Bilateral and regional trade agreements: A case for economic reform?

Following the global financial crisis, economic growth and international trade growth have been sluggish. Current projections indicate that growth may continue to be sluggish in the medium term. These continuing trends will limit income raising productivity growth needed to maintain and improve living standards with population ageing across many economies. It will also limit capacities needed to raise living standards amongst lower income regions.

'Symposium on Liberalism With Excellence by Matthew Kramer'


Matthew Kramer’s Liberalism with Excellence, to be published by Oxford University Press in early 2017, promises to be a significant intervention into the debate between liberal neutralists and perfectionists concerning the justification of the exercise of political power. While neutralists hold that the state must be neutral in some sense between competing conceptions of the good, perfectionists hold that claims about the good can or ought to play an important role in justifying the state’s actions.

'Politics of the ‘Other’ in India and China: Western Concepts in non-Western Contexts'

The social sciences have long been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development, the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the ‘West’ and the ‘rest’, ‘us’ and ‘them’ and ‘self’ and ‘other’.

Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations 2017 : 'Universities in an Age of Populism'

The 7th Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations is entitled ‘Universities in an Age of Populism' and will be given by Professor Louise Richardson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Please join us for this event, which will take place in the Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College at 5pm-6.30pm on 16th June 2017.

Book launch: Centripetal Democracy: Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland and the European Union

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct democratic voting opportunities are emphasised on this model. There is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems constituted by multiple public spheres.
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