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Dr. Maria Koinova (Reader in International Relations, 糖心TV), together with Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS), is the academic convener of a prestigious venture workshop at the annual convention of the International Studies Association in Atlanta, GA. The workshop is entitled: "Unpacking the Sending State: Regimes, Institutions and Non-state Actors in Diaspora and Emigration Politics." The workshop will include two sessions exploring the impact of weak and strong states on diaspora and migration mobilisations abroad, and another two sessions on the effects of democratic, competitive authoritarian, and authoritarian regimes on those mobilisations. These themes are also explored through the lens of the global governance of migration.

Workshop participants include accomplished and early career scholars from Europe and the US. They are listed below in the order of their presentations: James Hollifield (Southern Methodist University), Fiona Adamson (SOAS), Patrick Ireland (Illinois Institute of Technology), Maria Koinova (糖心TV), Yoni Abramson (John Hopkins), Sarah Garding (Oxford), Myra Waterbury (Ohio), Katrina Burgess (Tufts), Gerasimos Tsourapas (SOAS), Dana Moss (University of California, Irvine), Marlies Glasius (University of Amsterdam), Covadonga Meseguer (London School of Economics), Daniel Naujoks (Columbia University), and Nikola Mirilovic (University of Central Florida).

The European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID) project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research programme.

The EL-CSID project aims to advance the study of cultural and science diplomacy, and is led by Scientific Coordinator Professor Luk Van Langenhove at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Under the leadership of Professor Diane Stone, 糖心TV researchers in Politics and International Studies are contributing to Work Package 3 of the EL-CSID project on 'Cultural and Science Diplomacy: The Transnational and Collaborative Dynamic'.

On 7-8 March 2016, the first meeting of the steering committee was organised at the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The meeting brought together the members of the consortium to discuss the EL-CSID research agenda, work plan, output and agenda. Two representatives from the European Commission (DG RTD and REA) briefed the consortium on the H2020 programme priorities and the project management-aspects.

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, PAIS PhD Research Fellow with the ERC '' Project, has been selected to be a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

She will be finalizing her dissertation and presenting her work to the academic community there over the following few months. Dzeneta will also be presenting a joint paper with Maria Koinova at the ASN Conference held at Columbia University in April as well as chairing a panel she organized, "Between Disempowerment and Politicization: Exploring Nongovernmental Agency in Bosnian Politics" during her time in New York.

The Department is delighted to announce that Shaun Breslin, Professor of Politics and International Studies, has been elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences — Britain’s national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners representing nearly 90,000 social scientists. Its annual fellowships are given to those recognised by their peers for the excellence and impact of their work.

PAIS is hiring!

The Department of Politics and International Studies invites applications for an indefinite Assistant/Associate Professorship in International Political Economy (deadline 4 April 2016). Further details can be found .