The Garrison State From an Institutional Perspective: Was Lasswell Right?
CIS Seminar, given by Professor David Sylvan
(Friday 03 February 2012, 1pm - Manor Road Building, Seminar Room G)
David Sylvan is professor of international relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and is an associate member at Nuffield for the academic year and a visitor this term. He is the coauthor of U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies, and Empire.
Fatal Attraction: a critique of Carl Schmitts international political and legal theory
Uneven Developments, Combined: Gramsci and Trotsky on Permanent Revolution
Civilising Interventions? Race, War and International Law
Marxism in IR and the challenge of Realism
Speaker: Andrew Davenport
The Political Economy of Reconstituted Neoliberalism: Reflections on Bolivia and Latin American Neostructuralism
Civilization and the Poetics of Slavery
Speaker: Robbie Shilliam
Lessons from the field -- and why they are rarely learned
Iain King is Governance Advisor to the UK Stabilisation Unit.
This podcast was taken from the Post-Conflict State Building: Practitioners Perspective Seminar Series in Hilary Term 2012, convened by Professor Richard Caplan.
Modern Asian Studies Special Issues
China's long war against Japan from 1937 to 1945 has remained in the shadows of historiography until recently, both in China and abroad. In recent years, the opening of archives and a widening of the opportunity to discuss the more controversial aspects of the wartime period in China itself have restored World War II in China (‘the War of Resistance to Japan’) to a much more central place in historical interpretation.