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Book launch "Ethnos of the Earth: International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity"
The first transnational and interlingual conceptual history of ethnicity, Ethnos of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2024) reveals the pivotal role this concept played in the making of the international order. Rather than being a primordial or natural phenomenon, Heiskanen argues, ethnicity is a contingent product of the twentieth-century transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states.
Join us for a book talk with comments from Dr Musab Younis, Associate Professor of Political Theory (Oxford) and Dr Faridah Zaman, Associate Professor of History (Oxford).
Join us for a book talk with comments from Dr Musab Younis, Associate Professor of Political Theory (Oxford) and Dr Faridah Zaman, Associate Professor of History (Oxford).
Dominik Rubes
Dominik is a first-year student in the MPhil in Politics programme, having joined Oxford in 2024. His primary research interests include topics at the intersection of technology and geopolitics – such as global technological competition, the role of big tech firms, or cybersecurity – as well as Europe’s position in the world, particularly its foreign and security policy and economic competitiveness.
For his thesis, under the supervision of Professor Lucas Kello, he is researching the nexus of European security and digital policies.
Book launch: Matt Myers, The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989 (OUP, 2025)
The sense of defeat of the old West European left during the late twentieth century tends to be explained as the inevitable result of de-industrialisation or, more precisely, the transition to a globalised world that abolished class as a great historical actor. This book suggests that choices that were made during a concentrated but pivotal transition during the 1970s also mattered.
Winant-Mellon Symposium: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
This lecture will be delivered by Professor Karen Tani, author of States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972 (2016), which won the 2017 Cromwell Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History.
States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
Lisa Blaydes is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is the author of Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton University Press, 2018). She holds degrees in Political Science (PhD) from the University of California, Los Angeles and International Relations (BA, MA) from Johns Hopkins University.
Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
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Biography: Dr. Emrah Karakuş is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research examines affective politics, migration, and the lived experiences of queer and trans communities in conflict zones across the Middle East, with a particular focus on Kurdish and Turkish contexts. He is currently an LSE Fellow in Gender and Human Rights at the London School of Economics and previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Peacemaking in Trouble
What if the world's peacemaking system is flawed in fundamental ways? There are more armed conflicts today than at any point since the end of World War II. Civil wars, especially, have proliferated since 2011. In so many regions of the world, peacemaking initiatives are not succeeding.
New research conducted by the speaker suggests that mediation efforts are failing not just because conflicts are so difficult to resolve and the international environment is so challenging—but also due to flaws and deficiencies in the field’s systems, structures, policies, and practices.
New research conducted by the speaker suggests that mediation efforts are failing not just because conflicts are so difficult to resolve and the international environment is so challenging—but also due to flaws and deficiencies in the field’s systems, structures, policies, and practices.
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