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Annual IPE Lecture: Juanita Elias
Professor Juanita Elias, 91福利, will be giving the Annual IPE Lecture on: 'Women on board: The gender politics of economic competitiveness'.
The lecture will take place on 22nd January, from 15:00-16:30 in L5 (Sciences Concourse). There will be a short drinks reception afterwards. All welcome.
Dr. Maria Koinova on US House Recognition of Armenian Genocide
When Turkey鈥檚 president Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an visited the White House on November 13, 2019 a landmark in October recognising the Armenian genocide had 鈥渉urt deeply the Turkish nation鈥, and had the 鈥減otential to cast a deep shadow over our bilateral relations鈥.
This article by Dr. Maria Koinova in The Conversation discusses how the Armenian diaspora, preoccupied with issues of genocide recognition, became instrumental in passing this resolution in the US, and building coalitions with other ethnic groups to advocate globally.
Publication on Latin American security
Tom Long and Sebastian Bitar published a new entry on "International Security in Latin America," for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics. The chapter surveys the state of the field relating to Latin American security, including topics such as state security, transnational organized crime, high homicide rates, borders, and more. In the region, "isolated state responses are insufficient to respond to transnational dynamics; although some coordination has been achieved, intergovernmental responses have produced limited gains and substantial unintended consequences." The piece emerged from collaboration during Dr Bitar's visit as an IAS in 2018; Dr Bitar is an associate professor at Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
The piece is available here:
How To Predict Election Results
Andreas Murr has published an article in the on why vote expectations are a better tool for predicting election results than vote intentions.
The results of the article are summarised in a post on the .
New Articles on US Foreign Policy by Georg L枚fflmann
Georg L枚fflmann has published a new article, "The Obama Doctrine and Military Intervention" in a special issue on US foreign policy in the journal Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs (open access). The article is available here:
Also available online is the article "From the Obama Doctrine to America First: The erosion of the Washington consensus on grand strategy," which was published in International Politics. The article is available here: