James Morone puts the current state of American politics in historical perspective and shows what’s new --and what’s not. He explains how old patterns have taken on new forms and reflects on the prospects for democracy in the years ahead. 

Join us online for this high-level panel at the UN Office in Geneva to discuss the recommendations of a new report, co-authored by the The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, to build and support the UN investigative capacity.

Officially-supported export credits play a key role in mobilising financing from private-sector sources, creating catalytic effects. This event with Professor Andreas Klasen will explore how government export credits can intervene for the public benefit in times of crises.

As the impacts of climate change accelerate, human societies will face a set of cascading and interrelated challenges. This event will assess the challenges we will increasingly encounter and consider how the next generation of leaders can best prepare to navigate them.  

Dr Greg Walton (Stanford University) discusses psychologically “wise” interventions, how they work and how we can develop and use wise interventions in diverse contexts to help people flourish.

Political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz asks whether the future of democracy in the US is at stake and explores the parallels that can be drawn between the US, the UK and beyond. 

How to react to a change in cosmology

A journey through computer science.

For this special online session as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford, Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Professor Bruno Latour and Professor Robert G. Roeder join Professor Ngaire Woods to discuss the challenges of academic leadership in extraordinary times.