OxPol Blogcast

On this episode of the OxPol BlogCast, host Chase Harrison talks to DPhil student Javier Pérez Sandoval about Mexico’s upcoming midterm election, theories of voter choices, and analysing democracy at the subnational level.

Read the original blog post here: https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/a-return-to-the-right-for-mexico-foucaults-pendulum-and-missed-political-opportunities/

Episode 4: Mexico's Midterm Election

On this episode of the OxPol BlogCast, host Chase Harrison talks to Edward Howell, a Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics, about Biden’s policy on North Korea, regional relations around the Korean Peninsula, and conducting research on a notoriously closed-off country like North Korea.

Read the original blog post here: https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/washington-and-pyongyang-back-to-square-one/

Episode 5: Biden's North Korea Policy

Lucy Walker's thoughtful setting of 'There is no rose' flows between swells of emotion and warm chromatic inflections in the Latin refrains. This piece captures the natural emphases of the text, seamlessly moving between irregular and simple metres.

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There is no rose - Lucy Walker

On this episode of The Side Comment, Richard English discusses the effectiveness of counter-terrorism efforts, as a less extensively examined phenomenon. Through a series of questions, he explores why it is an important topic for us to look at in a new way that considers successes and failures. Highlighting the case studies contained within his book, 'Does Counter-Terrorism Work?,' he illustrates how we can identify broader intuitions about what works well, and what doesn’t.

Richard English is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen's University Belfast. His books include 'Does Terrorism Work? A History' (2016), and 'The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism' (co-edited, 2019). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Chicago, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. In 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to the understanding of modern-day terrorism and political history. 

Learn more about 'Does Counter-Terrorism Work?' here: https://oxford.ly/3XN6LJX

Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3bw0D6HSgk

The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Sarah Butcher

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Richard English on the Effectiveness of Counter-Terrorism - Episode 43 - The Side Comment

Track 1.1 Dirige domine: Direct my ways…

Track 4.2 Kyrie, all voices: Have mercy…

Track 4.1 Subvenite: Advance, saints of God…

Track 1.8 Redemisti me: Into your hands…

Track 2.2 Suscipiat te Christus: When Israel was released…

On this episode, Matthew L. Harris discusses the history of the Church of  Latter-Day Saints complicated—and often controversial racial heritage—from Joseph Smith and Brigham Young through the civil rights movement to the moment in 1978 when church President Spencer W. Kimball finally opened the priesthood to include Black members of the church.  

Matthew Harris is Professor of History at Colorado State University Pueblo; he specializes in race and religion, civil rights, Mormon history, African American History, and American Religious history. His latest book 'Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality' published by Oxford University Press takes a deep look at the history of Black Mormons and the struggle for racial equality within the church. 

Learn more about 'Second-Class Saints' here: https://oxford.ly/3YQtbdO

Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI-bVbG8Qqw

The Side Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Host: Sarah Butcher

Music: Filaments by Podington Bear is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License: https://oxford.ly/3VGGhZw

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Matthew L. Harris on the LDS Church and Race in America - Episode 44 - The Side Comment

On the inaugural episode of the OxPol BlogCast, host Chase Harrison talks to DPhil student Christine Sheldon about the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. They go on to discuss her research on coalitions and her work on natural speech processing.

Read the original blog post here: https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/undoing-the-fixed-term-parliaments-act/

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Episode 1: The Fixed-term Parliaments Act

On the 2nd episode of the OxPol BlogCast, host Chase Harrison talks to MPhil students Jasmine Chia and Scott Singer about the Milk Tea Alliance and its relationship to 20th century black anti-colonialists. They also discuss the movement to decentre International Relations scholarship.
Read the original blog post here: https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/the-new-worldmakers-how-the-20th-century-black-anticolonial-dialogue-reveals-the-strategic-importance-of-the-milk-tea-alliance/

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Episode 2: The Milk Tea Alliance

On the 3rd episode of the OxPol BlogCast, host Chase Harrison talks to recent DPhil graduate Jonas von Hoffman about the results of recent drug legalisation referendums in the United States. We compare those to legalisation movements across the Americas before chatting about his experience studying a more taboo topic in academia. 

Read the original blog post here: https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/oxpol-blogcast-episode-3-drug-legalisation-referendums/

Episode 3: Drug Legalisation Referendums

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