On 17 June 2014 John Mearsheimer (R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago) visited Oxford, and gave a talk on American grand strategy and consequences for Europe of the US pivot to Asia.

The event was co-sponsored by the Centre for International Studies and the Changing Character of War Programme.

Prof. Daniel Innerarity (University of the Basque Country / Basque Founcation for Science) answers the question Does Europe need a demos to be truly democratic?, followed by a discussion with Prof. Kalypso Nicoladis (St Antonys College, University of Oxford).

This event was co-hosted by the European Studies Centre (ESC) and the Centre for International Studies (CIS).

Professor Derek J Penslar, Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled What is Israel Studies, co-hosted by the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, the Department of Politics and International Relations, and St Annes College.

The Centre for International Studies (CIS) hosted a book launch event for Ian Goldins (Director, Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford) book Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing and what we can do about it (Oxford University Press 2013).Discussants were Julia Amos (Merton College, University of Oxford) and Vinicius Rodrigues Vieira (DPIR, University of Oxford), and the event was chaired by Kalypso Nicoladis (St Antonys College, University of Oxford).

Speaker: Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University

Introductions:Professor Andrew Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, andProfessor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University) delivered the Fourth Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture on International Relations at the University of Oxford on 23 May 2014 on Causes and Consequences of Growing Inequality - and what can be done about it.

This is a recording of a panel discussion on the book launch of 'Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)' by Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. This event was co-sponsored by the Centre for International Studies (CIS), Asian Studies Centre, European Studies Centre and Department of Philosophy.

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.