Benjamin Broby
Anees Ahmed
Launching a new Peace and Security Fellowship with the United Nations
America’s deep political divisions eroding trust, new study finds
Trump’s poll ratings should worry Republicans
Are Corporations Spatial Entities?: The Demos in Digital Sovereignty
Japan’s Lost Decades: A Call for Fundamental Statecraft Reform
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan said during the State visit to the UK by him and Her Majesty the Empress in 2024: the UK and Japan are “friends like no other”. They both studied at Oxford.
Japan adopted the Westminster political system and the modern British social and industrial system. But after the post-war period of economic growth, Japan lost three decades of economic might.
The Committee to Examine Japan’s Lost 30 Years has formulated comprehensive proposals for the fundamental reform of national governance, which will be presented at this lecture.
Decolonizing the State: Bureaucratic Capacity and Policy Implementation in the Tanzanian Civil Service
Populism and Resource Rents in International Relations
Recent IR literature suggests that populist ideology, while primarily a domestic phenomenon, has distinct foreign policy implications, as populist leaders reject Western hegemony, transnational elites, and liberal international institutions. Yet how impactful is this stance, given the potential costs of defying the liberal order? This paper argues that populist leaders can pursue more radical foreign policies only when shielded from international economic constraints – most notably through natural resource rents.