CIS seeks to foster a wide range of approaches to research, much of it interdisciplinary. It has become one of the largest centres in Europe for advanced research in international relations on topics within the broader themes of global governance and international peace and security.
Research Programmes:
Established at University College in 2003 to foster research and debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of developing countries.
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC)
A new interdisciplinary research programme that aims to strengthen law, norms and institutions to restrain, regulate and prevent armed conflict.
Oxford and Princeton are proud to announce a new Global Leaders Fellowship Programme, which includes post-doctoral fellowships in world politics and political economy for holders of a doctorate who are nationals of a developing country. Fellowships will be awarded beginning September 2008, for a year’s study at Oxford followed by a year at Princeton.
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
SEESOX is part of the European Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. It focuses on the interdisciplinary study of the relationship between European integration and the politics, economics and societies of the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.
Current Research Projects:
China, the United States and Global Order - Professor Rosemary Foot
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: Domestic and International Dimensions - Professor Sir Adam Roberts and Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Disaggregating the Globalized Regulatory State: The Cases of Global Regulation in Food and Transport - Professor Walter Mattli
Emerging Powers and Global Order - Professor Andrew Hurrell
Ending Mass Atrocities: Echoes in Southern Cultures - Dr Rama Mani
Exit Strategies and the Consolidation of Peace - Professor Richard Caplan
Europe's role in a changing world - Dr Kirsty Hughes
The Paradoxical Role of Religion and Spirituality in Conflict, Peacebuilding and Governance - Dr Rama Mani
Global Trade Ethics - Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis, Dr Carolyn Deere and Emily Jones
International Politics: The Rules of Game - Professor Yuen Foong Khong
Oxford International History Research Network - Professor Anne Deighton
Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace) - Dr Liz Carmichael
Rethinking Europe in a non-European World (RENEW) - Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis
Sovereignty as Responsibility - Professor Jennifer Welsh
Teaching Contemporary Palestinian Political History: Setting a Collaborative Research Agenda and Building Capacity - Dr Karma Nabulsi
UN Governance and Reform - Mr Sam Daws