We begin the new year with two very different critiques of the public-private divide, seek out Machiavellian inspiration, and challenge the liberal consensus over the rise of populism. |
New events programme opens next week The Lives of Others and New Global Rulers: What role for the state?
W e start 2014 with two events next week to illuminate different aspects of the public-private divide.
On Wednesday, Dr Andres Guadamuz will discuss privacy and state surveillance as part of our screening of the political thriller The Lives of Others.
The following day, our colloquium on The New Global Rulers will ask whether governments have delegated too much regulatory authority to the private sector.
Film screening and talk:
The Lives of Others
7.30pm, Wednesday 22nd January
Wolfson College, Oxford
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Book Colloquium:
The New Global Rulers
5.30pm, Thursday 23rd January
Wolfson College, Oxford
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Latest Podcast: Machiavelli's The Prince
Discover how law in action provided the inspiration for seminal treatise
On the 500th anniversary of the publication of Machiavelli's The Prince, our colloquium uncovered some fascinating facets and corrected some widely held misapprehensions of this controversial and influential text.
Professor Carta, Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Trento, defended the aims of the book, and showed that it was Machiavelli's observation of the law in action that provided the inspiration for his revolutionary treatise.
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