Sandwiches will be served from 12.40. Please note that this seminar will finish earlier than usual, at 14.00, discussion will continue in the Kings Arms.

This presentation is an in-progress update of a research effort aimed at improving the US Defense Department’s concept of Integrated Deterrence. It discusses some of the concept’s difficulties as brought to light by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It offers some potential remedies as well.

Sandwiches served from 13.00. Please not the later start time.

This panel is the first event in the UK to take stock of the current state of the peace process(es) in Colombia, the “total peace” policy of President Gustavo Petro, and the challenges and opportunities of the current moment. Bringing together academics and practitioners, we will explore the peace talks between the government and the ELN guerrilla group, the legal framework created to negotiate with illegal armed groups, implementation of the 2016 peace accord with the FARC, and overall, the developments in peacebuilding since Petro took power last August and prospects for the future.

“An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism’s failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out”

Professor Bardhan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California, Berkeley

Find out more about the book at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674259843.

Join St Anne's College and the African Studies Centre for the launch of Dr Portia Roelofs new book, Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The book draws on in-depth fieldwork in Nigeria to show how Nigerian political practice and thinking can inform alternative theorisations of accountability and transparency as part of a more socially-embedded understanding of good governance.

Abstract:

The Mughals are known for building the largest and most magnificent imperial mausoleums of any Muslim dynasty in or outside of South Asia. However, these monuments differ from one another as much as they do from the imperial tombs of their contemporaries, whether the Safavids in Iran or the Ottomans further west. Art historians have long puzzled over the inventive forms of the Mughal mausoleums. I revisit these debates by considering the presence and absence of Persian panegyric inscriptions on these buildings.