Geopolitics of Advanced AI

Robert F. Trager is Co-Director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, International Governance Lead at the Centre for the Governance of AI, and Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is a recognised expert in the international governance of emerging technologies, diplomatic practice, institutional design, and technology regulation. He regularly advises government and industry leaders on these topics.

Research Speed Meet-Up

You are invited to join other DPIR DPhils, post-docs and staff for a Researcher Meet-Up at 17:00-18:45 on Thursday, 19 October in the Manor Road Building Common Room to get to know each other and learn what others are working on.

This event aims to foster the culture of academic exchange at DPIR. It brings DPhil students, post-docs, and DPIR staff together, to exchange what they work on and research ideas to promote academic collaboration among peers.

Jeffrey Love

Jeffrey Love is a second year reading the MPhil in International Relations at St Antony’s College. His research uses large language models and natural language processing techniques to investigate the effects of sanctions and economic statecraft. He is supervised by Dr Ranjit Lall. 

Benedetta Giocoli

I am a first-year DPhil student in Politics at Nuffield College. My current research examines the process of attitude formation through political socialization, focusing on the family, local, and political contexts. More broadly, I am interested in questions about voting behaviour, attitude and preference formation, inequality, political trust, and radical right parties. I work mainly with panel data using causal inference methods.

Shock Without Therapy: The Political Economy of the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis - DSPI Seminar 2

Foreshadowing today’s epidemic of deaths of despair hitting the United States, an unprecedented mortality crisis ravaged Eastern Europe 30 years ago as the region transitioned to capitalism. In the first 15 years after the fall of Communism, Russia lost more than three times as many people as during World War I, with male life expectancy dropping 5.7 years from 1991-1994. Over the first decade, this translated into 7.3 million excess deaths in Eastern Europe.

U.S. and European Legal Responses to Chinese Forced Labour

Forced labour involving Chinese workers is a global problem that takes many forms ‒ such as labour camps in Xinjiang, construction workers on BRI projects, and individuals being brought into the U.S. through Mexico to work on illegal marijuana farms. What legal tools exist to fight these abusive practices? And how are those tools being used? The talk will discuss how the U.S. and Europe are using (or not using) trade sanctions as well as impact litigation to combat this problem.
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