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Caiban Butcher wins Deirdre and Paul Malone Prize

23 November 2020

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The prize, awarded by the Department’s International Relations Graduate Studies Committee, recognises outstanding achievement in the MPhil, including the MPhil thesis, and the quality of the student’s doctoral proposal.

Honourable Mention in Tuchman Award for department DPhil

23 November 2020

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Naosuke Mukoyama has received an honourable mention for the Barbara W. Tuchman Award, given to the best graduate student paper on Historical International Relations by the International Studies Association.

Algorithmic content moderation: Technical and political challenges in the automation of platform governance

19 November 2020

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Desmond King chairs British Academy series on Black Lives Matter

12 November 2020

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Desmond King,  Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government, has chaired the series ‘Racial Inequality and American Politics.’ This is a three-part investigation into the long history of racial inequality in the...

Recognition of Distinction creates four new full professorships

12 November 2020

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As part of the Recognition of Distinction Scheme 2020, the title of full professor at the University of Oxford has been conferred on Jane Gingrich, Professor of Comparative Political Economy; Todd H. Hall, Professor of...

COVID-19 Information

Michaelmas Term 2020: Protect our community. Protect the vulnerable. Protect yourself

All staff and students are being asked to look after themselves and others as the University returns for Michaelmas term. A range of guidance has been developed, reminding us of our personal and collective responsibility for keeping the University and local community safe. In particular, you are asked to:

  • Keep your distance
  • Wash your hands
  • Wear a face covering
  • Got symptoms? Get a test
  • Contacted by track and trace? Stay at home

COVID-19 University Resources

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The Oxford University Politics Blog

The New ‘Worldmakers’: How the 20th Century Black Anticolonial Dialogue Reveals the Strategic Importance of the Milk Tea Alliance

Growing tension in Berlin. A proxy war in Korea. The escalating Space Race. The world—and particularly its realists—focused on the evolving great power competition between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. However, in the shadows of this marquee battle, black leaders such as Kwame Nkumrah, Eric Williams, and George Padmore drove an anticolonial dialogue that sought to...
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Events View all ›

Dec
02

The Cyber Domain and Geopolitical Competition: Where To Next?

Wed, 02 Dec - 12:30

Dec
02

A new media success story

Wed, 02 Dec - 13:00

Dec
03

Quantum Theory as Critical Theory: Entanglement, Alienation, and the Politics of Social Physics

Thu, 03 Dec - 15:00

Dec
04
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Fri, 04 Dec - 12:30

Dec
04

Calculating Bully – Explaining Chinese Coercion

Fri, 04 Dec - 14:00