Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series


2009-05-26 17:00: Techniques of Totalitarian Power: comparing Mobilization Strategies of Mao, Hitler and Stalin (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-11-03 17:00: Is Global Democracy Possible? (Jan Aart Scholte, PAIS, University of Warwick)

2009-11-23 17:00: Globalization after Neoliberalism’s Troubled Decline (Daniel Drache, York University, Toronto)

2009-12-01 17:00: An Initial Problem with the Nation State (Mark Francis, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

2010-01-19 17:00: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (Mark Mazower, Columbia University)

2010-02-09 17:00: Russia in a Global World (H E Yurii Fedotov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation)

2010-02-12 09:00: Understanding New Wars (Dr Harald Wydra, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-13 09:00: Understanding New Wars (Dr Harald Wydra, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-02 17:00: Copenhagen: Realism Bites (Sir Tony Brenton, POLIS)

2010-03-09 17:00: Afghanistan: the Peace-Building Process (Arpita Basu Roy, Pavate Fellow, POLIS)

2011-02-04 17:00: Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy (Professor John Loughlin, St Edmund's and  Professor John Dunn, King's College Cambridge)

2012-02-01 12:00: David Miliband in conversation (David Miliband)

2012-02-17 13:00: Scotland out of the Union? The rise and rise of the Nationalist agenda (Dr David McCrone, University of Edinburgh)

2012-03-14 14:00: The future of the CSDP (Dr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, POLIS)

2012-05-02 14:00: Foundations of the American century: the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations in the rise of American Power (Professor Inderjeet Parmar, University of Manchester)

2012-05-23 14:00: Hitler and the Have Nots (Professor Brendan Simms, POLIS)

2012-05-30 14:00: The transitions of the Arab Spring (Professor Marc Weller, POLIS)

2012-06-13 14:00: The diplomacy of the Doha Development Round (Dr Amrita Narlikar, POLIS)

2012-10-19 14:00: The 2012 Obama-Romney Presidential Election: Issues, Voter Groups, Swing Districts, Projections (Stefan Halper, POLIS)

2012-10-22 17:00: Containment and territorial transnational actors: Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas (Dr Amnon Aran)

2012-11-05 17:00: The fiscal politics of road building in China (Dr Kun-Chin Lin, POLIS)

2012-11-19 17:00: Cobden and the problem of war (Professor Anthony Howe, University of East Anglia)

2013-01-28 17:00: Russia and the Origins of the First World War: Time to Re-consider? (Prof. D. Lieven)

2013-02-11 17:00: Italy’s missing holocaust museum: memory, amnesia and post war Italian politics (Professor Robert Gordon (Department of Italian))

2013-02-25 17:00: Before the Democratic Peace: Racial Utopianism and the Elimination of War (Dr Duncan Bell (POLIS))

2013-03-04 17:00: Buddha and the ballot in South East Asia (Dr Tomas Larsson (POLIS))

2013-04-29 17:00: ‘The return of the sacred in politics’ (Dr Harald Wydra (POLIS))

2013-05-20 17:00: ‘The American tributary system in international politics’ (Dr Yuen Foong Khong (Nuffield College, Oxford))

2013-06-03 17:00: ‘The Politics of Nation-building: Making Co-nationals, Refugees and Minorities’ (Professor Harris Mylonas (George Washington University))

2013-06-10 17:00: ‘Rising Powers in the Western Imagination’ (Dr Ayse Zarakol (POLIS))

2013-10-28 17:00: The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Bangladesh Genocide (Prof. Gary Bass, Princeton University )

2013-11-04 17:00: Legal Layering and Substitution: A Theory of Strategic Behaviour around International Treaty Membership  (Prof. Tonya Putnam, Columbia University )

2013-11-18 17:00: The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies (Dr James Patterson, University of Manchester)

2013-11-25 17:00: Contestation, Backlash, and the Politics of International Justice Twenty Years on (Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, SOAS)

2014-01-27 17:00: Was the First World War a just war? (Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Oxford University)

2014-02-10 17:00: Making China strong: the role of nationalism in Chinese thinking on Democracy and Human Rights (Dr Robert Weatherley, POLIS)

2014-02-24 17:00: Using courts to build states: The uneven geography of justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dr. Alex Jeffrey, University Lecturer in Human Geography)

2014-03-10 17:00: Egypt and the Arab Spring (Dr Maha Abdel-Rahman, Centre of Development Studies and POLIS)

2014-05-05 17:00: Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy (Professor Kelly Greenhill  (Tufts University & Belfer Centre, Harvard))

2014-05-08 16:00: The Great War: causes and consequences (Professor Dominic Lieven with Dr Alex Anievas, Professor Brendan Simms, and Dr Ayse Zarakol Chair:  Professor Andrew Gamble)

2014-05-19 17:00: TBC (Dr Martin Jacques  (Senior Fellow, POLIS, & author of When China rules the world))

2014-05-26 17:00: Darcus Howe and Black Power in Britain, 1967-1974 (Dr. Robin Bunce (Homerton))

2014-06-02 17:00: A balancing act: China-India relations as managed protracted frienimosity (Professor Yaacov Vertzberger (Hebrew University))