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In this episode, Dr. Shama Ams places the Black Lives Matter movement and the killing of George Floyd into the historical context of the treatment of African American soldiers during and after WW2. In conversation with James, he also explores links with the Civil Rights movement. Shama Ams completed his PhD in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar. His research focuses on the nature of socio-cultural, legal and institutional transformation in post-war countries. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TED BELL has always had an itch to travel the worldâ??after graduating college and leaving a dull desk job in the family bank, he moved to Europe to become a writer and bounced around Italy and France and Rome, where he was cast as a Cinecitta cowboy in a spaghetti western that was ultimately never made. Eventually he made it back to the States, starting what would become a distinguished career in advertising, hitting his pinnacle as Vice-Chairman of the Board and World-Wide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world's largest advertising agencies. But the call to become a writer, borne in the third grade when he was eight, never waned. He left his career, focused on writing fiction, and three years later published his debut, Hawke in 2003. Since then, eight books in the series have landed on the New York Times bestseller list. In addition, Paramount Pictures is now in production with a blockbuster feature film to be titled Hawke. The movie is based on the last Hawke thriller, Patriot and is slated for release in 2019. Executive Producer is Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and the Screenwriter is Kurt Wimmer. Ted fills his very cinematic thrillers with realistic details and infuses his characters with a panache and humor that is rarely seen in modern spy novels. Tedâ??s extensive global travels have given him a perspective that he alone can provide readers. Heâ??s been a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University completing his studies at Cambridge Universityâ??s Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS) and was elected to the position of Writer-In-Residence, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridgeâ??a setting known for its connections to the Intelligence community. In addition to his time in the UK, Ted has spent much time in Russia researching his novels where, on one trip, almost â??disappearedâ?? while waiting for a flight in the first-class lounge in the Moscow airport. This is just one of the many intriguing tales that pepper Tedâ??s riveting thrillers. But setting and characterization arenâ??t the only strengths of the Hawke seriesâ??Ted does exhaustive research with the goal to provide the most realistic military details for his readers. DOCA, a Department of Defense committee, selected Ted as a civilian member of the standing group that supports the US military. He also served for a brief time as an advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. State Department. Ted is a character himselfâ??and the Hawke series is a product of his larger-than-life personality.

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of aggression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity. This lecture, entitled 'After the ICC? The Politics and Possibilities of an African Criminal Court', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 4th November 2016 by Dr Adam Branch, University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge.

In this ongoing series of short videos, academics from the University of Cambridge and beyond shed light on the key issues to be considered in the run up to the upcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. This video features Dr Geoffrey Edwards, Senior Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Emeritus Reader in European Studies. Dr Edwards weighs the founding principles of the EU in relation to defence and security, assesses accusations of an intention to form an EU army, and considers the possible impact of the referendum on security issues. This series of videos has been created by the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). For more information visit http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/

In this ongoing series of short videos, academics from the University of Cambridge and beyond shed light on the key issues to be considered in the run up to the upcoming referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. This video features Dr Julie Smith, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and member of the House of Lords. Dr Smith shares her perspective on the political structure and institutions of the EU, weighs up the concept of democratic deficiency, and considers the possible impact of the referendum. This series of videos has been created by the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). For more information visit http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/

After surging forward through the latter part of the twentieth century after the defeat of fascism, decolonisation and the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy appears to be in something of a retreat. According to the Economist, even though 45 per cent of the world’s population live in countries that ‘hold free and fair elections’, there is now widespread recognition that ‘democracy’s global advance has come to a halt, and may even have gone into reverse’. After many years of trying to spread democracy abroad, the US and other Western powers seem to have lowered their sights following the tragic, contemporary debacle in Iraq. Elsewhere, the ‘Arab Spring’ has fared little better. Even in the established democracies of the West, democracy appears to have lost its enduring appeal, with declining voter turnout and a hollowing-out of once mass-membership political parties. It was once claimed that only democracies could develop economically; now, democracy is blamed for gridlock. The contrast between the failure of the US Congress to agree a budget and the ability of China to get things done is much remarked upon. Very few in the developed world openly discount democracy as an ideal, but nearly everyone agrees the reality is flawed. Some would reform it in various ways: lowering the voting age, using more new technology, etc. Occupy activists oppose ‘representative democracy’ altogether, preferring ‘direct democracy’. Some argue for limits on democracy in favour of the considered opinion of experts. Elected governments in Greece and Italy have even been replaced by interim technocratic administrations during the European economic crisis, and democratic mandates can be annulled when people vote the ‘wrong way’, as when the Irish voted ‘No’ to the Lisbon Treaty in 2008 or when the Muslim Brotherhood was voted into power in Egypt. And far from being cheered as a historic democratic exercise that ousted an entrenched Gandhi dynasty, this year’s election in India provoked fears that 815million voters were expressing atavistic religious prejudice. If anything sums up the contemporary concern with democracy, it is the word ‘populism’. In Europe, it is the fear of people voting for the wrong sort of political party: the Front National in France, the PVV in the Netherlands, UKIP in the UK. In America, it is the fear of what used to be called the ‘moral majority’: conservative voters out of step with the liberal consensus on social issues. Are populist political movements simply throwbacks, appealing to the bigotry of greying voters? Or do they give voice to the frustrations of citizens who feel increasingly cut off from an aloof and deracinated political class? Will the twenty-first century see the demise of democracy in favour of technocratic governance? What has so tarnished our view of what used to be the foundational principle of Western civilisation? Speakers Professor Ivan Krastev Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia; permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna Professor Chantal Mouffe Professor of political theory, University of Westminster; author, Agonistics: thinking the world politically Brendan O'Neill editor, spiked; columnist, Big Issue; contributor, Spectator Dr David Runciman professor of politics, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge University; author, The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War 1 to the Present Chair Claire Fox director, Institute of Ideas; panellist, BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze

The Centre of Governance and Human Rights was launched by the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) on 18 November 2009. An Inaugural Lecture was delivered by Dr Francis M Deng, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, on the topic of ‘Managing Diversity as a strategy for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities’.