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We are delighted to announce that Professor Anderson has been appointed as a joint Professor in Politics and Economics and he will be the new Director of PPE at ¹û¶³´«Ã½. His research focuses on the micro-foundations of markets and democracy and examines how economic and political structures shape citizens’ judgments and behaviours. He has written on the popularity of governments and the legitimacy of political institutions, the link between welfare states, income inequality, and citizen behaviour, and the political behaviour of immigrants. Most recently, Chris was Professor of Government and Labor Relations at Cornell University; currently, he is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. Thanks to all PAIS colleagues who attended Chris’ job talk in January and to Simon Caney for representing PAIS on the appointment panel chaired by the Provost.

We are also delighted to confirm that Dr Jessica Di Salvatore will be joining PAIS as an indefinite Assistant Professor in Political Science and Peace Studies. Jessica earned her PhD from the University of Amsterdam and was conducting research at the University of Oxford as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow before joining ¹û¶³´«Ã½. She mostly researches on conflict dynamics and peace missions, with a particular focus on UN peacekeeping in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her current project aims at investigating whether UN missions are suitable for re-building states after civil wars. In particular, she is interested in the impact of external interventions on economic development, governments' legitimacy and socio-political engagement of citizens. She is thrilled to be joining PAIS and looks forward to meeting colleagues in person soon! Thanks to all those who attended Jessica’s job talk in March and to Vincenzo Bove and Arzu Kibris for representing PAIS on the appointment panel chaired by Matt Nudds.

We look forward to welcoming both Chris and Jessica to PAIS at the beginning of May.

You are invited to the Annual Debate on the Future of IPE, which is taking place on Wednesday, 2nd May, at 17:00 - 18:30 in Room S0.21 (Social Sciences Building). For directions/map see here.

We have a really great topic, Decolonising International Political Economy: Challenges & Ways Forward, and 3 excellent speakers lined up: Professor Robbie Shilliam (Queen Mary), Dr Lisa Tilley (Queen Mary) and Sara Salem (¹û¶³´«Ã½).

Please join us for what should be a lively and engaging debate, a drinks reception follows the debate - ALL WELCOME.

Four students - all currently taught in PAIS - formed the University's Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Team on 26/27 February. This two-day cyber policy competition was organised by the Atlantic Council for students across the globe to compete in developing national security policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe.

The Student Challenge rounds took place in Washington DC, Geneva, Sydney, New York and London - the latter at the top of the BT tower. Sixteen universities entered teams in the London round which featured a variety of challenges and tests. The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ team leader was Sarah Mainwaring and the other team members were Sophie Davies, Sophie Cowling and Emily Bassett. Day One featured policy briefing and Day Two featured an extended "Cyber Crisis Sim".

Congratulations to the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ team who won the prize for best performance in the "Cyber Crisis Sim."

Drs Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Steve Kettell recently gave TEDx talks, for , on the theme of conflict.

Dr Heath-Kelly's talk, The Motivation of Terrorism, explored the motivations of terrorism, as identified through Charlotte's interviews with members of EOKA (a terrorist organization based in Cyprus).

Dr Kettell's talk, The Necessity of Secularism, addressed the role religion plays in warfare and will question society’s habit of hastily blaming religion for conflict.

An article by Columba Achilleos-Sarll, a PAIS PhD student, has been short-listed for the 2017 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s Annual Student Essay Competition.

The article, entitled, 'Reconceptualising Foreign Policy as Gendered, Sexualised and Racialised: Towards a Postcolonial Feminist Foreign Policy (Analysis)', can be downloaded for free here: