One of the gravest distortions of the discussion on the modern, liberal-democratic nation-state has been the prevalence of a secularist epistemology as the basis for this discussion. This epistemology serves the configuration of power of the nation-state by identifying it with the “secular” realm of rational politics, relegating “religion” to the realm of the irrational, private and apolitical.

The OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop will take place from Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 March 2019 (09:30 to 17:30 each day), at Queen Elizabeth House, Mansfield Rd, Oxford.

This review sets out four main explanatory paradigms of penal policy— focusing on, in turn, crime, cultural dynamics, economic structures and interests, and institutional differences in the organization of different political economies as the key determinants of penal policy. We argue that these paradigms are best seen as complementary rather than competitive and present a case for integrating them analytically in a comparative political economy framework situated within the longue durée of technology regime change.

The ‘Asian Century’ is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational order spanning Saudi Arabia to Japan, Russia to Australia, Turkey to Indonesia – linking five billion people through trade, finance, infrastructure, and diplomatic networks that together represent 40 percent of global GDP. China has taken a lead in building the new Silk Roads across Asia, but it will not lead it alone.

2.00 p.m., Opening address by Prof Faisal Devji (Oxford University) and Dr Young-Chan Choi (Associate member Oriental Institute)

2.10 p.m., View from Pyongyang
HE Alastair Morgan (British Ambassador to Pyongyang, DPPK, 2015-2019)

2.30 p.m., View from Seoul
HE Charles Hay (British Ambassador to Seoul, ROK, 2015-2018)

2.50 p.m., State Re-unification in Comparative Perspective
Professor Richard Caplan (Oxford University)

3.05 p.m., ICC and Transnational Justice
Professor Miles Jackson (Oxford University)