The Oxford Cyber Forum

The Oxford Cyber Forum, created through a partnership between the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI) and the Blavatnik School of Government, serves as a crucial platform for dialogue among government officials, academics, civil society and private sector leaders on the evolving landscape of cyber conflict and security.

Xiaoyu Zhang

I am a second-year MPhil student in Politics (Comparative Government) under the supervision of Professor Robin Harding. My MPhil thesis examines the existence of Political Business Cycles in both democracies and electoral autocracies using quantitative methods. Aside from my thesis, my research interests are centred around electoral politics, political economy and authoritarian politics.

The missed opportunity of the global Left during the seventies

This conference aims to rethink the history of the left, its unrealized trajectories, and its failure during the global crisis of the 1970s through a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective (political economy, sociology, history). It will address the strategy of political organizations, the attempts at planning on the scale of socialist states, and the various forms of opposition generated against this global transnational movement.
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