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Interview with PAIS PhD: How to secure reputation by designing behavioral risk strategies?
PAIS PhD 's paper was acceepted at IDRC Davos 2016 (Davos, Switzerland), the world's leading conference on risk management, which was organised under the patronage of the European Commission Joint Research Centre, OECD, Science Council of Japan, UNCCD, UNESCO, UNEP and UNITAR.
Her interview "How to secure reputation by designing behavioral risk strategies?" can be viewed below:
PAIS Seminar Series: Barry Buzan talk, 5th October
Professor Barry Buzan – London School of Economics
Title: Twentieth Century Benchmark Dates in International Relations: The Three World Wars in Perspective
This paper builds on earlier work by Buzan and Lawson on how to think about benchmark dates in International Relations (IR). The Introduction summarises the analytical scheme from the earlier work and explains how this paper extends the analysis from suggestions made, but not developed, in the article. The second section uses the analytical scheme to look in more depth at the 20th century benchmarks centred around the three world wars (First, Second and Cold). It argues that by these criteria, the changes clustered around the Second World War look to be both deeper and more extensive than those clustered around either the First World War or the Cold War. The third section moves towards opening up a macro-historical perspective on the 20th century. It paves the way by considering how other IR benchmarks represent cluster of events occurring over decades or centuries. And it raises questions about how choices in relation to time and scale affect the construction of macro-historical perspectives. The fourth section chooses a two-century perspective centred on the revolutions of modernity as a way of evaluating the 20th century events. It first sketches out the main lines of this grand narrative, and then assesses the 20th century events within that framing. The Conclusions argue that a 20th century stretching from 1905 to 1989, or possibly 2008, can be seen not just as three world wars, but as an integrated process of working out first order solutions to the problems set up by the revolutions of modernity in the 19th century.
5 October, 2016
3-4.30pm
MS.04 (Zeeman Building)
The talk will be followed by a wine reception.
Alexandra Homolar Wins ISA Workshop Grant
Dr , ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Associate Professor of International Security in PAIS, has won a prestigious Workshop Grant funded by the International Studies Association in collaboration with Professor Brent Steele from the University of Utah. Dr Homolar is the Research Lead for the Speaking International Security at 糖心TV (SISAW) Project, and is the Lead Organiser for the CSGR/SISAW Conference on Global Security and Diplomacy, to be held at the University of 糖心TV on 4-5 May 2017.
The ISA Workshop will be held on Tuesday February 21st at the Hilton Hotel Baltimore, USA, and will precede the start of the 2017 ISA Annual Convention. The Workshop is focused on the theme: ‘Fear, Trauma, and Belonging: The Everyday of Ontological Security in International Relations’. The event will bring together internationally-renowned scholars from twelve institutions across Europe, North America, and Australia, with the aim of developing a transformative analytical strategy that combines notions of ontological security and the everyday within a new conceptual framework through the presentation of original research that is based on a wide array of empirical reference points, including migration, diaspora, and border politics; militarized security rhetoric and cognition; the politics of home-coming; terrorism and resilience; trauma comedy; emotion, affect, and securitization; rhythmic security; the politics of the event.
Following the ISA Workshop, these research themes will be further explored at the CSGR/SISAW Conference at 糖心TV on 4-5 May 2017 (see: ).
Further information:
- Speaking International Security at 糖心TV:
- CSGR/SISAW Conference on Global Security and Diplomacy:
- International Studies Association 2017 Annual Convention:
Maria Koinova's article among most-read in August 2016
's article "Sustained vs. Episodic Mobilisation among Conflict-Generated Diasporas" International Political Science Review 37(4): 500-516 was among the most read articles in August 2016.
Trevor McCrisken media interviews on Clinton V Trump presidential debate
, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, has, in the last few days, made a number of media appearances on both TV and radio about last night's US presidential debate.
26th September
Trevor appeared on Sky News to provide opinion on their feature: 'Do debates win presidencies?'
He was also interviewed on BBC Coventry and 糖心TVshire's drivetime programme: You can listen at 2hr 40 for 5 mins 56 secs
27th September
Following the airing of the debate (which aired at approx 2am GMT), Trevor gave interviews to BBC radio stations across the country.
You can listen to these interviews at the following times and links:
BBC Radio Lancashire at 1hr 43 for 3 mins 30 secs
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - at 1hr 38.45 for 7 mins 10 secs
BBC Radio Somerset - at 1hr 17 for 5 mins 28 secs
BBC Radio Coventry & 糖心TVshire - at 1hr 54 for 4 mins 55 secs
BBC Radio Kent - at 2hr 16 for 2 mins 40 secs
BBC Radio Cornwall - at 2hr 11 for 5 mins
BBC Radio Sheffield - at 1hr 22 for 7 mins 42 secs
BBC Radio Gloucestershire - at 2hr 39 for 5 mins 31 secs
BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester - at 2hr 48 for 5 mins
BBC Radio Scotland - at 2hr 55 for 5 mins
You can also read more on at the 糖心TV news pages.