China’s Military Strategy in the New Era

M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations, with a focus on international security, China, and East Asia. His books include, Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes, (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Active Defense: China's Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press, 2019).

Two Day Workshop: The Moral Psychology of War

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If you would like to register to attend the workshop, please email Janina.dill@politics.ox.ac.uk with your name and institutional affiliation. Participant numbers will be limited to ensure a fruitful discussion. Papers will be pre-circulated and taken as read. Please only register if you are willing to read the papers in advance.

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Doing International Relations

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In this chapter we offer some reflections, as well references for further study, for scholars engaged in research and knowledge production in the field of International Relations (IR), that is those “doing IR”. We may think of research methods as the strategies and tools that allow us to acquire knowledge about international relations. To make the most of the research techniques available to us, it is first useful to consider the objects of our study, as well as the nature of the disciplinary context in which knowledge production takes place.

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and COVID-19: Towards a Systematization of Impacts and Responses

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The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to examine the impacts of system-wide crises on key supply sectors such as water, energy and food. These sectors are becoming increasingly interlinked in environmental policy-making and with regard to achieving supply security. There is a pressing need for a systematization of impacts and responses beyond individual disruptions. This paper provides a holistic assessment of the implications of COVID-19 on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus.

Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic

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A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organised to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation, and expertise.

Becoming Someone: Youth, violence and drug-dealing in Colombia’s urban periphery

We kindly invite you to the fourth edition of the Occasional CONPEACE Webinar Series. As part of this series, researchers of the University of Oxford’s programme CONPEACE – From Conflict Actors to Architects of Peace (conpeace.ccw.ox.ac.uk) and international speakers analyse differing visions of security, how they can be reconciled, and how security architectures need to be adapted to adequately respond to changing security landscapes from a people-centred perspective.

Professor Michael Keating: The Fractured Union. State and Nation in the United Kingdom

Michael Keating argues that the United Kingdom should be understood as a plurinational union in which they key issues of demos (the people), telos (the purpose of the state), ethos (values) and sovereignty have always been contested. It worked because multiple understandings could coexist. Understood this way, the United Kingdom was a good fit with the European Union, which shared these qualities. Brexit, on the other hand, was based on the need to restore the sovereignty of a unitary Parliament and people.

Germany after Merkel: recalibrating EU and foreign policies

On the 26th of September, Germans will go to the polls. As Chancellor Angela Merkel will not stand for re-election, this vote will mark the end of an era. The country's proportional electoral system will force two or more political parties to seek common ground to try to form a government. The new political balance that determined by the ballot box will have a significant impact on the country's EU and foreign policies and, by the extent, on the European Union's stand on the global stage. Our guest is Katja Kipping MdB, leader of "Die Linke" in the German Budestag.

Financial Patterns and International Architectures: Grand corruption, Nigeria and the Role of the West

There is a growing recognition that the enablers of large-scale (‘grand’) corruption lie in transnational financial networks. Literature suggests that a large proportion of illicit flows from Nigeria are invested in the UK. But illicit flows are, by their nature, illegal and deliberately hidden from view, making them a particularly challenging object of research.

The Historical Rawls

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John Rawls (1921–2002) and his work are now squarely a subject for history. In the more than fifteen years since his death, a rich body of scholarship has emerged which attempts, in different ways, to understand the nature, development, and impact of Rawls's thought from a variety of historical perspectives. With 2021 marking fifty years since A Theory of Justice (1971) was first published, this special forum examines what we here call the “historical Rawls.”

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