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International Relations Network - Michaelmas term events

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The Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars run weekly during term time. To be added to the mailing list, email: info@ccw.ox.ac.uk

The IR Research Colloquium also runs weekly during term time. To be added to the mailing list, email Harry Nixon at: harry.nixon@politics.ox.ac.uk

Political Theory Network - Michaelmas term events

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The Oxford Political Thought seminar, co-sponsored by the Department of History, meets weekly in Michaelmas and Hilary terms and features presentations from a wide range of speakers across the fields of political theory and the history of political thought. No pre-registration is required. To be added to the mailing list, please contact Dr Sophie Smith.

Politics and Government Network - Michaelmas term events

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Members of the Politics and Government Network organise several events and speaker series.

Two speaker series that are regularly offered are the DPIR Politics Colloquium and the Nuffield Political Science Seminar. Both seminars meet weekly in Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity terms. No pre-registration is required. Papers presented at the DPIR Politics Colloquium are circulated one week in advance of the seminar.

Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO

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Professor Matlary will speak on the new publication edited together with Dr Rob Johnson.

What is military strategy today? In an era when European states seek to de-escalate and avoid armed conflict, and where politicians fear the consequences of protracted operations or tactical hazards, does military strategy have any relevance?

New technology in War

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Dr Schmitt is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He also currently serves as Vice-president and Scientific Director of the French Association for War and Strategic Studies (AEGES).Before joining CWS in 2015, he obtained his PhD from the department of War Studies, King’s College London, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Montreal Center for International Studies (CÉRIUM). He holds MA degrees from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) and Sciences Po Aix.

The Central role of Space Domain Awareness in future military conflicts

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Since the start of the Space Age, the orbital domain has always been used for military purposes; but in recent times there has been an increasing focus on tactical rather than strategic satellite applications. There has been a shift in military emphasis towards systems that provide wider coverage, more timely information, increased data capacity, and lower latency communications. Nevertheless, these novel military capabilities are now being surpassed by commercial mega-constellations, some of which are providing services that were once exclusively military functions.

Strategy in practice: The 2021 Integrated Review

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Ashlee Godwin was a member of the No. 10 Integrated Review Taskforce and a co-author of the 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.

She joined No. 10 on secondment from Parliament, where she is a Senior Specialist in national security and international policy. There, she runs a team of experts working in support of five committees. These include the House of Commons Foreign Affairs, Defence and International Trade Select Committees, in addition to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy.

Dispute Inflation

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Much work has examined the phenomenon of dispute escalation, whereby the concrete measures state actors take edge them closer to war. Less attention has been devoted to the ways in which state actors’ perceptions of what is at stake in a dispute can also change, with important consequences for the likelihood of conflict.

Triple Axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China

Read more about Triple Axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China

Dr Dina Esfandiary is Senior Advisor in the Middle East and North Africa department of the International Crisis Group (ICG). Previously, she was a Fellow in the Middle East department of The Century Foundation (TCF), an International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and an Adjunct Fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Middle East Program.