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Alex Homolar has published a new article in the interdisciplinary journal Media, War & Conflict. ‘Narrating future war: Reimagining enmity during the collapse of bipolarity’ examines how narratives shape what matters in international relations. Focusing on elite debates on future war, the article explores how political agents within the US defence establishment reimagined the international system during the demise of the hegemonic interpretative framework that had shaped the postwar order. It argues that the reconstruction of enmity during the collapse of bipolarity should be understood as an assemblage of existing narrative elements into a new security story. The article concludes that events shape but do not determine how conceptions of what matters in international politics evolve and how future war is (re)imagined.

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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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As tensions escalate between Cambodia and Thailand along the borders, young participant-researchers from both countries met in Kuala Lumpur to plan peaceful responses. Since beginning their collaborative research last year into the drivers of cross-border online conflict, they have built a strong network, recently naming it Peace Developer, committed to countering harmful narratives. During the visit, they also met with local Malaysians to learn from the country’s multicultural experience, exploring how such models might inform approaches to regional tension.

The gathering was part of a broader participatory and action-oriented research project co-developed with Women Peace Makers (Cambodia), Wocation (Thailand), and PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma, whose doctoral research explores what happens to peace research when those affected by conflict become the researchers themselves. The visit was supported by PAIS through the ÌÇÐÄTV Impact Fund.

In a new article in The Conversation, PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz draw on an overlooked French intervention in Mexico to reflect on the tensions underpinning today's crisis of international order.

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The European Research Council has awarded five ERC Advanced Grants to The University of ÌÇÐÄTV, the third most of any UK institution.

Congratulations to Gabrielle Lynch for being awarded a 5 year ERC Advanced Grant for a project entitled Judges’ Off-Bench Activities: Evidence and Theory on Judicial Politics from Africa.

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