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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.

PAIS Research Fellow, Dr Charikleia Tzanakou was invited as a private expert from the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation) on March 18th 2016 to contribute to a declaration of young researchers initiated by the upcoming Slovak Presidency. Collaborating with a diverse team of researchers, this had led to the development of the Bratislava Declaration for Young Researchers which presents the aspirations of young researchers in Europe.

The declaration will be presented at a mini-Conference in June 2016 in Brussels and to the Ministers of Science and Research in Slovakia in July 2016.