Making a difference
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Invited Presentations (2016 onwards)
Abouharb, M. Rodwan, David Cingranelli and Bernhard Reinsberg. 2022. “Do people get what they want? IMF programs, popular demand for liberalism, and neoliberal economic policies.” University of Laval, Center for Multidisciplinary Studies in International Trade and Investment. Virtual Presentation. April 28th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan and Bernhard Reinsberg. 2022. “Protecting my supporters and punishing yours: Evidence on the local political economy of neoliberal reforms.” Binghamton University, State University of New York. Virtual Presentation. April 25th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan and Bernhard Reinsberg. 2022. “The Local Political Economy of IMF Lending: Partisanship, Protection, Punishment, and Protest.” The World Bank. Virtual Presentation. Jan 25th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan. 2021. “Governments as Strategic Actors: The Evasion of Accountability.” Keynote address, Model United Nations, International School of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. April 23rd. Virtual conference.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan. 2019. “How Naming and Shaming Fails to Curb Human Rights Violations: The Case of the Second Chechen War.” University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, November 4th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan. 2018. “Evading Accountability: The Strategic use of Human Rights Violations.” University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, November 5th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan. 2018. “Why some conflicts remain more lethal than others: How the Fourth Geneva Convention Mitigates the Impact of Civil and Interstate War on Infant Mortality Rates, 1817-2005.” 1st Riyadh Humanitarian Forum. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. February 26th-27th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan. 2017. “Citizens Always Respond To Repression: Repression Types and Their Consequences For Non-Violent And Violent Civil Conflict.” Binghamton University, State University of New York. September 7th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan. 2016. “The Civil Conflict Consequences of World Bank & IMF Program Lending.” University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada. March 15th.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan. 2016. “Roundtable: Consequences of World Bank Program Lending on Democracy and Accountability.” LUISS University, Rome, Italy. January 28th.
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Media (2016 onwards)
21.8.23 Interview aboutRishi Sunk’s 300 Days in Office. Kurier, Vienna, Austria.
12.8.23 Interview about Suella Braverman migrant policy. Kurier, Vienna, Austria.
3.3.23 Interview about the SNP leadership race. Dawn, Karachi Pakistan.
12.1.23 Interview about my Journal Article “War and Infant Mortality Rates” on UCL Uncovering Politics Podcast, London.
11.11.22 Interview with Authors Aggregate about my research interests. Concord, Massachusetts, United States.
5.9.22 Interview about Conservative Party leadership race. Dawn, Karachi Pakistan.
30.7.21 Protecting my supporters and punishing yours: Evidence on the local political economy of neoliberal reforms. Human Rights Media Webinar.
18.6.21 The Evasion of Accountability: States and the Use of Enforced Disappearances. Human Rights Media Webinar.
26.8.19 Interview about G7 Summit, Aljazeera English, Krakow.
23.3.19 Interview about a range of international topics, Aljazeera Arabic, London.
31.8.18 Interview about US threat to withdraw from the WTO, BBC News Asia.
31.8.18 Interview about US Chinese trade war, BBC News Asia.
13.1.18 Interview about President Donald Trump, Huffington Post London.
9.12.17 Interview about President Donald Trump, Voice of Islam Radio, London.
28.8.17 Expert survey for The Strategic Foresight Programme at Clingendael Institute on “Upcoming Developments in EU Security Matters.”
1.6.17 Screening of The White Helmets, London, followed by discussion with public audience and faculty from around UCL.
28.10.16 Opening remarks and chairing meeting on “Masoud Barzani; Past, Present and Future,” Centre for Kurdish Progress, London.
28.7.16 Expert interview for Verisk Maplecroft on human rights in the banking sector.
18.7.16 BBC Radio London: Interview about attempted coup in Turkey.
17.6.16 The Tanjara, London: Interview about EU Referendum campaign.
9.6.16 Screening of The Divide, London, followed by discussion with public audience and faculty from around UCL about the consequences of inequality.
24.5.16 Pint of Science Festival, London: ‘The Science of War.’
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Legacies of Enslaved Peoples in the Department of Political Science at UCL
Over the past several years I have investigated our department’s own connection with the trade in enslaved persons. The unpaid labour of 71 enslaved men women and children on the Wellington and Perseverance Estates in Trinidad provided the profits that enabled the merchant John Pickersgill to live at 31 Tavistock Square.