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Panel Discussion 'The age of the strongman: populism and authoritarianism in global politics' |
A discussion on leaders and populism with Lord Patten, Gideon Rachman, Margaret MacMillan and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
Lord Patten of Barnes, Gideon Rachman, Margaret MacMillan, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
07 Dec 2022 |
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Authoritarian Constitutionalism with Paul Fisher |
Grace Mallon talks to Paul Fisher, a practising barrister and academic lawyer, about his research into constitutional law in post-Soviet non-democracies. |
Grace Mallon, Paul Fisher |
25 Mar 2022 |
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The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures |
Professor Sami Zemni (Ghent) gives a talk on the Tunisian Revolution on its 10 year anniversary. Part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series, chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Anthony's College). |
Sami Zemni |
18 Nov 2020 |
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Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Maryam Alemzadeh, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi |
04 Nov 2020 |
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The Dictatorship Syndrome |
Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Dictatorship Syndrome (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) |
Alaa Al Aswany, Eugene Rogan |
23 Oct 2020 |
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Performance and Power in Delhi |
The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019 has ushered in a new form of politics in India. |
Akash Bhattacharya, Harsh Mander, Abhik Chimni, Neha Dixit |
02 Oct 2020 |
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A President for Dark Times: the Age of Reason Meets the Age of Trump |
An analysis of the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s presidency against the backdrop and contrast of the European Enlightenment’s influence on the Founders of the United States. |
Strobe Talbott |
02 May 2019 |
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Battling for (In)justice: Resurgent Authoritarianism, Ongoing Conflict, and Transitional Justice in the Arab Region |
Transitional justice scholarship and practice has predominantly operated on the assumption that transitions entail a shift from violent, authoritarian rule to liberal, democratic rule. |
Noha Aboueldahab |
15 Jan 2019 |
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A Vote for Authoritarianism? Reflections of Singapore's 2015 General Election |
Pingtjin Thum (Research Associate, Centre for Global History; Coordinator, Project Southeast Asia) speaks at the Southeast Asia seminar on 21st October 2015. |
Pingtjin Thum |
08 Dec 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
Panel 4: Old State, New Rules: Praetorian Parliamentarism: The Contradictions of Egypt's Post-revolutionary Experiment |
Alexander Kazamias conceptualises the Egyptian revolution as an incomplete process of socio-political transformation, having so far only partially changed the postcolonial Egyptian state. |
Alexander Kazamias |
25 May 2012 |
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952) |
Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952. |
Isaiah Berlin |
14 Apr 2009 |
