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IUEU Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow Prof. Wil Hout was in residence at Murdoch University from 12 - 20 February 2009. Dr. Wil Hout is Associate Professor of World Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague and currently serves as Dean of the Institute. Before joining the Institute of Social Studies in 1999, he worked at the Universities of Rotterdam, Leiden and Nijmegen. He held visiting professorships at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, U.S.A.), the Institute of South East Asian Studies (Singapore) and Central University of Iowa (U.S.A.).

He is the author of Capitalism and the Third World (Edward Elgar, 1993) and The Politics of Aid Selectivity (Routledge, 2007), editor of EU Development Policy and Poverty Reduction (Ashgate, 2007), and co-editor of Regionalism across the North-South Divide (with Jean Grugel; Routledge, 1999). Publications on international political economy and development have appeared in various edited collections and in such journals as the European Journal of International Relations, Development and Change, Journal of Development Studies, Third World Quarterly, Critical Asian Studies and Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science.


Prof. Hout presented at three member universities during his stay in Australia.

The events were:

• 12 February 2009: Murdoch University
  

  IUEU Centre and Asia Research Centre Conference at Murdoch University
  “New Modes of Governance and Security Challenges in the Asia Pacific”
  Key note address
  Contacts at Murdoch University:  Dr. Andrew Webster +61 8 9360 6642, Tamara Dent +61 8 9360 2263 or 0434 826 513
  The full conference program is available here as a pdf (88 kb)
  
  

• 16 February 2009: Flinders University
  

  Seminar in the Departments of History and Politics
  "EU development assistance, human security and fragile states"
  Contact at Flinders: Professor Peter Monteath, Acting Head of the Department of History. Phone: +61 8 8201 5568
  
  

• 18 February 2009: Macquarie University
  

  Alumni Lecture – IUEU Centre Seminar entitled "Between Development and Security: The European Union, Governance and Fragile States"
  Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1982
  M.A. cum laude (International Relations and Comparative Politics) , Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1984
  Ph.D. (International Relations), University of Leiden, 1992
  Date: Wednesday, 18 February 2009
  Venue: Lecture Theatre T1, Building X5B, Macquarie University
  Map: For a map of indicating the location of the seminar and preferred parking areas please click on this link
  

• Links
  Professor Hout has provided a powerpoint of the lecture he gave at Macquarie University.
  A recording of his lecture will be uploaded shortly.
  Click on the link below to access

  Between Development and Security: The European Union, Governance and Fragile States (colour)	Between Development and Security: The European Union, Governance and Fragile States (greyscale)
  Click to download this lecture (MP3)
  Select the URL below to access a pdf of the working paper presented by Prof. Hout at Murdoch University
  Prof. Wil Hout Working paper 153: 'Between Development and Security: The European Union, Governance and Fragile States' (presented at the Murdoch University conference: “New Modes of Governance and Security Challenges in the Asia Pacific” February 2009)
  http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/wp/wp153.pdf

  
  
  
  

Wil HOUT
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