Brian Kot
Chun Hey (Brian) Kot obtained an MPhil in International Relations (Distinction) at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His thesis, awarded the Sara Norton Prize (2024–25), develops the concept of dual-use distinguishability—how easily a state can differentiate between a technology’s military and civilian applications—to explain the dynamics of US-China AI competition, arguing that the degree of state–business relations and civil–military integration shapes foreign threat perception.
Jonathan Tjaarda Kellogg
I am a MPhil student in European Politics and Society. My primary academic interests are in the field of Political Economy, Quantitative Research Methods, and Game Theory.
Before coming to the DPIR, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Leiden University with a major in Governance, Economics and Development with Cum Laude distinction. Afterwards, I completed my MSc in Economics (Behavioral Economics and Game Theory) at the University of Amsterdam. My master thesis analysed strategic parliamentary voting games of “king-maker parties”.
North Korean flag drives fear through Ukraine’s exhausted front-line troops
The relationship between Russia and North Korea
Upcoming US Election
Northern Exposure: Race, nation and disaffection in post-Brexit Wakefield
The ESRC Project (2018-2022), Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in "Ordinary" Towns and Cities after Brexit set itself the task of challenging simplifications about diversity and social polarisation that predominate in the political sociology of Brexit and after. It was based on a wide range of oral history interviews with mainly elderly residents in four typical mid-sized towns in the North of England and extensive co-productive fieldwork with local authorities and third-sector actors there.
Finding Comrades – which (non-policy) group based appeals can parties employ to improve their association with the working class
How can parties influence their associations with social groups? The impact of differential policy platforms on group structured voting behaviour is well recognised. Increasingly, however, scholars are also examining the effect of parties’ rank and file make-up as well as that of direct rhetorical group appeals on such associations. Some moreover argue that attachments to parties are sticky heuristics, based on a running tally of both past and present party performance. In light of these predictions I propose a conjoint experimental study of class voting in the UK.
Gendered work: Onset and consequences
All organizations have work that no one wants to do: planning the office party, screening interns, attending to that time-consuming client, or simply helping others with their work. From office housework to more important assignments, the work that goes unrewarded, is more often handled by women than by men. The talk will present research on how and when gendered work arises, and how differences in assignments impact compensation, negotiation and advancement.
Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Historians have long asserted the close connection between ethnology—the practice of systematically describing cultural differences—and the politics of imperial domination. But in this respect, the Ottoman Empire presents an apparent paradox. Despite expanding across a territory that encompassed all or part of over 30 modern nation-states, early Ottoman authors almost avoided describing the cultural diversity of the empire’s subject peoples.