Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies
This one and a half day conference, organized by Prof. Giovanni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from Europe and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies.
Rogue state: Why it is time to stop mocking – and underestimating – North Korea
Emma Madden
Research
I specialise in computational methods in social science with a particular interest in modelling complex social systems through the lens of political violence and opinion dynamics. Some of my research topics include:
Replication of social experiments with synthetic data from LLMs
Organisational structure and group decision making in insurgency
Complex systems and modelling collective behaviour
The Future of Democracy in India: a conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi
A historian, biographer, and a former member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India’s parliament), Rajmohan Gandhi has sought throughout his life to develop and protect a democratic India which respects all its citizens and enables all to thrive.
During the 1975-77 Emergency in India, Himmat, the weekly founded and edited by Rajmohan Gandhi, was among a handful of Indian journals that opposed the suspension of democratic rights.
In 1990, he led India’s delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
During the 1975-77 Emergency in India, Himmat, the weekly founded and edited by Rajmohan Gandhi, was among a handful of Indian journals that opposed the suspension of democratic rights.
In 1990, he led India’s delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
Film Showing & Discussion: Kekee Manzil - House of Art
Panel: Behroze Gandhy, Dilesh Korya, Partha Mitter, Mishka Sinha, Shireen Azam
Chair: Faisal Devji
Philip Leverhulme Prize 2023
Ten Years of Peace Processes in Colombia
You are warmly invited to a thought-provoking in-person dialogue with HE Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia, Danilo Rueda, Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace (online from Colombia), and HE Roy Barreras, Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, former Senator, and government negotiator in the peace process with the FARC, who have all played pivotal roles in the peace efforts and political landscape of Colombia, in conversation with Dr Gwen Burnyeat, Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Merton College, Oxford.
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe is a landmark work in the areas of anthropology and migration studies. Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition is published to mark the centenary of the 1923 Lausanne Convention which led to the movement of some 1.5 million persons between Greece and Turkey at the conclusion of their war. It includes updated material with a new Preface, Afterword by Ayhan Aktar, and map of the wider region.
Nick Arndt
I am a second-year student in the MPhil in International Relations and a member of New College. Together with my colleague A.J, I serve as the course representative for the MPhil IR. I am broadly interested in contemporary German foreign and defence policy. My thesis will investigate the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on German strategic culture.