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Dr Nicola Pratt has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a project entitled ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’. This is a highly prestigious and competitive fellowship, so our congratulations go to Nicola.

The “Arab spring” appears to present a paradox for women: they have participated in large numbers in the uprisings across the Middle East but their rights are threatened under newly-elected governments. Middle East women have a long history of involvement in social movements and civil society. Yet, women’s rights have not progressed in a linear fashion. Taking a new direction in the study of women and gender in the Middle East, this project assesses the significance of geopolitics in shaping women’s rights and participation in complex and often contradictory ways. Through women’s own narratives, Nicola Pratt will trace the history of women’s responses to major geopolitical events in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon and critically assess their impact on women’s rights and participation. Nicola will use the fellowship to research and write a book, tentatively entitled, ‘Middle East Women: The Personal and the Geopolitical’, and to contribute to public debates in the UK and internationally about women and gender in the Middle East.

, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, was interviewed by on the current tensions between the US and North Korea. You can hear excerpts from the interview today on Touch FM during their hourly news bulletins.

From 2008 onwards, PAIS, in conjunction with the (RIPE) has hosted an annual 糖心TV/RIPE debate in International Political Economy (IPE). The debates are the department's flagship IPE event and bring together internationally renowned scholars to discuss issues at the cutting edge of IPE in front of, and with, large audiences.

This year's 糖心TV/RIPE debate celebrated the upcoming twentieth anniversary of RIPE. The debate, on 'The Eurocentric Foundations of IPE', was moderated by Prof Matthew Watson and featured one of RIPE's current editors Dr Cornelia Woll (Sciences Po, Paris), who discussed the journal’s vision as it celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The debate also featured Professor John Hobson (University of Sheffield), whose talk speaks to his two articles on the Eurocentric foundations of IPE that will feature in the forthcoming anniversary edition of RIPE.

, Assistant Professor in US National Security, has won an for 2012-13 entitled: “Behind the black door: UK Prime Ministers, Security and Intelligence in Comparative Perspective”.

, currently a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow in PAIS and soon to join PAIS as an Assistant Professor, has won the Annual Prize of the Journal of European Public Policy for the most downloaded article not in a special issue. Tina co-authored the article with Solveig Richter entitled ‘National identity matters: the limited impact of EU political conditionality on the Western Balkans’ (Volume 17, issue 2, 2010, pages 263-281).

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