Welding Alliances: How Allied Warship Production Could Transform the Indo-Pacific

U.S. Navy surface ships are deployed around the world in strategically important waters. Their presence matters in the increasingly complex maritime domain and yet, despite unprecedented congressional support for shipbuilding, the U.S. defence industrial base cannot keep up with demand. At the same time, the U.S. is exploring new ways to deepen cooperation with partners in the Indo-Pacific to strengthen regional collective security and deter potential conflict. A collaborative warship construction program may succeed in achieving those aims.

Presidential Transitions: lessons for 2025

In the wake of Super Tuesday, is the United States heading to another presidential transition in January 2025? Join us for a lunchtime discussion with Chris Liddell, who served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff during the Trump Administration and is the author of a new book on presidential transitions. We will discuss the state of the race, the challenges all the candidates face in the 2024 election and ask what a new Republican administration would look like.

Book Discussion - Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America

What’s the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by scholars unable, or perhaps even unwilling, to write for the public. In Popularizing the Past, Nick Witham challenges this interpretation by telling the stories of five historians—Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn, and Gerda Lerner—who, in the decades after World War II, published widely read books of national history.

Sudanese Diaspora: Their Role in Sudan and South Sudan

Join us at our 1-day conference to discuss the Sudanese reflection on the present situation and future prospects. If you are unable to travel to Oxford please join us online through ZOOM webinars - register here for your personal ZOOM link: https://tinyurl.com/TSPprogFeb24.

Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Co-Founder and Chair of Trustees, The Sudanese Programme) and Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme; Consultant and researcher, specialised in political, economic, conflict and peace analysis on the Sudans and countries in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel)

Book launch - In Her Hands: Women’s Fight Against AIDS in the United States

In Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the US epidemic, it explores five arenas of women’s AIDS activism: transmission and recognition, reproductive justice, safer sex campaigns for queer women, the carceral state, and HIV prevention and treatment.

María-José Gómez Ruiz

I am a part-time DPhil student in Politics (Political Theory). For my thesis, I am working under the supervision of Cécile Laborde on a defense for what I call "a substantive right to candidacy'. That is, an account of this right that looks beyond its existence as legal permission, aiming to ensure that genuine opportunities to it are enhanced for democratic citizens.

Prior to this, I completed a master's in Politics (Theory) at Oxford, and in Philosophy at Cambridge. I've also worked in higher education in my home country (Mexico) since 2010.

A.J Dilts

I am a first-year MPhil in International Relations student at St Catherine's College. My research is focused on the form and formation of U.S. foreign policy, with a particular interest in bureaucratic politics, decision-making processes, and the relationship between decision-makers and their advisers.

Multi-level Mediation, Negotiation and Diplomacy: Training Workshop

An intensive two-day workshop, 19 and 20 April, in mediation, negotiation and diplomacy, with training in methodology and a practical focus on generating ideas and action proposals for preventing, de-escalating and mitigating tensions between the Western World and China.
Training: Participants learn about evidence-based conflict mediation and negotiation tools. They apply them in several exercises and develop related skills.
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