Burke, Patrick
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Postal: Centre for the Study of Democracy,
University of Westminster,
32-38 Wells Street,
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Room 513
Email:burkep@wmin.ac.uk
Dr Patrick Burke is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, Course Leader for European Studies at undergraduate level, and CSD's Research Publications Officer. He was educated at the universities of Bristol, London, and Westminster. He received his doctorate from Westminster in 2005 for the thesis 'European Nuclear Disarmment. A Study of Transnational Social Movement Strategy'.
Patrick currently (2008-09) teaches on undergraduate courses on comparative European politics and international relations; he also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
As CSD Research Publications Officer, Patrick edits the CSD Bulletin, and has edited both working papers in the CSD Perspectives series and books published under the CSD imprint. He helps manage the CSD website.
Patrick's research interests include social movements in post-WWII Western and East Central Europe, German politics, and the British Left in the Cold War.
Publications
Author
Forthcoming. ‘The Eastern European Revolutions of 1989’, 3000-word entry in International Encyclopedia of Peace, Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming. ‘Communism and Peace Movements’, 2500-word entry in International Encyclopedia of Peace, Oxford University Press.
‘A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in the 1980s Western Peace Movement’, in Gerd-Rainer Horn and Padraic Kenney (eds), Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945, 1968, 1989 (Lamham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).
‘Détente from Below: A commentary on Seán Hanley’s “Spectres of Anti-Capitalism”’, Central Europe Review, Volume 2, No 39, 13 November 2000.
Co-author and editor, The Nuclear Weapons World: Who, How and Where(Pinter Publishers/Greenwod Press, 1988).
Since the 1980s: occasional articles and book reviews in academic and non-academic journals and magazines including the Times Higher Educational Supplement, German Politics Journal of International Peacekeeping; New Socialist, Tribune, END Journal, CSD Bulletin and the Dutch monthly magazine Disarmament Campaigns.
Editor
(with Margaret Blunden) Democratic Reconstruction in the Balkans (2001). (link to CSD books)
(with Hilary Wainwright and Mark Thompson), After the Wall: Democracy and Movement Politics in the New Europe (1992)
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Three books for Wayland Publishers Ltd, all for 11- to 15-year-olds (Key Stage 3): Eastern Europe (1997); Revolution in Europe 1989 (1995); and Germany (1995), described in the Times Educational Supplement as a ‘concise and sometimes thought-provoking résumé of a vast amount of information’.
Teaching
Patrick Burke has taught in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster since 1994. He has also taught at the American University in London. At the University of Westminster he has taught in the following areas: British Politics; Public Policy; International Relations; Foreign Policy-Making; Territorial Politics; Politics and the Media; Political Ideologies and Concepts; and German Politics.
Conference papers
1—2 February 2008, Conference on ‘Peace Movements in the Cold War’, London School of Economics: ‘European Nuclear Disarmament and the East—West Dialogue’.
April 2006, 11th Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference, Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘Building a transcontinental movement at home: European Nuclear Disarmament and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s’.
March 2002, Duitsland Instituut (Germany Institute), Amsterdam, conference entitled ‘Cold War and Hot Peace: the West European Movement’s Relations with Regimes and Opposition in Eastern Europe’: short paper on British CND’s attitudes to Eastern Europe in the 1980s.
October 2000: Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation, Lake Como, Italy, conference entitled ‘Transnational Moments of Change’: ‘European Nuclear Disarmament and the Cold War’.
March 1999: 5th ‘Alternative Futures And Popular Protest’ conference at Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘ENDing the Cold War? Western peace movements and the end of the Cold War’.