A roundtable on George Lawson's (LSE) latest book 'Anatomies of Revolution'. Andrea Ruggeri (Oxford) will chair and discussants will include Stathis Kalyvas and Liz Frazer (Oxford).

In the 2019 Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations, David Miliband will use his vantage point as CEO of the International Rescue Committee to examine one of the major shifts in international relations today, away from checks and balances on the use of power, and towards an Age of Impunity. He will explain how the rules-based international order forged after World War II is being undermined, and suggest how the multilateralist promise embodied by Senator Fulbright can be redeemed.

DPIR faculty and DPhil students are invited to attend a conference on Political Economy of Development and Accountability.

When taking on new debt, governments may borrow from commercial banks, access the sovereign bond market, borrow from official bilateral creditors, or from multilateral financial institutions. While some of the structure of government borrowing reflects macroeconomic conditions and country creditworthiness, governments' choices among borrowing instruments also are driven by their preferences over transparency.

The last decade has seen the world of cyber security change beyond all recognition, from an adjunct consideration within the IT department to a global level security concern. Wikileaks, Stuxnet, Sony, APT1, and Notpetya are just some of the keywords associated with incidents that have heralded the increased securitization around the issue of 'cyber' and how it has become a critical issue for many invested in security. Within this context, actors such as governments have obviously had to reconsider their attitude towards cyber security.