Public Perceptions of the Criminalization of Grand Corruption in Latin America
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Life and Thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan
For the first GTI event of 2020, professor Manu Bhagavan will speak on the life and work of Indian diplomat and politician Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
The Demos at War: lessons on democratic warfare from Thucydides and Machiavelli
Erica Benner is a political philosopher who has held academic posts at St Antony's College Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Yale. Awarded a DPhil at Oxford in 1993, she is the author of the books Really Existing Nationalisms (Oxford University Press, 1995), Machiavelli's Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2009), Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Penguin Allen Lane and W.W. Norton, 2017).
Notes from the frontline: A dangerous moment: reporting Hong Kong’s protests
Testing the Prophets: Reason and the Choice of Faiths
The Organizational Logic of Insurgent Ideology: A Comparative Analysis
To Claim or Not to Claim… Sovereignty in Outer Space
Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
Dr Jan Boesten is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations and member of CCW’s ConPeace team.. He earned a PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with a dissertation on the Colombian Constitutional Court and its decision to curtail constitutional reform. His argument is that the Colombian Constitutional Court must be understood as a consequence of deliberative principles rather than strategic action.