DPIR’s Professor Ben Ansell’s first BBC Reith Lecture on ‘Our Democratic Future’ airs
Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pace
How the US - China Rivalry Is Putting the Internet at Risk
Race for 'Frozen Garlic': Assessing Taiwan's 2024 Elections
This season sees the chanting of ‘frozen garlic’ (‘凍蒜’ dongsuan, a Taiwanese Hokkien pronunciation for ‘當選’ dangxuan, meaning getting elected) in campaign rallies across Taiwan as the island approaches its quadrennial presidential and legislative elections on 13th January 2024.
BBC Radio 4 Profile: Javier Milei
To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us About Humanity
To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us About Humanity - The Film Screening of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep' (九槍) with Director Tsai Tsung-lung.
John Wallcraft
Capital Accumulation, Racialisation and the Politics of Ecocide
The language of ‘ecocide’ has become an increasingly important tool in the arsenal of those seeking to oppose and contest the continued environmental destruction of the planet. This has been true both as a general phenomenon but also – more specifically – through the language of international law. Particular important in this regard have been recent proposals to create an international crime of ecocide for inclusion in the Rome State of the International Criminal Court.
Antonio Piraino
Antonio Piraino is in the final year of the MPhil in European Politics and Society. He is a member of St Antony’s College and a Dahrendorf Scholar at the European Studies Centre. His research focuses on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), European strategic autonomy, and European integration, particularly in the defence and security sectors.