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PAIS PhD Candidate, Columba Achilleos-Sarll, has written a blog for UCL titled "Where are the Women at the Big Boys’ Table?"

After a year of political flux and upheaval, the Brexit negotiations officially began on Monday 19June. The underrepresentation of women at the highest political level is one thing which appears to have remained constant. Columba Achilleos-Sarll, a PhD candidate at the University of 糖心TV, points out that only one and two women make up the UK and EU negotiating teams respectively. She assesses the impact that this could have on the process, and what it means more broadly.

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Want a glimpse at how Thursday's general election will turn out? by , Mary Stegmaier (University of Missouri) and Mike Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa).

They discuss whether people rather than pollsters can accurately predict Thursday's UK election. Based on their "citizen forecasting" approach, they predict the following:

• Conservatives 361 seats, Labour 236 seats.
• Probability of a Conservative majority 77%, hung parliament led by Conservatives 20%, hung parliament led by Labour 2%, and Labour majority 1%.

PAIS undergraduate Henry Riley has conduced two interviews for campus radio station RAW 1251AM.

First, he spoke to Don Flynn, the founder and former director of Migrants Rights Network. They discussed everything from Brexit, Borders and the upcoming General Election

Henry then interviewed Francie Molloy, Sinn Fein MP for Mid-Ulster. Francie was the former Northern Ireland Assembly Member for Mid Ulster where he was also the Deputy Speaker. They discussed Brexit, the Irish border, Martin McGuiness and how to get into politics.

We are delighted that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) has moved up to 3^rd place (from 4th last year) in the latest Guardian rankings, which measure student satisfaction (NSS), career prospects, and a range of other important indicators.

The University of 糖心TV is ranked 8th overall — a full University press release can be found .

Our latest position in The Guardian builds on recent successes in other national league tables – notably 3^rd place in the 2017 The Times/Sunday Times University Guide and 4^th place in the 2018 Complete University Guide.

We thank all staff and students who have contributed to this impressive and sustained achievement. Research and teaching excellence in Politics and International Studies are at the heart of who we are and what we stand for as a Department. We look forward to building on this success in the months and years ahead.

Dr has written a blog, titled Trouble in Macedonia as ethnic tensions run high, for .

Macedonia may be a parliamentary democracy, but it’s also a fragile multicultural state. Its democracy has been in gradual decline since the mid-2000s – and in an era of unstable geopolitics and rising authoritarianism, the right sequence of events could send it slipping back into inter-ethnic strife.

The precarity of the country’s situation was made plain in April, when more than 200 protestors and loyalists to the Macedonian conservative-nationalist VMRO-DMPNE party , and physically attacked lawmakers, who had earlier elected an ethnic Albanian politician, Talat Xhaferi, as speaker. The brawl left 77 people injured.

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