Michael Urban awarded the 2015 Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Prize

Congratulations to Michael Urban, who has been awarded the 2015 Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Prize for his DPhil thesis entitled Imagined Security: Collective Identification, Trust and the Liberal Peace. The Pavry Prize is awarded annually by the Social Sciences Board to an outstanding thesis at the University of Oxford on a subject in the area of international peace and understanding.

Michael's research is focused on developing and applying a new conceptualization of trust appropriate to the study of international politics and, more specifically, the liberal peace.