Guests of the Bayreuth Academy in the last five years

Our Guests

Miss/es Dr. Melanie Torrent

Inviting institution:	Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Stay:	17. Januar 2016
Email:	melanie.torrent@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Home university:	Paris Diderot University (Frankreich)
Personal information:	Dr. Melanie Torrent currently is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London's School of Advanced Study.   Her research focuses on British foreign policy and diplomacy since 1945 and on the history of the contemporary Commonwealth of Nations, with a particular interest in Franco-British relations in Africa and links between the Commonwealth and the Francophonie. My work also investigates competing definitions and practices of democracy, development aid and the promotion of South-South exchanges in international relations. More recently, I have been working on the international relations of the British Labour Party and non-governmental groups in Britain, the evolution of policy-making in government departments and the influence of civil society groups on the redefinition of British identity and British power in the long end of empire.