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Prof Jane Green appointed Gwilym Gibbon Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College and DPIR
21 September 2018
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Jane Green as Gwilym Gibbon Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and International Relations. She will also hold a Professorial Fellowship at Nuffield College.
Prof Green is the Director of Gwilym Gibbon Centre for Public Policy; Co-Director of the British Election Study; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; Affiliate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Previously, she was Professor of Political Science in the Cathy Marsh Institute for Social Research and the Politics......
How Moments Become Movements
17 September 2018
Professor Dominic Johnson's team on the new Oxford Martin School Natural Governance programme has produced its first publication: How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral.
The paper is a multidisciplinary collaboration with Prof Harvey Whitehouse, Dr Michael Buhrmester and Dr Oliver Curry (Oxford's Anthropology department); Prof David Macdonald and Dr Dawn Burnham (Zoology); and Prof Johnson (DPIR).
Prof Johnson, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Natural Governance, received a DPhil from Oxford University in evolutionary......
Louise Fawcett guest-edits The Middle East virtual issue in International Affairs
24 August 2018
Louise Fawcett, Head of Department and Professor of International Relations, has guest-edited the virtual August issue of International Affairs, The Middle East, which presents a collection of articles from the archives of one of the world’s leading journals on International Relations....
Cecile Fabre and Kalypso Nicolaïdis contributing to Twelve Stars project
16 August 2018
Cecile Fabre and Kalypso Nicolaïdis are taking part in Twelve Stars: New Thoughts for Europe, an innovative and interactive initiative bringing together citizens and practical philosophers in online debates about the future of the European Union....
DPIR alumni running for US Congress
16 August 2018
DPIR alumni, Andy Kim (MPhil, DPhil IR) and Tom Malinowski (MPhil Politics), are running for seats in the US Congress....
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Cybersecurity is forcing a rethink of strategic autonomy
Just a few days ago, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker presented his 2018 State of the Union speech with the title “The Hour of European Sovereignty”. In the...