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Is civility a sham?
14 November 2018
What exactly is civility, and what does it require? Dr Bejan gives the TED talk Is Civility a Sham? on the precious, and difficult, virtue of civility....
Professor Desmond King on "American Oligarchy? The Concealed Politics of the Federal Reserve Bank"
07 November 2018
Professor Desmond King has coedited, with Lawrence R. Jacobs, a symposium on American Oligarchy? The Concealed Politics of the Federal Reserve Bank in the new issue of the American Political Science Association journal PS: Political Science & Politics.
Contributors include Christopher Adolph, Sarah Binder Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Jonas Pontusson, and Rick Valelly.
King and Jacobs have also cowritten an article on The Fed’s Political Economy....
Dr Idler discusses illicit trade and conflict at the Global Illicit Trade Summit
07 November 2018
Dr Annette Idler, Senior Research Fellow at DPIR and Pembroke College, and Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre (CCW), participated in The Economist’s Global Illicit Trade Summit in Abu Dhabi, where she discussed “the changing dynamic of modern warfare and its connection with the booming trade in bootleg markets,” as reported by The National....
Professors Nicolaïdis and Zielonka part of €3m research consortium on EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy
02 November 2018
Professors Kalypso Nicolaidis and Jan Zielonka are leading the University of Oxford’s participation in EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy (EU3D), a €3m research project conducted by a consortium of eight universities and two think tanks based in ten countries, coordinated by The University of Oslo’s ARENA Centre for European Studies....
New ways to use knowledge in the UN system
31 October 2018
Last June, the Centre for International Studies co-convened the Symposium From “learning lessons” to strategic planning: new ways to use knowledge in the UN system, bringing together current and former UN and government officials and analysts from think tanks and universities....
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Compliance and Resistance: Understanding the Agency of Rising Powers
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The War on Drugs’ Corroding Effect on Mexican Democracy
If it is part and parcel for democracies to (1) protect individual rights, (2) safeguard its citizenship from serious abuses of power, and (3) produce fair and reasonable laws...