DPIR faculty and DPhil students are invited to attend a conference on Political Economy of Development and Accountability.

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.