Department News
On Thursday May 3rd Jeremy Waldon, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, gave the inaugural Chichele lecture, entitled 'Political Political Theory'. |
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Congratulations to Walter Mattli, who has been appointed co-editor of the journal Regulation and Governance, an interdisciplinary journal that serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, historians, criminologists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists and others. |
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Chris Prosser’s two latest blogs in our own Politics in Spires blog on an electoral system for the House of Lords and the relationship between local and parliamentary elections were picked up by The Electoral Reform Society blog (10 April, 2012) and the Channel 4 News blog (04 May, 2012). |
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Iain McLean was interviewed by Phil Gayle on BBC Radio Oxford (4 May), and was asked to give an overview of concerning the recent local elections. |
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David Anderson continues to comment regularly on the troubles between Sudan and South Sudan as well as the internal strife in South Sudan. He recently appeared in the Newsweek Scotland programme of BBC Radio Scotland (28 April, 2012). |
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Neil MacFarlane was interviewed on News Azerbaijan (18 April, 2012) on the possibility of a war with Iran. |
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Alan Ryan published an opinion piece on the idea of ‘Great Books’ and how it can impact one’s education in the modern world in the Times Higher Education (19 April, 2012). |
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Reem Abou-El-Fadl has published a study entitled 'The Road to Jerusalem through Tahrir Square: Anti-Zionism and Palestine in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution' as a featured article in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol 41, no. 2 (Winter 2012). Its conclusions form part of a broader investigation among scholars of the Arab world, seeking to understand the place of the Palestinian cause in the recent Arab uprisings. |
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Christine Cheng published a comment piece on the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Aljazeera online (26 April 2012).
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Chris Mahony published a comment piece on the Atlantic (30 April, 2012) on the conviction for war crimes of former Liberian president Charles Taylor by the International Criminal Court. |
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