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Professor Ginsberg has completed a new coauthored book: The European Union Global Security: The Politics of Impact with Palgrave Mac-millan in London. The book features case studies of EU security opera-tions in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Georgia--countries where Ginsberg con-ducted fieldwork in summer 2009. The volume is expected to be released this fall.

Professor Burns’ edited volume Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle was published by Lexington Press in August 2010. It has thus far been reviewed in one major scholarly journal, The Review of Metaphysics (http://tinyurl.com/4ewbqxp) . The volume is a collection of essays to honor the seminal work of Thomas Pangle; it exam-ines ancient and modern attempts to ground the life of reason as those attempts are introduced and elaborated in the work of thinkers from Homer and Thucydides to Nietzsche and Charles Taylor.

Professor Burns has three research projects currently under-way. The first is to write Introduction To Political Philosophy, which he is co-authoring with Thomas L. Pangle. The proposal for this book was ac-cepted by Cambridge University Press last May. It will be published both here and in Great Britain. (Professor Burns received an Earhart Founda-tion Grant this past summer to begin work on it.) The book will consist of chapters devoted to an important work by every major political thinker from Plato to Heidegger and his students. Cambridge anticipates that it will go through a number of editions. The contract calls for the initial manuscript to be delivered by December 2012; anticipated publication is late 2013.

The second project is an edited issue of the French journal Klesis devoted to the work of Leo Strauss. This will be Professor Burns‟ third recent (and fourth overall) publication on the work of Strauss, made in an effort to explain his serious thought, particularly his extensive but quiet confrontation with the thought of Heidegger, at a time when there has been an undesirable politicization of his thought. The first recent article, “Strauss, Hobbes, and the Origins of Modern Natural Science” will be published in Volume 64.4 (June 2011) of The Review of Metaphysics. This article examines the manuscript of a 1934 book on Hobbes (and Des-cartes), Die Religionskritik des Hobbes, which Strauss left unpublished. The article compares and contrasts the 1934 manuscript with Strauss‟ 1953 treatment of Hobbes in Natural Right and History. The second recent publi-cation on Strauss is a long entry on Strauss in Congressional Quarterly’s Ency-clopedia of Modern Political Thought. A French translation of this piece was accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue of Klesis and Professor Burns was subsequently appointed co-editor of the whole issue, which will be appearing in July. The issue will include six other essays on Strauss by leading scholars of his work.

Professor Burns‟ third research project is a book on Thucy-dides and the challenge of divine revelation, parts of which have either already been published as articles or presented as conference papers. For he has recently published or had accepted for publication five articles on

Thucydides. “What War Discloses,” an overview of Thucydides‟ intention and his rhetorical strategy, appeared in Recovering Reason. His translation from the Greek, with an introductory essay and a critical apparatus, of Marcellinus‟ Life of Thucydides, appeared in December‟s issue of Interpreta-tion: A Journal of Political Philosophy. (Marcellinus‟ Life appears in Greek in the Oxford classical text, but it had not been translated into a modern language.) The Journal of Politics is publishing Professor Burns‟ “The Virtue of Thucydides‟ Brasidas” in their second (April) issue of 2011. “The Prob-lematic Character of Pericles‟ Civic Republicanism” will appear in Civic Republicanism, Enlightenment and Modernity: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, edited by Geoffrey Kellow and Neven Brady Leddy (University of Toronto Press). Finally, “Thucydides, Teacher of Rhetoric? From the Roman Rhe-torical Schools to Hobbes,” which is on the prefaces of Hobbes‟ translation of Thucydides and Thucydides‟ ancient critic, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, will be appearing in La Rhétorique Démocratique En Temps De Crise: Discours, Déliberation, Légitimation, Crystal Cordell, ed. (France: ERMES Labora-toire). This article is also under review at the journal History of Political Thought. Professor Burns presented the article as a paper in January at an international conference in Nice, France, and will be presenting a version of it on April 2 at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting in Chicago.

A sixth article on Thucydides (and Aristophanes) will examine the two thinkers‟ respective treatments of the statesman Nicias and the demagogue Cleon. The proposal for this article has been accepted for inclu-sion in the volume The Political Thought of Aristophanes, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost, and Professor Burns will be finishing it soon.

In May, Professor Burns will be delivering the president‟s ad-dress at the annual induction ceremony of the Skidmore College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The tentative title of his talk is “Why Do We Wear These Gowns and These Hoods?” He will also be serving as discussant on the panel “Socrates on Justice, Eros, and the Gods,” at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Seattle, WA, September 1-4.

Professor Burns also serves as reviewer of manuscripts for two presses, Focus Press and Rowman & Littlefield, and for the following five journals: The American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, The Review of Politics, Social Philosophy Today, and Perspectives on Political Science.

While the editing of the Klesis volume and writing the article on Thucydides and Aristophanes are on Professor Burns‟ immediate agenda, the Introduction To Political Philosophy is a major project that will occupy the majority of his time after March break. When it is completed, he will turn to the completion of his book on Thucydides, which he plans to submit to the University of Chicago Press for review. Since much of this book is either already published as articles or already delivered as conference pa-pers, he anticipates that the project will take less than a year. He will then turn to writing a book on Shakespeare, which will cover the five plays that he has taught in his Shakespeare classes, two additional Roman plays, and the history plays (which he has delivered lectures on for Lary Opitz‟s stu-dents in the Theater Department). He anticipates that the Shakespeare book will take two years to complete. Its central theme is politics and relig-ion.