This recording contains Professor Stiglitzs answers to three questions from the audience.

Question 1: How does health inequality affect economic productivity?

Question 2: What are examples of societies that are working better, and what have they done right?

Question 3: What is the relationship between levels of inequality in these particular socities (the United States and Britain) and global inequality?

Speaker: Joseph Stiglitz

Chair: Ngaire Woods

At this event, co-sponsored by the Centre for International Studies (CIS), the International Migration Institute (IMI) and COMPAS, Dr. Alan Gamlen asks the question Why do states establish and maintain diaspora engagement institutions?

At this event on 16 May 2014 Dr. Jane Boulden discussed the findings from her edited volume Responding to Crisis in Africa: the United Nations and Regional Organizations which came out in a second edition in 2013.

With a particular focus on the implications of the nature of this UN-regional interaction for the UN, the talk affirmed some traditional assumptions about UN-regional cooperation while challenging others.

In this talk, co-sponsored by the Centre for International Studies (CIS), the African Studies Centre, and the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group, Alex Ntung provides insight into the significance of occult beliefs dynamics in the construction of modern political ideologies and discusses examples of transitional justice mechanisms - Truth versus Justice (Rwanda genocide) and Justice versus Peace (DRC peace building).

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At this event, jointly hosted by the Centre for International Studies and the Faculty of Law, Karen J. Alter (Professor of Political Science and Law, Northwestern University) discussed her new book The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights.