This year we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cyril Foster Lecture. For the past six decades, scholars and practitioners have delivered the Cyril Foster Lecture on the "elimination of war and the better understanding of the nations of the world”.
For this special anniversary we will be hosting a digital roundtable to reflect upon the past 60 years and how our understanding of international relations has advanced during this time. Moreover, we will tackle what are the core challenges to order and cooperation in the international system in the years to come.

Since 1990, China has used coercion for territorial disputes, foreign arms sales to Taiwan, and foreign leaders’ meetings with the Dalai Lama, despite adverse implications for its international image. China is also curiously selective in the timing, target, and tools of coercion: most cases of Chinese coercion are not military coercion, nor does China coerce all states that pose the same threats to its national security. My book manuscript, Calculating Bully – Explaining Chinese Coercion, examines when, why, and how China coerces states when faced with threats to its national security.

The following seminars will take place at 1pm unless otherwise stated. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar.

With much talk of a ‘splinternet’ and the emerging of technology ‘blocs’ of influence, the cyber domain is emerging more strongly as a domain of geopolitical competition. This competition features competing visions of the Internet: one, an American led Western model that is open, and another, a more state-controlled, authoritarian Chinese model. The competition between these and other models has had little structure so far and has seen a complex mix of economic, trade, security, technological and other strategic considerations.