Laurence Whitehead (Official Fellow) was on leave this year. With the disappeara= nce of the General Board he relinquished almost all his university responsibilities and he also came to the end of his term of office as College property bursa= r. Apart from some continuing doctoral supervision and occasional lectures, he= was free to concentrate on his own studies. The major focus of his work was the completion of a book manuscript on Democratization: Theory and Experienc= e, and most of his other activities were directly or indirectly linked to that undertaking.

&nb= sp; One chapter of his book deals with ‘citizen security’, and includes= a case study of El Sal= vador, which he visited twice during the year. These visits were in connection wit= h a government-financial collaborative research project under his direction. The initial plan was to hold a conference in St Antony’s at the end of January 2001, to review the work of the various contributors. Unfortunately= a week before the conference was due El Salvador was struck by a s= evere earthquake which made it necessary to revise and reschedule the project. A modified and updated version of the conference will now be held in Mexico City at th= e end of September.

&nb= sp; Anot= her theme of his book concerns the distinctive historical foundations of democratisation in various contexts. He spent much of March in Bolivia= , where the book Towards Democratic Viability: the Bolivian Experience was launched and presented to a variety of audiences. Another chapter concerns = the relationship between democracy and monetary authority. Originally delivered= as a paper at a panel he organised at IPSA (Quebec City) this has now expanded into a collaborative volume due to be published in Brazil (in Portuguese) t= his autumn. In a similar vein he presented a paper on the distinctiveness of the post-communist democratisations at a conference organised by the Millennium Foundation in Budapest. The Foundation is currently translating a selection of his writings on this theme for publication as a volume in Hungarian. In association with the European Union, the Polis Institute for International Affairs and the Center for Democracy in Washington, he is also co-organizing annual conferences on t= he transatlantic relationship, with particular emphasis on the eastern enlarge= ment of the EU and NATO. Aspects of this work were also presented at the Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, at CREALC in Aix-en-Provence, and at the Menéndez Pelayo University in Santander. He also presented a paper at a conference in the Carter Center in = Atlanta based on his chapter concerning institutional design and accountability in new democracies. Other ongoing collaborations involve the National Endowment for Democracy, the UNU, and t= he Pacific Council for International Policy, also mainly concerned with aspect= s of democratisation.

&nb= sp; This is his final year as editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies= . He plans to remain actively involved with the Oxford Studies in Democratization book series, but once his current commitments are completed, he expects to devote most of his future research time to work on Mexico.

Publications

(editor and author of two additional chapters) The International Dimensions of Democratization (enlarged paperback edition). Oxf= ord: Oxford University Press, 2001.

(editor with John Crabtree) Towa= rds Democratic Viability: The Bolivian Experience. <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">New York: Palgrave, 2001.

‘East Asia and Latin America: Stirrings of Mutual Recognition?’ Journal of Democracy, 11, 2000.

‘Bolivia= and the Viability of Democracy’, Journal of Democracy, 12, 2001.

(with George Gray-Molina) ‘Acpacidad Política a la Larga, Rev= ista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 64, [2000?]

Closing Commentary on Prospects for the EU= -US Relationship. Warsaw: Polish Institute of Internation= al Affairs Conferences, 2001.

‘Los cambiantes fundamentos del liberalismo económico en la políti= ca pública de América Latina’, Foreign Affairs en Español, Otoño- Invierno 2001, Vol. 1 No.3.=

‘La consolidation de la démocratie: nouveaux questionnements’, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 8, 2001.

‘Reflections on the “Transatla= ntic Partnership”, after Nice and Tallahassee’, in R. Stemplowski (ed.), Prospects for EU-US Relationship. Warsaw: The Polish Institute of Interna= tional Affairs, 2001.