Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 13:00 - 'Russia's views on and adaptation to the Changing Character of War'
  Dr Katazyna Zysk
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 12:00 - 'Women, War and a New Paradigm of Power'
  Zahira Kamal, Scilla Elworthy, Rama Mani
• 12:30 - Lessons from the Battle of Trafalgar: Military decision making in the Information Age
  Lieutenant Commander Matt Offord

Friday 19 May 2017

• 13:00 - SACRIFICE REVISITED
  Dr Faisal Devji
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 10:00 - Testimonies for Transformation in a World in Turmoil
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Majoritarian futures in Europe and beyond
  SEESOX Annual Lecture
  Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 12:00 - 'Brand Warfare and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels in Colombia'
  Dr Alex Fattal (Penn State)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 12:30 - 'The Political Consequences of Terrorism. A Quasi-Experimental Approach'
  Laia Balcells (Duke)
• 17:00 - Assembling (non) knowledge: Security, law and surveillance in a digital world
  Dr Claudia Aradau (King's)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 12:15 - ‘Fake Sites and Fake News’
  Edward Lucas (The Economist)

Thursday 1 June 2017

• 10:15 - Ideological and political radicalisation in contemporary western democracies: Cross-theoretical and empirical perspectives
  Registration required
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Lamprini Rori (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Stefano Costalli (University of Florence), Barry Richards (Bournemouth University), Michael Freeden (Mansfield College, Oxford), César Colino (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Catherine de Vries (University of Essex), Vassiliki Georgiadou (Panteion University), Anastasia Kafe (Panteion University), Spyros Kosmidis (Lincoln College), Michael Biggs (St Cross College), Dr Elias Dinas (Brasenose College), David Asker (University of Oxford), Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway), Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 2 June 2017

• 17:00 - How can world peace be organised?
  Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland)

Monday 5 June 2017

• 12:45 - Informal mixer between students/faculty interested in International Affairs and mid-career students in Foreign Service Programme
  Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 17:00 - Book Debate 'Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society: Views from the European periphery'
  Richard Caplan (Linacre), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College), Dr Filip Ejdus (University of Bristol), Jan Zielonka (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2017

• 12:30 - 'Why locals can't own international interventions: evidence from civilian EU missions in Somalia, Kosovo and the Palestinian Territories'
  Dr Filip Ejdus (University of Bristol), Adis Merdzanovic (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Richard Caplan (Linacre)
• 19:30 - Global Peace Index 2017 Launch
  Richard Caplan (Linacre), Steve Killelea (Institute for Economics and Peace)

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 12:30 - China’s National Problem: Han-Centrism and International Politics
  Brad Thayer (Tallinn University)

Monday 12 June 2017

• 16:00 - The Power of Global Performance Assessment
  Beth Simmons (University of Pennsylvania)
• 17:00 - Economic and financial challenges in South East Europe
  In association with the Political Economy of Financial Markets programme (PEFM)
  Gent Sejko (Governor, Bank of Albania)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 09:00 - Veteran Dialogue and the Future of War
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Together: A Public Discourse on War
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 17:00 - Book launch: Centripetal Democracy: Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland and the European Union
  Joseph Lacey (University College, Oxford)

Friday 16 June 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations 2017 : 'Universities in an Age of Populism'
  Professor Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 June 2017

• 12:30 - Bilateral and regional trade agreements: A case for economic reform?
  Light lunch provided
  Paul Gretton (The Australian National University)
  Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)

Monday 3 July 2017

• 13:15 - Book workshop: 'Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy'
  Jeremias Prassl (Univesity of Oxford)

Monday 10 July 2017

• 13:00 - Lawrence, the British Armed Forces and the First World War in the Middle East
  Various Speakers

Monday 9 October 2017

• 17:00 - The contested meaning of "Failed States” for international order (SEESOX, CIS and ESC Co-Sponsored Seminar)
  Susan Woodward (City University of New York)

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 12:15 - IR Publishing: Current and future challenges (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  John Lough (OUP)

Monday 16 October 2017

• 17:00 - Civil Resistance: The Originality of Gandhi
  Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Faisal Devji (St Antony's College), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College), Professor Sir Adam Roberts (University of Oxford), Gautham Shiralagi (St Antony's College)
• 17:30 - 'The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World'
  Professor Oona Hathaway (Yale Law School)
  Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 12:15 - Radio for Peace: UN Broadcasting and Violence against Civilians (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Jessica DiSalvatore (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 October 2017

• 12:30 - Book Manuscript Workshop: ‘Economic Statecraft’
  Lunch will be provided to those who have registered.
  Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 12:15 - Davids and Goliath: Can an area studies-global IR conversation help shape the discipline? (CIS, SIAS and ESC Co-Sponsored Talk)
  Nora Fisher Onar (Coastal Carolina University)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 12:00 - CIS-Sponsored Book Launch: 'The Virtual Weapon and International Order’
  Warm lunch will be provided.
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - 'The Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Andrés Bello'
  Professor Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford )
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 12:15 - The Global Politics of the AI Revolution: A Research Agenda (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Allan Dafoe (Yale)

Friday 27 October 2017

• 14:00 - From Leningrad to Leninfall: The Geopolitics of Soviet Monuments 100 Years since the Russian Revolution (CIS and Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Co-Sponsored Lecture)
  Myroslava Hartmond (CIS, University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 12:15 - Attitudes towards Killing in War (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Dr Livia Schubiger (LSE)
• 16:30 - CIS-Sponsored Roundtable: 'Women in the History of International Thought'
  Professor Patricia Owens (University of Sussex)

Friday 3 November 2017

• 17:00 - Latin American Centre Seminars: 'In denial: drug policy and the war on human rights in Mexico' (CIS Co-Sponsored Seminar)
  Monica Serrano (El Colegio de México)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 15:00 - Book Panel: Europe's Functional Constitution. A Theory of Constitutionalism Beyond the State.
  Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University)

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 12:15 - The paradox of safe areas in ethnic civil wars (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Dr Stefano Recchia (Cambridge)

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - ‘The Populist Explosion’: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (CIS, RAI and ESC Co-Sponsored Talk)
  Sandwich lunch available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  John B. Judis (Author and Journalist)
• 17:00 - 'Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy' (CIS Co-Sponsored Book Launch/ Panel Discussion)
  Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford), Prof Nicole Zitzmann ((Biochemistry) University of Oxford), Dr Kerrie Thornhill (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 17:00 - CIS-Sponsored Talk: 'Historical Institutionalism Meets Practice Theory: Renewing the Selection Process of the United Nations Secretary-General'
  Professor Vincent Pouliot (McGill University)

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 12:15 - No Friends but the Mountains: Why conflict persists at high altitude. (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Judith Matloff (Columbia)

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 12:15 - Resistable Restrictions? The Effectiveness of States’ Efforts to Silence Civil Society (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Kristin Bakke (UCL)

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 12:15 - Divergent paths. Institutional constraints and post-Cold War Italian and German defence policy (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Fabrizio Coticchia (University of Genoa)

Friday 19 January 2018

• 12:30 - Identity and citizenship: a response to terrorism? Analysing how the French government responded to the 2015 attacks in Paris
  Professor Florence Faucher (Sciences Po), Laurie Boussaguet (European University Institute, Florence)

Monday 29 January 2018

• 10:00 - Introduction to Mindfulness in Politics
  Chris Ruane MP (Houses of Parliament)

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 16:00 - Will strong nation-states and a stronger United Nations guarantee a new global order?
  Michael von der Schulenburg (United Nations)

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 12:30 - A Theory of Treatymaking
  A sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk if you would like to be included in the sandwich order.
  James Morrow (University of Michigan)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 12:30 - Religion Within Global International Society
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Andrew Hurrell (Balliol College)
  IR Research Colloquium

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 12:30 - “Delayed Disclosure”: National Security, Whistle-blowers and the Crisis of Secrecy
  Richard J. Aldrich (University of Warwick), Christopher R. Moran (University of Warwick)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 12:30 - Winning or Losing in Investor-to-State Dispute Resolution: The Role of Arbitrator Bias and Experience
  The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please write to andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by 10am on Tuesday 13 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
  Eric Neumayer (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 12:30 - How Legislatures Discuss Violence: The Case of Nigeria
  The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by noon on Tuesday 20 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
  Kazuhiro Obayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 23 February 2018

• 17:00 - CIS Sponsored Book Launch: The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Problems of International Politics)
  This talk has been cancelled by the speaker in solidarity with the UCU strikes.
  Dr Matthew Longo (St Anne’s)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 12:00 - Mindfulness in Politics
  Sophie Maclaren (Kalapa Leadership Academy; SBS)

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 12:30 - From ICBMs to Instagram: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Nuclear Escalation and Arms Control
  Heather Williams (King’s College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 12:30 - From Claims to Violence: Signaling, Outbidding and Escalation in Ethnic Conflict
  Sandwiches will be available at the session!
  Manuel Vogt (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 12:30 - Our Weapons, Our Problem: Civil Society, Domestic Policy and Arms Exports in the UK
  Sandwiches will be available at the session!
  Rodrigo Moraes (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 13:00 - Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Conflict
  Al Brown (US Ministry of Defence)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 12:30 - “Filthy Lapdogs”, “Stooges” and “Little Rocket Man”: Making Sense of International Insults
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Stephane J. Baele (University of Exeter)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 13:00 - Cyber Strategy: The Evolution of Cyber Power and Coercion
  Dr Brandon Valeriano (Marine Corps University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Documentary Screening: Europe at Sea
  Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Annalisa Piras (Director and Producer of 'Europe at Sea'), Bill Emmott (Chairman of The Wake Up Foundation), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 12:30 - Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 13:00 - Offensive Cyber, Ecology and the Competition for Security in Cyberspace: The United Kingdom’s Approach
  Graham Fairclough (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Politics of Borders
  Dr Matthew Longo (Leiden University)

Saturday 12 May 2018

• 09:00 - OxPeace Tenth Annual Day-Conference - The Business of Peace: Business and Economics in Peacebuilding
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 13:00 - North Korea's Hidden Revolution
  Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 12:30 - Throwing Back the Boomerang? Norm Diffusion, Social Opprobrium, and Great Power Behaviour in the United Nations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Carlotta Minnella (University of Oxford), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 12:30 - The Nature of Realism
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Patrick James (University of Southern California)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 28 May 2018

• 14:15 - Cultural Diversity and International Order
  Christian Reus-Smit (Queensland), Andrew Hurrell (Oxford)

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 12:30 - The UN and its Discontents: The Sociology of an International Organisation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  David M. Malone (Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations & Rector of the UN University), Rupert Burridge (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Dangerous Diplomacy
  Dr Herman Salton (Asian University for Women, Bangladesh), Neil MacFarlane (Oxford)

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 12:30 - Breaking Deadlock? Efforts to Meet Half-way in Norm Contestation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford), Samuel Ramani (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 12 June 2018

• 11:00 - Enacting Global Transformation Across Cultures: Building Peace through Collaborative Methodologies and Stories
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 12:30 - Prisoners of the Past: A Narrative Theory of International Cooperation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Mareike Kleine (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 13:00 - Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform Project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts
  Dr Katerina Tkacova (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 12:30 - Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Nick Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 13:00 - From “All Art is Propaganda” to All Propaganda is Marketing
  Alexander Fattal (University of Pennsylvania)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 12:30 - AI Governance: A Research Agenda
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Allan Dafoe (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 October 2018

• 12:30 - Reflections on the United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect: A Conversation with Jennifer Welsh
  Jennifer M. Welsh (McGill University)

Saturday 20 October 2018

• 16:00 - Book Launch - A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
  Zach Vertin (Brookings Doha Center)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of Conflict and the Work of the United Nations on Terrorism
  Elizabeth Joyce (United Nations)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 12:30 - Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia: How Trade Makes the State
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Christine Cheng (Kings College London)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 13:00 - Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC
  Chloe Lewis (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict: Explaining Variation in Violent Non-State Group Interactions
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 5 November 2018

• 17:00 - Book Launch: When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence
  Fanie du Toit (IJR)

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 13:00 - Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context
  Change to original programme
  Judith Gardner
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 12:30 - Gunboat Diplomacy: Power and Profit at Sea in the Making of the International System
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 13:00 - Rebel Diplomacy: Territoriality, Identity and the ‘Foreign’ Affairs of Non-State Armed Groups
  Dr David Brenner (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 12:30 - Prohibition, Preference and Prediction: Public Opinion on the Use of Force and Nuclear Weapons
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 13:00 - The law and practice of cross-border humanitarian relief operations: Syria as a case study
  Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 12:30 - Compliance and Resistance: Understanding the Agency of Rising Powers
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 12:30 - Is Algorithmic Justice an Oxymoron? Consumers vs. Citizens in a Big Data World
  Allison Stanger (Middlebury College)
• 13:00 - The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Contested Sovereignty in Territorial Domains
  Dr Christopher Lilyblad (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Art of Diplomacy in an Age of Real-Time Governance
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Cassidy (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 13:00 - Why the Responses to Address Intrastate Armed Conflicts fail?
  Michael von der Schulenburg (United Nations)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 12:30 - Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  TV Paul (McGill)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 13:00 - Gaming Integrated Deterrence and Defence in Europe in an Era of Strategic Competition
  Ivanka Barzashka (Kings College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 12:30 - The Death of this Norm is Greatly Exaggerated: What Really Happens with Norm Erosion
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Sarah Percy (Queensland)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 13:00 - The Consequences of Refugee Repatriation for Stayees: A Threat to Stability and Sustainable Development?
  Dr Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford), Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 12:30 - Rise and Fall of Political Orders
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Richard Ned Lebow (KCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 13:00 - The Russian Way of War
  Chuck Bartles (US Foreign Military Studies Office)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 13:00 - How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950
  A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Dr Seth Johnston (Harvard)

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 12:30 - ‘Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall’: Self-Legitimation by International Organizations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 13:00 - Moscow's Syrian Campaign: Change and Continuity in Russian Strategic Culture
  Dmitry Adamsky (IDC Herzliya)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 12:30 - Humanitarian Club
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Barnett (George Washington)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 13:00 - Military Intelligence in the Era of Great Power War
  Rose Keravuori (ROSE women LLC)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 12:30 - Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Keren Yarhi-Milo (Princeton)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of the Mexican War on Drugs: State Building Process, Bureaucracy and U.S. Policy (1940-1980)
  Carlos Pérez-Ricart (St. Antony’s College)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 12:30 - The Financial Statecraft of Debtors: The Political Economy of External Finance in Africa
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Alexandra Zeitz (University of Oxford )
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 13:00 - A Westphalia for the Middle East?
  Dr Patrick Milton (University of Cambridge)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 12:30 - The Liberal International Order Was Never Popular: The Merging Contestation in the Non- West and the West
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - Trains, Treaties and Courts: The Role of International Law in the Unification of the Koreas
  TBA

Monday 11 March 2019

• 09:30 - OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop
  Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio), Douglas Carpenter (EEAS), Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 13:00 - From Borders to Borderlands: Lessons learnt from the Danish Demining Group Border Security Management experience in East Africa, Sahel and North Africa
  Natasha Leite (Danish Refugee Council)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 17:15 - Book Launch - Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 12:30 - Gender, Community and Religion in Cameroon: Living in the Midst of Multiple "Crises"
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Cecelia Lynch (UC Irvine), Yang Han (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 13:00 - Continuities in Russian Foreign Policy Goals in the Post-Soviet Period
  Dr Dmitry Gorenburg, (Harvard)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 12:30 - Regimes of Difference: Culture and Order in World Politics
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Christian Reus-Smit (Queensland), Eric Haney (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 13 May 2019

• 17:00 - International Law Under Challenge in the Age of Trump
  Professor Harold Koh (Yale Law School)

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 13:00 - Conflict and Social Cohesion
  Professor Frances Stewart (University of Oxford), Arnim Langer (Ku Leuven)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 12:30 - Islamic Law States and the International Order
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame), Katharine Brooks (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 17 May 2019

• 19:00 - OxPeace Conference Dinner
  Brian Lander (World Food Programme)

Saturday 18 May 2019

• 08:30 - OxPeace Conference: Peace in the Anthropocene: Humanity, Environment, Sustainability
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 13:00 - Information-psychological warfare in Russian security strategy
  Katri Pynnöniemi (University of Helsinki)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Fighting for Peace in Somalia: The War Against al-Shabaab
  Paul D. Williams (GWU)

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 12:30 - “Globalization in the First Person”: Political Risk and the Study of International Relations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Nigel Gould-Davies (Mahidol & Chatham House)
  IR Research Colloquium

Wednesday 9 October 2019

• 16:00 - 'Anatomies of Revolution' Roundtable
  George Lawson (LSE), Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford ), Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 13:00 - The Changing Grammar of War: Countering Hybrid and Grey Zone Coercion at the Strategic Level
  Dr Rob Johnson (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 12:30 - Where is Conflict Research? Geographic Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Brian Phillips (Essex)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 21 October 2019

• 17:00 - 'Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit' Book Debate
  Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford), Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford), Tae-Yeoun Keum (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 13:00 - Goliath: Why the West Isn't Winning. And What We Must Do About It
  Dr Sean McFate (Atlantic Council)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:00 - Measuring Peace: A Panel Discussion
  A reception will follow the panel discussion: all welcome to attend. Copies of the book will be available for sale at a discounted price.
  Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations), Lord John Alderdice (Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict), Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová (Department of International Development), Professor Neil MacFarlane (Department of Politics and International Relations), Professor Andrea Ruggeri (moderator) (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 12:30 - Civil Wars and State (Un)Making
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Adrian Florea (Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 13:00 - How AI could change the foundational assumptions of international relations
  Dr Stuart Armstrong (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 12:30 - Incumbents Beware: The Impact of Offshoring on Elections
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Stephanie Rickard (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 13:00 - Coercion without war? Chinese maritime paramilitary and constabulary activities and the fallacy of the grey zone
  Dr Alessio Patalano
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 12:30 - The Logic of Strategic Assets
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Allan Defoe (University of Oxford), Jeff Ding (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 13:00 - Grey Zone Conflict and Hybrid Threats: An Era of Legal Competition
  Dr Aurel Sari (University of Exeter)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 12:30 - Launderers Anonymous: Two Global Field Experiments on Regulatory Compliance in the Finance Industry
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Mike Findley (University of Texas at Austin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 13:00 - Understanding the China Threat
  Bradley Thayer (University of Texas San Antonio), Lianchao Han (Understanding the China Threat)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 12:30 - The Hirschman Effect in Latin America’s Relations with the United States
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Tom Long (Warwick)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 13:00 - Marginality, (in)security and political participation in conflict and beyond
  Cancelled! Rescheduled to Thursday 5 December, 12pm.
  Dr Daire McGill (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 12:30 - Territorial Self-Governance and Ethnic Conflict Management
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Natascha Neudorfer (Birmnigham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 13:00 - ISIS versus the West: Narrative War for the 21st Century. The Case of positive disinformation
  David Patrikarakos
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Rethinking U.S. Nuclear Doctrine: The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy (ELAC & CIS Event)
  Scott Sagan (Stanford University), Professor Sir Adam Roberts (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 12:30 - The Politics of Legal Pluralism: Why Does the Chechen Government Promote Customary Law and Sharia
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Egor Lazarev (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 12:30 - Freedom by Force: Why Foreign-Imposed Democracies Succeed or Fail
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jonathan Monten (University College London)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 13:00 - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
  Dr Oscar Jonsson (Stockholm Free World Forum)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 12:30 - Dispute Inflation: Intangible Stakes and the Intensification of Preferences
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 31 January 2020

• 17:00 - International Order: Neither Secular nor Modern
  William Bain (National University of Singapore)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 13:00 - China's Good War: How Memory of the World War II past is shaping a nationalist future
  Professor Rana Mitter
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 12:30 - Comparing National Power in an Age of Transition
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 12:30 - World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emanuel Adler (Toronto)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 13:00 - Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
  Dr Jan Boesten (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 13:00 - Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 12:30 - Climate Change, the Illusion of Separation, and the Date-of-Last Opportunity
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Henry Shue (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 13:00 - Terrorism and recent developments in Human Rights
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 12:30 - Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Austin Carson (Chicago)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 30 April 2020

• 11:00 - Visualizing International Relations
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  William A.Callahan (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 7 May 2020

• 11:00 - The International Peace and Counter-Peace Architecture
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Oliver Richmond (Manchester)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 14:30 - Of Two Minds? Rationalism and Psychology in International Relations
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 14:30 - Calling it Peace: Liberal Order and Liberal Nostalgia
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Wednesday 24 June 2020

• 16:00 - Operationalising European democracy: Three Proposals
  Please register with an institutional email address before the event, and arrive online at 15.45 ready to be admitted to the Zoom Room for the talk to begin promptly at 16.00.
  Matteo Garavoglia (University of Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Daniel Innerarity (University of the Basque Country)

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 13:00 - The Power of Uncertainty: How Change in Conflict Influences Security
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 15:00 - Public Diplomacy in Times of Crisis & Citizens' Attitudes
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Farsan Ghassim (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 13:00 - CANCELLED: Russia’s Intelligence and Security Agencies in the Current Time of Troubles
  Cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience.
  Dr Andrew Foxall
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 15:00 - The Suffragist Peace
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Joslyn Barnhart (UC Santa Barbara)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 13:00 - Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics
  Professor Dominic Johnson (Alastair Buchan Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 15:00 - Elite Misperceptions and the Domestic Politics of Conflict
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 13:00 - War by Others’ Means: Delivering Effective Partner Force Capacity Building
  Dr Jack Watling (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 15:00 - China's Changing National Security Doctrine under Xi Jinping
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Sheena Greitens (University of Texas at Austin), Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 13:00 - Russian Military Modernisation: Progress and Ambitions
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 15:00 - Defining Statehood: Exclusion from Universal Organizations
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Christina Davis (Havard University), Cecilia Corsini
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 13:00 - Campaign Without End? The Future of Western Overseas Counter-Terrorism Intervention
  William Evans (Foreign Office)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 15:00 - Natural Resources and Territorial Sovereignty: The Separate Independence of Oil-Rich Protectorates
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Oxford), Hussam Hussein
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 13:00 - Rethinking Western Strategy and the Character of War in the Twenty-First Century
  Dr Jonathan Boff (University of Birmingham)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 15:00 - Shaping States into Nations: The Effects of Ethnic Geography on State Borders
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford), Kan Li
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 13:00 - Repeating past mistakes? The British withdrawal and return ‘East of Suez’
  Dr William James (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 15:00 - Quantum Theory as Critical Theory: Entanglement, Alienation, and the Politics of Social Physics
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Alexander Wendt (Ohio State University), John de Bhal
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 13:00 - Interstate Influence Operations and International Security Studies
  Josh A Goldstein (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 15:00 - Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Patricia Owens (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 13:00 - All Domain Operations
  Oliver Lewis (Rebellion Defence)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 15:00 - It's the Politics, Stupid: Explaining US-Iranian Relations Since the Revolution
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 13:00 - Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War
  Professor Tanisha Fazal (University of Minnesota)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 15:00 - Before Defeat: The Rise and Decline of World Orders
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 13:00 - Artificial Intelligence and National Security Decision-making
  Dr Erik Lin-Greenberg (MIT)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 15:00 - The Tension Within Norms: Agency and Risks in Pursuit of Global Climate Justice
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Carlotta Minnella (Duke), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College), Marco Scauso (Quinnipiac)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 13:00 - Cyber Law and Norms: Why they fail us
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 15:00 - Orchestration around the Governor’s Dilemma: G7/G20 Governance of Financial Stability and Market Integrity
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins
  David Hagebölling (Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 13:00 - Russia's Use of the Wagner Group 'Private' Military Company
  Professor Kimberly Martin (Columbia University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 15:00 - Power in IR: Matching Empirical Uses to Theoretical Advances’
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Karolina Milewicz (Oxford), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford), Kenneth Stiller (Oxford), Jacklyn Majnemer (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 13:00 - Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics
  Rosemary Kelanic (University of Notre Dame)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 15:00 - Thanks For Your Service: What Drives Public Confidence in the U.S. Military and Why it Matters
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Peter Feaver (Duke University), Jim Golby (UT-Austin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 13:00 - How distance constrains US grand strategy in an era of military-technological innovation
  Paul van Hooft (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 09:00 - EU - China relations in 2021: challenges and responses
  Registration has now closed.
  His Excellency Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the People's Republic of China
• 14:00 - Reconstructing International Political Economy: A Deweyan Approach
  Note earlier time of 2pm-3.30pm GMT. Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins)
  IR Research Colloquium

Wednesday 21 April 2021

• 16:00 - Insecurities, Uncertainty, and Human Rights: A Conversation with the Colombian Ombudsman (Event will be held in Spanish)
  Regrettably, due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Carlos Ernesto Camargo Assis (Ombudsman of Colombia), Dr Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  CONPEACE Webinar Series

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 13:00 - China’s Military Strategy in the New Era
  Professor M Taylor Fravel (MIT)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 29 April 2021

• 15:00 - The Power of the Weak: How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the United Nations Security Council
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Christoph Mikulaschek (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 13:00 - Subversive Economics: Pervasive, Dangerous and Largely Invisible
  Elisabeth Braw (American Enterprise Institute (AEI))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 15:00 - Disentangling Norms, Morality and Modes of Reasoning: The September 2019 Brexit Rebellion
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jess Gliserman (University of Oxford), Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 13:00 - Protean War: Embracing Complexity in International Relations
  Dr Emily Whalen (University of Texas)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 15:00 - The Power of Money in World Politics: The Ford Foundation and the Inter-American Human Rights Regime
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Saturday 15 May 2021

• 09:00 - ‘Peace in the Nuclear Era: threats, treaties and public understanding’
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 13:00 - Why the U.S. Military Forgets What It Learns in War
  Jon Askonas
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 15:00 - Public Opinion and Foreign Electoral Intervention
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jessica Weeks (Wisconsin-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 13:00 - The Operational Application of Offensive Cyber: Challenges and Opportunities
  Conrad Prince (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 15:00 - The Politics of Emotion in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What and Whose Emotions Matter
  If joining by Zoom, please log on 5 minutes before start of talk.
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 13:00 - Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Brigadier (rtd) Ben Barry (OBE (IISS))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 15:00 - International Authority and Institutionalized Inequalities
  Prof Michael Zurn (Free University Berlin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 13:00 - Integration – the Goldilocks factor 
  Lt. Col. Al Brown (British Army)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 15:00 - When is it “ok” to leave? U.S. public opinion toward withdrawal from international organizations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Dr Inken von Borzyskowski (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 13:00 - Triple Axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 15:00 - Military Policing Exacerbates Crime and Human Rights Abuses: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Cali, Colombia
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Robert Blair (Brown University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 13:00 - Dispute Inflation
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 15:00 - Mapping the global international system of the nineteenth century (1815-1914)
  This session is now taking place online only. Please join the call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 13:00 - The Central role of Space Domain Awareness in future military conflicts
  Stuart Eves (SJE Space Ltd)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 15:00 - From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in 19th Century America
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Melissa Lee (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 13:00 - New technology in War
  Dr Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 15:00 - Competing memories of conflict
  If joining online, please join Zoom call 5 minutes before start of the talk.
  Dr Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 13:00 - Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO
  Professor Janne Matlary (University of Oslo)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 15:00 - Digital Counterterrorism: Why Combatting Online Extremism is So Hard – And What Can Be Done About It
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Prof Tamar Mitts (Columbia University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 13:00 - On Russian strategy in the social media battlefield
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 15:00 - ‘Right-Peopling’ the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1885-2020
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 13:00 - Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security If the United States Pulls Back
  Dr Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 15:00 - The Legalization of Global Economic Governance: Contracting or Multilateralism?
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Karen Alter (Northwestern University), Timothy Meyer
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 13:00 - Copenhagen 1807: A British War of prevention and pre-emption?
  Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 15:00 - NATO After 9/11: Counterterrorism, Organized Violence and the Transnational Remaking of the Euro-Atlantic Security
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Julien Pomarede (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 13:00 - Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
  Please use this link to join the meeting: https://jh.zoom.us/j/97354488555?pwd=emRsbWU1TEx0Z3A0VG0vWEU5VTdFQT09
  Professor Mary Sarotte (Johns Hopkins)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 15:00 - Virtual Territories
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jordan Branch (Claremont McKenna College)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 13:00 - Maritime Strategy: Using the Other 71%
  Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy), Commander Andrew Livsey (Royal Navy and CCW Visiting Research Fellow)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 15:00 - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Inevitability
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Yuna Han (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 13:00 - People’s Liberation Army Modernisation: from drivers of change to strengths and weaknesses
  Meia Nouwens (The International Institute for Strategic Studies)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 15:00 - Institutional Racism in International Relations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto), Jiajia Zhou
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 13:00 - The Indo-Pacific Tilt, Geopolitics and International Law - Issues and Challenges
  Captain Ian Park (Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 15:00 - Making an Underworld: Internationalism and Moral Panics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jeanne Morefield (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 13:00 - ‘War’ vs ‘Conflict’: changing Russian perceptions between the military and the civilian security establishment
  Mark Galeotti (UCL)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 15:00 - Can a leopard change its spots? Implicit theories and signaling in international politics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 14 March 2022

• 09:30 - OxPeace 3 Day Training Workshop in Mediation and Negotiation
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 13:00 - International Law, Politics and Ethics of Humanitarian Military Intervention
  Dr Iacovos Kareklas (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 15:00 - Why Ordinary People Care About International Law
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 13:00 - Responsible Stakeholder or Challenger? Assessing India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel
  Dr Walter Ladwig III (King's College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 15:00 - Binding international law without ratification: delegation in environmental treaties
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jon Pevehouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium

Saturday 7 May 2022

• 09:00 - ‘Who builds Peace? The relationships between international, national, regional and local levels in peacebuilding.’ Fourteenth Annual OxPeace Day-Conference
  Zoom is sold out but in-person registration is still open, and the Conference will now also be live-streamed on YouTube, at this link which will become live on Saturday when sessions are being streamed: Here the youtube link: https://youtu.be/nBt2QjvPS98 This Conference is in-person, with an online option in partnership with Rodeemos el Dialogo/Embrace Dialogue, based in Colombia. The speakers are planning to be present in reality in Oxford and you are warmly encouraged to join them! Coffee, sandwich lunch and tea are included. Walk-ins on the day are probably possible, but registration will help with planning the catering! .
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 13:00 - Reflexive Control Theory: a Soviet perspective on influence and why it matters in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 15:00 - Plans are Worthless, But Planning is Everything: A Resurrection of the Study of Grand Strategic Planning
  Nina Silove (ETH Zurich)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 13:00 - Nation-Building in the Borderlands of a Borderland: A Cartographical Examination of the Russia-Ukraine War
  This event will now be on Teams as well as in person. Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Yjg4ZjgwMTUtODc2MS00ZWE1LTg3OWItMWYyMjU3YzVkZjZm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a4e7f38d-7c83-4a62-a150-818baca67a19%22%7d
  Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 15:00 - Theory of Linkage Politics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Kennedy Mbeva (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:00 - Book Launch: 'The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933' by Patrick Cohrs
  Patrick Cohrs (Università degli Studi, Florence)

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 16:00 - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions - Book Talk and Round-table
  Neta Crawford (University of Oxford), Oliver Belcher (Durham University), Jan Selby (Sheffield University)

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 13:00 - The Face of Peace: Government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Neil Ketchley (Oxford)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 16:00 - Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia
  John Sidel (LSE)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 12:00 - Cynthia Enloe: How to be a Feminist-Aware Investigator of International Politics? (In Person - Nov 2nd at 12pm)
  Cynthia Enloe
  Great Thinkers lecture series

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 13:00 - Know your enemy: Empathy and imagination in strategy
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban
  Bette Dam (Sciences Po)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 16:00 - Victimization and Punishment Violence in Latin America
  Enzo Nussio (Zurich)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 13:00 - Provocative presence: Strategic ambiguity and naval options in a restive world
  Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 16:00 - The Moral Hazard of Military Automation: From Boots on the Ground to Drones in the Air
  Anna Getmansky (LSE)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 6 December 2022

• 16:00 - The Violent bias in the Study of Civil War
  Ana Arjona (Northwestern)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Friday 9 December 2022

• 16:00 - Major Power Competition and Internal Politics in Modern Asia
  Paul Staniland (Chicago)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 16:00 - Institutionalizing Violence: Strategies of Jihad in Egypt
  Jerome Drevon (International Crisis Group)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 15:00 - Purchasing Prestige or Seeking Security? Military Procurement Choices Between the Dual Pressures of Status Loss and Military Threats
  Sam Seitz (University of Oxford), Patrick Gill-Tiney (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 January 2023

• 16:00 - Blood, Patriots and Tyrants: Countering Violent Far-Right Extremism in America
  Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 13:00 - The Difficulty of Innovation in Defence
  Oliver Lewis (Rebellion Defence), Bob Daigle (Rebellion Defence)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Roadblock Politics: Τhe Deep History of Trade Routes as a Frontline of State-building and Resistance
  Peer Schouten (Danish Institute for International Studies)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 15:00 - A Qualitative Analysis of International Governance Approaches to Powerful Technologies
  Robert Trager (UCLA), Chris Morris (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 16:00 - Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence
  Iva Vukušić (Utrecht)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 15:00 - Rethinking “middle powers” as a category of practice
  John de Bhal (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 13:00 - Evolution of far-right ideologies
  Professor Peter Neumann (King's College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Instability and Conflict in 19th Century Spain
  Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca (Carlos III)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 15:00 - Don't blame it on the Blob
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Andy Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 15:00 - Quechua and Aymara Revolution in International Legal Thought: An Initial Exploration
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Change in Mexico
  Emily Sellars (Yale)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 13:00 - The follower map: Towards a theory of the roots of cultural variations in leadership ideals
  Venue Change: Seminar will now take place in Pembroke College. Sandwiches will not be available this week
  Professor Mark van Vugt (Vrije Universiteit), Dr Sirio Lonati (Neoma Business School)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 15:00 - Beyond the Blob: The Politics of Restraint in the Middle East
  Ebenezer Azamati (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 15:00 - Legitimacy in IR
  Lora Viola (Free University of Berlin), Alexandra Stafford (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 13:00 - NATO's Nordic Neophytes: How Sweden & Finland's Accession to NATO Alters the Military Balance in Northeast Europe
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Elite Murder and Popular Resistance: Evidence from Post–World War II Poland
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Krzysztof Krakowski (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 15:00 - White supremacy in the United States during the post-Cold War and War on Terror eras
  Anna Meier (Nottingham), Alejandro Posada Téllez (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 14:45 - Systemic Trends in Warfare: Beyond the Decline-of-War Debate
  Bear Braumoeller (Ohio State)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 15:00 - Weaponized Interdependence: Global Monopolies as the Sources of Power
  Claas Mertens (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Saturday 29 April 2023

• 09:00 - Learning from Ukraine: origins, impacts, and lessons for peacebuilding
  Registration: this is strongly advised. It will probably be possible to walk in on the day (bring cash, Students £5, others £10, and donations are welcome) but please register in advance if possible to help with numbers for catering. Coffee/tea breaks and sandwich lunch are included.
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 13:30 - The Contribution of (Military) Psychology to the Operational Readiness of the Swiss Armed Forces
  Please note the later start time
  Professor Hubert Annen (CCW & Swiss Military Academy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Elite Murder and Popular Resistance: Evidence from Post–World War II Poland
  Krzysztof Krakowski, (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 15:00 - Global consultocracy? The politics of layering modes of global governance
  Professor Vincent Pouliot (McGill University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Revolution as Praxis: The Rise of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
  Maryam Alemzadeh, (University of Oxford)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 13:00 - From Integrated Deterrence to Integrated Defense
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Conflict and the Making and Remaking of Identities
  Ceren Lord (University of Oxford)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 15:00 - Quechua and Aymara Revolution in International Thought: An Initial Exploration
  Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:15 - CCW Annual Lecture: Peace is Poor Reading: The Postwar Army Experience
  Brian Linn (Texas A&M)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 13:00 - Disinformation and Hybrid Threats – The Singapore Perspective
  Dr Shashi Jayakumar (S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Nuclear Terrorism: What is the Threat? (Oxford Cyril Foster Lecture 2023)
  Professor Jessica Stern (Boston University)

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 15:00 - Military Medicine and Military Effectiveness
  Professor Tanisha Fazal (University of Minnesota)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 13:00 - Raising McCAIN: Challenges and Opportunities in Returning a “Mishap Ship” to Warfighting Readiness
  Captain Ryan Easterday (CCW & US Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Contextualizing Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU). A Religiously Grounded State-Sponsored Paramilitary
  Inna Rudolf (King's College London)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 13:00 - Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community
  Dr Katharine Millar (LSE)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Bin Laden Papers
  Nelly Lahoud (US Army War College)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 13:00 - North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin: The Bakura Faction and its Resistance to the Rationalisation of Jihad
  Vincent Foucher (CNRS)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Monday 12 June 2023

• 16:00 - Type of Violence and Ingroup Identity: Evidence from the Spanish Civil War
  Sergi D. Martínez Soler (Princeton)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 13:00 - Black Swans: Do we have the Culture and Will to Adapt Rapidly to Unforeseen and Potentially Catastrophic Events?
  Dr Kevin Rowlands (Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 13:00 - Contemporary Mental Health and Illness in the UKAF
  Surg. Cdr. Charlotte Evans (Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 12:30 - The past, present, and potential of economic security
  Mona Paulsen (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 13:00 - Thanks for your Service: The Causes & Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military
  Peter Feaver (Duke University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 12:30 - Opening Up By Cracking Down
  Adam Dean (George Washington University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 13:00 - Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits
  Fully Booked
  Dr Rob Geist-Pinfold (Kings College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 12:30 - Noblesse Oblige: Status Motivations and Public Support for Foreign Aid
  Marina Duque (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 13:00 - When Does the Great Game End? Long Term Geostrategic Trajectories of the Russian War Against Ukraine
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 17:00 - Ten Years of Peace Processes in Colombia
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Friday 3 November 2023

• 12:30 - How America Weaponized the World Economy
  Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins), Abraham Newman (Georgetown)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 13:00 - The Pendulum of War: Lanchester Models of Combat
  Dr Stephen Coulson
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 12:30 - Women’s Prewar Social Leadership and Collective Action After War: Evidence from Nepal
  Emily Myers (Duke)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 13:00 - Economics and National Security
  Dr Jason Shepherd (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 12:30 - Making Sense of How We Make Sense of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 18:00 - Panel Discussion: Is Realism Gendered?
  Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard (Kings College London), Dr. David Blagden (University of Exeter), Professor Laura Sjoberg (Royal Holloway University of London)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 13:00 - Cyber Deception
  Rob Black (Wilton Park)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 12:30 - Governing Market Access: Local Currency, Sovereign Debt, and the Gatekeeping Power of Index Providers
  Nataliya Naqvi (LSE), Ben Cormier (Strathclyde)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 13:00 - Cyber capacity and strategic advantage: resilience, influence, and control
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 12:30 - Governing Market Access: How Index Providers Gatekeep Local Currency Sovereign Debt
  Natalya Naqvi (LSE), Ben Cormier (Strathclyde)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 13:30 - Welding Alliances: How Allied Warship Production Could Transform the Indo-Pacific
  Please note new venue for Hilary term
  Commander Douglas Robb (US Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 12:30 - Digital Sovereignty, Economic Ideas, and the Struggle over the Digital Markets
  A light lunch will be served
  Frederic Merand (Universite de Montreal)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 13:30 - (Re)shaping Ukrainian Identity Through Linguistic Choices During Full-Scale Russo-Ukrainian War
  Dr Iryna Halasa (West Ukrainian National University and KCL)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 12:30 - Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Jordan Tama (American University (Washington DC))
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 13:30 - How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Nature
  Paul Larcey (Princeton University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 12:30 - “Public Concern for Reallocation Aid in the Presence of Alternative Donors
  A light lunch will be served
  Prof Matthew S. Winters (University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 13:30 - Defence-Economic Aspects of Russia’s Involvement in the War in Ukraine: War Economy, International Economic Relationships, Economic Warfare, and Economic Costs
  Professor Christopher Davis (Oxford Institute of Population Aging)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 12:30 - How Does Earmarked Foreign Aid Affect Recipient-Country Ownership?
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 13:30 - Military Peacekeeping Mediation: A First-Hand Account from Mali
  Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dr Dennis Gyllensporre (Swedish Defence University and CCW Visiting Fellow)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 12:30 - When Facts Polarize: Russian Information Operations and Polarization through Factual Content
  A light lunch will be served
  Zenobia Chan (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 13:30 - The Russian Challenge to Europe’s Gas Supplies this Winter and Beyond
  Dr Sidharth Kaushal (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Friday 23 February 2024

• 12:30 - IR Theory for the 21st Century (Or How to Take Nature Seriously
  NOTE DIFFERENT TIME & LOCATION A light lunch will be served
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 13:30 - Book Launch: British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony
  Dr William D. James (KCL and CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 12:30 - Expert Preferences for Carbon Pricing in the Developing World
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Federica Genovese (Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 13:30 - AI and Machine Learning in OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)
  Sam Pearce (Fivecast)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 12:30 - The Concept and Reality of Norms in International Relations
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Anette Stimmer (University of St Andrews)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 April 2024

• 09:30 - Multi-level Mediation, Negotiation and Diplomacy: Training Workshop
  This Workshop is now full, and you will be put on a waiting list. Please note it occupies two full days, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 April, ending 17.30 on 20 April.
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 13:30 - Some new insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 13:30 - “Out of the Blue”: The mirroring fallacy and the navies of today
  Lt Cdr Andrew Ward (CCW & Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Friday 3 May 2024

• 17:15 - Humanitarian Aid in Autocracies: the risk of Compromised Neutrality
  Inaugural Seminar for Dr Sauter as Levin Junior Research Fellow in Peace Studies at LMH, celebrating the first post in Peace Studies at Oxford. Followed by drinks.
  Dr Melanie Sauter (University of Oxford)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 13:30 - The Shifting Global Terrorism and Extremism Landscape: A View from Southeast Asia
  Prof. Kumar Ramakrishna (RSIS Singapore)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 12:30 - World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order
  Michael Williams (University of Ottawa), Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 13:30 - Open-Source Intelligence: what is it for, where did it come from and what is standing in its way?
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 12:30 - Market Integration and Governance: How Globalization Spurred a Backlash Against Itself
  Judy Goldstein (Stanford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Saturday 18 May 2024

• 09:00 - New Actors and the Changing Field of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
  Arrivals from 09.00, Conference starts 09.20. Coffee breaks and sandwich lunch provided. You are invited to contribute on the door - £5 for students/unwaged. others £10. Cash is preferred. Bank details will be available. Cheques accepted! Walk-ins on the day are welcome but to assist organisation please register:
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 13:30 - Spy and Tell: Why are governments publicly sharing more intelligence secrets than ever before
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London), Thomas Maguire (Leiden)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 13:30 - Inter-alliance Security Dilemmas: Korean Counterforce Systems and Their Effect on the Sino- American Nuclear Competition
  Change to termcard
  Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 13:30 - Rare Earths, Meteorites and Magnets
  Prof. Lindsay Greer (Cambridge)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 13:30 - "Slow Slicing" - How China's asymmetric tactics build the Great Rejuvenation
  Dr Sari Arho Harvén (Business Finland)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 12:30 - Sanction Spillover and Trade Diversification
  Christina L. Davis (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 13:30 - Strategic Defence Review
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 12:30 - Identity and the Social Construction of Reputation in World Politics
  Jonathan Renshon (UW-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 13:30 - Dams, Canals, and Elephants in the Room: Threats of Water Conflict in Central Asia
  Sophie Ibbotson (World Bank)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 12:30 - Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances
  Catherine De Vries (Bocconi University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 13:30 - Israel’s flawed strategy in the war in Gaza
  Online talk
  Dr Ehud Eilam
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 12:30 - Infrastructural Vanguards and the Problem of Connectivity Under Anarchy
  Andrew Dougall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 13:30 - Implementing AI systems in Government
  Julian von Nehammer (LILT)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 12:30 - Credibility of Issue Linkage: How Treaty Recognition Unites Firms and Activists in Promoting Trade Liberalization
  Boram Lee (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 13:30 - CANCELLED: Integrated Deterrence
  Seminar cancelled
  Nicholas Taylor (DSTL)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 12:30 - Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
  Prof Larry Helfer will be joining online
  Başak Çalı (University of Oxford), Laurence Helfer (Duke)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 13:30 - Drones in Ukraine and beyond – A revolution in warfare?
  Ulrike Franke (ECFR)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Paradox of International Adjudication
  Geraldo Vidigal (Amsterdam)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 13:30 - The threat posed by commercial UAVs modified by asymmetrical warfare actors
  Dr Chris Lavers (University of Lincoln)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 12:30 - Diplomatic Pressure, Policy Autonomy, and Human Rights Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment at the United Nations
  Avery Schmidt (Brown)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 13:30 - Under the Radar: NATO staff in the strategy formation process
  Leanne Iorio (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 13:30 - Artificial Intelligence: Recent developments and the implications for defence and security
  Al Brown
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 13:30 - A New Axis of Upheaval? North Korea, Russia, China, and others—why we should care
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 13:30 - The development of sea power thought in the early to mid Cold War
  Andrew Livsey (Kings College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 13:30 - AI in strategic decision-making
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 13:30 - China's Private Security Sector at a Crossroads: From Pakistan to Myanmar.
  Dr Alessandro Arduino (King's College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 12:30 - Damage Control: Accountability and Evasion in International Law
  TBA
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 13:30 - The Impact of AI & Emerging Technologies on Future Defence Strategy
  Dr Robert Hercock (British Telecommunications Security Research Practice)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 12:30 - The Politics of Green Consumerism
  Anouk Rigterink (Durham University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 13:30 - Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:30 - Advisers in Foreign Policy
  Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 14 March 2025

• 12:30 - American Economic Coercion and Elite Re-Globalization
  Lorenzo Crippa (University of Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy. Day 1 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk Places will be limited. This workshop is now fully subscribed, but you are welcome to apply and be on the waiting list. Note change of venue from St John's to the Pavilion Room, St Antony's.
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events
• 20:15 - Peacemaking in Trouble
  Matt Waldman
  OxPeace Events

Friday 21 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy, Day 2 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk This two-day Workshop is now full, but you are welcome to apply (send your brief CV, contact details, and brief statement of why you wish to participate to Devika) and be on the waiting list. Note the venue is now St Antony's, not St John's.
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 13:30 - Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
  Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:30 - Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
  Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series