This three-day conference will examine the diverse echoes of Christendom in contemporary political exceptionalism, nationalism and populism.

This event marks the contribution of more than 1500 volunteers who contributed to the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. Join us with policymakers, data users and experts as we celebrate the contributions of this community and look ahead at efforts to prepare better for future pandemics.

This conference brings together speakers from across the world to discuss how to prepare for the future of global health by building on demonstrated achievements of the recent past, rather than by proposing entirely new schemes.

Dr Annette Idler chairs this panel exploring the political dimension of global security and how this intersects with other dimensions of global security.

Dr Nadiya Kostyuk (Georgia Institute of Technology) presents her work producing the first quantitative analysis of the tactical use of cyber and kinetic military operations during a large-scale conventional war. 

By interrogating the meaning of the term “global” and how security scales up from the local to the global, this webinar will explore the different spaces in which global security occurs and how we might think of the concept of space in global security.

What makes bureaucracy work for the least advantaged? Akshay Mangla explores this question in his new book, Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India.

Professor Carolyn Heinrich discusses the use of “ordeals”, a tool of public policy that has been used to screen out potential policy programme beneficiaries who are considered “bad bets” and “bad apples”.

Baroness Ashton joins Professor Ngaire Woods to share insights from her diplomatic career following the release of her book: And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy.