Tanzania: Shrinking Space and Opposition Protest
The Tanzanian general election of October 2015 seemed to mark a moment of great democratic promise. In a state that has been an enduring bastion of single-party dominance in sub-Saharan Africa, opposition parties formed a pre-electoral coalition that held until election day. They were joined by a string of high-profile defectors from the ruling CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or the Party of the Revolution) and selected the most prominent of these defectors, Edward Lowassa, as the opposition presidential candidate.
MaBaTha
"What is MaBaTha? The group, best known by its Burmese language acronym, but also called the Organisation for the Protection of Race and Religion, has become virtually synonymous with Buddhist nationalism and anti-Muslim discrimination and violence in Myanmar, especially since 2012. U Wirathu, MaBaTha’s most prominent member, is infamous for his extremist, racist and sexist remarks, and recently received a one year teaching ban from Myanmar’s Buddhist authorities.
Land and hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: challenges and new investments
A Century of Fiscal Squeeze Politics: 100 Years of Austerity, Politics, and Bureaucracy in Britain
Since 2010, the UK has already experienced one of the longest periods of public spending restraint over the last century. However, year-to-year cuts in public spending were notably less deep than after both World Wars and the ‘Geddes Axe’ cuts of the 1920s.
When elections are free but not effective: Party systems and corruption
From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be made more fair and credible by adopting a human rights approach to elections.
Podcast: How should we approach the paradox of violence in pursuit of peace and equality?
Nick Hewlett from the University of Warwick speaks at this Trinity Term's final Ideas and Political Violence Seminar.
Professor Hewlett looks at the question of how we should approach the paradox of violence in pursuit of peace and equality. His discussion focuses on non-violence and equality as imperative goals, peace and violence in modernity and late modernity, and the ways in which this paradox has been considered by thinkers such as Karl Marx, among others.
Podcast: Reconciling Narratives of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary Myanmar
Matthew Walton, Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony’s College, speaks at the Ideas and Political Violence Seminar.
His talk centres on the Myanmar Media and Society Project, which is a collaboration between the Programme on Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony's College and the Myanmar IT for Development Organization. The project focuses on finding ways to better understand the production of violence in Myanmar and to use this understanding to support local groups working for peace.
Podcast: Political Liberalism, Revisited: The Upsurge in Populism and How to Cope with It
Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, gives the keynote address at the 2017 Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference.
Brexit Britain and the World: Prof. Ravi Kanbur (Cornell)
Prof. Ravi Kanbur (Cornell) engages with the question of how Brexit will impact developing countries, focusing in particular on the EU aid budget, intergovernment organisation influence, exchange rates and tourism.
Academics, journalists and researchers gathered at St Antony's College in May 2017 to discuss the impact of Brexit within the UK and beyond from a variety of geographic perspectives.