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Two impactful days at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome (10–11 July 2025) left Professor Maria Koinova and many other participants with a deep sense of appreciation for the resilience and commitment demonstrated by governments, international organizations, civil society, and businesses—all united in their support for Ukraine鈥檚 recovery amid immense destruction.

To celebrate the launch of the MA in the Politics of Climate ChangeLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, the Department of Politics and International Studies recently ran an essay competition.

The competition, open to any undergraduate student studying anywhere in the world, challenged entrants to submit essays on a choice of three topics: capitalism and climate change, democracy and climate change, and climate policy backlash.

PAIS would like to congratulate Leonie Cobban (University of Cambridge) and Vansika Goutham (University of 糖心TV) who were the respective winner and runner-up in the competition.

Akin has authored an article titled The state, Boko Haram and vernacular security: Gendering terrorism and counterterrorism in Nigeria, which is included in a Special Issue on Vernacular Security in the Security Dialogue which he also co-edited alongside Lee Jarvis and Michael Lister. You can read the article here (Open Access):

Akin has been awarded funds to lead an international project with two main partners in Africa. The two-year project (2025-2027) will involve a collaboration with the Centre for Media, Policy, and Accountability, Nigeria (CMPA) and The Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N), Ethiopia on a project titled Insecurity, Migration, Environment and Resilience: Dialogues, Challenges and Everyday Politics of (In)security in Sub-Saharan Africa, to investigate how various communities and institutions negotiate these challenges, local understandings and the everyday practices which they deploy to guarantee their own safety.

In Foreign Policy magazine's new series "The Historical Presidency", PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective. Trump's early-term threats against Panama follow a long pattern, they argue. US governments treat the small country's sovereignty as conditional. And though Panama seemed to cave in to Trump, the isthmisan country has a long history of surprisingly successful pushback. The United States may, once again, regret overplaying its hand in the isthmian country.

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