Marina Pérez de Arcos

Dr Marina Pérez de Arcos is a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations. She has recently been appointed Head of Politics at Forward College – Europe, a new higher education institution partnered with the London School of Economics, with campuses in Lisbon, Paris, and Amsterdam. She is also Forward’s Head of Institutional Relations. 

All the President’s Men: Institutions and key players in Erdogan’s Turkey

Over the past two decades, the Turkish state has transformed from an imperfect parliamentary system to a highly centralized presidential regime. State institutions are increasingly political and informal in their day-to-day operation, and unusually susceptible to the influence of business groups, religious networks, regional cliques and organized crime. In theory, the “Erdogan System” pits these networks against each other to compete in the achievement of government objectives.

Theory-Building: generating testable abstractions

How do you build theory based on empirical research? What is the relationship between theory and data collection, and how does it vary across disciplines? What is the difference between theory-building and theory-testing? What kinds of ‘theory’ are relevant for particular kinds of research? In this session, we bring together three scholars working across disciplines on a range of exciting empirical issues. Prof.

DPIR Alumni Career Conversations: International Organisations and Think Tanks

This talk is the first in DPIR's new 'Alumni Career Conversations' series, providing an opportunity for the DPIR community—current students, alumni and academics—to connect with a panel of DPIR alumni, learn about their career stories and benefit from their experience and advice. It will feature alumni speakers at varying stages of their careers and across a range of fields. Each speaker will speak about their career to date; after their short introductions, the panel will discuss and respond to questions from the meeting participants.

Gerda Raissar

I'm a DPhil candidate in International Relations at St Antony's College, the University of Oxford. My research focuses on foreign policy cooperation in the EU, specifically on sanctions. Each member state has the right to veto most decisions in the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, including the adoption and extension of sanctions. The veto right is used less frequently than member states’ different foreign policy traditions, priorities, and preferences might lead us to expect.

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