How ISIS Fights: present and future of nonstate combat effectiveness
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"Tell the boys from me, as one of their old fellows, that they must all strive for Emigration, it is the making of thousands”: Boys, Empire and opportunity in the nineteenth-century
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Creating a Concept: ‘Friendship’ in International Relations
This talk will reflect on Dr Berenskötter attempts to form and advance a new (reading of a) concept in the field of International Relations, namely that of ‘friendship’. He will outline his motivations to engage on this journey and discuss the approach he developed, or came to adopt, where and how he found support for this undertaking, as well as the challenges and rewards as he experienced them.
Small-unit leadership on the Eastern Front during the First World War in the mirror of Alexander Watson’s work on the Western Front
Paradoxes of leadership in European foreign policy
Leadership is widely regarded as a critical factor for the European Union’s ability to act cohesively and effectively as global actor. The siren call for leadership is most often heard when Europe is facing one of its perennial crises, but which actor has the ability to shoulder this responsibility and how? Half a century after Henry Kissinger quipped, ‘who do I call, when I want to call Europe?’, there still seems to be no authoritative person or institution who can speak on behalf of Europe. In this talk, I discuss why European leadership is contested in EU foreign policy.
Graduate Student Presentations (TBC)
Book Discussion: Dealing with the Authoritarian Past in Brazil - From Cardoso to Rousseff
We are delighted to welcome you to a discussion of the book Dealing with the Authoritarian Past in Brazil: from Cardoso to Rousseff by Dr Gisele Iecker de Almeida. The book presents a comprehensive account of what has been done to address the dictatorial past by the Brazilian Federal Executive. It explores discourses about the past formulated by the initiatives implemented.
MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
Bio statement:
Jamie Furniss is currently a researcher at the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain in Tunis, on leave from a position as a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford in International Development and has conducted fieldwork in Egypt and Tunisia, primarily on topics pertaining to environment, waste, and urban development.
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Jamie Furniss is currently a researcher at the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain in Tunis, on leave from a position as a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford in International Development and has conducted fieldwork in Egypt and Tunisia, primarily on topics pertaining to environment, waste, and urban development.
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The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States
Responding to service fragmentation: outcomes contracts and collaboration in cross-sector ecosystems of support
This Engaging with Evidence webinar session will investigate the use of outcomes contracting as a potential approach to foster cohesive cross-sector collaborations to improve social outcomes. We'll look at findings from original research carried out by the Government Outcomes Lab, Blavatnik School of Government, as well as other practical examples from the UK, US and low- and middle- income countries.