Islamic China: An Asian History
For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland, from royal astronomers to butchers, merchants to diplomats, and scholar-officials to farmers. Yet the Muslims of China are often depicted as inherently foreign, their religion as incompatible with Chinese culture.
How Economic Reform Revived Totalitarian Rule in China
When China embarked on modernization in 1979, many hoped that the country’s turn toward capitalism would put its totalitarian past to rest and moved it toward a more democratic future. Instead, China has reverted to a neo-totalitarian regime after more than four decades of economic reform and globalization. The fundamental cause is Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of saving one-party rule with capitalism. He steadfastly kept intact the institutional foundations of totalitarianism even as he unleashed private entrepreneurship and courted foreign investment.
The 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture: Journalism as resistance
The 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Carlos Dada under the title 'Journalism as Resistance'. Dada is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Salvadoran digital news outlet El Faro, the first digital-only news site launched in Latin America. The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion on the challenges facing journalists worldwide.
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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 Alpha-Alliance: A new explanation for the persistent maleness of human institutions
Many small-scale societies, including mobile hunter-gatherers, are commonly referred to as “egalitarian,” meaning that equality of political influence is valued and enforced by societal norms. The term “egalitarian” is misleading, however, because in general the egalitarian principle applies only to married men. Married men tend to dominate both bachelors and women, partly by controlling coercive institutions such as law and religion, and ultimately by their monopolizing the legitimate use of execution to punish norm violators.
OxPeace Annual Conference 2026 'The Design of Peace'
This, the eighteenth annual OxPeace Day- Conference, takes place in the 80th year since the inaugural meeting of the UN General Assembly. That meeting, held in the Methodist Centrall Hall in post-war London in January-February 1946, designed how the UN would operate to carry out its Charter, to establish peace and prevent further wars. We look back on considerable success as well as shortcomings, and we ask: where are we and the world, in this present moment marked by challenge and crisis? What should we aim for, and what resources can we call upon?