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Prof Chris Hughes, Head of Department, was recently interviewed by Peter Ennis for Dispatch Japan in an article entitled 'Abe Doctrine Marks a Radical Shift in Japanese Security Policy.'

A virtual special issue of the prestigious international journal Political Geography has been published on the topic of 'the Politics of Migration' featuring PAIS academics.

Of the selected ten articles written between 1989 and 2015 are two by researchers in the cluster in PAIS:

• '"Desert trash"': Posthumanism, border struggles, and humanitarian politics', by
• '"We are not animals!" Humanitarian border security and zoopolitical spaces in EUrope', by

The virtual special issue reflects the internationally-renowned expertise in borders and migration research within the Department.

Available for free until 16 October 2015, the virtual special issue can be accessed here:

Congratulations to , who has been shortlisted for the 2015 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research Students.

The 糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research students (WATEPGR) gives students and staff the opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellent teaching by postgraduate research students. Research students can carry out a range of teaching activities including facilitating seminars, lecturing, demonstrating, and project supervision.

Tom has recently been appointed as a Teaching Fellow in Political Theory here in PAIS.

In an article for the Huffington Post UK, PAIS PhD researcher argues that the Greek deal is not a coup against the Tsipras government but a logical consequence of the intergovernmental system through which large parts of EU affairs are governed.

Dr. Maria Koinova has a new article "Sustained vs. Episodic Mobilization among Conflict-generated Diasporas," published in International Political Science Review on July 8, 2015. It is appears just in time for the 20-th anniversary of the fall of the Srebrenca enclave and the commemoration of the death of more than 8.000 Muslims, killed by Serbian paramilitary forces in 1995. On the basis of a comparative study of Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats in the Netherlands, the articles argues that a non-resolved issue between a host-state, home-state, and diasporas, such as the failure of Dutch peace-keeping forces to protect the Srebrenica enclave in 1995, is still alive today in the Netherlands. This is despite earlier half-measures by the host-state to take some responsibility and more recent court cases. This issue is very important why migrants have a difficulty to move on from their traumatic pasts in the Netherlands, unlike in Sweden, and that they mobilise in sustained ways.

More information about the article could be found here: