The 1990s are pivotal for understanding the mobilisation of the international system in the face of significant geopolitical upheaval and different types of global shock.

89% of the world’s population live in a country with a national net zero target but these targets need to be implemented effectively in policy and regulation if the goals of the Paris Agreement are to be achieved. Too often, this is still not happening.

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Jacob has shared the current draft of his work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17eS-HH9jTxoDfYFvUwp3wBjMYqeVfj9nEHoScPWhwk8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gjdgxs

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This talk is based on my recent book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India, which examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation in India. We live in a world that sees information as empowering and democratising. But how does information work in practice and who does it work for?

What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world’s outsized influence over the rest of the planet? Are we prepared for very different global future?

On 16 October join Dr Samir Puri, author of Westlessness and Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine, in conversation with Professor Teresa Bejan, Fellow in Politics at Oriel College.

Join Dr Samir Puri, author of Westlessness and Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine, in conversation with Professor Teresa Bejan, Fellow in Politics at Oriel College.

Puri is a former UK civil servant. He worked for the Foreign Office (2009–15) — including a year seconded to a ceasefire monitoring mission in Ukraine — and was later a lecturer in War Studies at King’s College London (2015–18). His most recent role was Senior Fellow at IISS-Asia based in Singapore (2020–22). In 2023, he became an Associate Fellow at Chatham House.