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Susan Way

Sue Way joined DPIR in April 2023 as Deputy Finance Manager to support the Finance Manager in managing the department’s annual budgeting processes, as well as the day-to-day finances.  Sue works part–time for DPIR (Thurs and Fri).  The rest of the week she works at the Oxford Martin School supporting the HAF in managing the OMS’s finances.

Prior to this, she worked as a management accounts assistant in the Central Finance department of the University supporting all the different sections of the Central Administration.

Weaponized Interdependence: Global Monopolies as the Sources of Power

This paper focuses on the weaponization of interdependences among states. Weaponization refers to one state restricting its international economic relationships (or ‘interdependences’) to inflict economic or political costs on another state. Recent examples include Western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine and Russia’s retaliatory restriction of gas supplies to several European states. We know surprisingly little about two related questions: what determines whether a particular international economic relationship can be weaponized effectively?

Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State

Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and especially the army have evolved into self-perpetuating elite institutions that resist change and seek to maintain the status quo. And over the years they have co-opted politicians, religious leaders, the landed gentry and also large industrial conglomerates and together they have neither pursued inclusive economic growth nor a liberal, tolerant society. Resultantly Pakistan is falling behind all its peer nations in South Asia in income and human development.

War, Identity, and Legitimacy

Andreas Wimmer is Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University which he joined in 2015. He is currently a fellow of the Boundaries, Membership & Belonging Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For Princeton University Press, he edits the book series Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology. He also serves as one of the deputy editors of Sociological Science.
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