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SUMMARY:IMF: Long overdue reforms? Sri Lanka as a case study
DESCRIPTION:Register \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_afZUIcnYTSO_FMUyFTviSA \nEvent description \nAlmost 80 years on from its date of establishment\, the IMF stands at a crossroads. The questions to be asked must include: what reforms would be needed in ensuring that the IMF remains fit for purpose and a relevant player in the 21st century\, and is the IMF ready to undertake such reforms? This panel\, featuring veteran\, highly renowned academics\, bureaucrats\, and experts\, draws upon Sri Lanka as a particular case in point for the examination of these questions. \nIn 1948\, Sri Lanka was one of the best economies in Asia. It was also the first country to open up access to its domestic market and economy in South Asia\, long before India or Vietnam. Today\, Sri Lanka is a bankrupt nation. It declared bankruptcy for the first time in April 2022. The country reserves almost hit zero last year\, with debt standing at 128% to its GDP. Currently\, Sri Lanka is on its 17th IMF program. The IMF is faced with the issue of implementing tough reforms and concluding the external debt restructuring process for the country. With elections due next year\, it is tempting for Sri Lankan politicians to adopt populist policies instead. Can the IMF place Sri Lanka on the right path? \nPanelists (see their bios through links):\nDr Brian Wong (moderator): Assistant Professor in Philosophy\, HKU; Oxford Global Society Fellow \nDr. Nandalal Weerasinghe Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka \nDr. Sharmini Coorey Former IMF Director & Sri Lankan Presidential Advisory Group Member \nDr. Reza Baqir Former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and Senior Fellow at Harvard \nMr. Talal Rafi Economist & IMF Columnist\, Expert Member of the World Economic Forum\, OXGS Fellow \n 
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/imf-long-overdue-reforms-sri-lanka-as-a-case-study/
CATEGORIES:Governance & Law,Political Economy
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SUMMARY:Putney Debates 2023: Democracy in crisis?
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Registration https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v0qIgUToRSCBV1kA-G-nzg \nThe purpose of Putney Debates 2023 is to examine claims\, now much announced and seemingly widely shared\, that democracy is in trouble and in danger of collapsing\, not only in the more fragile and unstable nations\, but in the ancient home grounds\, including the United Kingdom and the United States. \nThe aims of the debates are (i) to examine critically the claims of democracy being in crisis\, with reference to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth\, Europe generally\, and the United States of America\, (ii) followed by review of the situation in several regions\, Africa\, India\, South America\, and Central & Eastern Europe. \nFor more information\, please download the Programme of Putney Debates 2023 \n3.00pm BST 09/05/2023  \nOpening lecture     \nRichard Clary  Fellow OXGS\, Lecturer on Law\, Harvard Law School \n\n4.30pm BST 09/05/2023  \nPanel 1: Leadership in democratic systems \n(Moderator) DJ Galligan   Director Oxford Global Society\, Professor Emeritus Oxford University \nFui Tsikata BCL Oxford\, Member Advisory Board OXGS\, Senior lawyer and formerly teaching at University of Ghana \nVlad Perju Professor at Boston College Law School \nBogdan Iancu Fellow OXGS\, Associate Professor Bucharest University \nIris Canor Associate Professor at Striks School of Law\, Colman Israel \n\n3.30 pm BST 10/05/2023 \nPanel 2: Institutions of government and their role in democracy \n(Moderator) Richard Clary Fellow OXGS\, Lecturer on Law\, Harvard Law School \nPaul Craig   Professor Emeritus Oxford University\, Fellow of British Academy \nSionaidh Douglas-Scott Fellow OXGS\, Professor Queen Mary University of London\, Honorary research fellow at Lady Margaret Hall\, Oxford University \nRuzha Smilova Associate Professor at Sofia University Bulgaria \nFrank Vibert Fellow OXGS\, Associate CARR Centre\, LSE \n\n3.30 pm BST 11/05/ 2023  \nPanel 3: Electoral systems and political parties \n(Moderator) Daniel Smilov  Fellow OXGS\, DPhil Oxford\, Associate Professor at Sofia University\, Bulgaria \nNicole Stremlau  Head of the Comparative Media Law & Policy Programme\, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies\, Oxford University and Research Professor\, University of Johannesburg \nFernando Casal Bertoa Associate professor\, Nottingham University \nJurij Toplak  Professor of law\, Alma Mater Europaea and Fordham University \nMarcin Walecki  DPhil Oxford\, Director National Democratic Institute Ukraine \n\n5:00PM BST\, 11th May 2023 \nConcluding LectureHon Malcolm Turnbull  AC\, BCL Oxford\, Fellow Brasenose College Oxford\, Former Prime Minister of Australia \n\nBefore 5th May 2023 \nRegional lectures pre-recoded and uploaded to OXGS YouTube channel and OXGS Website \nPedro Fortes DPhil Oxford\, Professor UCAM Law School\, Brazil \nZim Nwokor DPhil Oxford\,  Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies\, Deakin University\, Australia \nAngana Chatterji  Co-Chair Initiative on Political Conflict\, Gender and People’s Rights and Research Anthropologist\, Centre for Race & Gender\, University of California\, Berkeley
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/putney-debates-2023-democracy-in-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Good Friday Agreement at 25: The troubled past and the uncertain future
DESCRIPTION:Seminar registration:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FkNdE1vWRwS-BGg_6HohkA \nThe 10 April 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA)\, which is responsible in large part for bringing peace in Northern Ireland. It was agreed when both the UK and Ireland were in the EU’s single market and Customs Union. Brexit has challenged that settlement. The Northern Ireland Protocol\, together with amendments by the Windsor Framework\, are intended to reconcile the UK’s leaving the single market and the customs union with two seemingly incompatible objectives: one ensuring there is no North-South border\, ie\, between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; the other ensuring there is no West-East border\, ie\, between the rest of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.  The second has proved to be particularly difficult. The aim of this seminar is to look at: (1) how we have got the position we are currently in and (2) what may be the future for the Good Friday Agreement and its implications. \nModerator \nProf. Catherine Barnard: FBA\, FLSW\, FRSA\, Professor of EU law and Employment Law at Cambridge University; Advisory Board member of Oxford Global Society. \nPanelists \nSir Ivor Roberts: KCMG\, FCIL\, Former British Ambassador in Belgrade\, Dublin and Rome; former President of Trinity College Oxford University; Advisory Board member of Oxford Global Society. \nProf. Marianne Elliott: Blair Chair\, OBE\, FBA\, FRHistS\, Professor Emerita and former Director of The Institute of Irish Studies\, University of Liverpool. \nProf. Christopher McCrudden: FBA\, Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen’s University Belfast and William W Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Until 2011\, he was Professor of Human Rights Law at Oxford University. \nMr. Alan Doss: Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations; former President of Kofi Annan Foundation; Chairman of the Advisory Board of Oxford Global Society. \nDr. Niamh Gallagher: Associate Professor in Modern British and Irish History\, Fellow of St Catharine’s College\, Cambridge University. Her book\, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History\, won the Royal Historical Society’s 2020 Whitfield Prize.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/good-friday-agreement-at-25-the-troubled-past-and-the-uncertain-future/
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SUMMARY:Governing cross-border data flows: International trade agreements and their limits
DESCRIPTION:Registration Link \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZX51qhyWQlCKbzyxS1VAIA \n\nModerator:\nDr. Christopher Decker (Research Fellow at Oxford University\, OXGS Fellow) \nSpeakers:\nProf. Susan Ariel Aaronson (Research Professor and the Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at George Washington University\, USA) \nProf. Mira Burri (Professor of International Economic and Internet Law\, University of Lucerne\, Switzerland) \nDr. Yik Chan Chin (Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University\, China; OXGS Associate Fellow) \nDr. Mansi Kedia (Senior Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations\, India) \n\nEvent description:\nThe increasing digitisation of the economy and the emergence of global e-commerce have focused attention on the rules governing the cross-border flow of data. Currently\, the rules for cross-border data sharing in different jurisdictions reflect a balancing of various rights\, interest\, and wider policy considerations (such as privacy\, security and economic integration). The US has chosen to actively promote the free flow of data across borders. The EU has adopted more stringent rules that prioritise the protection of personal data rights through the GDPR. China’s cross-border data flow policy is closely tied with data sovereignty\, national security and increasingly personal data protection. The rules in developing countries can often reflect industry policy considerations. \nThe different approaches to cross-border data flows raises two fundamental questions for international trade agreements. First\, is the different data governance paradigms of major trading countries such as the US\, China and the EU creating a new “digital divide” and restricting trade\, including between developed and developing economies? Second\, can (or should) any form of international cooperation on cross-border data sharing rules emerge through bilateral or regional trade agreements or is it possible for a multilateral and uniform international agreement on cross-border data flows? \nAmong the main topics that will be discussed in the webinar are: \n\nWhat are the main considerations that have shaped the rules for cross-border data sharing in major economies such as the US/EU/China and elsewhere?\nWhat are the areas of difference/divergence between the cross-border data rules in US/EU/China and elsewhere?\nHow feasible is the idea of developing a common international approach to cross-border data sharing\, and what would need to happen to enable some convergence of the rules or to develop a common approach?\nWhat institutional arrangements would need to be created to monitor and implement such common approach?\nWhat are the risks of not developing a common international approach: will it lead to a digital divide? Would bilateral or regional trade agreements be adequate?\n\n\nBios of moderator/speakers \n \nChristopher Decker has over 20 years’ experience as a professional economist during which time he has combined an academic career with practical advisory work for government bodies\, regulators and private clients. He is currently a Research Fellow specialising in law and economics and regulation at Oxford University. Christopher sits on a number of advisory panels including the UK Competition and Markets Authority academic panel; the UK Better Regulation Executive Network of Experts; an Expert Group of the United Nations Global Water Programme; and the Expert Panel of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. \n \nSusan Ariel Aaronson is a Research Professor and the Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at the George Washington University. The Hub maps the governance of personal\, public and proprietary data around the world and examines how it affects data driven tech\, human autonomy and human rights.  The Hub also trains policymakers in data-governance\, digital trade and emerging tech such as XR.  She is also a Senior Fellow at CIGI. She is the author of  6 books and numerous articles on digital trade\, data governance\, human rights\, corruption\, and good governance. \n \nMira Burri is Professor of International Economic and Internet Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne\, Switzerland. She teaches international intellectual property\, media\, internet and trade law. Mira’s current research interests are in the areas of digital trade\, culture\, copyright\, data protection and data governance. Mira is the principal investigator of the project ‘Trade Law 4.0’ (ERC Consolidator Grant 2021–2026). She consults the European Parliament\, UNESCO\, the WEF and others on issues of digital innovation and cultural diversity. Mira has co-edited the publications Trade Governance in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press 2012) and Big Data and Global Trade Law (Cambridge University Press 2021). She is the author of Public Service Broadcasting 3.0: Legal Design for the Digital Present (Routledge 2015). \n \nYik Chan Chin  is Associate Professor at School of Journalism and Communication of Beijing Normal University. She teaches cyberspace governance\, digital media law and ethics. Her current research areas include  comparative data governance\,  digital platform governance\, and digital media regulations and law.  She participates in the UN’s Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (OWEG)\, and is also individual member of ICANN’s APRALO and MSG member of the Asian Pacific Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and China IGF. Her major interdisciplinary research papers are published in Political Science\, Communication and Law journals.  Her latest article is on “Governing Cross-Border Data Flows: International Trade Agreements and Their Limits” (Laws\, 2022).  She is the author of  Television Regulation and Media Policy in China (Routledge\, 2016&7). \n \nMansi Kedia is Senior Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. She has over 12 years of experience in policy research. Her areas of research include digital and telecommunication policy\, tax and industrial policy. She has published papers/ reports on telecom and Internet regulations\, impact of information technology including emerging technologies such as AI in India. She was appointed as a member of the Task Force rewriting the Direct Tax Code for India (2017). She is currently a Mid-Career Fellow of the Internet Society. She also has a background in management consulting and financial services with close to four years of experience in the private sector. She received her B.Sc. in Economics from St. Xavier’s\, Kolkata and an MBA from the Indian School of Business\, Hyderabad. Her PhD is from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade\, New Delhi.
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SUMMARY:The era of digital surveillance: Authoritarianism vs. Democracy?
DESCRIPTION:Registration Link \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BBNstHr1TmyczDYdf7Lcrw \n  \nEvent description \nDigital surveillance\, carried out by both governments and technology companies\, has become common practice around the world. Surveillance technologies\, such as facial recognition\, are widely used for many purposes including making online payment\, verifying identity\, and public security. During the Covid-19 pandemic\, many countries have used surveillance technologies to track the spread of the virus. As in other areas of international affairs\, there is an increasing tendency in the West to frame\, analyse\, and discuss digital surveillance as authoritarianism vs. democracy. Oxford Global Society (OXGS) brings together leading analysts to examine the following issues: \n(1) How are governments around the world using and relying on surveillance technologies? What are the roles of technology companies in governments’ surveillance schemes? \n(2) What are the main factors (such as culture\, state-society relations) that shape the public’s views about digital surveillance in their daily lives in different countries? \n(3) When it comes to “digital authoritarianism”\, China is often the focus of discussion. How different are the practices of the Chinese government from that of Western world? \n(4) Does the division between authoritarianism vs. democracy help in understanding the practices of digital surveillance? \n  \nModerator:  \nDenis Galligan  OXGS Director; Emeritus Professor at Oxford University \nSpeakers: \nRalph Schroeder    Professor at Oxford Internet Institute (OII\, Oxford University); Programme Director of the MSc in Social Science of the Internet and Senior Research Fellow at OII. \nRalph Schroeder was formerly Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg (Sweden). He completed his PhD about Max Weber at the LSE in 1988. His publications include Rethinking Science\, Technology and Social Change (Stanford University Press\, 2007) and Being There Together: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments (Oxford University Press\, 2010). He is also the author of ‘An Age of Limits: Social Theory for the 21st Century’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and\, with Eric T. Meyer\, of ‘Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities’ (MIT Press 2015). His most recent book is ‘Social Theory after the Internet‘ and he is also working on big data in the social sciences. \nJinghan Zeng    Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University (UK); Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute; OXGS Fellow. \n \nProfessor Zeng’s research lies in the field of China’s domestic and international politics. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics: National Strategy\, Security and Authoritarian Governance (2022)\, Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party’s Capacity to Rule: Ideology\, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt\, One Road\, One Story? Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021). He has published over twenty refereed articles in leading journals of politics\, international relations and area studies including The Pacific Review\, Journal of Contemporary China\, International Affairs\, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies\, and Third World Quarterly. \nHe draws on his research to connect with audiences beyond academia. He frequently appears in TV and radio broadcasts including the BBC\, ABC Australia\, Al Jazeera\, Voice of America\, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)\, Russia Today (RT)\, China Central Television (CCTV) and China Global Television Network (CGTN). He has been quoted in print/online publications including Financial Times\, Forbes\, South China Morning Post\, PULSO and TODAY. He has written op-ed articles for The Diplomat\, BBC(Chinese)\, The Conversation\, Policy Forum among others. Before his academic career\, he worked for the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York City. \nDaniel Smilov   Associate professor of Political Theory at the Political Science Department\, University of Sofia (Bulgaria); OXGS Fellow. \nDr. Daniel Smilov is a comparative constitutional lawyer and political scientist.  He is also programme director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies\, Sofia\, and recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University\, Budapest/Vienna. He holds doctorates from the University of Oxford (DPhil\, 2003) and the Central European University\, Budapest (SJD\, 1999). Daniel has held research positions and fellowships at the Centre for Policy Studies at the Central European University and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute\, Florence. Dr. Smilov is author of numerous academic publications on topics of comparative constitutional law\, party and campaign finance and the politics of contemporary populists. He has weekly columns in the Bulgarian press and is a regular commentator on Bulgarian politics in the media.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/digital-surveillance-authoritarianism-vs-democracy/
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CATEGORIES:Digital Technologies & Governance,Global Politics
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SUMMARY:Russia-Ukraine War: The West vs. The Rest?
DESCRIPTION:Event description\nThe Russia-Ukraine war has lasted for months and could last for years. At the beginning of the war\, many Western politicians and media reports claimed that “The world is united against Russian invasion”\, which soon turned out to be a fallacy. As many commentators in the West now acknowledge\, in terms of condemning and sanctioning Russia\, it is largely The West vs. The Rest. This divide reflects the geopolitical tensions of the world and casts an ominous cloud over the direction of the war\, given that both sides have their military and/or economic support from other countries. We bring leading analysts from both the Western and non-Western worlds to understand better different perspectives about the ongoing Ukraine war and global politics\, and to analyse the reasons behind “the West vs. the Rest” divide and the implications for the world. \nRegistration Link\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IMve8ZJgQK-F470oUF1pnQ\nChair/moderator \nSir Ivor Roberts (former British ambassador in Belgrade\, Dublin and Rome; former president of Trinity College\, Oxford University; Oxford Global Society Advisory Board member) \nSpeakers\nProf. Robert Wade (Professor of global political economy at the LSE\, UK) \nProf. Adebayo Olukoshi (Distinguished Professor at the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witswatersrand\, South Africa) \nDr. Julie Newton (Director of the University Consortium & Research Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford University) \nMr. Praveen Donthi (Senior Analyst for India\, Crisis Group) \nDr. Zhao Hai (Director of international political studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) \n \nBios of speakers\n \nSir Ivor Robert read Modern Languages at Keble College\, Oxford. From 1968-2006 he worked in the British Diplomatic Service  in Lebanon\, Paris\, Luxembourg\, Canberra\, Vanuatu\, was Minister in the British Embassy in Madrid and Ambassador in Belgrade\, Dublin and Rome. On his retirement from the Diplomatic Service\, he was elected President of Trinity College\, Oxford\, a post he held for 11 years till 2017.  Sir Ivor is an Honorary Fellow of Keble College and Trinity College Oxford\, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (FCIL)\, a Patron of the Venice in Peril Fund and was Chairman of the Council of the British School of Archaeology and Fine Art in Rome (2007-12). He currently chairs the Trustees of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Ivor also sits on the Advisory Board of Oxford Global Society. \nIn 2009\, he published as editor and major contributor the first new edition for 30 years of the classic reference book on diplomacy ‘Satow’s Diplomatic Practice’ (Oxford University Press). A further edition appeared in 2017 and he is actively preparing a new (8th) edition due to appear in 2023. His memoir of his time in Belgrade during the Bosnian war and the Kosovo crisis\, ‘Conversations with Milosevic’ appeared in 2016. \n  \n \nRobert H. Wade is professor of global political economy at the London School of Economics. His central interest is in Adam Smith-type questions about the level and distribution of material well-being on a global scale.  He was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought\, 2008.  His book Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asia’s Industrialization (Princeton University Press\, 1990\, 2004)  won the American Political Science Association’s award of Best Book in Political Economy for 1989-91.  He was a founding member of the Financial Times’ “Economists’ Forum”\, described as “50 of the world’s most influential economists.” Professor Wade worked at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University)\,  the World Bank\, Princeton University\,  MIT\, and Brown University.  Fieldwork in Pitcairn Island\, Italy\, India\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Iceland\, and inside the World Bank and IMF. \n  \n \nAdebayo Olukoshi is a Distinguished Professor at the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg\, South Africa\, and an Honorary Professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Edinburgh\, UK. \nHe has previously served as the Director for Africa and West Asia at International IDEA\, Director of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning\, Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa\, Research Programme Coordinator at the Nordic Africa Institute\, Senior Programme Staff at the inter-governmental South Centre\, and Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Ahmadu Bello University and a doctorate from Leeds University. His current field of research is centred on the interface of democracy\, governance\, and development. \n  \n \nBased at Oxford University\, Dr Julie Newton is Director of the University Consortium\, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, bringing together six universities in the US\, the EU and Russia – Harvard\, Columbia\, Oxford\, Sciences Po and\, until the war\, MGIMO and HSE– to promote engagement between Russia and Western countries.   \nShe is also a Research Fellow at Oxford in the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College\, where she specializes in Russian foreign policy and Russia-US-EU relations.  In addition\, she is an Associate Professor at the American University of Paris\, France; and in the US\, she is a frequent Visiting Professor at Colorado College where she is currently teaching. Until February 2022\, she also had a teaching post in Moscow in the MGIMO-MGU International Master’s Program in Post-Soviet Politics. Her authored books include Russia\, France\, and the Idea of Europe (Palgrave\, 2003) and Institutions\, Ideas\, and Leadership in Russian Politics (Palgrave\, 2011\, with Dr William Tompson).  \n  \n \nPraveen Donthi is a Senior Analyst for India at Crisis Group. He is responsible for analysing existing and emerging conflict situations in India through primary research\, ground reporting and analysis. His work illuminates how domestic political calculus and regional great power rivalries come together to shape the region and India’s role in it. \nPraveen has been a journalist for over fifteen years in India. He has reported intensively on politics\, the intersection of business and politics\, separatist and sub-nationalist conflicts\, and caste and religious violence across the country. Before joining Crisis Group in 2021\, he was deputy political editor with The Caravan\, an independent monthly magazine in New Delhi. He has a Master’s and MPhil in modern history from Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi. \n  \n \nDr. Zhao Hai is director of international political studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (NIGS-CASS)\, one of the top government-affiliated think-tanks. He also serves as a senior research fellow and member of the Academic Committee of the Grandview Institution. \nDr. Zhao specialises in China-US relations\, China’s foreign policy\, and global governance. Besides academic publications\, he is a frequent international affairs opinion contributor to China’s mainstream media.  Previously\, Dr. Zhao worked as a research fellow at the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University (NSI)\, and held various positions at think tanks in Chicago and Washington D.C. in the United States. Dr. Zhao graduated from Peking University with a dual bachelor’s degree in history and law\, and later with a master’s degree in Asia-Pacific regional studies. Dr. Zhao obtained his PhD in international history from the University of Chicago.
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SUMMARY:The geopolitics of global high-tech standards: Key issues and debates
DESCRIPTION:Event description\nGlobal standards for critical and emerging digital technologies (CETs\, such as 5G and AI) will play an increasingly crucial role in the adoption and governance of these technologies. In recent years\, many countries/regions such as the US\, China\, and the EU have laid down standards strategies or industry policies\, aiming to maintain or pursue global leadership in international standards-setting for CETs. Among them\, China has stepped up its efforts in participating in the negotiation of global technology standards since around 2015. The US and the EU have enhanced their cooperation in technology standard setting through the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) framework and emphasised partnership with countries (such as Japan and South Korea) in line with shared democratic values. This webinar aims to facilitate dialogue and an exchange of views among leading policy analysts and industry experts from major players in international standards-setting—from the US\, China\, Europe and others. Panellists will discuss challenges to and solutions for international cooperation around global standardisation for selected CETs\, as well as the consequences of non-cooperation in this area. \nRegistration link:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-fz5ScG1RKmq53r-FqDtbA\nChair/moderator \nProf. Robin Mansell FAcSS\, FBA (Professor\, Department of Media and Communications\, LSE) \nSpeakers\nProf. Milton Mueller (Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Public Policy and School of Cybersecurity and Privacy\, United States) \nMr. Thomas Li (President of Industry Standardisation\, Huawei\, China) \nProf. Andrea Renda (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels & Professor of Digital Policy of the European University Institute in Florence) \nDr. June Park (Fung Global Fellow of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University) \nDr. Scott Kennedy (Senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)) \nDr. Baisheng An (Associate Fellow at the China Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) & former head of the Chinese delegation for the WTO negotiations on technical barriers and standardisation) \nMs Claire Milne MBE (senior visiting Fellow at the LSE\, independent consultant on telecommunication policies\, senior advisor for OXGS Digital Cluster) \n \nBios of speakers\n \nRobin Mansell\, FAcSS\, FBA\, is Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on media and communications regulation and policy\, internet governance\, privacy and surveillance\, digital platforms\, socio-technical features of data and information systems\, and the social\, political and economic impacts of innovation in digital networks and applications. She has published numerous books and peer-reviewed papers including Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics (Edward Elgar 2020) and Imagining the Internet (Oxford UP\, 2012). \nProfessor Mansell received the 2021 Outstanding Alumni Award for Academic Achievement from Simon Fraser University\, was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Fribourg in 2020 and was recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media\, Markets and Democracy 2020 by the International Communication Association.  She is Secretary of TPRC and past President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. \n  \n \nMilton Mueller is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta\, USA) in the School of Public Policy and School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. He directs GT’s Master of Science program in Cybersecurity Policy. An internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication\, he is the author of seven books and many journal articles\, including Will the Internet Fragment? Sovereignty\, Globalization and Cyberspace (Polity\, 2017)\, Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press\, 2010) and Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press\, 2002). His work informs public policy\, science and technology studies\, law\, economics\, communications\, and international studies.   \nDr. Mueller is the co-founder and director of Georgia Tech’s Internet Governance Project (IGP)\, which has played a prominent role in shaping global Internet policies and institutions such as ICANN and the Internet Governance Forum. He has participated in proceedings and policy development activities of ICANN\, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)\, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the European Commission\, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He has served as an expert witness in prominent legal cases related to domain names and telecommunication policy. He was elected to the Advisory Committee of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) from 2013-2016 and served on the IANA Stewardship Coordination Group during the IANA transition. Dr. Mueller was one of the founders of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)\, an international association of scholars focused on Internet governance. Mueller received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School in 1989. \n  \n \nThomas Li (Li Li) is the President of Industry Standardization of Huawei. He is one of the founders of Huawei’s Standardization & Industry Department. In the past decade\, Mr. Li has distinguished himself as the standard policy-maker and a technology strategist inside the company. He has been a leader on Huawei’s overall standard strategy and standard policies for 4G\, 5G and many other technologies. Mr. Li has participated in/initiated several standards-related international organisations or programmes\, including the NGSON of IEEE\, the oneM2M (international standardisation organisation for Internet of Things). He sat on the boards of IEEE\, WiMAX Forum and oneM2M. \nThomas is also a core member of Huawei’s corporate strategy circle and has taken part in corporate-level technology strategies in recent years. He received his bachelor’s degree in radio technologies from Xi’an Jiaotong University\, and his Master’s in Business Administration from Tsing Hua University. \n  \n \nAndrea Renda is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels\, where he directs the research group on Global Governance\, Regulation\, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID). He is Professor of Digital Policy at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute\, in Florence (Italy)\, where he teaches Courses on AI Policy and on the regulation of emerging technologies. He is also Visiting Professor of Competition Policy and the Digital Economy at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). \nAndrea is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science\, a CITI Fellow at Columbia University’s Centre for Tele-Information\, member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI and a member of the European Parliament’s STOA International Advisory Board. Andrea provides regular advice to several institutions\, including the European Commission\, the European Parliament\, the OECD\, the World Bank\, the Inter-American Development Bank\, and many more. He sits on the Editorial Board of the journals Telecommunications Policy (Elsevier)\, and European Journal of Risk Regulation (Cambridge). He was a member of the EU High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence; member of the advisory group on Economic and Societal Impacts of Research (ESIR) for the European Commission\, DG Research and Innovation; and member of the Expert Group on “Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainability” (S4) at the European Commission\, DG Joint Research Centre. He is the Co-director of the Brookings/CEPS Forum for Global Cooperation on AI and a former member of the Task Force on AI of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. From May 2022\, Andrea is the Director of the Trade and Technology Dialogue\, a consortium of universities and think tanks that provides support to the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council for the period May 2022-May 2025.    \n  \n \nDr. June Park is a 2021-22 Fung Global Fellow of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University. In 2022\, she was selected as an inaugural International Strategy Forum Asia Fellow by Schmidt Futures. She is a political economist by training and works on trade\, energy\, and tech conflicts\, analyzing different policy outcomes as a response to pressures based on governance structures. Her current work pertains to post-pandemic geoeconomic conflicts in data governance and emerging technology. \nOutside academia\, she advises public and private sectors with analyses at global\, regional\, and domestic levels. She provides expert commentary to various international media outlets and contributes her analysis to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)\, the research and analysis division of Economist Group. She serves as an expert for global consulting firms Duco and Enquire\, while providing analyses to policy think-tanks in Washington\, DC as a member of the ‘Democracy in Asia’ project of the Brookings Institution and as a non-resident fellow of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). Dr. Park received her PhD in Political Science with a focus on international political economy from Boston University as a Fulbright Fellow and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.  \n  \n \nDr. Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). His specific areas of expertise include industrial policy\, technology innovation\, business lobbying\, U.S.-China commercial relations\, and global governance. A leading authority on Chinese economic policy\, Scott is the editor of China’s Uneven High-Tech Drive: Implications for the United States (CSIS\, February 2020) and the author of several books includingThe State and the State of the Art on Philanthropy in China (Voluntas\, August 2019) and The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press\, 2005). His articles have appeared in a wide array of policy\, popular\, and academic venues\, including the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, and China Quarterly. He is currently finishing a report\, Beyond Decoupling: Maintaining America’s Hi-Tech Advantages over China (CSIS\, forthcoming Spring 2022). \nFrom 2000 to 2014\, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU)\, where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received his PhD in political science from George Washington University. \n  \n \nDr. Baisheng An is an Associate Fellow at the China Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM). Before joining the CAITEC\, Dr. An had been a trade negotiator for China’s Commerce Ministry for many years\, acting as the head of the Chinese delegation for the WTO negotiations on technical barriers and standardisation. \nDr. An specialises in standardisation policy\, regulation\, and international trade laws. He has been invited to speak at seminars/conferences organised by Yale\, Stanford\, UNCTAD\, OECD\, APEC\, EU Commission and others. Dr. An obtained his PhD in economics from Renmin University of China and his master’s degree in international law and Economics (MILE) from the World Trade Institute in Bern (Switzerland). \n  \n \nClaire Milne is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  Since 2019 she has worked with the Consumer and Public Interest Network of the British Standards Institution (BSI/CPIN) (she is on its Steering Group). She is also a senior advisor for the digital cluster of Oxford Global Society. \nClaire has had a long and varied career with telecommunications policy as its central theme. Since 1989 she has worked as an independent consultant\, providing policy and regulatory advice in dozens of countries on all continents\, including recently in The Bahamas\, Bhutan\, Myanmar\, Somalia\, and Iraq. In parallel she has served on several public bodies in the UK\, including the premium rate service regulator Phone-paid Services Authority (then ICSTIS) and the Internet Watch Foundation. In 2015 she was awarded an MBE for services to the telecommunications sector. Her early career was with BT\, where her responsibilities included network engineering\, marketing strategy and regulation. She has degrees in Mathematics (Cambridge University) and Statistics (Imperial College).
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/the-geopolitics-of-global-high-tech-standards/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Digital Technologies & Governance
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SUMMARY:Virtual Roundtable: Integration of Ukraine in the EU – Challenges and Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nMaria Popova (Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at McGill University) \nTimothy Garton Ash (Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford University\, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University) \nMilada Vachudova (Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina) \nRoman Petrov (Head of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) \nDaniel Bilak (OXGS Fellow and Senior Counsel at Kinstellar\, served as Chief Investment Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine) \nCatherine Barnard (Professor of European & Employment Law\, Trinity College\, University of Cambridge) \n  \nModerators:  \nDenis Galligan (OXGS Director\, Emeritus professor at Oxford University) \nKatarina Sipulova (OXGS Fellow\, Head of the Judicial Studies Institute\, Masaryk University) \n  \nRegistration link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ELgeH_s-QASX5MP7EbrpkA \nPlease sign up to our newsletter to receive future event announcements from Oxford Global Society (OXGS). \n  \nEvent description: \nAt the very beginning of the war in Ukraine\, President Zelenskyy asked the EU to allow it an expedite accession. The request was met with lukewarm reaction from EU institutions\, although the integration in Western structures was a leitmotif of Ukraine’s internal reforms and conflicts with pro-Russian politicians for the last two decades. Some scholars argue that Ukraine is much more prepared to join the EU than many Western politicians think and that the EU might actually benefit from her membership. \nIn the view of the decision the European Commission should take soon on the Ukrainian application\, the roundtable seeks to address the challenges of Ukraine’s accession to the EU. \n\nIs Ukraine ready to accede? \nWhat would the integration mean for the ongoing conflict and the EU security policy? \nWhat political\, economic and legal challenges the integration posits for the EU? \nHow could the integration help both Ukraine and the EU to reshape the raison d’être of the whole organisation after Brexit and several years of on-going rule of law crisis?
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/virtual-roundtable-integration-of-ukraine-in-the-eu-challenges-and-opportunities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Politics,Governance & Law
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SUMMARY:Book Colloquium: Measuring Peace and Related Matters
DESCRIPTION:The colloquium\, organised by Oxford Global Society\, will focus on Richard Caplan’s recent book: Measuring Peace: Principles\, Practices\, and Politics (Oxford University Press\, 2019; ppbk 2021) and then touch on other issues around peace. Richard’s book opens with the question: How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? The answer: more rigorous assessments of the robustness of peace are needed. Richard goes on to show how that can be done. The debate will touch on other matters relating to peace\, including how to get to peace and the process after peace. \nRead the excerpt from Richard Caplan’s book here. \n \nRichard Caplan: Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Fellow of Oxford Global Society. His research is concerned principally with international organizations and conflict management. \nCommentators:\nChristine Bell: Professor of Constitutional Law at Edinburgh University\, Co-Director of the Global Justice Academy\, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of: Peace Agreements and Human Rights (Oxford University Press\, 2000) and On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria (Oxford University Press\, 2008) \nAlan Doss: former Director and President of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2011 he worked for the UN on peacekeeping\, development and humanitarian assignments around the world. These assignments included UN peacekeeping appointments as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Liberia and then in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Alan’s most recent book is A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s Wars (Lynne Rienner\, 2020) \nModerator:\nDenis Galligan\, Director Oxford Global Society\, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies Emeritus Oxford University\, Professorial Fellow Emeritus Wolfson College Oxford. \nRegister for the event: \nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwucu2vpj4qGd2d3K-w8KCC-9UzzFggwBKJ
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/book-colloquium-measuring-peace-and-related-matters/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Colloquium,Global Politics
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SUMMARY:The Ukraine Crisis: Three Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Putin’s assault has plunged Ukraine into the darkest hour of its 30-year history as an independent state. What is the view from Kyiv? What are Putin’s ultimate aims? What are the implications of this crisis for Europe and the global order? We bring together three leading analysts to offer perspective on these and related questions. \nRegistration: \nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtfuGspzMvHNHTHnN-c9ONGmPkRM8dW3ZB \nSpeakers: \nDaniel Bilak: OXGS Fellow and Senior Counsel at Kinstellar\, one of Central and Eastern Europe’s leading international law firms. He has served as Chief Investment Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and principal adviser and chief of staff to the Minister of Justice of Ukraine\, among other advisory roles to the government of Ukraine. He is currently one of the leaders of civil defence in Kyiv. \nTimothy Garton Ash: Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College\, Oxford\, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University. He is one of the leading commentators on European affairs\, writing a widely syndicated column in the Guardian. \nRoy Allison: Professor of Russian and Eurasian International Relations and Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC)\, Oxford University. Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) (1993-2005). \nRichard Caplan (moderator): OXGS Fellow\, Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Linacre College\, Oxford.
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/the-ukraine-crisis-three-perspectives/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Politics
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SUMMARY:The New Cold War? Online book colloquium: Comity by Frank Vibert
DESCRIPTION:In this online event\, Frank Vibert\, OXGS Fellow\, will present his new book: Comity: Multilateralism in the New Cold War. The book depicts a new Cold War between democracies and authoritarian countries. The fundamentally different values they embed in the way they approach government and policymaking means that the task of making fully international rules of behaviour has become almost impossible. The meagre results from COP26 and the indefinite postponement of the 2021 WTO Ministerial meeting illustrate this problem. As the main way out of deadlock\, the book explores the role of like-minded democratic countries in taking the lead in making international rules. Will it lead to further conflict? Is it a legitimate approach? \nParticipants:\nFrank Vibert  \nAuthor. OXGS Fellow and an associate of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics where he was a Senior Visiting Fellow between 2008-2020. \nRichard Caplan\nCommentator. Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. His research is concerned principally with international organizations and conflict management. He is the author\, most recently\, of Measuring Peace: Principles\, Practices and Politics (Oxford University Press). \nPaul Craig\nCommentator. Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law\, St John’s College\, Oxford University. He has written extensively on constitutional law\, administrative law\, EU law and comparative administrative law. \nDenis Galligan\nModerator. OXGS Director. Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies\, Oxford University.     \nEvent registration:\nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdu6trDspHddJG-Nb3Zh1xjIzo-vdtIs8
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/the-new-cold-war-online-book-colloquium-comity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Colloquium,Global Politics
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SUMMARY:Putney Debates 2021: The Unity of a Nation
DESCRIPTION:Description\n  To unite a group of regions to create a nation is a daunting task under any circumstances. It becomes more difficult when regional identity has a long history\, often associated with independence and ethnicity\, language and religion. The United Kingdom is an old union of four proud\, distinct\, and very different parts and peoples. After Brexit\, the unity of the UK is under strain and its future is precarious; loyalty and support for the constitutional structure is on the wane. The purposes of Putney Debates 2021 include: (1) to construct models of unity from the experience of a selection of nations; (2) to analyse the case of United Kingdom\, identify the points of tension and instability; and (3) to draw on the models of unity to propose an approach suited to the United Kingdom. A course of lectures on the constitutional structure and its success and/or problems of five countries including the US\, China\, Spain\, Italy and the UK will be pre-recorded and uploaded to our website. On 8 December 2021\, two panels will convene\, the first to discuss the model of unity\, and the second to focus on the unity of the UK.   \nSpeakers\n  \nDenis Galligan   Emeritus Professor at Oxford University Richard Clary   Lecturer at Harvard Law School (US) Qianfan Zhang   Professor at Peking University (China) Francesco Bilancia   Professor at Pescara University (Italy) Roberto Galan Vioque   Professor at Seville University (Spain) Sionaidh Douglas-Scott    Professor at Queens Mary College London Michael Gordon   Professor at Liverpool University Christopher McCrudden   Professor at Queens University Belfast Nicola McEwen   Professor at Edinburgh University Sarah Nason   Senior Lecturer at Bangor University Alison Young   Professor at Cambridge University
URL:https://oxgs.org/event/putney-debates-2021-the-unity-of-a-nation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Governance & Law
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