'Brexit, the UK and China: Where Next?'
This event will also feature a roundtable of experts on this topic.
‘Reporting on globalized issues. A study of China and the environmental movement’
From Leningrad to Leninfall: The Geopolitics of Soviet Monuments 100 Years since the Russian Revolution (CIS and Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Co-Sponsored Lecture)
*Summary:* 100 years on from the October Revolution, monumental propaganda in the form of statues, monuments, architectural ensembles, and decorative detail retains the memory of Soviet rule in former republics of the USSR and the Eastern bloc states. The treatment accorded to them is expressive of the post-socialist states' relationship to this common past. Russia, where the capital still has the revolutionary leader’s mortal remains on display, and Belarus have left communist symbols largely untouched, and many monuments have retained their prominent positions in urban and rural centres.
Discussion of Peter Ghosh, 'Constructing Marx in the History of Ideas'
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2017.1332287
The Global Politics of the AI Revolution: A Research Agenda (IR Colloquium: MT)
The Intersection of International Law, Foreign Policy, and National Security
This talk is co-hosted with the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.
Avril D. Haines will give a talk discussing the intersection of international law, foreign policy, and national security in the context of state-actor asymmetric threats.
Avril D. Haines will give a talk discussing the intersection of international law, foreign policy, and national security in the context of state-actor asymmetric threats.
'The Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Andrés Bello'
Understanding Indonesia's Post-Independence Elite: Data from the Constitutional Assembly
Using previously un-mined data on more than 600 members of Indonesia's Constitutional Assembly (1956-1959), this seminar will present a detailed picture of the political elites of post-independence Indonesia. The data, self-reported by members, includes age, educational level, past organizational activity, gender distribution, and more. This allows broader conclusions about the nature of a post-decolonization elite in the world's largest Muslim country.
Q&A discussion with physician, academic and writer whose work covers medicine, policy, statistics and campaigning
CIS-Sponsored Book Launch: 'The Virtual Weapon and International Order’
*Abstract:* The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace in society brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political cooperation, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers subversive actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises. Despite significant experience with cyber incidents, the conceptual apparatus to analyse, understand, and address their effects on international order remains primitive.