Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”

The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays. This week the seminar will take place in the Barclay Room.
Convenor: Meera Selva

Despite the importance of the worsening Sino-American relationship, the nature and scope of the threat remain poorly defined. Understanding the future of the Sino-American confrontation requires comprehending why China and the United States possess motivations for conflict. To address this, we explain the two causes of the Sino-American confrontation. First, the change in the balance of power in China’s favor. Second, the conflicting ideologies of the two states. We submit that the relationship is likely to become much worse due to increasing security competition.

Did the threat to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by President Trump and Congressional Republicans after the 2016 elections undermine the general public’s support for health reform and mobilize Republicans voters to favor the law’s termination? That was the Republican intent; the actual effects speak to a fundamental question in the study of policy feedback – namely, the influence of political developments and, specifically, policy threat on individuals.

The Oxford Review of Books is delighted to announce a panel discussion on the history, literature and politics of the Irish border at 5pm on Friday of week 5. The event will bring together the perspectives of Ireland's Ambassador to the UK, an award-winning novelist and two Irish Oxford academics on the border, the backstop, and Anglo-Irish relations past, present and future.

Samuel Moyn, Henry R Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, will give a lecture at the School in honour of Professor Henry Shue. He will survey Leo Tolstoy’s still-relevant criticism of attempts to make war more humane through international law. Tolstoy's criticism remained constant despite shifting reasons and the almost total change in his career, and he argued for the pursuit of alternatives to 'more humane' war. The lecture will conclude by assessing the relevance of Tolstoy’s attack on humane war to the 'forever wars' of today.