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Dr. , has been invited by the Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, USA, to give a lecture. The talk is titled "Taking Pierre Nora to the Bombsite: Memory, Death and Capital."

Pierre Nora has argued that: ‘we speak so much of memory because there is so little of it left’. For Nora, industrialisation and capitalist acceleration were the destroyers of traditional societal structures. Memory industries emerged as methods by which societies could then imagine continuity and identity in response to social dislocation. This talk takes Pierre Nora, and other scholars of memory’s political economy, to the terrorist bombsite. Building upon their historical sociologies of memorialisation, and using her fieldwork from the reconstruction efforts which followed the 9/11 attacks and European bombings, I explore the sublimation of the memorial (and the dead human) to economic agendas and broader rationales of ‘regeneration’ and urban renewal. In post-terrorist reconstruction, the human subject is profoundly displaced by governance which triages economic injury and blight. Economy thereby emerges as the terrain upon which counterterrorism is fought.

The lecture takes place on Thursday April 6th, for more information, please see:

Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac have worked with Channel 4 to produce a 2-part documentary on how British spies targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. New evidence reveals the extent of the surveillance, who ordered it, and the unique insights it provided into Downing Street's response to a constitutional crisis. The first programme will be show on Sunday at 8pm and the second programme will be shown the following week.

We are delighted to announce that Professor was given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Intelligence Studies Section at ISA 2017 in Baltimore.

The Intelligence Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award recognises a distinguished record in publishing and service to ISA by a scholar whose work has made substantial impact in the area of intelligence studies.

At the reception honouring Richard’s work, the section chair emphasised the strong contribution that PAIS as a whole had made to Intelligence Studies over the last ten years.

Dr Trevor McCrisken has been quoted in a number of articles recently discussing United States President, Donald Trump.

In an article on Friday February 3rd, titled "," Dr McCrisken is quoted saying:

“Some presidents are very hands-on and very keen to be present in the Situation Room as major operations are being carried out. Obama and Bush were fairly regular there.” He added: “My sense is that some presidents have been less enamoured with the idea of always being there.”

And in an article on Sunday February 5th, "," Dr McCrisken's quotes are used heavily.

Trevor McCrisken, associate professor of politics and international studies at the 果冻传媒, said that if war broke out "we would be looking, I would imagine, at World War Three".

He said: "I really do think that would be the end of life as we know it on Earth.

"From a global strategic risk level I would say the last thing you want is war between the United States and any of the major powers because of the risks of escalation, obviously the potential for nuclear weapons to be used. The likelihood of nuclear exchange between the two principals involved is high."

But, he added, the "overwhelming view of most policy-makers in Washington since at least the late 1970s" favours a form of "cooperative, if competitive" relationship with China.

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Marking the sixth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Nicola Pratt and Sara Salem have published a new article based on material from their research project, 'Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt: Contested Narratives of the 25 January 2011 Revolution and its Aftermath.'

You can read the article here:

More details about the project can be found here: