APSA) Washington DC. September 2, 2005 (with Elizabeth Bloodgood UPENN).

From Belfast to Bosnia: Piecemeal Peacemaking and the role of Institutional Learning. Association for the Study of Nationalism (ASN) Conference, Columbia, New York. April 16, 2005

Bargaining out of Necessity: Comparing the Oslo Accords and the Belfast Agreement as Minimal and Maximal Peace Bargains, paper presented to the Palestine and Northern Ireland panel, Middle East Studies Association MESA Conference, San Francisco, California. November 22, 2004

Colluding to Exclude: Inter-Ethnic Security Pacts and the Making of Minimal Bargains in the Israeli-Palestinian and Northern Irish Cases. Paper presented to the Politics of Civil Wars panel, Midwestern Political Science Association MPSA Conference Chicago Illinois. April 15-18, 2004

Factionalism in the Pursuit of Peace: Factions in Northern Ireland, Political Studies Association PSA, Conference, University of Manchester, April 10-12, 2001

Danger Ahead from Internal Causes: The Role of Factions in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, British Middle Eastern Studies Association (BRISMES) Conference, University of Cambridge, July 10-12, 2000

Selected Talks and Presentations

The Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Accords Peace Agreement or Security Pact? American University of Beirut Department of Political Science and Public Administration. August 2007.

Instituting Peace, Third Party Intervention in Negotiated Peace Pacts. Dubai School of Government July 19, 2007

Northern Ireland and the Nature of Armed Conflicts, Odyssey, Chicago Public Radio August 9, 2005 See:http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_raaug05.asp

'US Foreign Policy: Where Do We Go From Here?' Panel Discussion, Dickey Centre for International Understanding, Dartmouth College May 18, 2005 http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=20050519013