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Dr Hiroshi Nakatani works at the Air Staff College of Japan Air Self Defence Force in Tokyo. He has a PhD from University of Reading (2019), where he was supervised by Professor Beatrice Heuser, and an MA from University of Birmingham (2011).

The talk examines the formative period of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan between 1945 and 1970, discussing how the concept of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan came to emerge and develop in both Japan and the US.

It will be of interest for those studying international relations, international security and nuclear proliferation.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Seb Rumsby has written an article for The Conversation, titled "Economic migration: the root problem is not smugglers but global inequality."

This piece is based on his ground-breaking new research on the everyday politics of undocumented Vietnamese migration to the UK, which is being funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. Seb says: "Ever since the tragic deaths of 27 migrants in the UK-France channel in December 2021, I've been burning to write something in defence of economic migration, which is much maligned in our mainstream media. I want to join the dots between my own research of undocumented migrants with other people's research exposing the massive inequalities of our global economic system. From here, I can show how economic migrants have just as much right to seek a better life as asylum seekers."

"Economic migration is not going to go away - I'm afraid it will only be a matter of time before the next dinghy sinks in the English Channel. On the contrary, it's only going to get bigger with climate change making more of the planet uninhabitable. We can challenge the familiar narratives of 'they're coming to take us over' or 'there's not enough space for them all', but only if we appreciate how our economic system creates such crazy inequalities that makes economic migration inevitable."

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Dr. Titipol Phakdeewanich is based at the Faculty of Political Science at Ubon Ratchathani University in Thailand. Previously, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow on Human Rights at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden. His research is focused on finding actual solutions to problems experienced by the under-represented, marginalised, and disenfranchised groups within Thailand. In this seminar, Dr. Phakdeewanich discusses the relevance of the Thai ‘patronage system’ as a paradigm for understanding politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date: 25th February 2022

Time: 09:00-10:00 AM

Venue: Zoom meeting

This seminar is part of the East Asia ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Group (EASG) Seminar Series. For further information, meeting link and passcode, please contact the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk

Founded in 2007, the Cornell International Affairs Review (CIAR) is a biannual, student-run academic journal at Cornell University dedicated to publishing undergraduate, postgraduate, and expert scholarship on contemporary international affairs and international relations.

The Review focuses on both traditional political science approaches and multidisciplinary research, and thus welcomes submissions from any relevant field of study. Papers should preferably address events and trends that are not well-established in current international relations scholarship, yet have immediate global relevance and engage a broader and more diverse audience beyond the traditional academic sphere. We particularly encourage papers that seek to address historically underrepresented demographics, as well as lesser-studied regions, individuals, and events, as well as the submission of papers that utilise non-English language secondary scholarship or primary source research.

For further information go to:

Final Deadlines:
• Priority: January 31, 2022
• Final: February 20, 2022

The Critical South Asia Group at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ presents: Vernacular Rights Cultures

How to decolonise global human rights? This panel discussion will launch Sumi Madhok's new book Vernacular Rights Cultures.

Thursday 20 January 2022
17:30 – 19:00 GMT (Online)

About this event

Vernacular Rights Cultures argues that decolonising global human rights requires a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically specific encounters with human rights, and of the forms of world-making that underpin the stakes and struggles for rights and human rights around the globe. It demonstrates that subaltern struggles call into being different and radical ideas of justice, politics and citizenship, and open up different possibilities and futures for human rights.

Speakers
Upendra Baxi (Research Professor of Law, Jindal Global Law School)
Yassin M. Brunger (School of Law, Queen's University Belfast)
Bal Sokhi-Bulley (School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex)
Illan Wall (School of Law, ¹û¶³´«Ã½)

Respondent
Sumi Madhok (Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics)

Chair
Shirin Rai (¹û¶³´«Ã½ Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development; PAIS, ¹û¶³´«Ã½)