Institutions and individuals in the Russian foreign policy-making process
Anton Barbashin is a visiting researcher for ECFR’s European Security Programme and a co-founder and editorial director at Riddle Russia. Prior to his work on Riddle Russia, Anton was a co-founder and managing editor of Warsaw-based Russia-focused analytical outlet Intersection Project and between 2014 and 2018 he was an analyst with the Center for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding.
Dictating the agenda: the authoritarian resurgence in world politics
Join us for a discussion about the important authoritarian changes underway across various global governance domains. Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization as numerous authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracies and it seemed that authoritarianism as a political model was fading. But recent events show the world is changing.
The Lester B Pearson Inaugural Lecture
Lukas Joosten
I'm a first-year DPhil in Political Theory at Nuffield. Broadly speaking, I work in analytical political philosophy and ethics. My current project (supervised by Professor Daniel Butt) looks at normative powers over time; asking how and when we can consent for our past and future selves. I also have an interest in the intersection between political philosophy and digital ethics.
Ari Bersch
Ari Bersch is currently a first-year MPhil student in Comparative Government at University College. His research interests include voting behavior, political communication, political parties, the impact of artificial intelligence on politics, and the role of public opinion in shaping foreign policy.
The Cultural Impact of Visits to the Roman Metropolis: Jews and the Big City
As a leading administrative-cultural center, the Roman metropolis constituted a major tourist attraction for visitors from both the center and the periphery of the empire, among them Jews from the land of Israel. Using ancient Jewish culture as a test case, this lecture addresses the extent and type of influence of such visits on local cultures. It focuses on how the encounter with the city’s spatial aspects, its buildings and traditions, left their impress on Jewish culture, law, collective memory, and art in the first centuries CE.
James Henderson
I am a first-year Political Theory candidate at University College. I am interested in the deliberative democracy, the politics of information intake, and how longstanding and stable democracies might be stressed or capitalise on modern technological developments.
Makiko Miyazaki
Makiko is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in International Relations at New College, University of Oxford. She examines how states pursue status in international society by achieving mastery in practices such as international law. Her research is informed by practice theory and the English School, and her current empirical focus is on Japan from the 19th century to the contemporary period.
Lara Forlino
I am a DPhil student in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. My doctoral research, supervised by Professors Ezequiel González-Ocantos and David Rueda, is generously funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Nuffield College.