Whither dependency? The rise of the Visegrád countries' billionaires

This paper introduces and reports the first results of a research project on the emerging billionaire-entrepreneurs of the Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). The increasing visibility of V4 billionaire-entrepreneurs has largely happened under the radar of recent scholarship, and their economic activities — including increasingly significant outward FDI towards the West — seem to defy the dominant thesis of the Visegrád countries' economic dependence on foreign capital.

OCPSG Speaker Event (LLM Application): Measuring Empirically the Legal Conflicts over U.S. Public Lands from 1960 to 2024

The Oxford Computational Political Science Group (OCPSG) is pleased to announce its speaker event w/ Prof Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, FBA and Amara Otero-Salgado. They will be presenting their paper 'Measuring Empirically the Legal Conflicts over U.S. Public Lands from 1960 to 2024'. It seeks to better understand how conflicting views over public lands have evolved over time, namely by examining empirically a newly developed dataset to assess competing narratives that have driven legal battles in the U.S. in the modern era of environmental policy.

The Design of Peace: re-imagining Directions for the UN at 80. OxPeace Annual Conference 2026

This, the eighteenth annual OxPeace Conference, takes place in the 80th year since the inaugural meeting of the UN General Assembly, held in the Methodist Central Hall, London, in January-February 1946. That Assembly designed how the UN would operate to fulfil its Charter. Now in 2026 the UN exists in a world context that has undergone deep changes. What roles does, or should, the UN play now and in the future, and how can it fulfil them?

Senkai Hsia

Senkai Hsia is studying for an MPhil in International Relations as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. Under the supervision of Professor Ranjit Lall, Senkai's research examines evolving U.S. economic strategy with Indo-Pacific allies, alongside broad interests in American foreign policy, international political economy and U.S.-China relations.

Dianyi Yang

Dianyi Yang is a DPhil student in Politics. He holds an MSc in Political Science (Political Science and Political Economy) and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His research examines the political economy of government–central bank relations under unconventional monetary policy, with a focus on fiscal–monetary interactions and institutional design. He is also interested in public opinion, international relations, and formal modelling.

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