Tania Boyt

As Head of Administration and Finance, I work closely with the Head of Department on all aspects of policy, strategic planning, development, growth and sustainability whilst enabling the administrative team to provide the service, resources, advice and information required for the Department’s effective operation and growth.

I manage the Department's Professional Support Staff Team and on a day-to-day basis I am responsible for the non-academic management and administration of the department.  This includes:

Isabel Schulze Froning

I am a current MPhil student in European Politics and Society focusing on European Foreign Policy. My research specifically analyses the motives of member states to deepen integration in foreign and defence policy.

Next to my studies, I am the leading the seminars of the Emerging Threats Group, where I moderate our weekly sessions covering the intersection of technology and security.  

Oxford Authoritarian Politics Network

Defining antisemitism: what is the point?

Since October 7 2023, the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has led to public protests against Israel and demands for an immediate ceasefire. In this connection, controversy over antisemitism on campuses across the globe, including Oxford, has intensified. At the heart of the controversy is the definition of antisemitism published by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The definition has been adopted by numerous states and institutions, including Oxford University.

Gaza – a war on healthcare

Nick Maynard, Debbie Harrington and Rebecca Ingliss have many years of experience of travelling to Gaza to teach medical students and provide humanitarian medical care, including work at Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza since October 7th, 2023. They will talk about their experiences, and specifically about the devastating impact of the direct targeting of the health care system and healthcare workers in Gaza.

Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history

This panel event, with Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, author of 'An Impossible Friendship', Marilyn Booth, author of 'The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz', and Peter Hill, author of 'Prophet of Reason', will discuss the writing of biography in modern Middle Eastern history.

Book abstracts:

'An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948' -

The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization

Book Launch:
In August 2020, Donald Trump announced that his administration had brokered a ground-breaking treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the first normalization agreement between Israel and an Arab state in more than twenty years. Soon afterward, Bahrain joined the agreements, known as the Abraham Accords. How were these treaties achieved, and why did the parties involved see normalization as in their interest? In what ways have the accords altered the Middle East’s political landscape, and how have they affected the question of Palestine?
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