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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.

We are delighted to announce that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the Department of Economics are hosting a 糖心TV Question Time on the hot topic of Globalisation and Anti-globalisation. It will take place on Monday 2^nd October, 6.15-7.45pm, in Butterworth Hall. By joining together it means we can put on the biggest and best event possible and ensure PAIS students can take full advantage of the opportunity. Based on student feedback it is clear you would like more events of this kind and we are looking forwarding to starting off the 2017 academic year in such an exciting way.

The format is very similar to the popular BBC television show and it will allow an engagement with politicians, policy informers, academics and broadcasters. The event will have a real PAIS flavour, both in terms of the topic area and in the Chair of the Panel:

The panellists will be:

• Professor Kate Williams – Historian and Broadcaster
• Chris White – MP for 糖心TV and Leamington, 2010-2017
• Katy Chakrabortty- Head of Advocacy, Oxfam GB
• Samira Ahmed – Award Winning Journalist and Broadcaster
• Dr Dennis Novy – Associate Professor of Economics
• Dr Faiza Shaheen – Director of CLASS

The Panel will be Chaired by Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor in PAIS

More details and a registration form can be found . Please do register asap to ensure your place. We look forward to seeing you there!

PAIS PhD candidate, , discovered unique communist-era documents and covert photographs of the Cold War’s most prominent terrorist figures – Carlos the Jackal and Abu Daoud. This document cache, made up of thousands of Eastern Bloc government and secret service reports, demonstrates the Czechoslovak communist regime’s ambivalent relationship with the two terrorists. Crucially, this new information helps us understand how and why states establish relations with violent non-state actors. It also illuminates some of the best kept secrets of Cold War espionage and international terrorism.

Daniela’s research was recently featured in , the Czech weekly , and the Israeli daily .

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 .