Avoiding Tragedy: Promoting Space Sustainability Through Global Space Governance

Outer space exploration has been an area where the international community has demonstrated a considerable level of co-operation, successfully transcending geographical, national and cultural boundaries. In the age of global governance, international co-operation has never been more important in resolving today’s global challenges.

Book Launch: Dangerous Diplomacy

Herman Salton, DPIR alumnus and Associate Professor of PPE, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh, will be discussing his award-winning book, ‘Dangerous Diplomacy: Bureaucracy, Power Politics, and the Role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda', recently published by OUP. The event will be chaired by Neil MacFarlane, Lester B Pearson Professor of International Relations and Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford. A drinks reception will follow.

Symposium on Liberalism’s Religion by Cécile Laborde

31 May 2018 (9:00-17:00) - 1 June 2018 (9:00-17:00)

In Trinity term Nuffield College will host a symposium on Cécile Laborde’s recent book Liberalism’s Religion, which came out with Harvard University Press in September. The book offers an account of the extent to which secularism is a requirement of liberal legitimacy, asks whether religion should receive special treatment in the liberal state, and revisits the concept of religion at the heart of contemporary western liberal philosophy.

Confirmed speakers include:
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