An international group of researchers convene for a conference examining the place of geopolitics in history and the world today.
The afternoon begins with the The Dasturzada Dr. Jal Pavry Memorial Lecture from Professor Stefano Guzzini (DIIS, Uppsala, PUC-Rio) on the theory, history and definitions of geopolitics.
Professor Emerita J. Ann Tickner (University of Southern California) delivers a lecture on the role of feminist theory in the field of international relations.
Professor John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) presents the conclusions of his latest article published in Foreign Affairs on offshore balancing.
Since there is so much we can do together – good and bad – we are subject to numerous normative requirements to perform certain actions and to abstain from others. In what follows I will argue that some intuitively feasible requirements, especially those that are collective, are not in fact feasible. I thereby aim to offer a revised account of what counts as a feasible action. In particular, I argue that we can best preserve the spirit of what is known as the conditional account of feasibility if we move to what I call the constrained account.
This paper shows that, when, and, how international factors and actors contributed to Uruguay's drug policy reform process. Two ways in which the international dimension manifested itself are identified. First, as drug policy debate around the world changed, the context for reforms in Uruguay evolved. This resulted in a rather mixed international reaction to Uruguay's reform proposal. Second, international actors became directly involved in the process. Drug policy experts informed and legitimated cannabis reform and transnational advocates supported campaignin
As part of the 2016 Fulbright Seminar Series held at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, Lord Stewart Wood and Lord Danny Finkelstein spoke about what internationalism means in the UK today.
Stewart Wood is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords. Formerly a politics tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, he has served as an advisor to Gordon Brown and latterly to Ed Miliband. In 2011 he was appointed a Shadow Minister without Portfolio, advising on strategy and international affairs.
St Antony's College hosts the 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, for a discussion of her the Soviet soul and her current and former projects.
Georgetown Assistant Professor Joshua Cherniss spoke about Isaiah Berlin's contribution to political theory. Professor Cherniss's talk included a discussion of Berlin's ideas about political understanding, Berlin's portraits of individual political leaders, and his writings on the relationship between politics and morality.
Alvaro de Soto, former UN Under-Secretary General, spoke with Edward Mortimer.
This CCW Violent Non-State Groups Seminar was co-sponsored with OxPeace and CIS.
