Constitutional Rules and Patterns of Government Termination: The Case of the UK Fixed-term Parliaments Act
Oxford US-UK Academic Policy Dialogue on Countering Violent Extremism
From Conflict Actors to Architects of Peace: Promoting Human Security in Colombia and Internationally
Reflections on Brexit with Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Former Member of Parliament, Minister for Europe and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind speaks to members of the DPIR about the history that made Brexit a reality.
Aberfan: Government and Disasters
Excellent...thorough and sympathetic...well worth the money spent on it --Headway 2000 (Aberfan's Community Newspaper)
Intelligent and moving --Planet
The full truth about Aberfan --The Guardian
The research is outstanding...the investigation is substantial, balanced and authoritative...this is certainly the definitive book on the subject...Meticulous --John R. Davis, Kingston University ('Contemporary British History' 2002)
Keynote of 'PRIMO 2016 Conference Navigating the Political: The Study and Practice of International Relations in Turbulent Times'
Marc Stears, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation and former advisor to Ed Milliband, speaks to attendees at the 2016 PRIMO Conference in the DPIR.
More Than Ideology, More Than Elections: A strategic approach to supporting sister-parties
Passions and Interests? Emotional Politics and Politicized Emotion in Sino-Japanese Relations
An Independent Assessment of the Procedural Components of the Estonian Internet Voting System
Working Paper No.6 (September 2016)
The I-Voting system that was designed and implemented in Estonia in 2005 is the first Internet voting system to have been adopted anywhere in the world. Since its inception, it has been met with both praise and scrutiny. Concerns include in-person election observations, code reviews, and adversarial testing on system components. As a result of these concerns, some parties have concluded that there are various ways in which insider threats and sophisticated external attacks could compromise the system’s integrity and thus the voting process.