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We are delighted to announce that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) is ranked 3^rd out of 81 UK Politics departments in the ; a position we have now held for three years in a row. This influential national league table reflects latest data on student satisfaction (NSS), research excellence, and a range of other indicators.

We are particularly proud to see that PAIS is ranked 1^st for student experience and 2^nd for teaching quality among the elite Russell Group of UK Politics departments.

The University of 糖心TV is ranked 9th overall — a full University press release can be found .

Our latest position in The Times/The Sunday Times follows on recent successes in other national league tables – notably 3rd place in The Guardian University Guide 2018 and 4th in The Complete University Guide 2018 — cementing our position as one of the very best Politics departments in the UK.

We thank all staff and students who have contributed to this impressive and sustained achievement. With a number of exciting and ambitious plans for the 2017/18 academic year and beyond, we look forward to building on these successes in the months and years ahead.

A series of academic and public engagement activities will take place in association with the concluding work of the ERC Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” 26-29 September, 2017.

On 26 September, 2017, a workshop is organized on the theme “Migrants’ and Diaspora Responses to the Rise of Right-wing Populism” with 16 participants from different parts of Europe and USA at 糖心TV University in London. The workshop will discuss how migrants and diasporas mobilize either against or in support of populist movements in an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiments and attempts to redefine national belonging.

The full program could be found .

On 26 September, 2017 at 6 pm. the ERC project team is presenting research findings during a public event at the conflict journalism Frontline Club in London, on the Soft Power of Diasporas. Prominent journalists from the Financial Times and the BBC will join the ERC “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” team in a lively discussion.

More information about this public event is available .

On 28-29 September, 2017 the final conference “Beyond the Territorial State: Diaspora Mobilizations and Contested Sovereignty in the European Neighborhood” will take place in the Radcliffe Conference Centre at 糖心TV University, with embedded panels of a second workshop on “Diasporas and Challenges to the Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa.” The conference will gather more than 30 presenters and discussants from different parts of Europe, the USA, and Canada.

The presentation of the ERC project's findings and contributions to theory, methodology and empirical data gathering will take place on 28 September, 2017 at 9:00 - 11:00 in Radcliffe. Please join us!

A full program of this academic conference is available .

A report on the publications, academic and public engagement activities conducted by the ERC “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” team (2012-2017) is available .

James Brassett, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel, Ben Richardson and Luke Bantock have launched a new website for teaching IPE. The site is called and uses familiar objects and practices as routes into the discipline.

The site is open access and features 29 contributions from leading scholars in IPE and cognate fields. Funding support was provided by IATL and PAIS.

A recent paper by , "", published in the August issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, has received worldwide coverage.

It was cited and discussed by , in the United States section of the print edition and by .

The article was also cited by and in articles about President Trump’s plans to give surplus military weapons to local law enforcement agencies and in .

On July 3-4 Dr André Broome participated in an Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) workshop in Kyrgyzstan.

Organised by the OSCE Academy in Bishkek in cooperation with the University Paris 13 (Paris), the American University of Central Asia (AUCA, Bishkek) and the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC, Bishkek) within the framework of the research project GLOBALCONTEST funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the workshop gathered high profile academics and experienced practitioners from the region and beyond working on international organizations and global governance questions.

Dr Broome spoke on the opening panel of the workshop on the topic of ‘Contesting Transnational Policy Paradigms: Conditionality, Capacity Building, and Global Benchmarking in Central Asia’, when he presented new research from the Global Benchmarking Project within the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation on the methodological flaws and political distortions inherent in country ratings and rankings and how these have been applied to countries in Central Asia.

An extended analysis of the politics and pathologies of global benchmarking by international organisations can be found in a new research paper co-authored with Alexandra Homolar and Matthias Kranke : 'Bad Science: International Organizations and the Indirect Power of Global Benchmarking'. The paper will be published in 2018 in the European Journal of International Relations. View the pre-print version at:

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