'Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy' (CIS Co-Sponsored Book Launch/ Panel Discussion)
*Abstract:* From 2013 to 2015, over 11,000 people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. The human and political consequences were devastating and only now being understood.
*Dr Julia Amos*, the War and Peace at Oxford Research Network Coordinator and contributor to the book, who will speak about problems related to the militarization of the relief assistance
*Dr Julia Amos*, the War and Peace at Oxford Research Network Coordinator and contributor to the book, who will speak about problems related to the militarization of the relief assistance
‘The Populist Explosion’: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (CIS, RAI and ESC Co-Sponsored Talk)
*Abstract:* What's happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, in a stunning rebuke; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican Party; and a slew of rebellious parties continued to win election after election in countries like Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Austria, and Greece.
Japan and the Great Divergence
'China after the Party Congress: Challenges to America's Role'
‘The challenges of writing about corruption in Africa’
'Mapping Mutations in Legislation: A Bioinformatics Approach'
'Thomas More's Utopia and utopian writing in Arabic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'
Democratic Drain: Emigration and Democratization in the Middle East
Series: Comparative Political Economy Seminar Series