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Dr , Associate Professor in PAIS, gave a talk at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo in Canada on Friday, September 19. In the talk, entitled Weapon of Choice: Barack Obama and the Seductive Nature of Drone Warfare, Trevor argued that the allegedly "cost-free" nature of using drones for the targeted killing of alleged terrorists makes them an extremely attractive weapon for the Obama administration, garners widespread public support in the US, and makes it more likely that the war against terrorism will be a perpetual war. Trevor was in Waterloo as part of a PAIS delegation finalising arrangements for a new Double Masters in Politics and Global Governance with the Balsillie School. The new programme will launch in 2015 and enable students to study for a year in 糖心TV and a year in Waterloo.

PAIS has made significant gains moving up to 7th in the rankings in Politics in the Times’ and Sunday Times’ Good University Guide 2015 league table.

The University of 糖心TV was named as the University of the Year 2015 and achieved an overall ranking of 8th in the UK.

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Much of our rise is due to improved NSS scores this year. The more we maintain and boost already strong scores in research, entry standards and graduate prospects, amongst others, the more we can further climb the league table

, PAIS Professor of Political Theory and Geography, delivered one of the keynote papers to the conference "Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad," held at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Stuart's paper was entitled 'Crises of Territorial Integrity: Iraq and Nigeria' and set the overall themes of the conference in a wider geopolitical context.

Demonstrating a strong PAIS research focus on emerging areas, Volume 35 (2014) of the high-profile international journal Third World Quarterly, which is well into its fourth decade of publishing scholarship and policy-related articles in international studies, showcases four very distinctive articles by PAIS members including:

Peter Ferdinand, ‘Rising powers at the UN: an analysis of the voting behaviour of BRICS in the General Assembly’, 35, Issue 3, pages 376-91.

Dominic Kelly and Charalampos Efstathopoulos (formerly a doctoral candidate supervised by Dominic and now Lecturer in the Dept. of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), ‘India, developmental multilateralism and the Doha ministerial conference’, 35, Issue 6, pages 1066-81.

Shaun Breslin, ‘Financial transitions in the PRC: banking on the state? 35, Issue 6, pages 996-1013.

Peter Burnell, ‘International support for action on climate change and democracy: exploring complementarities’, in 35, Issue 7, pp.1216-38.

Just published at Springer (June 2014): Philippe Blanchard, Felix Bühlmann & Jacques-Antoine Gauthier (eds). Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications.

This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on political trajectories and processes, life course and contemporaneous and historical careers. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more generally.

This volume promotes the dialogue between approaches to sequence analysis that developed separately, within traditions contrasted in space and disciplines. It includes the latest developments in sequential concepts, coding, atypical datasets and time patterns, optimal matching and alternative algorithms, survey optimization, and visualization.

Field studies include original sequential material related to parenting in 19th-century Belgium, higher education and work in Finland and Italy, family formation before and after German reunification, French Jews persecuted in occupied France, long-term trends in electoral participation, and regime democratization.

Overall the book reassesses the classical uses of sequences and it promotes new ways of collecting, formatting, representing and processing them. The introduction provides basic sequential concepts and tools, as well as a history of the method. Chapters are presented in a way that is both accessible to the beginner and informative to the expert.