Vladimir Putin has said: "If you stand alone you cannot survive in the Arctic. Nature makes people and states to help each other." But are international relations in the Arctic really that different from those in other regions – such as Eastern Europe – and if so, why?
War was not inevitable in Europe in 1914, and it is not inevitable in Asia today. But war happened in Europe because the Europeans failed to conceive a new international order to reflect radical shifts in the distribution of wealth and power. And war will become more likely in Asia if regional powers fail in the same way to imagine a new regional order which fits the fast-changing realities of power there. How might such a new order look, and how could it be built?
Cyber actors are comparable to the actors of maritime warfare in the 16th and 17th centuries. The militarisation of cyberspace resembles the situation in this previous context, in which states transitioned from a reliance on privateers to dependence on professional navies. As with privateering, the use of non-state actors by states in cyberspace has produced unintended harmful consequences.
Florian Egloff is a DPhil student at DPIR.
The launch of the tenth edition of St Antony’s International Review includes panels and presentations on the theme of the resurgence of identity politics.
St Antony's International Review (STAIR) is Oxford's journal of global affairs, a peer-reviewed, academic journal established in 2005 by graduate members of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford.
The launch of the tenth edition of St Antony’s International Review includes panels and presentations on the theme of the resurgence of identity politics.
St Antony's International Review (STAIR) is Oxford's journal of global affairs, a peer-reviewed, academic journal established in 2005 by graduate members of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford.
This session was hosted in co-operation with the Centre for International Studies (CIS).
The launch of the tenth edition of St Antony’s International Review includes panels and presentations on the theme of the resurgence of identity politics.
The launch of the tenth edition of St Antony’s International Review includes panels and presentations on the theme of the resurgence of identity politics.
St Antony's International Review (STAIR) is Oxford's journal of global affairs, a peer-reviewed, academic journal established in 2005 by graduate members of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford.
Jacques Rupnik (University of Paris, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI)) speaks about 'Vaclav Havel's contested legacies: alternative visions of politics and Europe'.
Jacques Rupnik is a former advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel. The event was chaired by Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College), and was co-organised by the Oxford University Czech and Slovak Society, the Centre for International Studies (CIS), and the Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group (OXPO).
Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal - shape regime change. Ansell and Samuels offer a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects of land and income inequality.
