Sovereignty and Its Discontents (SAID) is an interdisciplinary workshop that centers around emerging critical and historical scholarship in International Relations and Politics. The purpose of the workshop is to promote rich theoretical discussions on the limits and subjectivities of sovereignty through perspectives of political, racial, gendered, and historical ideas and practices. Our sessions will be on Wednesdays (Week 1,3,5,7) beginning on 29/4/2026 from 4-6PM at Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building. In week 1, Dr.

POSTPONED, UPDATES TO FOLLOW: Join us for a panel discussion on frontier artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, hosted in conjunction with the Royal Holloway, University of London. As frontier AI systems rapidly advance, they are reshaping the cyber domain by accelerating vulnerability discovery, enabling autonomous operations, and compressing the timelines of both attack and defense.

The Oxford Spinoza Conference is an annual gathering dedicated to exploring the myriad cross-disciplinary manners in which Benedict Spinoza has contributed to the history of philosophy and continues to shape our understanding of the world. The fourth edition will take place at Pembroke College on Thursday 7 May 2026. The theme of this year’s conference is: 'Spinoza in Context: War, Peace, Slavery & Colonialism'. See here for last year's conference: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-spinoza-conference-2025-benedict-spinoza-politics-international.

Join us for a live session with Doomberg exploring how energy markets have become a central arena of geopolitical contestation. As states increasingly weaponize supply chains, industrial policy, and financial flows, energy is no longer simply an economic input but a strategic lever shaping global power dynamics.

Join the Emerging Threats and Technology Group (ETG), Oxford Business Network (OBN) in Public Policy, Government and Global Affairs, and the Said Business School (SBS) Military Veterans Club for a joint-designed and hosted industry wargame simulation on May 6, from 2-5 PM at Said Business School. In the year XYZ, a strait closure results in a shipping and market crisis for oil companies and their subsidiaries.

Space is rapidly transforming from a frontier of exploration into a contested battlespace where strategic advantage is measured in orbits, signals, and the control of critical infrastructure. Join us for a panel discussion on Space Militarization and Securitization, examining how states are redefining security beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

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This paper examines whether external security threats reduce popular support for far-right parties, focusing on Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Existing scholarship suggests that such threats should weaken extremist parties by generating rally effects, shifting attention to foreign policy, and increasing demand for experienced leadership. Contrary to these expectations, descriptive trends show that far-right support in Western Europe increased following the invasion. We examine this question through two studies.

Abstract: Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, over-indebted people engaged in large, vigorous campaigns to demand governments’ protection from ruinous debt. Their appeals to state legislatures across the country extended into the national arena, leading the U.S. to have one of the most protective debt relief regimes in the world by the end of the 19th century. Yet by the second half of the twentieth century, culminating in a creditor-led retrenchment of the bankruptcy code in 2005.