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From Borders to Borderlands: Lessons learnt from the Danish Demining Group Border Security Management experience in East Africa, Sahel and North Africa

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Borderlands are often the space where the nexus between economic development, conflict, crime, politics and identity are at its most dynamic.

The Gender Backlash in the Vote for Brexit

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Despite a relationship between gender and support for populist causes in cross-national research, the role of gender has been missing in analysis of support for Brexit, probably because women and men showed no average aggregate-level differences in voting Leave or Remain. This, we argue, misses an important part of the explanation for Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.

2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory Keynote Address: Irregular Migration, Adverse Possession and the Justification of the Right to Exclude

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Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of ‘Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice’

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Abstract: Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This talk interrogates the history of the discourse and practice of the field to answer that question. Zunino argues that a number of characteristics inherited as transitional justice emerged as a discourse in the 1980s and 1990s have shaped which practices of the present and the past are now regarded as valid responses to past human rights violations.

2019 Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference

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We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held on the 29th and 30th April 2019 at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2019

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The Oxford Spring School offers graduate students and researchers from universities across the UK and abroad a unique venue to learn cutting-edge methods in Social Science.

The programme consists of a variety of advanced courses, which place different data analysis techniques within broader disciplinary trends towards mixed-methods research designs. Working with our world leading teachers and researchers in quantitative and qualitative methods, you will have the opportunity to choose the course subject options which suit you best.

The Folly of Secularism - Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context

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One of the gravest distortions of the discussion on the modern, liberal-democratic nation-state has been the prevalence of a secularist epistemology as the basis for this discussion. This epistemology serves the configuration of power of the nation-state by identifying it with the “secular” realm of rational politics, relegating “religion” to the realm of the irrational, private and apolitical.

OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop

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The OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop will take place from Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 March 2019 (09:30 to 17:30 each day), at Queen Elizabeth House, Mansfield Rd, Oxford.

Accountability Beyond Outcomes: Experimental Evidence on Voters and Executive Performance

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The Origins of the End of Ideology Debate: An Alternative History

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