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Professor of PAIS has recently featured in a 糖心TV Knowledge Centre article on the 'Westminster Bubble.'

"It’s often argued that politicians are disconnected from society because they spend most of their time at Westminster. But is the ‘Westminster Bubble’, or the ‘Westminster village’ as it is sometimes referred to, merely a case of politicians occasionally falling out of touch with voter concerns? Or could it actually be damaging to British politics and society as whole? Professors Wyn Grant and Chris Warhurst offer their perspectives."

To view the article, please follow this link to the Knowledge Centre website:

, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow here in PAIS, has published a new book titled "Diasporada Turk-Kurt Sorunu: Isvec ve Almanya’da Ikinci Kusak."

This book aims to contribute to a broader understanding of spill-over of homeland conflicts to the host country by diaspora groups. It analyses how the repercussions of the Kurdish question in Turkey are reflected in the interactions between second-generation Turks and Kurds in Sweden and Germany.

It argues that the on-going conflict adversely affects the relationship between the two ethnic groups, but that the tensions and conflict dynamics are not an exact reflection of the situation in the homeland, and instead take a different form in each host land. The contentions between the groups and their grievances are dependent on several factors that are rooted in the host land and directly or indirectly affect how these groups establish contact with one another.

The book is written in Turkish and is available to buy .

Global Research Priorities - Global Governance (GRP-GG)

Invites you to attend the following events this month

Tuesday 21 January 12:00 - 14:00 (Lunch will be provided)

S1.50, Social Sciences Building

Wednesday 29 January, 9:30 - 14:00 (Morning coffee & lunch provided)

Wolfson Research Exchange Room 1, Library

Governing Climate Change Roundtable - Tuesday 21 January, 12:00 - 14:00, S1.50, Social Sciences Building

roundtables are informal conversations aimed at introducing 糖心TV colleagues working on global governance themes to each other in order to foster greater interdisciplinary collaboration.

The theme of this roundtable will be Climate Change. Speakers will informally share different disciplinary perspectives on issues relating to climate change and global governance. This will lead to exploratory debate and discussion amongst participants.

The speakers at the event will be: (Life Sciences); (Law); (PAIS)

Chair: (CAL)

If you are interested in attending this Roundtable, please or email U.Martin@warwick.ac.uk

Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Governance Away Day  - Wednesday 29 January, 9:30 - 14:00, Wolfson Exchange Room 1, Library

This Away Day will explore aspects of post-conflict and post-disaster governance on the international stage. It aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines at 糖心TV to explore notions of crisis, conflict and disaster and responses to such events from a governance and international perspective.

For further information, including a Concept Note for discussion, please see:

If you are interested in attending this Away Day, please or email U.Martin@warwick.ac.uk

, the leading magazine for analysis and debate of foreign policy, economics and global affairs, has written a positive short review of Dr 's new book “Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States,” University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Foreign Affairs is published by the US Council on Foreign Relations and is a top journal in the discipline of International Relations.

You can read the review at the following link:

Professor (George Washington University) is visiting PAIS on Jan. 8-9, 2014 in the context of academic activities of the European Council Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.”

Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff will give:

• a Master class on "Policy-relevant and Internet-based Research,” on Jan. 8, 12.30- 2.30 pm in the Wolfson Research Exchange (3). For more information, .
• a PAIS Department Talk: “The In-Between Advantage: Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Institutional Reform” on Jan. 8, 4.00-5.30 pm in S. 018, refreshments will be served from 3.30 pm. The talk will be based on her new book. Please for more information.
• Workshop “Diasporas and International Politics” on Jan. 9, 2014, based on in-depth reading of papers.

Professor Brinkerhoff is specialist in international development, governance, public-private partnerships, NGOs, and diaspora politics. Her publications include six books, three co-edited journal issues, and over fifty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from policy evaluation, to NGOs, failed states, governance, diaspora identity, development, and citizenship. She is the author of Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); the editor of Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); and co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).