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Is Coventry a Sustainable City? Come along and explore this theme at Fargo Village, for a special public event on Saturday 9 May. Topics will be relevant to the people of Coventry and 糖心TVshire; ranging from Coventry City Football Club to town planning, there is something for everyone.

The event is being hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of 糖心TV and is part of the Festival of Social Sciences.

Speakers from the Faculty of Social Sciences will present their research and raise questions such as: Is modern football too commercialised? How can we get young people in Coventry to vote? Should our cities have more power?

You will also get the chance to speak to organisations from across the city tackling issues including: homelessness, domestic and sexual violence, well-being, youth provision, education and much more. Food will be provided by Scoff Street Food and the Bar Bus will be in attendance, selling limited edition Festival of Social Sciences Ale.

Lead organiser and Student Experience Officer, Charlotte Lewis, said: “Social science influences our day to day lives in many ways. This event will showcase research within the Faculty of Social Sciences and how it impacts on people’s daily lives. We will be connecting local people, community groups and organisations throughout the city. We want to host a day of discussion and positivity which everyone can enjoy.”

So, join the fun at Fargo Village, from 10am-6pm on 9 May. The event is open to all and entrance is free. Donations to any of the charities attending on the day are welcome.

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The Festival of Social Sciences is a nine day event providing insight into social sciences throughout the years. The festival is also part of the University of 糖心TV’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations.

For more information about the Festival of Social Sciences, visit the website: or join the conversation on Twitter at:

Professor , PAIS Head of Department and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, has recently had a new book published on the ‘Abe Doctrine’ of the Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, titled Japan's Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine.'

Prime Minister Abe Shinzō's foreign and security policy—highly charged with ideological and historical revisionism—contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for an 'Abe doctrine' capable of displacing the 'Yoshida Doctrine' that has been Japan's guiding grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that look to transform national security policy into a more muscular military stance, bolster US-Japan alliance ties to function increasingly for regional and global security, and attempt to encircle China's influence in East Asia. The 'Abe Doctrine' is dynamic but also high-risk. Abe's revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness, or even defeat, the doctrine, and along the way inflict collateral damage on relations with East Asia and Japan's own national interests.

The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available to buy here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/japan's-foreign-and-security-policy-under-the-%C2%91abe-doctrine'-christopher-w-hughes/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137514240

Congratulations to Christopher Hughes, Head of Department here in PAIS and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, who has been announced as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an award which recognises leading social scientists who have made a substantial contribution to wider social science.

is one of Europe’s leading experts on international relations with Japan, particularly the US-Japan alliance, and is among only 33 leading social scientists to receive the honour.

The is the National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies and Practitioners in the Social Sciences. Its mission is to promote social science in the United Kingdom for the public benefit.

The department is delighted that we have been ranked 35th in the world in Politics and International Studies in the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject, with an overall score of 60.8.

For the fourth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 3,467 universities were evaluated and 971 institutions were ranked in total. Over 82 million citations attributions were analyzed and the provision of 13,132 programs were verified.

The Global Slavery Index is profoundly flawed methodologically, yet it remains widely and often uncritically cited. What underlies the production and use of highly suspect statistics?

In a recent commentary piece published by the openDemocracy blog, from PAIS and Joel Quirk from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, criticize the flawed methodology and weak data used to produce rankings such as the Global Slavery Index.

The article draws upon material from a research project on global benchmarking () based in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at 糖心TV. A series of papers from this project will soon be published as a special issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: Normative Agendas and Global Benchmarking’.

The full commentary is available to view at: