China has avoided the grim US Covid toll. But at what cost?
Free: Coming of Age at the end of History with Lea Ypi
Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.
Getting older: Demographic challenges in South East Europe
As South East European populations grow older, demography is becoming a key topic in political and academic debates in the region. From Zagreb to Athens, all three main determinants of the age structure of a population – low fertility, growing life expectancy, and net emigration – are pointing to an increasingly unsustainable share of elderly citizens with serious ramifications for the future of South East European economies and societies.
The EU as a State-builder in International Affairs: The Case of Kosovo
This book presents a systematic, in-depth, and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in the process of international state-building and is one of the first comprehensive books to do so at an international level. Taking the case of Kosovo, it examines the EU's role in the birth of a state in comparison to other international actors from 1999 to 2008 and moves on to analyse the EU's role in norm diffusion in the post-independence period (2008–2020).
Marnie Howlett on Ukraine as a Borderland
Conference Board of Canada
Governing the climate crisis: How should future leaders prepare?
As the impacts of climate change accelerate, human societies will face a set of cascading, layered, and interrelated challenges. Droughts, sea level rise, and extreme weather and heat will increasingly affect food security, public health, economic development, and conflict. The relatively stable ecological conditions in which human societies have been governed in recent decades cannot be assumed to continue. How should future leaders prepare, and what role can, or must, universities play in that process?
Human Rights and The Future of Global Governance
How can victims pursue justice in the growing international rights regime?
*Brysk, Human Rights and the Globalization of Law
Leigh Payne, Oxford University—Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability
Pilar Elizalde, London School of Economics
*Brysk, Human Rights and the Globalization of Law
Leigh Payne, Oxford University—Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability
Pilar Elizalde, London School of Economics
Human Rights and The Future of Migration
How can the legal protection of migrants expand to meet the challenges of forced displacement and non-state violators?
*Brysk, People Out of Place (2004); Human Rights and Private Wrongs (2005); From Human Trafficking to Human Rights (2012)
Stephen Meili, Minnesota-Oxford: refugee law and Constitutionalism
Loren Landau, Oxford University—"Mobility, rights, and competing temporalities”
*Brysk, People Out of Place (2004); Human Rights and Private Wrongs (2005); From Human Trafficking to Human Rights (2012)
Stephen Meili, Minnesota-Oxford: refugee law and Constitutionalism
Loren Landau, Oxford University—"Mobility, rights, and competing temporalities”