Meet Alexandra Rice
Arthur Laudrain secures grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation to join Stanford CISAC as French-American Fellow
Barry Xiangyu Lin
Barry Lin
Xiangyu (Barry) Lin is an MPhil candidate in International Relations at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on international political economy, great power politics, and international organisations, with particular interest in how economic instruments such as sanctions, trade policies, and investment agreements shape global power dynamics and institutional resilience.
Civility: talking with those who disagree with you
Ali Al Youha wins prestigious PSA prize for thesis on the formation of political sovereignty in the Gulf
DPIR’s Natasja Rupesinghe scoops top BISA prize for best DPhil thesis in International Studies
Warriors in Washington: World War II and the Politics of American Power
How did the US Army emerge as one of the most powerful political organizations in the United States following World War II? In Warriors in Washington: Henry Stimson, the US Army, and the Politics of American Power in World War II, Grant H. Golub asserts that this remarkable shift was the result of the Army’s political masters consciously transforming the organization into an active political player throughout the war.
Rethink... summer holidays
Eddy Yeung
Eddy S. F. Yeung is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research examines how political communication and elite strategy shape democratic legitimacy under autocracy and the psychology of conflict escalation and de-escalation, with a focus on East Asia, the United States, and their interactions. Uniting his body of scholarship is a broader interest in how elites and mass publics influence one another in the political system, both domestic and international.