An Independent Assessment of the Procedural Components of the Estonian Internet Voting System

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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.

The known knowns and known unknowns of peacekeeping data

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There has recently been huge expansion in the availability of systematic data on peacekeeping missions. Data capturing the size and composition of peacekeeping operations has improved in depth and breadth, and is now complemented by a collection of disaggregated and geo-coded data. This means that rather than simply measuring the presence or absence of peacekeeping within a conflict or state, data is now available on a range of more specific indicators such as the location and response to specific peacekeeping events (cf. Dorussen and Ruggeri, this issue).

'R2P: “State of Play”'

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Is R2P the most effective tool the international community has to prevent genocide, or the newest neo-imperial norm perpetuated by the most powerful states?  In a dramatic performance of the key debates within R2P, each of these views is presented before Aristotlean and Tocquevillean insights are drawn upon to find a middle ground rooted in citizen resistance against mass atrocity crimes.

'Citizens' Wealth' book launch at the British Academy

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This event took place at the British Academy on 13 September 2016.  You can read more about this event by clicking here: http://citizenswealth.net/upcomingevents/?event_id1=3

Angela Cummine's new book Citizens' Wealth was launched last week, with no less than three talks on the book and its themes in London and Oxford.

Does Inequality Matter? Social Justice and Political Theory

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Daniel Butt, associate Professor in Political Theory, examines the moral significance of inequality within and between modern states, and asks what we might be prepared to do, and not do, in the name of egalitarianism.


This event was part of Meeting Minds: The University of Oxford Alumni Weekend 2016. More information including the weekend event programme can be found here: https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni_home

Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America

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What explains the success of criminal prosecutions against former Latin American officials accused of human rights violations? Why did some judiciaries evolve from unresponsive bureaucracies into protectors of victim rights? Using a theory of judicial action inspired by sociological institutionalism, this book argues that this was the result of deep transformations in the legal preferences of judges and prosecutors.

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