Lord Daniel Finkelstein, will give a lecture in the Old Library as part of this year’s first, and inaugural, event in the series All Souls’ Lectures on Politics. The lecture entitled ‘‘Does history have an arrow?’ will address current political affairs, especially in light of the general elections being less than two weeks away.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”

The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

Geopolitical and trade tensions have focused on technology in recent months. This masks a deeper problem of trust in the global IT supply chain. What strategies and practical methods might be employed to build trust? Or is the world destined to be pulled between two competing operating systems?

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Marginality and insecurity have long been loosely twined together in Colombia, especially within the context of conflict. The 2016 Havana Peace Accord was heralded for ending America’s longest internal armed conflict and creating an opportunity to confront high rates of marginality and insecurity through an ambitious comprehensive agreement that made explicit the need for peaceful political participation to build sustainable peace. Yet the initial accord was defeated in plebiscite, an anti-accord president was elected in 2018, and implementation of key points has been slow.

We evaluate the extent to which individual preferences for secession are affected by anticipated trade, fiscal, and employment shocks following independence. We draw from an original survey conducted in Catalonia before the 2017 regional election, which followed a suspended declaration of independence. We show that material interest informs preference for and against secession, complementing existing scholarship that emphasizes ethnic identity considerations.