As the nature of conflict evolves, new questions are being asked about how individual safety and the rights of civilians are affected. Who is responsible for protecting the human right to bodily integrity in a globalised world? How is the transformation of warfare in the technological, political and strategic realms affecting the individual rights of civilians and combatants?

What explains the shift from the moderate to high inflation rates of the Golden Age of post-war capitalism to the low inflation regime of monetarism in the 1970s and 1980s? Conventional views emphasise the rise of monetarism as a new economic paradigm that convinced policy makers to delegate monetary policy to conservative and independent central banks. In contrast to these arguments that ignore politics on the ground, we model and examine the shifts in the inflationary preferences of the median voter and their translation into party politics and economic policies.

Chair: Kalypso Nicolaidis, St Antony’s College

The National Audit Office is the government’s external auditor and supports Parliament in holding the government to account for its use of public money. In 2017, the NAO assessed the value for money of the government’s deal to support construction of Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK for over 20 years. This talk will explain how the National Audit Office assessed the government’s deal and what its report found.