The PAIS UG Dissertation Conference is this Wednesday 11th March, 2-6pm in S0.13 and S0.18.
Lunch and refreshments served outside S0.13 from 1:15pm and drinks in the Dirty Duck from 6pm.
Register here to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
All prospective international students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for our new scholarship of £3,000 towards your study in a top-ranking UK Politics department!
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Earlier this year, Özlem Atikcan and George Christou published a co-authored article with Seda Gürkan in European Politics and Society, "Framing conditionality in times of crisis: EU institutional responses to Turkey’s democratic decline (2014–2024)".
doi.org/10.1080/2374...
"This is a crisis for the British establishment [...] a gift to insurgent parties on the right and left"
@tomhowe.bsky.social one of our Monash-Warwick PhD students, has given an interview with Sky News Australia on his analysis of the Peter Mandelson situation.
youtu.be/K2RyWxVDsuw?...
Dr Matthew Bishop will give next week's research seminar on his current book project "Narcopolitics". Matthew will focus on one of the chapters about prohibitionist norm decay and the difficulty of deconstructing the War on Drugs.
Join us at 3pm on Thursday 12th March in E2.02!
📣 PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz of Cambridge have just published 'Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design,' in International Studies Quarterly.
Read it here: academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
First lecture done as Visiting Academic at the University of Warwick, at the @warwickpais.bsky.social @wicidwarwick.bsky.social on Future Pandemic Governance, Democratic Legitimacy, and Efficiency. I spoke about how global north dominated governance reduced efficiency, racism & self tests, &more.
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📰 🗞️ PAIS's Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly has been interviewed in Middle East Eye about the withdrawal of Birmingham and Solihull NHS Trust from a controversial counterterrorism program, CT CCS.
👓 Read more here: www.middleeasteye.net/news/nhs-men...
Join the PAIS IPE cluster for our annual debate "Uneven digital worlds? The global race for tech and data centres" with Prof Karen Lai (Durham University) and Prof Regine Paul (University of Bergen) 🌐 💻️
📆 Wednesday 11th March 2026
⏰ 16:00-18:00
📍 PS1.28.
Tom Parr has a new open-access co-authored article out with Paul Billingham in Philosophy & Technology on "Online Public Shaming, the Duties of Social Media Platforms, and the Case for Regulation" 🌐 📰
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Proud to celebrate the international students within PAIS who enrich our academic community with global perspectives, diverse experiences, and inspiring ambition. Their contributions continue to strengthen the student experience and shape a more connected world.
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@fifarahman.bsky.social will next week be delivering the @wicidwarwick.bsky.social guest lecture "Future Pandemic Governance: Imperatives for Democratic Legitimacy and Efficiency".
📆 3rd March 2026
⏰ 12:00-13:45
📍 E2.02 (Social Sciences Building)
🔗 Register: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...
📢 @ashaherten.bsky.social , who joined the department last month, has published a new paper in Review of International Political Economy: "‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations"
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0969...
Next month the Rebuilding the Consensus and Changing the Narrative seminar is being hosted.
To register for this event follow this link, www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
Professor Neo Loizides recently presented a model for citizen engagement to a UNFICYP networking forum that brought together over 120 participants from civil society, academia, and the diplomatic community in Cyprus.
🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/mr2f7n3t
Dr Mike Bostan, a graduate of our Masters in International Political Economy, will be delivering a guest lecture on "Energy Security in Europe" online on the 5th March at 11am 💡 🌍️
If you are interested in attending (online), please contact kerem.oge@warwick.ac.uk
🔓️ New open access article from PAIS PhD candidate Raymond Hyma 📰
‘New trenches of battle: Cambodian–Thai culture clashes in the digital age of nationalism’ by Hyma and Phasiree Thanasin and Suyheang Kry is out now in @mwcjournal.bsky.social
👓 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1750...
Civil society thinkers and practitioners will discuss this special issue on "Shifting the Power", including @justpolitics-blog.bsky.social and Raymond Hyma's article, 12-1:30pm on 25th February:
🔗 www.intrac.org/join-us-for-...
👓 Read the special issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdip20/3...
👨🏫 On February 12th, Tom Parr gave a keynote presentation on the future of work, as part of The People Festival, organised by the Dorset Business Chamber. His presentation explored how to empower workers in an age of artificial intelligence, with a focus on the responsibilities of firms and employers
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Dr. Zhen Troy Chen joins us on 24 Feb to discuss “Fandom as Method,” a decolonising framework for studying transnational digital culture.
Explore how fan communities shape authority, identity, and political meaning beyond Western‑centric models.
buff.ly/iqcjRGS
🧐 We're heading into the second half of term 2 and we have some really exciting events happening for staff and students coming up!
👀 Head over to our website to find out more about our events and how you can attend.
To read the new article, see here: warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2...
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Chris Hughes published a new article in the RUSI Journal (vol. 171, no. 1, 2026) with Hirohito Ogi of the Institute of Geoeconomics in Tokyo, entitled, 'Japan's information security and defence reforms: from inner circle to national standardisation'
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Join Olena Miliienko for a day-long hybrid workshop on "Ukrainian diaspora support for internally displaced people in Ukraine"
⏰ 10am-3pm
📆 6th March
📍 Scarman, University of Warwick
Lunch and refreshments provided 🥪 ☕️
Registration required: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Book launch flyer with full details of Alex's launch. The same description as is featured here can be found at the link in the post in a screen reader friendly format.
Tomorrow at 5pm, I am presenting an online launch of my book 'Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration'. The event is free and open to all. With thanks to the Borders, Race, Ethnicity, Migration cross faculty group at the University of Warwick.
Register at the link
Chris Hughes was cited extensively in a Japan Times article on 10 February 2026, regarding Prime Minister Takaichi's election victory and the implications for Japan-China re ations.
To read the full article see this link: warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2...
Huge congratulations to Chris!
The BISA/BFPG Undergraduate Network launches its first event at Warwick!
Featuring EU Ambassador Pedro Serrano and Warwick’s Professor Hussein Kassim
📍 Warwick | 5–6pm lecture + 6–7pm networking drinks (sponsored by PAIS).
Visit www.bisa.ac.uk/members/ugn for tickets
@louis-stockwell.bsky.social and Özlem Atikcan have a new article in @epsrjournal.bsky.social 🎉
👓 Read "On the determinants of referendum boycotts in Europe" in full at: doi.org/10.1017/S175...
PAIS students Haley and Ashwin joined nearly 120 participants at Chatham House for the Fifth Annual @mybisa.bsky.social Climate Negotiation Simulation, hosted with @chathamhouse.org, tackling emissions, climate finance, and COP reform in a realistic UN‑style negotiation. Amazing work!
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Warwick’s East Asia Study Group is hosting a Peace Game Simulation on 4/3/2026 - an interactive workshop where students negotiate a regional plan for implementing UNSCR 1325: Women, Peace & Security in Northeast Asia.
2–5:30 PM | Open to all Warwick students.
Visit buff.ly/fJEps54 to register
