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Cyberspace has been full of harm, but despite predictions, the much-predicted global catastrophes have failed to materialise. Does this uneasy balance hold as AI-based technology rapidly advances? Ciaran Martin Digital, Cyber and AI Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy Blog 07 June 2024 Navigating the cyber frontier: trends and challenges Brian Kot, an MPhil in International Relations, highlights four broad themes critical for policymakers as they navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Brian Kot Digital, Cyber and AI Blog 06 November 2023 Optimists, doomers and securo-pragmatists: Reflections on the UK’s AI safety summit For all the carping, the Prime Minister’s Bletchley Park jamboree moved the world forward on AI safety. Ciaran Martin Digital, Cyber and AI Blog 04 October 2023 Charting the path to global AI governance: potential and ethics Paola Galvez Callirgos (MPP 2022) sets out her vision for the effective global governance of Artificial Intelligence. Paola Galvez Callirgos Digital, Cyber and AI Law Focus on: Climate crisis More on climate Blog 11 November 2024 Towards COP29: unpacking the key issues for a sustainable future Ashima Gulati, a current MPP student with a law and policy background, reflects on the key issues for COP29 this year, which comes in the wake of extreme weather events across the world and a changing geopolitical landscape with a new US President. Ashima Gulati Climate and environment Blog 04 September 2023 How Africa can leverage trade and investment for a just transition Kennedy Mbeva and Cherono Sego take us through how Africa could become a major hub for climate action. Kennedy Mbeva Cherono Sego Climate and environment Trade ... Africa Blog 24 January 2023 Climate and legitimacy: Who is right in the Anthropocene? Following the arrest of Greta Thunberg at a climate protest in Germany, MPP student Baudouin De Hemptinne asks if the climate crisis is forcing us to reimagine the legitimacy of actions by both state actors and protestors. Baudouin de Hemptinne Climate and environment Europe Blog 01 July 2022 More mining cooperation, not less, would be needed in the run up to carbon neutrality Though phasing down the role of global mining industries may seem like a logical step in the journey to carbon neutrality, MPP alumnus Yanzhu Zhang argues that more mining cooperation will be needed in the first instance to produce the technology and capacity required for the clean energy transition. Yanzhu Zhang Global cooperation Climate and environment
Blog 17 May 2022 Turning academic insights into practical lessons: civil service reform in Ghana A new case study from Martin Williams demonstrates how we are bringing academic theory to life through interactive case teaching. Sarah McAra Case Centre on Public Leadership Africa ... Ghana
Blog 04 May 2022 Thirty years with common but differentiated responsibility, why do we need it ever more today? This year marks 30 years since the principle of "common but differentiated responsibility" was formalised. Alumnus Yanzhu Zhang writes about the importance of this anniversary. Yanzhu Zhang Chao Zhang Global cooperation
Blog 20 April 2022 A balancing act of management approaches What can we learn from Ghana's civil service about the links between organisational performance and the way in which civil servants operate under different management practices? Martin Williams Imran Rasul Daniel Rogger Public sector People in Government Lab
Blog 19 April 2022 A perfect storm for developing countries Interrelated economic and political crises in poorer countries are putting millions of lives at risk, but mitigation is possible. Leading economies must refrain from beggar-thy-neighbor policies and use their combined resources in the IMF and the World Bank to act quickly and unconditionally to avert disaster. Ngaire Woods Global cooperation
Blog 13 April 2022 Tracking COVID-19 policies across Brazil: the tracker’s largest subnational project Brazil was the first subnational project of the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker. It has been going since the summer of 2020, amid some challenges and many successes. Maria Luciano Julia Sampaio Laura Boeira COVID-19 Brazil
Blog 05 April 2022 Student expertise on display in new case study for the MPP classroom New case study draws on student's national security experience to examine the case against torture at Guantanamo Bay. Oenone Kubie Case Centre on Public Leadership
Blog 09 June 2025 The Digital Security Equilibrium – does it hold under AI? Cyberspace has been full of harm, but despite predictions, the much-predicted global catastrophes have failed to materialise. Does this uneasy balance hold as AI-based technology rapidly advances? Ciaran Martin Digital, Cyber and AI Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy
Blog 07 June 2024 Navigating the cyber frontier: trends and challenges Brian Kot, an MPhil in International Relations, highlights four broad themes critical for policymakers as they navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Brian Kot Digital, Cyber and AI
Blog 06 November 2023 Optimists, doomers and securo-pragmatists: Reflections on the UK’s AI safety summit For all the carping, the Prime Minister’s Bletchley Park jamboree moved the world forward on AI safety. Ciaran Martin Digital, Cyber and AI
Blog 04 October 2023 Charting the path to global AI governance: potential and ethics Paola Galvez Callirgos (MPP 2022) sets out her vision for the effective global governance of Artificial Intelligence. Paola Galvez Callirgos Digital, Cyber and AI Law
Blog 11 November 2024 Towards COP29: unpacking the key issues for a sustainable future Ashima Gulati, a current MPP student with a law and policy background, reflects on the key issues for COP29 this year, which comes in the wake of extreme weather events across the world and a changing geopolitical landscape with a new US President. Ashima Gulati Climate and environment
Blog 04 September 2023 How Africa can leverage trade and investment for a just transition Kennedy Mbeva and Cherono Sego take us through how Africa could become a major hub for climate action. Kennedy Mbeva Cherono Sego Climate and environment Trade ... Africa
Blog 24 January 2023 Climate and legitimacy: Who is right in the Anthropocene? Following the arrest of Greta Thunberg at a climate protest in Germany, MPP student Baudouin De Hemptinne asks if the climate crisis is forcing us to reimagine the legitimacy of actions by both state actors and protestors. Baudouin de Hemptinne Climate and environment Europe
Blog 01 July 2022 More mining cooperation, not less, would be needed in the run up to carbon neutrality Though phasing down the role of global mining industries may seem like a logical step in the journey to carbon neutrality, MPP alumnus Yanzhu Zhang argues that more mining cooperation will be needed in the first instance to produce the technology and capacity required for the clean energy transition. Yanzhu Zhang Global cooperation Climate and environment
