Session 2: How to blog effectively?

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What do we know about audiences, readership and patterns of use of political analysis on-line?

Chair: Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR)

Andrew Sparrow The rise of the Guardian Politics Blog, (Editor, Guardian Politics Blog)

Chris Prosser Uses of analytics data (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) [Download presentation]

Session 1: Why blog?

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Exploring the phenomena of blogging – motivations and consequences – with UK academic blogs producers

Chair: Katharine Brooks (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR)            

Presentations and first Round Table

Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR)

Is the EU Doomed

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A book Discussion on Professor Jan Zielonka's new book Is the EU Doomed? (Publication date April 2014) took place on 11 February 2014, with discussants Edward Lucas (The Economist), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antonys College, Oxford), and Andreas Gross (Swiss MP and Head of Socialist Group, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe). The discussion was chaired by Othon Anastasakis (St Antonys College, Oxford).


The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future.

Book Launch The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

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On 31 January 2014, St. Antonys College hosted a book launch for its Warden Professor Margaret MacMillan's new release 'The War That Ended The Peace: The Road to 1914'. Discussants were Paul Betts (St Antonys College, Oxford), Robert Service (St Antonys College, Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antonys College, Oxford), and Adam Roberts (Balliol College, Oxford) and the event was chaired by Othon Anastasakis (St Antonys College, Oxford).

The Global Liberal Order and its Future

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On 24 January 2014, the Centre for International Studies hosted a workshop on The Global Liberal Order and its Future with Professor John Ikenberry (Princeton University and George Eastman Professor, Oxford University, 2013-2014 and Fellow of Balliol College) and Professor Andrew Hurrell (DPIR and Balliol College).

Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes, and Protest in the Great Recession

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The impact of the Great Depression on politics in the 1930s was both transformative and shocking. The role of government in America was forever transformed, and across Europe socialist, communist, and fascist parties saw their support skyrocket. Most famously, the National Socialists seized power in Germany in 1933, setting off a chain of events that led to the greatest conflagration in world history.

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