The Rise of China: Implications for the World System

The rise of China has become one of the most significant geopolitical development and issue of our time. To some, the Middle kingdom symbolises opportunity and growth; to others, it represents oppression and the return of an anti-liberal, anti-democratic world order.

With the Beijing Winter Olympics fast approaching, the world's spotlight is once again on China, its political system, its economic performance, its pandemic response, and perhaps the most controversial of all, its human rights record. This raises several questions:

What is the China under President Xi?

Fathers’ leave increases attitudinal gender equality

Does fathers’ leave, a policy intervention that disrupts traditional gender roles, promote more gender-equitable attitudes? We examine this question by studying a policy reform in Estonia that tripled the length of fathers’ leave for children born on or after July 1, 2020. The reform promoted fathers as care givers – it offered both parents the opportunity to conceive of their social roles in a less traditional fashion and to thereby reassess traditional beliefs about the appropriate roles and essential traits of men and women.

Bingham Lecture 2021 - Dr Hannah White: Against the Clock: Brexit, COVID-19 and the Constitution

This year's Bingham lecture will be given by Dr Hannah White, Deputy Director at the Institute of Government. Time pressure is a necessary constraint on aspects of the constitution, but it can also pose a threat to good government, parliamentary accountability and scrutiny. In this lecture Hannah White will consider the impact on the constitution of the time constraints created by the Article 50 process and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Josef Lolacher

Josef Lolacher is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in Politics, under the supervision of Professor Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College). His research explores differences in elite decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity. In his PhD project, he particularly investigates the role of expert knowledge and public opinion in the decision-making of members of parliament (MPs) in a set of European democracies.

Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia

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In social-ecological systems, natural resource management can be characterized by trade-offs across sectors and sustainability targets. The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus concept makes explicit various trade-offs in order to maximize synergies of interventions. However, there are few successful examples of its operationalization in research settings. Here, we explore in a learning setting if sustainability impact assessment (SIA) protocols can be a useful process to be used to adopt a systemic, interdisciplinary perspective to operationalize WEF nexus in research for sustainable development.
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