The growing clamour for a codified constitution of the UK (or what is left after Scotland leaves)
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Reparations and the End of Empire
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Making Sense on Immigration
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Cyril Foster Lecture: The Political Origins of Global Justice
Against the background of the broader history of the idea of human rights, this lecture investigates when and why the contemporary field of global justice in philosophy and political theory was invented. Returning to the engagement of American liberals with the decolonization process in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Vietnam war and even as more powerful tendencies were about to bring the welfarist ideal of the postwar era low, this lecture presents contemporary cosmopolitanism as a response to a forgotten revolt of the global south against the prevailing economic order of our age.
Palestines Future: Law, Diplomacy, and Activism
Professor Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 books, political activist on world affairs, member of a number of International Commissions (MacBride Commission, Independent Commission on Kosovo) and formal United Nations roles.
Legally Married: Love and Law in the UK and the US
The Church of Englands claim that marriage has been understood to be, always and exclusively, between a man and a woman is contestable on a number of grounds. Debates about marriage have a direct influence on peoples everyday lives, and it is a fundamental matter of equality and human rights. Yet the debates about same-sex marriage in the UK and the US are taking place in an informational vacuum too often filled by emotion and rhetoric.
Identity and International Security: U.S. Relations with China and India
Jarrod Hayes (Former Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) discusses his first book Constructing National Security: US Relations with India and China (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Ministerial Selection in Russia: How Presidential Preferences Shape Technocratic Cabinets
Imperialism, Transnationalism and the Reconstruction of Postwar China, 1944-6
Benjamin H. Kizer arrived in December 1944 in the wartime Chinese capital of Chongqing (Chungking) as the head of the China Office of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), itself established only a year previously. Kizer wrote at some length of the difficulty of the journey, having been warned more than once that it was one of the worst postings possible: Chongqing was hot, hilly, and lacking in any workable transport network. The buildings he was assigned were better than many, however.