International Order: Neither Secular nor Modern
Professor William Bain (National University of Singapore) is author of 'Political Theology of International Order' (OUP, 2020) and 'Between Anarchy and Society: Trusteeship and the Obligations of Power' (OUP, 2003).
How Does Constituency-Level Partisanship Affect Parliamentary Behaviour?
Recent work has suggested that when voters are less partisan, legislators engage in more personal vote-seeking. This has potentially important implications, given the widespread decline of partisanship in many countries, and the well-noted consequences of personal vote-seeking for policy-making, election results, and accountability. However, existing tests of this argument use either aggregate-level measures of partisanship, or constituency-level proxy measures. We thus lack direct evidence linking constituency-level partisanship to MPs’ parliamentary behaviour.
'Theorizing Political Resistance to Racism: From Occasioning Sight to Constituting Power'
All welcome / bring lunch!
Brexit, Populism, and Empires of the Mind
Sexual Subjectivity
Dispute Inflation: Intangible Stakes and the Intensification of Preferences
Can Myths Explain Brexit?
Can myths explain Brexit? A discussion with Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis about her recently published book 'Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice - Three meanings of Brexit', in Saint John's College, Wednesday, second week, 7-8.15pm. Free refreshments provided. Open to all.
Why Counter-Insurgency Fails
Guerrilla warfare has earned a reputation of near invincibility, driving great powers out of their former colonial empires during the twentieth century and frustrating military interventions during the twenty-first century, even where the asymmetry in regular force capability is the starkest. Why have mighty powers that proved capable of crushing the strongest of opponents failed to defeat the humblest of military rivals in some of the world’s poorest and weakest regions? How do the weak defeat the strong?