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We are delighted that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) has moved up to 4th place (out of 78) in the latest Guardian rankings, which measure student satisfaction, career prospects, and teaching quality:

The University of 糖心TV is ranked 9th overall and PAIS is the 3rd= highest performing Department at 糖心TV. A full press release can be found here:

, Head of PAIS, commented:

"PAIS is an international community of lively, questioning, and curious minds studying some of the most pressing issues in global politics today. Our position in The Guardian builds on recent success in other national league tables – notably 3^rd place in The Times/Sunday Times and 4^th place in the Complete University Guide. In short, we are now unequivocally in the Top 5 of all UK rankings.”

Join our panel of experts who will get to the heart of the issues over whether the UK should stay or go and will be ready to answer your questions.

Speaking for ‘Remain’:

, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of 糖心TV

, Researcher, Politics and International Studies, University of 糖心TV

, Professor in European Politics, University of 糖心TV

Speaking for ‘Leave’:

Lincoln Allison, Emeritus Reader in Politics, University of 糖心TV and freelance writer and broadcaster

Dave Nellist, National Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)

Unpacking the Sending State: Regimes, Institutions, and non-State Actors in Diaspora & Emigration Politics

12-13 September, 2016, 糖心TV University

This workshop seeks to understand how regimes, institutions and non-actors shape sending states’ extraterritorial engagement with migrants and diaspora populations abroad. This is the second workshop to be convened as part of a venture research grant from the International Studies Association, to be additionally sponsored by the ERC Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.” This emerging research agenda seeks to consolidate ideas on international migration politics within the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics on issues of statehood, conflicts and security, democratization, authoritarianism, political economy, and political geography. The focus of the second workshop will be on the role of political regimes.

Deadline for expression of interest to be included in a potential ISA 2017 panel is 29 May 2016. Applications for the workshop need to be submitted by 15 June, 2016.

More information about the workshop is available .

On 28th June the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group is hosting a workshop to discuss 'The Limits of States - Ethics, War, and Migration'.

From the refugee crisis to the newly shifting plates of the world order, the limits of states have never been more critical. This workshop brings together a series of thinkers whose research examines the frontiers of war and security. How can we treat people ethically at borders? What special obligations towards refugees arise out of military intervention? How far can an existing state-based international order be hospitable to the protection of individual and global security in a nuclear world? What counts as a military victory and what rights do victors acquire? Each raises important further questions about the way that we understand the relations between states, and this workshop will provide an opportunity both to examine those issues independently and to identify their interdependencies.

Speakers include Prof. Tom Sorell (糖心TV); Prof. Jason Ralph (Leeds); Prof. Nicholas Wheeler (Birmingham); Dr. Cian O'Driscoll (Glasgow); and Dr. Tom Walker (Belfast). To sign up please contact F.Melhuish.1@warwick.ac.uk.

You can view the workshop schedule here.

Every year the leading International Relations journal Review of International Studies, in collaboration with the British International Studies Association (BISA), awards a Best Article Prize for an article selected from the previous volume of the Review.

The members of the selection panel for this year’s BISA Best Article Prize were Professor Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo), Professor Tim Dunne (University of Queensland), and Professor Mervyn Frost (King’s College London), who awarded the prize to (University of 糖心TV) and (University of the Witwatersrand) for their article:

The publication is the lead article in the 2015 Special Issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: The Normative Agendas of Global Benchmarking’, edited by Broome and Quirk, which is part of the Global Benchmarking Project within the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.

The prestigious award will be presented at a prize ceremony at 5.30pm on Wednesday 15^th June 2016 at the in Edinburgh.

Further information: