IBEI is an inter-university institute of postgraduate research and training in politics and international relations, supported by five universities in Barcelona . While its Master’s programme has students from over 30 countries, the Institute has more than 25 PhD –level researchers currently.
Prof Fred Halliday, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE and iconic Leftist scholar spent the last five years of his life as Research Professor at IBEI, referring to it as “our institute” in ‘A Time In Barcelona’, in the volume ‘Political Journeys’, an anthology of his Open Democracy essays published posthumously.
Dr Jayatilleka’s lecture was chaired by Prof Robert Kissack, Co-ordinator of the Institute’s MA programme and a former student of Prof Halliday at the LSE. A participant in discussion at the two hour session was Dr Margarita Petrova, who teaches Peace and Conflict Studies at IBEI and is currently working on a book on ‘The Politics of Norm Creation’. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the American Political Science Association’s Prize for best dissertation in international relations in 2008.
 Dr Dayan Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to France, Spain and Portugal was invited to delive...){kind=link}
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