Past events
Mr Mothercountry: Colonialism and the rule of law
PRESENTED BY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE
One of the most interesting areas of scholarship in recent years has been the relationship between colonialism and the rule of law. Several...
Islamic Nationalism: The Armed Resistance of Patani Malays in Southern Thailand
Abstract This research investigates the transformations of political ideologies of contemporary liberation movements in southern Thailand. The year 2004 marked a dramatic surge of violent...
Political Authority in Vietnam: Is the Vietnamese communist party a paper leviathan?
Abstract In a contribution to the political analysis of contemporary Vietnam, a single-Party state, this paper seeks to provide an understanding of the Vietnamese term ‘authority’ (‘uy’) and its...
Not ‘When’ World Government but ‘Why?’ The Centrality of Institutional Moral Purpose in Theorising Global Political Integration
Questions around how to define or more broadly conceptualise an integrated global institutional order have become increasingly salient as academic interest in world government, the world state and...
Moderator or manipulator? Norodom Sihanouk and the nature of UN authority-building in Cambodia (1992-93)
Abstract Evaluations of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia make little mention of a contentious proposal that almost led to the amendment of UNTAC’s mandate: To safeguard...
Japan's Security Renaissance: New Directions in Regional and US-Japan Relations
For decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potential leadership role in regional and...
Political settlements and their trajectories
Over the last decade, international development policies, most notably in the UK, have advanced ‘political settlements’ as a framing concept to guide statebuilding practice in fragile and conflict...
Does Australia Really Want a Rules-Based International Order?
This seminar will enquire into the notable shift in rhetoric on the part of the Australian government from that of support for ‘international law’ to that of support for a ‘rules-based...
Prospects for the Rules-Based Global Order
The two-decade period of United States post-Cold War predominance is now over, and an era of greater multipolarity has begun. Many fear that the rise of China and a resurgent Russia will bring...
The Politics of Resentment in the Contemporary United States
What is the nature of current right-wing populism in the United States? In this talk, Cramer will draw on her extensive ethnography of rural voters in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin to help...
