We are honored to be welcoming two renowned historians, Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan, who will help us uncover the details and significance of this historic event, and what it can tell us about Syrian politics and society.

Dr. Sami Moubayed is an author, historian and former scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center. Dr. Moubayed is a co-founder of the Syrian Studies Center at St Andrews University and founding chairman of the Damascus History Foundation.

This article asks what it takes to belong among the “cosmopolitan elite” in international society.
With a reflexive sociological sensibility, it examines the ways in which diplomats of the Indian
Foreign Service have sought to secure recognition and equal standing in international society by
inhabiting a cosmopolitan habitus. Instead of analysing cosmopolitanism in the conventional
register of political theory as an egalitarian international ethic, the article considers “actually

The 'Global Britain' foreign policy concept puts forward an ambitious strategy that carves out a position on the global stage for the United Kingdom post-Brexit. However, development policy does not appear to play a central role in this strategy, as illustrated by the Government's most recent development budgets.

Many theologians addressing these questions of politics and the common good begin their discussion with St. Augustine’s City of God. This lecture argues that there is a trap in taking this starting point, a trap that Aquinas avoided by combining his reading of Augustine, the Theologian, with a reading of the Philosopher Aristotle. It suggests a reworking of Augustine’s analysis to retain the theological benefit of his ideas for understanding politics today.

This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'Political economy of European climate action', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies Centre.

Speaker: Daniel Hardy (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Chair: Charles Enoch (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Discussants: Fatos Koc (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)), Martin Ellison (Nuffield College, Oxford)

This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online. Registration: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsce2vrTsqGd2q1wNkMHEAuFI3hATtFilF?utm_sq=gqidciocgc

The Covid-19 pandemic has posed the unprecedented challenge of distributing vaccines to the bulk of the world’s population. Excluded from the main deals for vaccine provision and still suffering from underfunded and under-resourced health systems, African countries have been forced into the position of recipients of Great Power health largesse. Despite accusations levelled at China and Russia for using “vaccine diplomacy” as a ploy to enhance their soft power, the US and Europe have so far offered little health support to African countries.