'Re-framing Islam: Submission, Reformation, Pacification’
All welcome / bring lunch!
Slow Learners? On Moral Progress, Social Struggle, and Whig History
Brexit, Identity and Party Polarization
Political Gossip and how it drives everything
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
Professor Kilcullen will present a talk based on the topic of his latest book, The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West. In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have ‘slain a large dragon’ with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a ‘bewildering variety of poisonous snakes’.
Some Pagans are Better than Others: the Merits of Plato and Aristotle
The Logic of Settler Colonialism: Evidence from West Papua and Papua New Guinea
Self-Determination and Secession: Why Nations are Special
Terrorism and recent developments in Human Rights
The decades following the Second World War saw hopes rise that humanity had learnt its lesson and that a new age had begun, guided by a body of universal law based on human rights. International courts held to account those found guilty of crimes against humanity. Countries that had been long-standing enemies came together in Europe and elsewhere to cooperate on economic, legal, cultural, scientific and political challenges, as well as on the emerging global threats to the environment.