Luke Botting

I am a DPhil candidate in International Relations (IR) at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. My research - funded by a scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council - explores theories of international order, specifically the English School and political theology, and their ability to explain and resolve normative conflicts in contemporary society of states. Beyond my doctoral research, and based on my experience with the British military, Ministry of Defence and NATO, I have also written on defence and security issues.

Marie-Lou Sohnius

I am a DPhil candidate in Politics working on non-citizen voting rights in the United Kingdom. My doctoral research is jointly funded by the Grand Union DTP (Economic and Social Research Council) and Nuffield College. Before starting my DPhil, I completed my Bachelor's and Master's in Political Science at the University of Mannheim with a specialisation in elections, quantitative methods, and survey research. I was a visiting student at the University of Sheffield, UK, where I focused on economic inequality and voting behaviour. 

LGBT+ History Month: Q&A with Tom Crewe

Join prize-winning author Tom Crewe for a special Q&A in celebration of LGBT+ History Month. The New Life, his first novel, is an historical imagining of LGBT+ rights in 1890s London. It is the winner of both the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. The novel has been or is being translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.

Anthony Calacino

Anthony is a Postdoctoral Researcher at DPIR as a member of the Climate Vulnerability Project, which is led by Professor Federica Genovese. His research focuses on the study of environmental and climate politics, covering topics about public opinion, institutions, and state power. Beyond the Climate Vulnerability Project, Anthony's current research is focused on a book manuscript delving into the politics of the environmental state in the Global South.

John Ikenberry: Does the Liberal International Order have a Future?

Professor G. John Ikenberry, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, is the world's leading scholar of liberal internationalism. Professor Ikenberry has been a Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at Balliol and All Souls. He is the author of eight books, mostly recently A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale 2020).

Hasan Abbasi

I'm part of the Operations and Office Management team, with whom I work to ensure a conducive working environment for members of the DPIR community, and which serves as the primary point of contact at DPIR for enquiries. I also manage the DPIR Visitors Program.

Prior to joining DPIR in January 2024, I worked as an Assistant Operations Manager at Wates. I previously held customer service and customer relationship management positions at the Oxford Brookes University, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Hospitals and A.C Nielsen.

The Rule of Law after the Anthropocene

The value of governing human conduct by law depends upon very general facts about what people are like. Those facts include that people have limited abilities to retain and process information; are prone to bias, favoritism, and arbitrariness; and find it difficult to spontaneously coordinate behavior at scale. Ordering human behavior around rules helps us work around these limitations. Agents who do not share those limitations have less reason to value the rule of law. Advanced AI systems do not share the same epistemic and practical limitations as humans.
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