On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
> <http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2011/02/desai-tells-lse-not-to-disown-gaddafis-son.html>
>
> "Lord Desai reveals that he examined Saif for his PhD, entitled the _Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions_. 'I was an examiner with one other for this PhD at the university,' said Lord Desai. 'I grilled him for two hours on it — there was no suggestion he hadn’t written it himself. We were struck by how idealistic it was. We said it was not realistic and needed some realpolitik in it.'"
I haven't read the thing, but I skimmed through it (hey, it's the Internet) and checked out the bibliography and it didn't seem like he'd worked very hard on it.
Doug