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The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at @UniofOxford.
Oxford, UK
Joined June 2011
Many congratulations to @SKalyvas, who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy!. Alongside 86 new Fellows, he joins a community of around 1,400 world-leading scholars and researchers working in the humanities and social sciences.
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The Department is delighted to announce that @liviaisabella13 will join the team in July 2022 as Associate Professor of International Relations and a member of @NuffieldCollege:
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📢 We are thrilled to announce that Neta Crawford has been appointed the next @UniofOxford Montague Burton Professor of #InternationalRelations. She will join @Politics_Oxford & @BalliolOxford next year, bringing a wealth of expertise on war & ethics.
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@Politics_Oxford is delighted to announce that @fgenovese__ will join the team in January 2024 as Professor in the International Relations and Politics of the European Union and a Fellow of St Antony’s College!:
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The Department looks forward to welcoming Oxford Politics alumna @KTertytchnaya, who will join @Politics_Oxford in September 2023 as Associate Professor in Comparative Politics (Brasenose College):
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DPIR is delighted to welcome former Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Politics @RIBernhard back to Oxford as Associate Professor of Quantitative Political Science Research Methods!:
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Congratulations to @JaninaDill who has been named a Professor by the @UniofOxford in its Recognition of Distinction exercise 2022. 🎉. Read more about Professor Dill's research:
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Congratulations to DPIR student Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z, awarded the Junior Scholar Award by the Asian Society of International Law for his article on the legal status of Tibet and Mongolia!
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📚 New Book: @JulianLopezM's Recentralisation in Colombia, based on his doctoral research @politics_oxford, provides a template for the study of administrative reform across Latin America. 📖
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👏 Congratulations to @tabouchadi and Neil Ketchley, who have had the title of full professor conferred upon them through the Recognition of Distinction Scheme!:
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Congratulations to PPRF in Politics @ValentimVicente, who won the 2022 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Scholarship for his article ‘Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support’! 👏
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Congratulations to DPIR academics @tmbejan and Karolina Milewicz, who have had the title of Professor conferred on them under the University of Oxford's Recognition of Distinction Scheme 2021.
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Reminder!📣 Call for proposals: 'Political Violence In Democracies' – workshop being co-organised by @aruggeri_eu. 📝 . ⏰ Deadline for submissions approaching on Friday, September 29.
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Congratulations to DPIR's @tabouchadi, who has been announced joint winner of the inaugural Henrik Enderlein Prize for outstanding research!:
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You might have heard that @tabouchadi will be our new Associate Professor in #EuropeanUnion & Comparative European #Politics! We're really looking forward to welcoming him to @politics_oxford & @NuffieldCollege later this year. Check out his 📖 and 🎧:
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We are delighted to announce that Zeynep Pamuk @zpamuk will join us this Michaelmas term as our new Associate Professor in Contemporary #PoliticalTheory w. @NuffieldCollege 🥳. Read more about her research & writing in our announcement 👀⬇️.
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@Politics_Oxford is delighted to announce @MeeraSabaratnam will join the team in September 2023 as Associate Professor in International Relations and a Fellow of @NewCollegeOx:
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🚨📣BREAKING NEWS! We are thrilled to announce that @Politics_Oxford's @benwansell has been asked by the @BBC to give this year's Reith Lectures!🥳. 'I am deeply grateful and honoured to have been asked to give this year's Reith Lectures by the BBC. The title of the series is.
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'Why are some international institutions more accountable than others?'. A new article by @Ranjit_Lall1, available online and open access in @AJPS_Editor, provides an answer. 👇 .
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We're Number 1!. @Politics_Oxford has secured the @worlduniranking top spot in the UK for Politics, and was named 3rd in the world with an overall score of 89.6%.
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We're delighted to announce that Profs @egocantos & Robin Harding have been recognised in this year's @UniofOxford Recognition of Distinction Scheme & been awarded the title of full professor. Congratulations Ezequiel and Robin! 🎉. Read about their work👉
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Congratulations to Professor of Political Science and International Relations, @fgenovese__, who is a 2024 winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize! We spoke to Federica about her prize win and what it means to her:
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DPIR's @JeanneMorefiel1 has published the first political theory book on Palestinian American Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism:
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Applications for 2025 Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods are open:A opportunity to learn from brilliant tutors in an inspiring academic environment.Director @KosmidisSpyros explains how this year will be extra special:
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Huge congratulations to @MaryhenJimenez on her prize-winning dissertation in Comparative Politics! 🥳. Read more: 🏆 @PolStudiesAssoc prizes announcement in full: .
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The DPIR will host the launch of Naosuke Mukoyama's book 'Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States' on 11 June!.
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📢 APPLY NOW!: @NuffieldCollege and @Politics_Oxford wish to appoint, from 1 Sept 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter, up to 3 Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows in Politics.🗓️ Deadline: 23.59 GMT, Wed 1 Nov 2023 👀:
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DPIR is delighted to announce the appointment of @NeilKetchley as our new Associate Professor in Politics w. focus on #MiddleEast. From anti-colonial revolutions to political Islam in Egypt—we're looking forward to what we'll learn when he joins us in Sept.
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The Department is delighted to report that David Doyle will take on the role of Head of Department from September 2024. Many thanks to Nick Owen & @PetraSchleiter who will extend their joint-Headship for a year until he can take over. Read more:
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Applications for 2025 Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods are open:A opportunity to learn from brilliant tutors in an inspiring academic environment. Director @KosmidisSpyros says how Spring School’s success has grown:
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Cause for celebration as @UniofOxford is named first in the UK and second in the world in the 2022 QS World Rankings for Politics and International Studies!:
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We are delighted to be hosting a lecture by @SanjayaLallMem Visiting Prof Daron Acemoglu (@DAcemogluMIT) later today @Corpus_Oxford! There will be an intro by @PetraSchleiter and a Q&A hosted by @benwansell
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Applications for 2025 Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods are open: A opportunity to learn from brilliant tutors in a inspiring academic environment.Director @KosmidisSpyros has this advice if you’re planning to apply:
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We are delighted to announce our latest appointment: @JeanneMorefiel1 will be joining @Politics_Oxford in September as our newest Associate Professor in #PoliticalTheory. Discover her extensive research & writing in our #announcement:
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Congratulations to @Politics_Oxford 's @tmbejan, who has won a top award from @grippmontreal for her forthcoming book on equality, First Among Equals: A History of Equality in Theory and Practice! 👏:
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Why are foreign journalists are leaving China and Hong Kong? . @risj_oxford's @MeeraSelva1 joined The Media Show on @BBCRadio4 last week, to discuss the rising global trend in 'weaponising journalism'. 🎤
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📢APPLY NOW!: @Politics_Oxford and @ExeterCollegeOx seek applications from early career and established scholars in any sub-field of international relations for the post of Associate Professor of International Relations.🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (GMT) Tue 26 March:
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🥳 Congratulations to @JaninaDill, who has been appointed to the inaugural Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security, based @BlavatnikSchool. Read more about Janina's appointment:
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We are celebrating the centenary of PPE being introduced to Oxford with a special Meeting Minds virtual discussion on Saturday 12th September, from 4pm-5pm. The BBC’s @EvanHD will chair a panel including @PeteButtigieg novelist Monica Ali and journalist @MASieghart #MMGlobal2020.
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'A truly amazing lecture!' 🤩. If you missed @devisridhar's thoughts on 'Preventing the Next Pandemic' you can watch back the 2021 @UKUSFulbright Lecture on the @PembrokeOxford.YouTube channel:. 📺
@Politics_Oxford @PembrokeOxford @devisridhar A truly amazing lecture. Should be essential viewing for all students of politics, equity, and of health--and all politicians. Text please? Thank you Fulbright/Pembroke/DPIR.
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We are delighted to announce @NeilKetchley has been awarded British Academy funding for a new project in 2024 examining a key aspect of British colonialism–the building of infrastructure–and how this shaped the possibilities of anti-colonial revolution:
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We are delighted to announce that Politics DPhil alumna Dr Tanushree Goyal is joint winner of @APSAtweets Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award for best dissertation in political economy. Read about her prize-winning research & career since completion:
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The best path to peace is not talks with Putin but helping Ukraine to win this war, says @fromTGA, citing DPIR researchers @marnie_howlett, @JaninaDill & former DPIR-er @c_muellercrepon. Read the @guardian opinion: & the research:
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'Why is There No History of Fascist International Thought?'. Read @KyeJAllen's paper in @millennjournal which argues that more robust and interdisciplinary scholarship is needed to adequately engage with the history of fascist thought on world politics 👇.
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We are pleased to announce that our latest appointment @LBustikova will be joining @Politics_Oxford in September 2022 as Associate Professor in #EuropeanUnion and Comparative East European #Politics.Read more on her research and writing here:
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🥳👏Congratulations to alumnus Leonardo Carella, who has won @Politics_Oxford’s inaugural prize for the best doctoral thesis in Government for his dissertation 'Essays on Electoral Institutions'!:
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Are you a social scientist looking for an introduction to cutting-edge research methods?. Taught by our world-leading researchers, Oxford Spring School's intensive one-week program will be a great contribution to your skillset. Apply now!
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👏 Congratulations to DPIR's @ValentimVicente, who has won the @ECPR’s 2022 Jean Blondel PhD Prize for his thesis on changes to norms in politics:
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Congratulations to @jrgingrich who has been appointed Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's #Innovation, #Equity & The Future of #Prosperity programme. 📢 Announcement: 👀 Discover the @CIFAR_News IEP prog:
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JUST ANNOUNCED! Sudhir Hazareesingh's book on the epic life of Toussaint Louverture, #BlackSpartacus, has made the @WolfsonHistory 2021 Shortlist!. Congratulations Sudhir on being recognised by the UK's most prestigious history award 👏. 🧾Shortlist:
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"Attacking professional media & discrediting journalists is part of the strategy of populist leaders to establish a direct channel with supporters, with no fact-checking, no questioning, no accountability.". Read @camposmello's Reuters Memorial Lecture.
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Is there an ongoing normalisation of previously stigmatised radical-right parties? 🤔. @ValentimVicente writes for @POP_TweetsOnPop about the stigma, normalisation, and the past and future and of the populist radical right, with @NuffieldCollege.
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We are delighted to announce that Desmond King ( @UniofOxford @NuffieldCollege ) has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society @AmPhilSociety in honour of 'extraordinary accomplishments' in his field. Read more:
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🚨 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! 🚨 . Boost your social science research methods with #OxfordSpringSchool - we're going hybrid in 2023, so you can join us in Oxford or from around the world!. ⏰ Half-bursary application deadline: 12 noon GMT 3 Jan 2023.
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Applications close soon to study a DPhil in Politics or International Relations at Oxford. @IsabellaCuervo_ ( is in her third year as a postgraduate politics student in DPIR. She has this advice: Read more:
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Our Oxford Spring School class of 2024!🥳As we approach the final day tomorrow and our drinks reception at Brasenose College tonight, we wanted to say a huge thanks to you all for your energy and dedication! #OSS2024 🥂. Shout-out to our wonderful tutors @KosmidisSpyros
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👏 Congratulations to @Politics_Oxford's Patricia Owens for winning @MYBISA's best book prize for her co-edited anthology on women’s international thought!:
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🔈 Join us for the 2021 Fullbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations. In this thought-provoking talk @devisridhar @GlobalHealthGP reflects on how we can prevent the next #pandemic . 📆 19 November 2021 🕖 5-7PM GMT @PembrokeOxford . 🎟
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Congratulations to DPIR's @aruggeri_eu, who has won an Excellence in Supervision Award in the 2021-22 Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards!:
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.@UniofOxford has announced the #BlackAcademicFutures programme, a major new PhD scholarship scheme for black and mixed-black students from the UK. 🎓. These scholarships are available for DPhil applicants to @Politics_Oxford. Read more:
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🚨 NEW #postdoc #research #vacancy 🚨. Come work with @benwansell on the @ERC_Research funded WEALTHPOL project, investigating the politics of wealth inequality in the 21st Century. Deadline: 27 Aug 2021, midday BST. ✏APPLY NOW:
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🥳👏Congratulations to @Politics_Oxford alumnus @shaiagmon, who has been awarded the Department's inaugural prize for the best doctoral thesis in Political Theory! Find out more:
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Congratulations to DPhil @aposadatellez who has been awarded ‘First Place Laureate’ for his research presentation at the Canadian @CDAInstitute's Graduate Conference 2023. 🥳
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In his thesis, @LlamazaresCesar uncovers individuals’ attitudes towards policies that aim to reduce #economicinequality. Alongside this, he also explores how individuals justify #marketinequality in the first place. Learn more 👉 #jobmarketcandidate
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Congratulations to Professor of International Relations Patricia Owens and her co-editor @KatHistory , who have won two International Studies Association prizes for their book Women’s International Thought: A New History. @leverhulmewhit
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Congratulations to @OSGAOxford & @Politics_Oxford's Timothy Power, who will be @oxsocsci's new Head of Division, starting in Michaelmas Term later this year. Read more:
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Congratulations to @SamRitholtz who has been awarded the Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for best dissertation by the @PolStudiesAssoc! 🥳. Read more about Sam's success:
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Congratulations to Rana Mitter and Rosemary Foot, whose books on China have have been named in Foreign Affairs list of Best Books of 2021: @ox_chinacentre @stcrosscollege @OxfordHistory
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DPIR's @egocantos and @VivianaBaraybar have won two top prizes for their co-authored book 'Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalisation of Corruption in Latin America'. Congratulations, Ezequiel and Viviana!. Read more:.
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👏🥳Congratulations to DPIR alumna @KWegschaider, who has won the APSA section best dissertation award for her thesis on party strategies concerning the extension of immigrant, emigrant, and youth voting rights:
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🚨 #Job Alert! . Could you be our next Associate Professor in Quantitative Political Science Research Methods?. Find out more about this excellent role and make sure you apply before 31 January 2022!.
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Prof @fgenovese__ has received @ClimateSSN funding for a new project: "What role does local media play in shaping citizens’ climate change beliefs and climate mobilisation in developing countries?” . Co-investigators @ItsHayleyPring, Mats Ahrenshop & @AnthonyCalacino are all.
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Congratulations to DPIR's Robin Harding who has won a prestigious @APSAtweets.’s award for Best Article Published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics!:
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📖 John De Bhal, DPhil candidate in international relations @nuffieldcollege, has published:. 'Rethinking ‘middle powers’ as a category of practice: stratification, ambiguity, and power' in 'International Theory' with @CambridgeCore 👇
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Congratulations to DPIR's Professor Patricia Owens, who has been made a fellow of the @RoyalHistSoc for her contribution to historical scholarship! 👏
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So that's (just about) a wrap on Oxford Spring School! It's been a great week! Pictured is the 2024 OSS delegate group at Brasenose College for our drinks reception yesterday evening, with the famous Radcliffe Camera in the background! #OSS2024
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In Rawls' 1971 book A Theory of Justice he argued the case for liberal egalitarianism, his work has since become the foundational tome for political philosophy. But is it still relevant? @tmbejan speaks with @annemcelvoy for @BBCRadio3's Free Thinking. 📻
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📢 Introducing @Politics_Oxford's 2023-2024 job market candidates! 📢 . Learn more about the research, expertise and recent publications of each of these extraordinary students 👇 .
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And that's a wrap! The DPIR Office is now closed for the Christmas vacation. ⛄🎄 We'll be back from 3 January 2023. until then, wishing everyone a very happy holiday! 😊
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📘 Book Launch: Making International Institutions Work . Author @Ranjit_Lall1 discusses his new book and theory of institutional performance w. @JosephEStiglitz & Raj Chetty. Chaired by Duncan Snidal. 🕟 4:30PM.📅 16 May .📍 @NuffieldCollege .Sign up ➡
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Congratulations to Professors Neta Crawford and @ProfJaneGreen, who have both been elected to the @americanacad! 👏
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DPIR's @marnie_howlett has been awarded a $5,000CAD research grant by @CanadianInstit3 for her book project, “Motivated to Serve: Understanding Ukrainians’ Responses to War”. Congratulations, Marnie!
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Sarah Dunstan & Patricia Owens explore Trinidad-born Marxist journalist Claudia Jones alongside trailblazer Merze Tat to center a black working-class woman's popular theorizing of IR for @MIHJournal #InternationalWomensDay .
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"I hope that Oxford Spring School participants' skills, knowledge & future research have been enriched by their experiences with us." @KosmidisSpyros. Read our write up of @UniofOxford's 20th annual Spring School in Advanced Reasearch Methods 📊🎂🥳 .
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“A tolerant society cannot pick & choose its materials and remain tolerant for long.”. In 'Mere Civility' @tmbejan explores whether civility is a virtue, or a covert demand that silences dissent. #WorldBookDay @Harvard_Press #OxfordUniAuthors 3/n.
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“I am very pleased that the Haitian revolution, this seminal episode in modern global politics, is now getting the attention it deserves.” . Sudhir Hazareesingh’s Toussaint Louverture biography shortlisted for Wolfson History Prize 👉
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🎧Lunchtime listening: the 1st ep of Prof. James Tilley's new @BBCRadio4 series 'The Kids are Alt Right'. In 'What's Going On' James explores the recent success of radical right parties & how their support base is often younger than expected. Live now 📻
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"I laughed. I cried. I was inspired. Just wonderful.". ^ Excellent @YouTube comments on 'Does Civility Still Matter?' @tmbejan's webinar with @CornelWest @sullydish last week. Watch back:
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Naosuke Mukoyama - @naomukoyama - has received an honourable mention for the Barbara W. Tuchman Award, given to the best graduate student papers on Historical International Relations by @isanet
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🕊 @UniofOxford is bringing cutting edge research to the front line of conflict resolution, in a library of peacekeeping policy digests launched today (part of the @ImpactUN initiative). 📚 Read more & 🎧 listen to our peacekeeping podcasts here:.
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In his thesis, DPhil student and #jobmarketcandidate, @GunuKofi studies how structural power limits policy space in crisis-hit states and pushes policymakers to sign #IMF programs. Take a closer look at his research 👇 .
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'Why do some people leave their countries? And, once they’ve left, why would they come back?'. @SKalyvas analyses the Greek brain drain - and discusses whether the Greek Government's incentives are enough to tempt people to return.
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“I’m truly indebted to my dissertation committee at @Columbia for their helpful comments, & to my family for being an endless source of support". ✨Congrats✨ @jmangonnet for winning the Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy .
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Read DPIR’s statement, made in response to recent threats against a DPIR student:
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2021 marks 50 years since Rawl's A Theory of Justice (1971) was first published. In this special edition of @MIHJournal ed. by @DrSophieSmith - @tmbejan, @DrZimmermann, Zofia Stemplowska & others explore “historical Rawls.” @CUPAcademic.
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Congratulations to Sudhir Hazareesingh. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture is now on the shortlist for the @BGPrize
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Congratulations to @JaninaDill who is part of an ambitious new £1.5m project, exploring cumulative civilian harm in war - and how international law can better guard against it.
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Congratulations to DPhil student @jakobschram, who has been awarded the Deirdre and Paul Malone Thesis Prize in International Relations for outstanding achievement in the final MPhil thesis and exams in International Relations.
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Rawls' Theory of Justice is 'one of the most systematic & ambitious works of political theory produced in the 20th century' @tmbejan speaks to @annemcelvoy for @BBCRadio3's Free Thinking on Rawls' importance to political philosophy. 📻 on @BBCSounds .
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