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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.
Posted: 01/05/2012
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Author: Edited by Ruth Dixon (DPIR) and Martin Lodge (LSE)
The papers in this collection reflect on the contribution of Christopher Hood to the study of executive government and public services. Since the 1970s, Hood has been one of the leading observers of trends in public management and policy. He has highlighted the importance of historical and comparative perspectives.
Posted: 23/03/2012
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Author: Ben Jackson and Marc Stears
Liberalism is the dominant ideology of our time, yet its character remains the subject of intense scholarly and political controversy. Debates about the liberal political tradition - about its history, its central philosophical commitments, its implications for political practice - lie at the very heart of the discipline of political theory. Many outstanding political theorists have contributed to the growing sophistication of these debates in recent years, but the original voice of Michael Freeden deserves particular attention. In the course of a body of work that spans over thirty years, Freeden's iconoclastic contributions have posed important challenges to the dominant understandings of liberal ideology, history, and theory. Such work has sought to redefine the very essence of what it is to be a liberal. This book brings together an international group of historians, philosophers, and political scientists to evaluate the impact of Freeden's work and to reassess its central claims.
Posted: 02/03/2012
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Author: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira and James Mayall
German troops fighting the Taliban in the Hindu Kush; EU judges sittiing in courts in the Balkans; UN viceroys governing parts of Oceania; American occupation of the Middle East. Amid the myriad political experiences of the post-Cold War era, the historians of the future are likely to pay particular attention to attempts by outsiders to administer a host of post-conflict societies, to perform physical and social reconstruction, to establish functioning institutions, to open economies and, ultimately, to transform the 'maladjusted' political cultures of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Few developments in the two decades after 1989 were as revealing of the character of the international system, of the gaps between liberal discourse and practice, and of the fleeting nature of the Western hegemonic moment.
Posted: 02/03/2012
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Political campaigns in the U.S. are won or lost in the so-called ground war—under cover of candidate debates, television advertisements and social media outreach, campaigns deploy teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter.
Posted: 28/02/2012
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Kirsty Hughes has published a paper on the current eurozone crisis for Friends of Europe, a think-tank based in Brussels.
Posted: 02/12/2011
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Author: Charlie Karlsson (Editor), Robert G. Picard (Editor)
This impressive new volume uniquely focuses on the phenomenon of media clusters and is designed to inform policy makers, scholars, and media practitioners about the underlying challenges of media firm agglomerations, their potential, and their effects.
Posted: 31/10/2011
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Author: Edited by Rama Mani & Thomas G. Weiss
This work seeks to uncover whether this norm and its founding values have resonance and grounding within diverse cultures and within the experiences of societies that have directly been torn apart by mass atrocity crimes. The contributors to this collection analyze the responsibility to protect through multiple disciplines—philosophy, religion and spirituality, anthropology, and aesthetics in addition to international relations and law—to explore what light alternative perspectives outside of political science and international relations shed upon this emerging norm.
Posted: 18/10/2011
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Author: Edited by Jonathan Wright & Steven Casey
The early Cold War was a period of dramatic change. New superpowers emerged, the European powers were eclipsed, colonial empires tottered. Political leaders everywhere had to make immense adjustments. This volume explores their hopes and fears, their sense of their place in the world and of the constraints under which they laboured.
Posted: 04/10/2011
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The Eleventh Annual Report 2010-11 of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, has now been published online.
Posted: 28/09/2011
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