This seminar will explore policies to implement the European Union’s Digital Single Market strategy at the regional and national levels. With digitalization increasingly affecting business activity and daily life, it is crucial to set up an effective mechanism of governance and policy coordination. The discussion will thus cover a broad range of topics, including the goals of the DSM, leadership strategies for establishing the DSM, and European Commission reform.

*Abstract:* The selection process that led to the nomination of Antonio Guterres as Secretary-General of the United Nations gave way to unprecedented practices in world politics, such as public hearings with candidates. A textbook case of what historical institutionalism calls “layering,” this episode of institutional development features intriguing puzzles, including its timing, form and limits. The paper argues that such endogenous incremental change is best explained by combining insights from historical institutionalism and practice theory.

While the U.S. military possessed an early advantage in the technologies critical to information-age warfare, primacy in AI, likely integral in future warfare, could remain contested between the U.S. and China. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) anticipates that the advent of AI could fundamentally change the character of warfare, resulting in a transformation from today’s “informatized” ways of warfare to future “intelligentized” warfare, in which AI will be critical to military power. As the PLA competes with the U.S.

*Abstract:* From 2013 to 2015, over 11,000 people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. The human and political consequences were devastating and only now being understood.

*Dr Julia Amos*, the War and Peace at Oxford Research Network Coordinator and contributor to the book, who will speak about problems related to the militarization of the relief assistance