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China’s Stance on NSG Membership Shows the Extent of India’s Challenge in the Global Nuclear Order
Amidst tensions on the Sino-Indian border, the School’s Kate Sullivan de Estrada, together with Nicola Leveringhaus of King’s College London, argues that China perceives an Indian threat in the global nuclear order https://
Dr Chaisty published a new article on presidential coalitions in Ukraine
Dr Paul Chaisty and Sviltana Chernykh have just published a new article on presidential coalitions in Ukraine.
Jennifer Holdaway speaks on environmental and social justice at Fudan University
On Monday 19 June 2017, Jennifer Holdaway gave a talk to faculty and students at Fudan University in Shanghai titled "Balancing environmental and social justice: the implications of stronger environmental protection for rural-urban inequality."
Former REES MSc Student publishes in Laboratorium
Former REES MSc student Eline Helmer publishes in the distinguished online journal Laboratorium.
Dr Chaisty published a new article on public attitudes towards nationalism in Putin’s Russia
Dr Paul Chaisty & Prof Stephen Whitefield publish a new article on public attitudes towards nationalism in Putin’s Russia.
Coraline Goron is joining the China Centre in MT17 to work with Prof Anna Lora-Wainwright supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Philippe Wiener - Maurice Anspach Foundation
She will work on a project titled: @huanjing: The New frontiers of the State and the Politics of Environmental Conflict Resolution in China
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BBC 4 Programme - The Art of Japanese Life
Just in case you missed it Alex Kerr who gave a talk here on 1st March 2017 called Collapsing Rural Japan - A New Approach for Revival appears in the BBC 4 programme “
Nobusuke Tokura, SVP, NTCE, represents Nissan at Routledge Series anniversary at Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford University
Nobusuke Tokura, Senior Vice President of Nissan Technical Centre Europe, represented Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., at a celebration at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies on May 19th, 2017 to commemorate the 100th volume of the Institute’s Routledge Series.
Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at BIICL conference on the political factors driving China’s international trade engagement with the UK and EU after the Brexit decision
Paul Irwin Crookes contributed to a conference entitled ‘Brexit, China and Other New Challenges to International Trade Law’, hosted by SOAS and co-organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London and t
A Level students visit the African Studies Centre
On 9th May, A level History students from Wexham School in Slough visited the African Studies Centre. The students are studying South African history and met Professor William Beinart, w
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Podcast- African Studies Annual Lecture- Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima
Listen to the African Studies Annual Lecture podcast- Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima
African Studies Annual Lecture Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima
Watch the African Studies Annual Lecture Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima here
New article published on Parents' Migration and Children's Subjective Well-being and Health: Evidence from Rural China by Rachel Murphy, Minhui Zhou and Ran Tao
Rachel Murphy and her colleagues from Renmin University, Minhui Zhou and Ran Tao have just published an article on the implications of parents' rural-urban labour migration for the subjective wellbeing and health of the children 'left behind'.
Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in an Era of Technological Change: Security, Economic and Cultural Dimensions
A new book edited by Paul Irwin Crookes and Jan Knoerich has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan’s St Antony’s Series.
NEW BOOK BY MIGUEL CARTER ON BRAZIL’S MST
Miguel Carter, a former Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies and St Antony’s alum, has recently published Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil with Duke University Press.
GlobalPost journalist Robert Foyle Hunwick interviewed Dr. Jenny Chan on 19 May 2015 for an article entitled “Desperate Chinese are turning to mass suicide to get their government’s attention."
…“When the pre-existing grievance mechanisms fail to work, some aggrieved laborers may take direct actions to protest against injustice,” said Dr. Jenny Chan, an expert on Chinese labor studies at the University of Oxford.
NEW BOOK FROM TRACY FENWICK
Tracy Beck Fenwick (Australian National University), a former St Antony’s student and LAC affiliate, has just published Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina with the University of Notre Dame Press.
Great Results at Wolfson College's WIN Pitch Event
Bhumi Purohit, a M.Sc. student in the Contemporary India Studies program (2014-15), recently co-presented a business plan for H2Ox at Wolfson College's WIN Pitch event.