UK Defence Capability: 'How well is the United Kingdom prepared, in terms of defence & security, for the challenges and threats that lie ahead?'
In January 2017, the House of Lords debate on Defence Capability, initiated by Lord Robertson, revealed a number of areas for the United Kingdom to consider two years after the last Strategic Defence and Security Review in 2015. In this panel discussion, CCW brings together members of the House of Lords who participated in the original debate to engage in a discussion about the threats we face, the issues that concern us from a defence and security point of view, and the implications for future planning.
IR Publishing: Current and future challenges (IR Colloquium: MT)
John Lough will talk on the impact of social media and new media on academic publishing from the perspective of publishers but also of authors. The session will also cover other issues relevant to Politics and IR graduate students, post-docs and faculty: getting published, the outlook for monographs, revising theses for publication etc..
Opium and Coercive State Formation: Strongmen and Armed Conflicts in Burma’s Shan State (1948-1996)
The predominance of the state is overstated. In Burma and other countries, pockets of territory remain under the control of non-state actors. The processes through which these counter state orders emerge are varied and often not well understood. This paper examines the conditions under which the presence of resources presents opportunities for the emergence of counter state orders led by powerful strongmen. To do so, it looks at the role of opium in Mainland Southeast Asia in the period from 1948 to 1996.
‘What’s happening to our media’
‘Technology, Security, and Regime Survival in North Korea’
While the North Korean regime continues to expand its nuclear weapons program to secure its regime legitimacy and survival, the North Korean people are losing their faith in the government. Drawing from her recently published book, North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society (Yale University Press 2016), Jieun Baek will discuss how outside information and media flows covertly into North Korea and how this phenomenon creates fault lines in the country’s attempts to seal its informational borders.
The contested meaning of "Failed States” for international order (SEESOX, CIS and ESC Co-Sponsored Seminar)
In the context of her latest book ‘The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails’
In association with the Centre for International Studies (CIS), Oxford
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
For more information, please contact julie.adams@sant.ox.ac.uk Tel. 01865 274537
Adis Merdzanovic (Discussant)
St Antony’s College, Oxford
Kalypso Nicolaidis (Chair)
St Antony’s College, Oxford
In association with the Centre for International Studies (CIS), Oxford
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
For more information, please contact julie.adams@sant.ox.ac.uk Tel. 01865 274537
Adis Merdzanovic (Discussant)
St Antony’s College, Oxford
Kalypso Nicolaidis (Chair)
St Antony’s College, Oxford
CRIC Public Lecture: Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
h1. Lecture by Professor, the Lord Alderdice FRCPsych
h2. Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
It would be difficult to argue that our world is not characterised by the spread of conflict and complexity. But can a better understanding of complexity theories point to the possibilities for cooperation in our diversity, rather than political violence? John Alderdice will explore this challenge and its practical implications.
Time: 6pm – 7.15pm
Date: Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Venue: Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TD
h2. Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
It would be difficult to argue that our world is not characterised by the spread of conflict and complexity. But can a better understanding of complexity theories point to the possibilities for cooperation in our diversity, rather than political violence? John Alderdice will explore this challenge and its practical implications.
Time: 6pm – 7.15pm
Date: Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Venue: Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TD
CRIC Public Lecture: Online Radicalisation - Myths and Reality
h1. Lecture by Professor Peter Neumann MA PhD
h2. Online Radicalisation - Myths and Reality
Two of the most frightening aspects of the wave of terrorism that has swept across the globe are what appear to be the viral spread of extreme thinking through the internet, and the seemingly rapid appearance of radical attitudes in
young people as a prelude to their terrorist involvement. Peter Neumann will bring his acute mind and unrivalled experience of engagement in this field to help us tease out the myths from the realities of ‘on-line radicalization’.
h2. Online Radicalisation - Myths and Reality
Two of the most frightening aspects of the wave of terrorism that has swept across the globe are what appear to be the viral spread of extreme thinking through the internet, and the seemingly rapid appearance of radical attitudes in
young people as a prelude to their terrorist involvement. Peter Neumann will bring his acute mind and unrivalled experience of engagement in this field to help us tease out the myths from the realities of ‘on-line radicalization’.
Future Agendas in Conflict Research
Where next for conflict research? What issues should scholars of conflict and peace be focusing on, and how should they go about researching them? Two Oxford scholars will discuss the state of the field of peace and conflict studies and new research currently taking place at Oxford. John Gledhill will discuss his forthcoming research that maps the field of peace and conflict studies and identifies ways in which it can be reformed and taken forward.