Francesco Raffaelli
I am a PhD student at DPIR at the University of Oxford.
My research focuses on the fields of identity politics, comparative political economy, and political behaviour, with a geographical focus on Western European countries. Methodologically, my research employs surveys, laboratory experiments, and causal inference.
Overall, my current research encompasses the following topics.
Daniel Lane Martin
Daniel Lane is a first year DPhil student in European Politics at New College. His research interests include coalition politics, political behaviour, party politics and populism in Southern Europe.
Benjamin Harack
Ben studies the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to trigger a world war and how to prevent that from happening.
In particular, he studies AI-triggered military power shifts, the causes of war, and the international governance of AI (e.g., institutions to enable a global AI market)—with a particular focus on verification.
Patrick Cross
Declan Murray
Michael Levinson
I am a first-year MPhil International Relations student at St Edmund Hall. I am broadly interested in Israeli politics, international law, and US foreign policy in the Middle East. I graduated with a BA in History and International Relations from Trinity College, University of Toronto, in 2023.
James Barnett
I am a doctoral candidate in Politics at Somerville College studying conflict and political transitions in post-colonial Africa. My project examines the political roots of insecurity in Nigeria since the country’s return to civilian rule in 1999. This research draws on fieldwork conducted across each of Nigeria’s six sub-national regions, with a focus on four distinct yet interrelated conflicts: rural banditry, the jihadist Boko Haram insurgency, the Niger Delta “petro-insurgency,” and Biafran separatism.
After Gaza: The Promise and Peril of Pax Americana
Rebuilding From the Rubble Yet Again: Whither the Fourth Phase of Palestinian Collective Action?
Beshara Doumani is the Mahmoud Darwish Chair for Palestinian Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on the social histories of peoples, places, and time periods marginalized by mainstream scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East. He also writes on academic freedom, the politics and ethics of knowledge production, and the Palestinian condition. His books include Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, and Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History.