When taking on new debt, governments may borrow from commercial banks, access the sovereign bond market, borrow from official bilateral creditors, or from multilateral financial institutions. While some of the structure of government borrowing reflects macroeconomic conditions and country creditworthiness, governments' choices among borrowing instruments also are driven by their preferences over transparency.

The last decade has seen the world of cyber security change beyond all recognition, from an adjunct consideration within the IT department to a global level security concern. Wikileaks, Stuxnet, Sony, APT1, and Notpetya are just some of the keywords associated with incidents that have heralded the increased securitization around the issue of 'cyber' and how it has become a critical issue for many invested in security. Within this context, actors such as governments have obviously had to reconsider their attitude towards cyber security.

Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology and director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center in New York. Davis’ work covers two broad domains: Black feminist ethnography and the dynamics of race and racism. With regard to the former, Davis has co-edited or co-authored two books on feminist ethnography with Christa Craven, reasserting the importance of feminist ethnographic production as a fundamental anthropological intervention.

How do states use nuclear weapons to achieve their foreign policy goals? This presentation, drawn from an ongoing book project, argues that states use nuclear weapons to facilitate a wider range of foreign policy behaviors than scholars have previously understood. It shows that states understand these benefits and change their foreign policies accordingly when they acquire them. In making this argument, the book makes three contributions. First, it offers a novel typology of foreign policy behaviors for understanding the impact of nuclear weapons on foreign policy.

Location: Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College
Time: 10:30 to 17:00 (a lunch at the College is included)

This workshop brings together leading political theorists of basic income to reflect on its rationale, defensibility and prospects in diverse countries.

The broader context is two-fold: the continuing commemoration of the work of Tony Atkinson at Nuffield College and the launch of the report of the International Panel of Social Progress (coordinated by Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton).

Open to all – please register.

Confirmed speakers:

Launch and discussion of two books: 'Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia' (HKU Press) by Miriam Driessen and 'China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development' (Princeton University Press) by Kyle Jaros

Thursday 6 June 2019 – Friday 7 June 2019

This conference celebrates the publication of ‘The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy’ edited by Annabelle Lever and Andrei Poama, which explores questions such as:

What does it mean to do public policy ethics today?
How should philosophers engage with ethical issues in policy-making when policy decisions are circumscribed by political and pragmatic concerns?
How do ethical issues in public policy differ between areas such as foreign policy, criminal justice, or environmental policy?