Book launch: ‘The Constitution in Jeopardy’ by Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville

Join us for a book launch and talk from former US Senator and current President of the American Constitution Society Russ Feingold (1975), and Peter Prindiville, a practising attorney, about their new book on amending the United States Constitution. The talk will be held on Tuesday 15th November at 5pm in the Magdalen College Auditorium: ‘The Constitution in Jeopardy: an Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite our Fundamental Law and What We can Do About It‘

‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia

South Asia’s transition from colonialism to independence in 1947 was undoubtedly one of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Not surprisingly perhaps, its early postcolonial years have come to exercise a great pull for a range of scholars, who explore this key period, on the one hand, to ask questions about colonial-era legacies or continuities, and, on the other, to identify developments that help to explain what is happening there in the twenty-first century.

Rising India's Hidden Transcripts: The Long Shadow of 'Nuclear Apartheid' in the Global Nuclear Order

The condition of rising powers’ simultaneous reproduction of, and resistance to, dominant modes of global leadership in world politics poses a puzzle. Scholarly work both anticipates that the imperatives of socialisation will be central to the ultimate recognition of rising powers as great powers and expects future ‘non-Western’ great powers to enact global leadership distinctively. Yet if rising powers are socialised into a hegemonic great power identity, what remains unique in their visions of greatness after they have secured recognition?

The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?

How has Western social science scholarship of contemporary China (1949‒) evolved over the past 7+ decades? In this special China Centre lecture, Professor David Shambaugh will reflect on the evolution and state of the field throughout the People’s Republic of China. During the 1950s‒1960s, when they could not go to mainland China, Western scholars had to watch China from the periphery or afar.
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