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.

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.

Secular imaginaries within the African National Congress in South Africa

Why is it that South Africa has a secular and liberal state, even though its population appears to be mostly religious and socially conservative? This paper studies the African National Congress (ANC) which has dominated electoral politics in the country since 1994. I explore two questions. How is that, despite representing a religious-conservative electorate as a 'people's party', the ANC has openly pursued a secular-liberal legislative agenda? And how is it that, despite pursuing a secular-liberal legislative agenda, the ANC embraces religious rhetoric in the public sphere?

Maria Puolakkainen

I am a DPhil student in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a member of Nuffield College. My research is motivated by the persistence of extreme economic inequality and I am working on questions on the politics of industrial policies, structural upgrading, and informal labour, with a regional focus on Latin America.

Iuliana Nyerges

Iuliana (Julie) Nyerges is a DPhil Politics student at Balliol College. Her research focuses on political behaviour, democracy, far-right politics, populism and democratic (re)consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Julie's doctoral project is going to investigate the nature of democratic reconstruction policy in countries where democratic erosion is taking place, as well as its impact on opposition party strategy and support. Her research is generously funded by the Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) Grand Union DTP and the Snell Exhibition.

Joseph Ward

I am a DPhil in Political Theory at Corpus Christi College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.

My work sits at the crossroads of intellectual history, black critical theory and methodology in political thought. My DPhil project focuses on the methods used by black scholars after the black studies movement. In particular, I am interested in the twin concepts of 'interdisciplinarity' and 'disciplinarity' and how they have been influential in both normative philosophy and Caribbean history.

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