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2019 Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference

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We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held on the 29th and 30th April 2019 at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2019

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The Oxford Spring School offers graduate students and researchers from universities across the UK and abroad a unique venue to learn cutting-edge methods in Social Science.

The programme consists of a variety of advanced courses, which place different data analysis techniques within broader disciplinary trends towards mixed-methods research designs. Working with our world leading teachers and researchers in quantitative and qualitative methods, you will have the opportunity to choose the course subject options which suit you best.

The Folly of Secularism - Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context

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One of the gravest distortions of the discussion on the modern, liberal-democratic nation-state has been the prevalence of a secularist epistemology as the basis for this discussion. This epistemology serves the configuration of power of the nation-state by identifying it with the “secular” realm of rational politics, relegating “religion” to the realm of the irrational, private and apolitical.

OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop

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The OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop will take place from Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 March 2019 (09:30 to 17:30 each day), at Queen Elizabeth House, Mansfield Rd, Oxford.

Accountability Beyond Outcomes: Experimental Evidence on Voters and Executive Performance

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The Origins of the End of Ideology Debate: An Alternative History

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The Role of Parliament in the Next Stage of Brexit

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Understanding the Determinants of Penal Policy: Crime, Culture, and Comparative Political Economy

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This review sets out four main explanatory paradigms of penal policy— focusing on, in turn, crime, cultural dynamics, economic structures and interests, and institutional differences in the organization of different political economies as the key determinants of penal policy. We argue that these paradigms are best seen as complementary rather than competitive and present a case for integrating them analytically in a comparative political economy framework situated within the longue durée of technology regime change.

Critical Theory, Ideology, and Common Sense

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From Transatlantic to Eurasian: Global Order in the 21st Century

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The ‘Asian Century’ is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational order spanning Saudi Arabia to Japan, Russia to Australia, Turkey to Indonesia – linking five billion people through trade, finance, infrastructure, and diplomatic networks that together represent 40 percent of global GDP. China has taken a lead in building the new Silk Roads across Asia, but it will not lead it alone.