Professors Susan Park examines the rise, spread and efficacy of accountability mechanisms that have been created by Multilateral Development Banks in order to redress the negative impacts of development.

This book launch will bring in conversation Nicolas Lemay-Hebert (ANU Coral Bell School), Rosa Freedman (University of Reading), and Siobhan Wills (Ulster University) over their recently published book The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping: Foregrounding Human Rights by Cambridge University Press.

Dr Ba will talk about his new book, States of Justice, which theorises the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests

The book explores U.S. military doctrine and asks why and how the U.S. military emphasised civilian protection in the late 20th century.

In this talk, Adam Moore details the scale and scope of the development post 9/11 in the US, as well as the resulting effects

This seminar aims to to try and examine the broader implications for international relations, defence policy, and civil-military relations of this somewhat obscure moment in political history.

Chris Reus-Smit advances a more adequate theorisation of the liberal state, clarifies the distinctive social bordering practices that attend such states, and explains how these practices structured the organisation of political authority within liberal states and the international order.

Roundtable discussion centered around rights of indigenous people and decolonisation practices in protecting rights of Indigenous people.