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department newswire Michaelmas Term
DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 1
Head of Department’s welcome 2
People 3
Project Announcement 5
Oxford Spring School 6
Blog Relaunch : OxPol 7
Profile - Teresa Bejan 9
Profile - Katarina Buehling 10
Profile - Pauline Zanetto 11
Re-Imagining the Global Nuclear Order 12
Oxford Alumni Travellers 13
Research Bulletin Board 15
Recent Publications 21
Noticeboard 22
DPIR Publicity 24
Contents
Image: Eric Haney
Image: Keiko Ikeuchi
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 2
Head of Department’s welcome
Dear Colleagues
Welcome back! I hope you had
an enjoyable, refreshing and
productive summer and are now
feeling ready for the start of a new
academic year.
I would like to take this opportunity
to wish a very warm welcome
to those who are joining us for
the new year – both our new
academic staff, who will I’m sure
bring new perspectives and energy
to our research community, and
administrative staff who will
further bolster the excellent
support of that research.
With the new academic year comes
a new look for the department’s
blog, which is being relaunched
as OxPol: The Oxford University
Politics Blog. We felt the time was
right to bring our new website
together with our blog, aligning
our online publishing activity with
our departmental research outputs,
engagement and news offerings.
The blog goes live this week, and
features an attractive magazine
format – for more details please
see page 7. We hope that you will
continue to use the blog to publicise
your research and comment on
current issues. Submissions can be
emailed to blog.editorial@politics.
ox.ac.uk.
We are also relaunching the Oxford
Spring School in Advanced Research
Methods. Elias Dinas, Ezequiel
Gonzáles and Andrea Ruggeri have
been appointed as directors, and
the course will take place in April.
This is an exciting development,
offering the opportunity for
the department to showcase its
expertise. You can read more about
the programme on page 6.
I hope that you enjoy reading this
Newswire, and wish you all the best
for the year to come.
“I hope you had an enjoyable, refreshIng and produCtIve summer and are now feelIng ready for the start of a new aCademIC year.”
Welcoming our new graduate students (Photo by Aoife Dudley)
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Peoplethe department would lIke to welCome the followIng new staff:
• Teresa Bejan (Associate Professor of Political
Theory)
• Janette Chow (Research Fellow)
• Alessio Cornia (Research Fellow)
• Rogier Creemers (Departmental Lecturer in the
Politics and History of China)
• Aoife Dudley (MPhil/MSc Coordinator)
• Rebecca Edwards (Project Administrator - Digital
News Media)
• Sarah Ganter (Research Fellow)
• Robin Harding (Associate Professor of Government
- Quantitative Methods)
• Félix Krawatzek (BA Postdoctoral Fellow in Political
Theory)
• Jonathan Leader Maynard (Career Development
Fellow and Department Lecturer in International
Relations)
• Hannah Marsh (RISJ Marketing and
Communications Officer)
• Carlotta Minella (Departmental Lecturer in
International Relations)
• Harpreet Paul (RISJ Events and Fellowship Officer)
• Annika Sehl (RISJ Research Fellow)
• Shaina Western (Departmental Lecturer in
International Relations)
• Pauline Zanetto (Personnel Assistant)
we wIsh the followIng leavers well:
• Tara Bailey
• Dina Bishara
• JanaLee Cherneski
• Janina Dill
• Genevieve Garrido
• Issar Sukriti
• Yuen Foong Khong
• Jody LaPorte
• Nicola Leveringhaus
• Tristen Naylor
• Julie Page
• Margaret Prewitt
• Camilla Prince
• Monique Ricketts
• Armando Roman Zozaya
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 4
PeopleContInued...
new arrIval!
Congratulations to Zosia
Stemplowska and Ben Jackson on
the birth of Hania Stemplowska
Jackson, who was born on 2
September!
the department would lIke to welCome the followIng new vIsItors:
• Dr Sergio Aguilar – The State University of Sao
Paulo (Visiting Research Fellow (VRF))
• Dr Francesca Artioli – Sciences PO (VRF)
• Mr Tomohito Baji – The University of Cambridge
(VRF)
• Professor Henrikas Bartusevicius – Aarhus
University (VRF)
• Dr Adam Leong – The National Defence University
of Malaysia (VRF)
• Dr Marta Regalia – The University of Bologna
(VRF)
• Mr Darian Heim – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(Visiting Doctoral Student (VDS))
• Mr Roman Liesch – The University of St. Gallen
(VDS)
• Mr Tom O’Grady – Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (VDS)
• Mr Eduardo Rios – Sciences PO (VDS)
• Mr Wang Zhongyuan – Leiden University (VDS)
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 5
Project Announcementgoogle and reuters InstItute agree grant for major expansIon of dIgItal news report’s Coverage of europe
Further to the announcement by
Google in April of their Digital News
Initiative and the increased support
that would involve for the Reuters
Institute Digital News Report,
Oxford University and Google have
now agreed the details of the new
grant.
Google’s increased funding over
the next three years will allow the
Reuters Institute for the Study of
Journalism (RISJ) to extend the
report’s coverage of Europe to 20
countries in 2016 with the aim of
moving to 30 in 2017/18. The
new countries to be included in
the main report from 2016 are
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic,
Greece, Hungary, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden,
Switzerland and Turkey. These
will be added to the 12 countries
already covered in the main 2015
report; UK, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Italy, Ireland,
Spain, together with Australia,
Brazil, Japan and the US.
RISJ Director Dr David Levy said:
“The annual Reuters Institute
Digital News Report has become
an indispensable resource to better
understanding trends in news
consumption internationally. It is a
key element in the RISJ’s mission
to produce rigorous independent
research of relevance to some of
the most pressing issues facing
journalism and our 2015 report
received more attention than ever
before.
“We are delighted that Google’s
increased funding for the 2016-
18 reports will enable us to vastly
expand the coverage and depth
of the Digital News Report within
Europe and produce a range of
accompanying publications.
“At a time of unprecedented
change, Google’s support for this
expansion within Europe, along with
those of our many other partners
and sponsors on the report, will
allow us to develop the definitive
study tracking the transition to
digital news, greatly increasing the
accessibility of the data and results
and creating an invaluable resource
for industry leaders, journalists, and
researchers”.
The Reuters Institute Digital News
Report is based on the largest
international comparative survey
of the major trends in digital
news consumption. This unique
independent academic report
has been supported by a wide
range of academic and industry
partners, since its creation in 2012.
From 2016 onwards the Reuters
Institute will continue to work with
a very wide range of sponsors and
partners within Europe and beyond.
The sponsors of the 2015 report
were; the BBC, Ofcom, The
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
http://www.digitalnewsinitiative.com/http://www.digitalnewsinitiative.com/
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 6
Project AnnouncementContInued...
(BIA), France Télévisions, L’Espresso
group in Italy, the Media Industry
Research Foundation of Finland,
Edelman UK, Roskilde University,
the Hans Bredow Institute, the
University of Navarra, the Tow
Center at Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Journalism and
the University of Canberra as well
as Google, who have been a funder
since 2013.
The financial value of Google’s
Agreement with Oxford University
is c. £5m for the grant period of
August 2015- December 2018.
Oxford Spring Schoolmethods traInIng for students from aCross the uk
Following the appointment of
three new directors, the Oxford
Spring School in Advanced Research
Methods re-opens its doors to
students in April 2016, offering
the opportunity to learn cutting
edge methods for social scientists.
The School plans to attract
students from across the UK and
beyond, with a variety of advanced
courses which place the different
data analysis techniques within
broader disciplinary trends towards
mixed-methods research designs.
The course has been designed
to appeal to researchers using
both quantitative and qualitative
methodology.
The five day course will offer a
variety of options, including a
choice between sets of increasingly
popular and influential methods/
techniques in the discipline:
“Computerised Text Analysis” and
“Causal Inference.” The other
courses will be “Process Tracing,”
“Survey Design,” “Spatial Data
Analysis” and “Data Visualization.”
Participants will be able to take
a total of up to three different
methods courses in one week, as
well as two masterclass sessions
on how to design and implement a
research project and how to publish
your research in social sciences
journals. “Tutors will emphasise
the mixed-methods philosophy
underlying these courses, and the
use of these techniques in different
types of research designs,” Spring
School Directors say, “This is an
exciting opportunity for Oxford
to showcase its expertise in
the training of quantitative and
qualitative research methods,
and we welcome applications
from a wide field of researchers
in social sciences, especially in
Political Science and International
Relations.”
The Spring School’s website
will launch in November In the
meantime, please direct any queries
Please encourage your doctoral
students to apply.
Elias Dinas, Ezequiel González
Ocantos and Andrea Ruggeri
Oxford Spring School Directors
mailto:springschool%40politics.ox.ac.uk?subject=
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Blog Relaunch‘polItICs In spIres’ has beCome ‘oxpol: the oxford unIversIty polItICs blog’
The DPIR will soon be re-launching
our blog as OxPol: The Oxford
University Politics Blog. The new
blog will take the place of Politics
in Spires (all existing content
will be continue to be available
at OxPol). The blog was a great
success, with material often posted
elsewhere and our authors quoted
in The Guardian, New Statesman,
Spectator, BBC and the Financial
Times.
After DPIR’s five-year collaboration
with POLIS, Cambridge, the blog
has a built a loyal readership
and strong track record. The
relaunched OxPol blogsite will
provide the department with an
important and growing online
platform. As such, it will offer
you the opportunity to contribute
topical posts, opinion pieces, book
reviews and to curate special
themed series. We are planning a
more attractive magazine style
format, with more content on the
front page including simple access
to videos, podcasts and other forms
of departmental research outputs.
“we belIeve that aCademIa must extend the reaCh of Its output... In order to demonstrate Its relevanCe to the understandIng of polItICs and what It Is for.”
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 8
about oxpol
The Oxford University Politics Blog
aims to promote academic research
and commentary to readers in and
outside the university. We believe
that academia must extend the
reach of its output, in clear prose, in
order to demonstrate its relevance
to the understanding of politics
and what it is for. Along with
opinion, research and audio/video,
we also host a number of special
series dedicated to a particular
topic in political science. OxPol
promotes the work of department
academics and graduate students,
as well as providing a platform for
commentary on current affairs.
We encourage posts on a range of
topics in the world of politics, as
long as they contribute academic
analysis to understanding political
questions.
ContrIbute to oxpol
The OxPol blog will
be your platform, and new
contributors are most welcome.
Please let us or the blog editorial
team know at blog.editorial@
politics.ox.ac.uk whenever
you publish an article or book,
contribute evidence or comment in
the media; if you post on other blog
platforms, let the team know and
we can often cross-post. We also
welcome ideas about new content
or format. Please visit http://blog.
politics.ox.ac.uk to learn more.
new speCIal serIes on the eu referendum: brexIt
Starting next week, OxPol will
be hosting a new special series
on the UK referendum on EU
membership. The referendum
raises many important questions
for the United Kingdom. Will Prime
Minister David Cameron be able
to negotiate a “New Deal” for his
country? How will his diplomacy
affect Britain’s relationship with its
European partners? Is a referendum
of this kind democratic? And, what
would a British exit from the EU—a
“Brexit”—look like? We welcome
submissions from academic staff
and students in the DPIR. Please
visit www.blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/
submit to learn more.
Niels Goet and Blake Ewing - Blog
editors
Blog RelaunchContInued...
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://blog.politics.ox.ac.ukhttp://blog.politics.ox.ac.ukhttp://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/submithttp://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/submit
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 9
Profile - Teresa BejanI joined DPIR in September and
am hugely excited to be part
of its vibrant community of
political theorists and a Fellow of
Oriel College. Before coming to
Oxford, I taught as an Assistant
Professor of Political Science at the
University of Toronto. I received
my Ph.D. in Political Theory with
distinction from Yale in 2013
and spent the following year as a
Fellow in the Society of Fellows
in the Humanities at Columbia
University. Additionally, I hold
an MPhil in Political Thought and
Intellectual History from Cambridge
and a BA in Fundamentals: Issues
and Texts from the University of
Chicago.
My research brings historical
perspectives from early modern
English and American political
thought to bear on questions in
contemporary political theory. I
recently completed a book
manuscript for Harvard University
Press based on my doctoral
dissertation. Entitled Mere Civility:
Tolerating Disagreement in Early
Modern England and America, the
book examines modern calls for
civility in light of seventeenth-
century debates about religious
toleration. Indeed, many of the
pressing problems facing modern
liberal democracies—such as
what the proper scope of religious
liberty should be, or how to handle
partisanship and hate speech—
closely recall early modern concerns
about the limits of toleration and
the dangers of sectarianism and
so-called “persecution of the
tongue.” The book traces the
competing conceptions of civility
and toleration developed by early
modern writers like Hobbes, Locke,
and Roger Williams and argues that
these were not superficial calls for
politeness, but rather sophisticated
efforts to think through what
coexistence between people
divided in their most fundamental
commitments requires.
My work has been published
in The Journal of Politics, History
of European Ideas, and the Oxford
Review of Education, and I have
articles forthcoming on Locke
and Hobbes in History of Political
Thought and the Review of
Politics, respectively. In Hilary
term, I will be on leave from
Oxford as the Balzan-Skinner
Fellow in Modern Intellectual
History at Cambridge. While
there, I will give a public lecture
related to my new book project on
theories and practices of equality
in 17th-century English political
thought. Called “Acknowledging
Equality,” the lecture will focus on
the determination of early Quakers
to put the Biblical declaration that
“God is no respecter of persons”
into practice by deploying a
strategic—and highly disruptive—
politics of contempt against the
spiritual, social, and political
hierarchies of their day.
assoCIate professor or polItICal theory
“[m]any of the pressIng problems faCIng modern lIberal demoCraCIes... Closely reCall early modern ConCerns about the lImIts of toleratIon and the dangers of seCtarIanIsm and so-Called “perseCutIon of the tongue.””
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 10
Profile - Katarina Buehlingpersonnel offICer
With two years spent at DPIR I
am no longer a novice, yet my
role as Personnel Officer throws
new challenges at me on a daily
basis. This along with the vibrant
multicultural setting, creates such
exciting working atmosphere (not
to mention the departmental coffee
facilities and Friday cake rotas,
which I have had to regrettably skip
all too often).
At work I am responsible for the
operational side of recruitment,
inductions, employment life cycle
and, together with my new team
colleague, Pauline Zanetto, we are
looking forward to answering your
queries, or pointing you in the right
direction.
I would never have imagined that I
would be working and conducting
postgraduate research at Oxford.
Though I happen to have completed
a BA degree in HR and Political
Sciences in a post-communist
Poland, I undertook the latter
studies to rediscover the world’s
history (which I wasn’t meant to
learn as a child in Eastern Europe)
rather than as an academic career.
Whilst my country was becoming
awash with fast-food places and
commodities, I materialised my
persistent intercultural curiosity,
vintage nostalgia and a growing
interest in the HR profession by
moving to Germany, close to the
remains of the Berlin Wall, and
getting my first professional job
in HR administration at a very
conservative bank. More recently,
my journey brought me to Oxford
via Cambridge, taking up a Masters
in HR Management at Brookes.
Having finally bound my thesis
about women in Political Sciences
academia in the proud Oxford
blue only few days ago, I am now
recharging my batteries, so that I
can continue to contribute to the
professional and academic journeys
of others - including those who
may still consider that they are not
yet ready for Oxford.
“though I happen to have Completed a ba degree In hr and polItICal sCIenCes In a post-CommunIst poland, I undertook the latter studIes to redIsCover the world’s hIstory (whICh I wasn’t meant to learn as a ChIld In eastern europe)rather than as an aCademIC Career”
Image Credit: Tejvan Pettinger (www.oxfordlight.co.uk)
www.oxfordlight.co.uk
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Profile - Pauline Zanettopersonnel assIstant
I am thrilled to be joining Oxford
University, and becoming part of
this stimulating and energising
environment. Having grown up in
France and lived in Hong Kong for
three years I feel very much at
home in international, cosmopolitan
places and Oxford certainly seems
to tick that box!
I recently joined the department
at the beginning of September as
a Personnel Assistant. I graduated
two years ago from Oxford
Brookes University with a Business
Management and Psychology
degree, and then took a years’
internship in the Human Resources
(HR) Directorate at Oxford Brookes
University, where I got the chance
to explore key aspects of HR,
such as recruitment, training &
development, and marketing.
Outside of university life, I have
worked as a Workshop Facilitator
& Cultural Ambassador for a social
project in Uruguay and supervised
many youth summer camps in
France. I have also done a lot of
volunteering work here in the UK
and abroad in the Philippines and
Hong Kong.
My current role covers recruitment
administration as well as broader
personnel administration. The
personnel team is always happy
to help with any personnel related
queries, so please do not hesitate to
contact me when needed.
“havIng grown up In franCe and lIved In hong kong for three years I feel very muCh at home In InternatIonal, CosmopolItan plaCes and oxford CertaInly seems to tICk that box!”
Image: Eric Haney
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Re-Imagining the Global Nuclear Order event report
For most of the post-Cold War
period questions of nuclear order
and nuclear governance were the
preserve of a community of nuclear
specialists and focused on a series
of discrete policy challenges such
as the dangers posed by individual
‘rogue states’; questions of nuclear
security; and the risks of non-state
actors acquiring nuclear materials.
Yet such an approach is more and
more inadequate given the return
of geopolitics, the increasingly
important role of nuclear weapons
within the international relations
of major regions of the world, and
the degree to which many of the
analytical and policy techniques
of recent years have all too
clearly reflected a particular set
of historical circumstances and
nationally-bound ways of thinking.
The Department of Politics and
International Relations joined
with Stanford University and the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences to debate these questions
and to open up a new agenda for
re-thinking the global nuclear
order. The conference took place in
Nuffield College from 21st to 22nd
September. It was organised by
Andrew Hurrell from Oxford, David
Holloway from Stanford, and Scott
Sagan and Francesca Giovannini
from the American Academy, which
sponsored the meeting.
The conference was opened by
Dr Jonathan Fanton, the President
of the American Academy and
brought together an extraordinarily
impressive range of figures from
the academic and policy worlds,
including Lawrence Freedman, Kanti
Bajpai, Jeff Legro, Leopoldo Nutti,
William Walker, Gabrielle Hecht,
Vinod Kumar, Jonathan Hunt, Avner
Cohen, Steven Miller, Ambassador
Alexander Kmentt, Matias Spektor,
Frank Gavin, Emma Belcher, Malfrid
Braut-Hegghammer, Benoit
Pelopidas, Jeffrey Knopf, Nicola
Leveringhaus, Kate Sullivan, Patricia
Lewis, Itty Abraham, Alexander
Savelyev, Etel Solingen and William
Potter.
The core goal was certainly
achieved, namely to bring together
historians, international theorists
and nuclear specialists from
western and non-western countries
to examine the changing interaction
between the international system
and the global nuclear order.
Speakers examined the various
ideas, institutions, norms and
practices that comprise the global
nuclear order and identified the
changing historical conditions
within the international system
that either prevented or facilitated
their realisation. The meeting took
stock of recent research in nuclear
history but sought to explore what
lessons this work has for current
policy dilemmas. Over three days
of intense debate, conference
participants sought to lay out
how we might understand better
the kinds of major state political
bargains and practices of social
legitimacy that will be needed to
sustain the dense and complex, but
highly fragile, set of governance
arrangements that comprise the
global nuclear order.
Professor Andrew Hurrell
All images by Eric Haney
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Oxford Alumni Travellers have you ConsIdered ImpartIng your expertIse to a group of oxonIans on an aCademIC tour?
Over the 15 years that the Oxford
Alumni Travellers’ programme
has been running, Oxford
academics have led alumni groups
to a wide range of captivating
destinations around the planet.
The University Alumni Office runs
these educational, small-group
trips with itineraries designed
especially for alumni. Every journey
is accompanied by an expert trip
scholar, whose role is to share their
academic knowledge relating to the
theme and the destination.
Offering a chance for alumni to
revisit the intellectual life that
they experienced during their
time studying at Oxford, the
journeys are a unique opportunity
for Oxonians. The role of the trip
scholar is to feed the intellectual
curiosity of travellers.
“The energy and enthusiasm of
the participants in last year’s trip
to Egypt were inspiring. Several
had lived for prolonged periods in
different parts of Africa, Asia, and
Europe, and so possessed a wealth
of experience of different cultures
and ways of life. In my view, their
insights and observations greatly
enhanced our appreciation and
understanding of what we saw,”
commented Professor Mark
Smith, Lady Wallis Budge Fellow at
University College.
Groups are small, typically around
20 participants, and it is usually a
convivial and interesting group of
people with which to travel. Trip
scholars enjoy the opportunity
to discuss their current research
with a group of interested alumni,
who enjoy hearing about the latest
developments at Oxford.
Alumni tour to Washington DC, 2 – 7 2016
“the requIrements for a trIp sCholar are relatIvely sImple: a CongenIal personalIty and the abIlIty to gIve talks to a well-eduCated lay audIenCe”
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Compared with many packaged
tours, Oxford Alumni Travellers
journeys offer exceptional value for
alumni. In addition to high-quality
accommodation, trip prices include
best-available transportation,
group transfers, and most meals.
Most notably, the programmes
provide world-class academic
components, behind-the-scenes
visits, and private access to sites
which are normally off-limits to the
public. In the words of Dr Peter
Collins, Senior Research Fellow at
St Edmund Hall, and a trip scholar
for several successful trips, “the
aim is not gourmet luxury but great
delight.”
The requirements for a trip scholar
are relatively simple: a congenial
personality and the ability to
give talks to a well-educated lay
audience, either lecture-style with
slides or during a field experience
or site tour.
Trip scholars are invited to travel
free of charge and for some trips,
scholars can bring a partner, friend
or family member. Some academics
like to add their own research (or
holiday) onto the beginning or end
of the group trip.
New trip scholars are currently
being recruited and Denise Gogarty,
who runs the Oxford Alumni Travel
Programme, is always keen to
hear from Oxford academics who
have ideas for new educational
programmes. Bespoke itineraries
can be designed to include areas of
particular interest to a trip scholar,
and alumni particularly enjoy when
scholars can enhance trips to
include private visits and behind-
the-scenes tours.
The 2016 programme covers
a wide range of destinations,
including an alumni tour to
Washington DC , preceding the
Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend
in North America. Other journeys
include the Mysteries of Persia,
Britain’s Secret War, The Russian
North, and Walks in South China.
Themes include international
relations and politics, history,
archaeology and natural history.
For more information on becoming
a trip scholar, please contact:
Denise Gogarty
Alumni Travel and Learning
Manager
For details on the travel
programme, visit
www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travel
Oxford Alumni Travellers ContInued...
travellIng abroad? - ConneCt wIth oxford’s global alumnI
If you are travelling abroad as part of your work, please consider contacting one of Oxford’s global network
of alumni groups - they are always keen to hear from Oxford academics, and you will be assured of a warm
welcome and an engaged audience.
Our groups act as regional ambassadors and trusted advocates, support current and prospective students
and keep Oxonians connected with the University wherever they may reside. A full list of our alumni groups
together with their contact details can be found in the Groups section of the Alumni website:
www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni-groups
The alumni office are particularly keen to recruit speakers for alumni groups in the Netherlands or the United
Arab Emirates, both of which have very active groups. For more information about Oxford’s alumni groups,
contact [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travelwww.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni-groupsmailto:jackie.hruby%40alumni.ox.ac.uk?subject=
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 15
Research Bulletin Board
• Reuters Institute and World Press Photo announce first annual survey on photojournalism
• Call for applications for new Google Digital News Journalist Fellowship
• The Reuters Institute at the Paris Climate Change Summit
The Reuters Institute welcomes the following new
visitors:
• Dr Christine Finn – Freelance Journalist (Visiting
Research Fellow)
• Professor Suzanne Franks – City University (VRF)
• Mr Charles Lewis – The American University
School of Communication Investigative Reporting
Workshop (VRF)
• Dr Bruno Patino – School of Journalism, Sciences
PO (VRF)
updates from the dpIr researCh Centres, networks and programmes
hIstory of polItICal thought researCh network
Coordinator: David Leopold
History of Political Thought Research Network website
reuters InstItute for the study of journalIsm (rIsj)
Director: David Levy
Director of Research: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
RISJ Website
oxford polItICal theory network
Coordinators: Elizabeth Frazer; Zofia Stemplowska (currently on maternity leave)
Research Network in Political Theory website
researCh network In polItICs and government
Coordinator: David Rueda
Research Network in Politics and Government website
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/political-thought-network.htmlhttps://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/political-theory-network.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/politics-and-government/research-network-in-politics-and-government-people.html%3Fcenid%3D381
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 16
Research Bulletin BoardContInued...
• Appointment of Florian Egloff and Max Smeets as Cyber Studies Programme Research Affiliates. Florian is a Clarendon Scholar and a DPhil Candidate in Cyber Security at the Centre for
Doctoral Training in Cyber Security and at DPIR;
Max is a DPhil Candidate in International Relations
at DPIR. The appointments recognise their support
and contributions to the Programme’s research
activities.
• Launching of a Public Data Repository. The Programme has launched a public data repository
in collaboration with the Oxford University
Research Archive (ORA) of the Bodleian Libraries.
At present, the repository consists of an initial set
of qualitative data pertaining to cybersecurity and
e-government practices in Estonia. The files are
official public domain government documents.
More data categories and data will be added in
future.
• Cyber Lunch Seminars. The kick-off event of this seminar series is scheduled for Wednesday
21 October 2015, 12:30-13:45, in Seminar
Room E, Manor Road Building. Our speaker is Mr
Andres Kütt, the Chief Architect of the Estonian
Information System Authority. Andres will discuss
the principles and functions of Estonia’s pioneering
state information system. Lunch will be provided.
Registration details will be available on the
Programme’s website.
• Conferences. On 16 September 2015, the Programme Director Dr Lucas Kello participated
in a panel discussion on international cyber issues
with Professor Thomas Rid at the Royal United
Services Institute for Security and Defence
Studies. Also, on 18 September, Dr Kello chaired a
panel discussion titled “Data Breach: The Struggle
for Supremacy in the Cyber Domain” at Christ
Church, Oxford. The event was sponsored by
Oxford Analytica Ltd and included former director
of GCHQ Sir David Omand.
• Oxford Training Sessions on the Modern Information Society. On 4-6 September 2015, the Cyber Studies Programme conducted
a three-day training session for over 500
university students as well as public and private
sector practitioners at the Tallinn University of
Technology in Tallinn, Estonia. The event was
funded by the European Social Fund and the
Estonian Government. The theme of the course
was “Government, Security, and Conflict in the
Cyber Age.”
The Cyber Studies Programme welcomes the following
new visitor:
• Mr Dedy Permadi – The National University of
Singapore (Visiting Doctoral Student)
Image CredIt: eugenIu luChIanIuC
Cyber studIes programme
Director: Lucas Kello
Cyber Studies Programme Website
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:63df1b76-83c7-451c-9b19-078905d86af5http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:63df1b76-83c7-451c-9b19-078905d86af5http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/cyber-studies-programme.html
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Research Bulletin BoardContInued...
Recent Events:
• Fixed-Term Parliaments Act Conference. Professor John Curtice (Strathclyde) delivered
the keynote address at this conference titled ‘The
Fixed-Term Parliaments Act: Quiet Revolution
or Mere Technical Detail?’ Participants included
Andrew Blick (King’s College London); Philip
Cowley (Nottingham), Oonagh Gay (House of
Commons Library), Roger Mortimore (Ipsos
MORI), Lord Norton of Louth and Lord Wallace
of Tankerness. The podcast from this event is
available online.
• ‘Broken Constitutions’ Workshop. Keynote address by Professor Sanford Levinson (University
of Texas at Austin). This conference strategic
partnership between Sciences Po and Oxford’s
DPIR through the OXPO research network. There
will be five more workshops over a period of three
years, including one hosted by the University of
Texas at Austin.
• Joint Event with the Law Faculty. Stephen Sachs, Duke University Law School, delivered a paper
titled ‘Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change’ at
an event jointly sponsored by the Constitutional
Studies Programme and the law faculty’s
Jurisprudence Discussion Group and Public Law
Discussion Group.
• Lunchtime Seminar Series. Papers were given by Mikolaj Barczentewicz (Faculty of Law); Sukriti
Issar (DPIR); Cristina Parau (Socio-Legal Studies);
Valentin Jeutner (Faculty of Law); Veronika Fikfak
(Law, Cambridge University); Hayley Hooper (Law,
Cambridge University); Farah Ahmed (Melbourne
Law School); and Adam Perry (Law, Queen Mary
University London).
CSSJ welcomes the following new visitors:
• Dr Adina Preda – The University of Limerick (Visiting Research Fellow)
• Ms Li Liu – Tsinghua University (Visiting Doctoral Student)
ConstItutIonal studIes programme
Director: Scot Peterson
Constitutional Studies Programme website
Centre for the study of soCIal justICe (Cssj)
Director: Daniel Butt
Centre for the Study of Social Justice website
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/departmental/the-fixed-term-parliaments-act-quiet-revolution-or-mere-technical-detail.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/departmental/the-fixed-term-parliaments-act-quiet-revolution-or-mere-technical-detail.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/constitutional-studies-unit.htmlhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/centre-for-the-study-of-social-justice.html
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• On 15 and 16 July 2015, ELAC hosted the
‘Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and
Armed Conflict’. For the third time, it brought
together senior government officials, senior
military with leading and emerging academics from
the UK, continental Europe, North America and
Israel in order to discuss International Law in armed
Conflict. It was organised in partnership with the
Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for
Future Generations Programme; the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); the Robert
S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law
at the University of Texas; and the South Texas
College of Law, Houston.
• The ELAC Sixth Annual Workshop was hosted by
the Stockholm Center for the Ethics of War and
Peace on 28 and 29 August 2015. This year’s
workshop focused on ‘Legitimate Authority and
Political Violence’. This annual workshop brings
together the best scholars working on the ethics
of war from philosophical, legal, political and
practitioner backgrounds.
ELAC welcomes the following new visitors:
• Dr Joanna Harrington – The University of Alberta
(Visiting Research Fellow)
• Dr Matt Sleat – The University of Sheffield (VRF)
• Professor Siobhan Wills – Ulster University (VRF)
A report on the recent CIS event “Re-Imagining the Global Nuclear Order” is on page 12 of this Newswire.
The Centre for International Studies welcomes the following new visitors:
• Mr Phyo Wai – The Global New Light of Myanmar Daily (Visiting Research Fellow)
• Mr Martin Duchac – The University of Trento (Visiting Doctoral Student)
Centre for InternatIonal studIes (CIs)
Acting Director: Professor Andrew Hurrell
Centre for International Studies website
oxford InstItute for ethICs, law and armed ConflICt (elaC)
Director for 2015-16: Cécile Fabre
Co-Directors: Professor Jennifer Welsh, Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law)
Dr David Rodin
ELAC webpage
http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/events/http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/events/http://stockholmcentre.org/event/elac-conference-2015-legitimate-authority-and-political-violence/http://stockholmcentre.org/event/elac-conference-2015-legitimate-authority-and-political-violence/http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 19
OxPo welcomes the following visitors to Oxford:
• Imola Streho (Sciences Po CEE/
Law): www.cee.sciences-po.
fr/en/le-centre/associate-
researchers/490-imola-streho.html
Imola Streho will be the OxPo
Sciences Po Fellow in Nuffield College during the
Michaelmas Term. Imola is currently working on a
book on the European Court of justice (co-written
in French with a colleague), the title of which can
translate into ‘The European Court of Justice: Inside
Out’.
Imola Streho holds a PhD in Law from the
University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas) and LLM
from the College of Europe. She is Associate
Professor at the Law school and Associate Scholar
at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po,
Paris, where she has been the Programme Director
of the Master in European Affairs since 2008.
• Francesca Artioli (Sciences Po, CEE): www.cee.
sciences-po.fr/fr/le-centre/doctorantes/248-
francesca-artioli.html
Francesca Artioli will be the OxPo
Sciences Po Post-doctoral Fellow
during the 2015-16 academic
year, and she has an office in DPIR
for the duration of her stay (Room
183). She can be contacted on francesca.artioli@
sciencespo.fr.
Francesca Artioli holds a PhD in political science
from Sciences Po Paris/CEE (December 2014)
and she has been a fixed-term lecturer (ATER) at
Sciences Po Bordeaux. The bulk of her research
concerns urban policies, central and local
governments’ relations and public sector reforms.
Her PhD dissertation was a comparative study of
the territorial retrenchment of armed forces and of
urban policies for reconversion in French and Italian
cities. Through studying the military, it sheds light
on the interplay between public sector reforms
and territorial politics. As a post-doc in Oxford,
Francesca will mainly engage in a new research on
the “smart cities”, by studying the inclusion of new
information and communication technologies into
the provision of urban public services in Europe.
Francesca has discussed her research in
an interview for the Sciences Po website:
www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/power-
cities-0/1551
Research Bulletin BoardContInued...
oxford-sCIenCes po researCh group In the soCIal sCIenCes (oxpo)
Director: Florence Faucher
OxPo Website
www.cee.sciences-po.fr/en/le-centre/associate-researchers/490-imola-streho.htmlwww.cee.sciences-po.fr/en/le-centre/associate-researchers/490-imola-streho.htmlwww.cee.sciences-po.fr/en/le-centre/associate-researchers/490-imola-streho.htmlwww.cee.sciences-po.fr/fr/le-centre/doctorantes/248-francesca-artioli.html%20%0Awww.cee.sciences-po.fr/fr/le-centre/doctorantes/248-francesca-artioli.html%20%0Awww.cee.sciences-po.fr/fr/le-centre/doctorantes/248-francesca-artioli.html%20%0Amailto:francesca.artioli%40sciencespo.fr?subject=mailto:francesca.artioli%40sciencespo.fr?subject=Francesca%20Artioli%20%28Sciences%20Po%2C%20CEE%29:%20http://www.cee.sciences-po.fr/fr/le-centre/doctorantes/248-francesca-artioli.html%20%0D%E2%80%9C%20Francesca%20Artioli%20will%20be%20the%20OxPo%20Sciences%20Po%20Post-doctoral%20Fellow%20during%20the%202015-16%20academic%20year%2C%20and%20she%20has%20an%20office%20in%20DPIR%20for%20the%20duration%20of%20her%20stay.%0DFrancesca%20Artioli%20holds%20a%20PhD%20in%20political%20science%20from%20Sciences%20Po%20Paris/CEE%20%28December%202014%29%20and%20she%20has%20been%20a%20fixed-term%20lecturer%20%28ATER%29%20at%20Sciences%20Po%20Bordeaux.%20The%20bulk%20of%20her%20research%20concerns%20urban%20policies%2C%20central%20and%20local%20governments%27%20relations%20and%20public%20sector%20reforms.%20Her%20PhD%20dissertation%20was%20a%20comparative%20study%20of%20the%20territorial%20retrenchment%20of%20armed%20forces%20and%20of%20urban%20policies%20for%20reconversion%20in%20French%20and%20Italian%20cities.%20Through%20studying%20the%20military%2C%20it%20shed%20light%20on%20the%20interplay%20between%20public%20sector%20reforms%20and%20territorial%20politics.%20As%20a%20post-doc%20in%20Oxford%2C%20Francesca%20will%20mainly%20engage%20in%20a%20new%20research%20on%20the%20%E2%80%9Csmart%20cities%E2%80%9D%2C%20by%20studying%20the%20inclusion%20of%20new%20information%20and%20communication%20technologies%20into%20the%20provision%20of%20urban%20public%20services%20in%20Europe.%0DFrancesca%E2%80%99s%20interview%20for%20the%20Sciences%20Po%20website:%20http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/power-cities-0/1551%0DFrancesca%20Artioli%20%28Sciences%20Po%2C%20CEE%29:%20http://www.cee.sciences-po.fr/fr/le-centre/doctorantes/248-francesca-artioli.html%20%0D%E2%80%9C%20Francesca%20Artioli%20will%20be%20the%20OxPo%20Sciences%20Po%20Post-doctoral%20Fellow%20during%20the%202015-16%20academic%20year%2C%20and%20she%20has%20an%20office%20in%20DPIR%20for%20the%20duration%20of%20her%20stay.%0DFrancesca%20Artioli%20holds%20a%20PhD%20in%20political%20science%20from%20Sciences%20Po%20Paris/CEE%20%28December%202014%29%20and%20she%20has%20been%20a%20fixed-term%20lecturer%20%28ATER%29%20at%20Sciences%20Po%20Bordeaux.%20The%20bulk%20of%20her%20research%20concerns%20urban%20policies%2C%20central%20and%20local%20governments%27%20relations%20and%20public%20sector%20reforms.%20Her%20PhD%20dissertation%20was%20a%20comparative%20study%20of%20the%20territorial%20retrenchment%20of%20armed%20forces%20and%20of%20urban%20policies%20for%20reconversion%20in%20French%20and%20Italian%20cities.%20Through%20studying%20the%20military%2C%20it%20shed%20light%20on%20the%20interplay%20between%20public%20sector%20reforms%20and%20territorial%20politics.%20As%20a%20post-doc%20in%20Oxford%2C%20Francesca%20will%20mainly%20engage%20in%20a%20new%20research%20on%20the%20%E2%80%9Csmart%20cities%E2%80%9D%2C%20by%20studying%20the%20inclusion%20of%20new%20information%20and%20communication%20technologies%20into%20the%20provision%20of%20urban%20public%20services%20in%20Europe.%0DFrancesca%E2%80%99s%20interview%20for%20the%20Sciences%20Po%20website:%20http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/power-cities-0/1551%0Dhttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/centre/oxford-sciences-po-research-group.html
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Research Bulletin BoardContInued...
• Eduardo Rios (Sciences Po, CERI):
www.sciencespo.academia.edu/
EduardoRios
Eduardo Rios will be visiting Oxford
during the 2015-16 academic year,
and will be based in DPIR.
At Oxford, Eduardo plans to finish his dissertation
on the strategies of economic elites in Hugo
Chávez’ Venezuela. Also, he would like to engage
with DPIR’s academic staff and students on
methods of quantifying qualitative data (MCA,
Network Analysis, Sequence Analysis, etc.)
and on how states constrain or incentivise big
corporations’ economic action.
• Yoel Mitrani (Sciences Po, Cevipof):
www.ceri-sciences-po.academia.edu/
YoelMitrani
Yoel Mitrani will be the second OxPo
Sciences Po Doctoral Student visiting
Oxford during the 2015-16 academic
year, based in the Faculty of History.
Yoel’s primary research interests lie in the history
of modern political thought and the history of
concepts. At Oxford, Yoel plans to continue the
work on his doctoral thesis which explores the
history of the concept of ‘Genius’. The thesis will
focus on the usage of the concept in mid-18th
century debates concerning politics, natural
philosophy and art criticism in Britain and France.
Upcoming Events:
• party posItIon, salIenCe and polItICal outComes
October 16 (Friday, 09:30-18:00)
Sciences Po, Paris. H206 at 28 rue des Saints-Pères,
75007, Paris.
Convenors:
Jan Rovy (Sciences Po)
Stephen Whitefield (Pembroke College, Oxford)
This is a closed event but it is possible to contact Jan
Rovny for permission to attend:
• ConstItutIons under stress
December 17-18 (Thursday, 13:30-17:00; Friday
09:30-16:30)
Sciences Po Centre d’Histoire
Convenors:
Nicolas Roussellier (Sciences Po)
Scot Peterson (Balliol College, Oxford)
ContInued..
www.sciencespo.academia.edu/EduardoRioswww.sciencespo.academia.edu/EduardoRioswww.ceri-sciences-po.academia.edu/YoelMitrani%0Awww.ceri-sciences-po.academia.edu/YoelMitrani%0Ahttp://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/departmental/party-position-salience-and-political-outcomes.htmlmailto:jan.rovny%40sciencespo.fr?subject=http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/departmental/constitutions-under-stress.html
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 21
Recent Publicationshow the frenCh thInk: an
affeCtIonate portraIt of an IntelleCtual people
sudhIr hazareesIngh - (alan lane)
Sudhir Hazareesingh’s How the
French Think is a warm yet incisive
exploration of the French intellectual
tradition, and its exceptional place in
a nation’s identity and lifestyle.
The French: orderly and anarchic,
rational and mystical, arrogant and
anxious, charming and exasperating,
serious and frivolous, pessimistic,
pleasure-loving - and perhaps more
than any other people, intellectual.
In this original and entertaining
approach to France and the French,
Sudhir Hazareesingh describes how
the French ways of thought and
life connect to make them such a
distinctive nation.
One of the purposes of How The
French Think is to convey the ideas
of some of the most influential
French thinkers of the past 400
years - Voltaire and Rousseau, Hugo
and Michelet, Camus and Sartre,
Lévi-Strauss and Foucault. Sudhir
Hazareesingh is able to show how
bold, imaginative and sweeping
French thought is, how greatly it
values high culture (in contrast to
the English) and how it has given
an almost sacred role to the writer
- hence the prominent role of
intellectuals in French collective life,
and the intensity with which ideas
are debated.
The book explores the French
commitment to rationalism and
ideology, their belief in the State, their
cult of heroes and their contempt
for materialism. It describes their
stylistic fetishes, their fondness
for general notions, their love of
paradoxes, their current fixations
with the nation and collective
memory, their messianic instincts
and their devotion to universalism.
(‘France’, claimed the historian
Ernest Lavisse without a trace of
irony, ‘is charged with representing
the cause of humanity’.)
How The French Think ranges from
Descartes to Derrida, and from big
moral and philosophical issues to the
symbolic significance of Astérix and
the survival of the French language
in a globalised world. Drawing on
a colourful range of sources, and
written with warmth and humour, it
will appeal to all lovers of France and
of French culture.
Dr Angela
Cummine has
had a chapter
published in
Making Sovereign
Financing and Human Rights Work,
edited by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and
Jernej Letnar Cernic. The chapter is
entitled ‘Ethical Sovereign Investors:
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Human
Rights’.
Poor public resource management
and the global financial crisis curbing
fundamental fiscal space, millions
thrown into poverty, and authoritarian
regimes running successful criminal
campaigns with the help of financial
assistance are all phenomena that raise
fundamental questions around finance
and human rights. They also highlight
the urgent need for more systematic
and robust legal and economic thinking
about sovereign finance and human
rights.
This edited collection aims to contribute
to filling this gap by introducing novel
legal theories and analyses of the links
between sovereign debt and human
rights from a variety of perspectives.
ethICal sovereIgn Investors: sovereIgn
wealth funds and human rIghts
dr angela
CummIne
(hart publIshIng)
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198706113.dohttp://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198706113.do
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DPIR Newswire - Michaelmas Term 2015 22
Noticeboard
oCtoberCharlIe (room 187)
james (room 187)
kate (room 197)
novembervIolet (room 195)
alICe (room 195)
andrew (room 195)
deCemberaoIfe (room 195)
marIa (room 198)
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There are new courses each week and the option to
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need them.
lynda.com sits alongside our classroom-based
courses; it will enable us to reach more people and
cover those topics for which we don’t have in-house
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You can sign up to lynda.com at
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Coffee maChIne rotaproblems wIth the Coffee maChIne? here Is who to ContaCt:
ourtopIa: Co-CreatIng tomorrow together today
On 30 May 2015 Rama Mani, CIS Senior Research
Associate, performed at The TedXWomen Covent Garden on the theme of Momentum, which was held at the London Museum. Rama’s performance-
presentation entitled: ‘OURtopia: Co-Creating
Tomorrow Together Today’ “unveiled the power of
collective action to transform ourselves, our
societies and our world, at this critical juncture in
human history, as the UN marks its 70th
anniversary.”
To view the performance please see
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxeOacr7e8
http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/lynda%0Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DDpxeOacr7e8%26list%3DPLGbgkXcxs10k8qL3Cqi_rWVEa3VQAd4Gwwww.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DDpxeOacr7e8
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NoticeboardIIss pallIser essay prIze 2015
An annual prize in honour of Sir Michael Palliser (1922–2012), former Chairman of the Council and Vice-President of the IISS
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
has established the Palliser Prize for the best essay
submitted to Survival on an aspect of European
international relations, politics, economics or
strategy by an author under the age of 40.
The winner of the 2015 prize will receive £2,500,
and his or her essay will be published in Survival with
a special mention of the award.
For more information, please visit: www.iiss.org/en/publications/survival/about-s-survival/palliser-
s-essay-s-prize-s-2015
Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2015 For submissions or queries: [email protected]
gender bIas In Ir syllabI
Nancy Bermeo has highlighted this interesting
article from the US on gender bias on International
Relations syllabi - how would our own compare?
www.duckofminerva.com/2015/08/new-
evidence-on-gender-bias-in-ir-syllabi.html
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in Spires blog - @OxPolBlog
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OxWiP is recruiting for an IT and Media Manager,
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There are also opportunities to serve as a College
or Departmental Representative. Send a CV and
cover letter describing your interest and experience
to [email protected] by Friday 1st Week (16 October).
OxWiP is an Oxford University organisation that aims
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If you have
announCements,
notICes or
suggestIons for
edItorIal pIeCes
for any of the
department’s
publICatIons, please
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fact that, d
espite
a common c
ore textual t
radition of th
e Pali
scriptures an
d commenta
ries and broa
dly
similar doctr
inal tenets, t
here are dee
p
variations in
practice an
d belief amo
ng
those identif
ied as Thera
vada Buddhis
ts,
even deep va
riations with
in countries
.
While there
has been som
e comparati
ve
scholarship o
n these trad
itions of pra
ctice
in different
locations, the
field of Ther
avada
Buddhist pol
itical though
t remains rel
atively
unexplored.
Contempora
ry movemen
ts within
Theravada s
ocieties refle
ct both this
common her
itage and the
range of
interpretatio
ns of central
concepts.
Buddhist nat
ionalist grou
ps in Myanma
r
and Sri Lank
a appear to d
raw on simila
r
logic regard
ing the need
to protect th
e
Buddhist com
munity, a lo
gic that is roo
ted
more in trad
ition and ide
ntity than in
text
or doctrine.
On the other
hand, the T
hai
movements o
f Dhammakay
a and Santi
Asoke begin
from a com
mon traditio
n but
come to rad
ically differen
t conclusion
s a Mon
K Rests aFteR
paRticipat
ing in an enviR
onMental pR
otest, caMB
oDia.
iMage cReDit
: luc FoRsy
th / FlicKR (c
c By-nc 2.0
)
Resea
Rch
Theravada Budd
hist Political Th
ought in
Comparative Pe
rspective
DR Matthew
J walton, a
ung san suu K
yi senioR Resea
Rch Fellow in
MoDeRn
BuRMese stuD
ies, st antony
’s college, un
iveRsity oF o
xFoRD.
Theravada B
uddhism has
provided a
religious, so
cial, politica
l and cultura
l
foundation f
or most of t
he countries
of
mainland Sou
theast Asia a
nd across th
e Bay
of Bengal in
Sri Lanka. His
torically the
se
countries ha
ve had close
religious ties
; the
Theravada t
radition was
transplanted
to
Southeast A
sia from Sri
Lanka and t
here
have been oc
casional mov
ements of
doctrinal rej
uvenation b
etween the
regions.
Recently, int
ra-Theravada
connections
have
decreased, w
ith only occ
asional educ
ational
ties (althoug
h emerging
anti-Muslim
movements in
several The
ravada count
ries
are increasin
gly in comm
unication wi
th one
another). Th
e last promi
nent pan-Th
eravada
moment was
probably th
e convening
of the
Sixth Buddh
ist Council i
n Burma by U
Nu
from 1954-5
6.
Recent scho
larship has al
so asked the
question “Ho
w Theravada
is Theravada
?”,
drawing atte
ntion to the
fact that, d
espite
a common c
ore textual t
radition of th
e Pali
scriptures an
d commenta
ries and broa
dly
similar doctr
inal tenets, t
here are dee
p
variations in
practice an
d belief amo
ng
those identif
ied as Thera
vada Buddhis
ts,
even deep va
riations with
in countries
.
While there
has been som
e comparati
ve
scholarship o
n these trad
itions of pra
ctice
in different
locations, the
field of Ther
avada
Buddhist pol
itical though
t remains rel
atively
unexplored.
Contempora
ry movemen
ts within
Theravada s
ocieties refle
ct both this
common her
itage and the
range of
interpretatio
ns of central
concepts.
Buddhist nat
ionalist grou
ps in Myanma
r
and Sri Lank
a appear to d
raw on simila
r
logic regard
ing the need
to protect th
e
Buddhist com
munity, a lo
gic that is roo
ted
more in trad
ition and ide
ntity than in
text
or doctrine.
On the other
hand, the T
hai
movements o
f Dhammakay
a and Santi
Asoke begin
from a com
mon traditio
n but
come to rad
ically differen
t conclusion
s a Mon
K Rests aFteR
paRticipat
ing in an enviR
onMental pR
otest, caMB
oDia.
iMage cReDit
: luc FoRsy
th / FlicKR (c
c By-nc 2.0
)
Resea
Rch
Theravada Budd
hist Political Th
ought in
Comparative Pe
rspective
DR Matthew
J walton, a
ung san suu K
yi senioR Resea
Rch Fellow in
MoDeRn
BuRMese stuD
ies, st antony
’s college, un
iveRsity oF o
xFoRD.
Theravada B
uddhism has
provided a
religious, so
cial, politica
l and cultura
l
foundation f
or most of t
he countries
of
mainland Sou
theast Asia a
nd across th
e Bay
of Bengal in
Sri Lanka. His
torically the
se
countries ha
ve had close
religious ties
; the
Theravada t
radition was
transplanted
to
Southeast A
sia from Sri
Lanka and t
here
have been oc
casional mov
ements of
doctrinal rej
uvenation b
etween the
regions.
Recently, int
ra-Theravada
connections
have
decreased, w
ith only occ
asional educ
ational
ties (althoug
h emerging
anti-Muslim
movements in
several The
ravada count
ries
are increasin
gly in comm
unication wi
th one
another). Th
e last promi
nent pan-Th
eravada
moment was
probably th
e convening
of the
Sixth Buddh
ist Council i
n Burma by U
Nu
from 1954-5
6.
Recent scho
larship has al
so asked the
question “Ho
w Theravada
is Theravada
?”,
drawing atte
ntion to the
fact that, d
espite
a common c
ore textual t
radition of th
e Pali
scriptures an
d commenta
ries and broa
dly
similar doctr
inal tenets, t
here are dee
p
variations in
practice an
d belief amo
ng
those identif
ied as Thera
vada Buddhis
ts,
even deep va
riations with
in countries
.
While there
has been som
e comparati
ve
scholarship o
n these trad
itions of pra
ctice
in different
locations, the
field of Ther
avada
Buddhist pol
itical though
t remains rel
atively
unexplored.
Contempora
ry movemen
ts within
Theravada s
ocieties refle
ct both this
common her
itage and the
range of
interpretatio
ns of central
concepts.
Buddhist nat
ionalist grou
ps in Myanma
r
and Sri Lank
a appear to d
raw on simila
r
logic regard
ing the need
to protect th
e
Buddhist com
munity, a lo
gic that is roo
ted
more in trad
ition and ide
ntity than in
text
or doctrine.
On the other
hand, the T
hai
movements o
f Dhammakay
a and Santi
Asoke begin
from a com
mon traditio
n but
come to rad
ically differen
t conclusion
s a Mon
K Rests aFteR
paRticipat
ing in an enviR
onMental pR
otest, caMB
oDia.
iMage cReDit
: luc FoRsy
th / FlicKR (c
c By-nc 2.0
)
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