Department News
Ruth Dixon joined an expert panel for an online discussion hosted by the Guardian (19 April) on how to make law more effective and accessible. |
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Rachel Kleinfeld, an MPhil (2002) and DPhil (2009) alumna of the Department, has written a new volume, Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform (Carnegie Endowment, 2012). |
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Adam Roberts was a member of a team from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, at joint workshops with leading specialists in New Delhi and Islamabad to discuss India’s and Pakistan’s defence, security and nuclear weapons policies, 3–9 March 2013. |
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In an article written for Australia’s ABC News (8 April), Rana Mitter argues that in order to understand contemporary Chinese foreign policy we must look to the country’s experiences during World War II. |
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The Global News Challenge, a new book authored by Dr Anne Geniets, examines challenges facing international broadcasters with universal branding strategies in developing countries. In these heavily government-controlled media environments with a scarcity of reliable information, international news providers traditionally had an influential position. With the ongoing media liberalization, however, commercial domestic providers have gained in strength to become strong competitors. Additionally, in a number of countries, especially in the Middle East, pan-Arab broadcasting enterprises have widened their reach, contributing to the growing competition for ‘traditional’ international providers such as the BBC or France 24. |
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Democracy, Sovereignty and Terror: Lakshman Kadirgamar on the Foundations of International Order, edited by Sir Adam Roberts, presents a timely overview and appreciation of the late Sri Lankan foreign minister, who was assassinated in 2005. |
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Ulrike Franke, a DPhil student in International Relations, has contributed a chapter to a report on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and targeted killing. |
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In 1975 Margaret Thatcher defeated Edward Heath for the Leadership of the Conservative Party. Both have a firm claim to be the Prime Minister with the humblest origin. Both resigned after failing to defeat a challenge to their leadership on the first ballot. In the words of Malcolm Rifkind, both were ‘strong-willed, stubborn and convinced of their own rectitude’ (Thatcher’s most famous quality but also one that Tony Blair cited in his 2005 eulogy for Ted Heath). But these similarities are as tittle tattle compared to the fact that as prime minister both faced the same governing challenge, the same kernel of the same problem: how to govern a country that some said had become ungovernable. |
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Congratulations to Spyros Kosmidis, who has been awarded a grant from Oxford University’s John Fell OUP Research Fund. |
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Congratulations to Catherine de Vries, who has been awarded a grant from Oxford University’s John Fell OUP Research Fund. |
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