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Trump and Panama: New essay in Foreign Policy
In Foreign Policy magazine's new series "The Historical Presidency", PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective. Trump's early-term threats against Panama follow a long pattern, they argue. US governments treat the small country's sovereignty as conditional. And though Panama seemed to cave in to Trump, the isthmisan country has a long history of surprisingly successful pushback. The United States may, once again, regret overplaying its hand in the isthmian country.
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PAIS Doctoral collaboration sparks real-time local peacebuilding response
As tensions escalate between Cambodia and Thailand along the borders, young participant-researchers from both countries met in Kuala Lumpur to plan peaceful responses. Since beginning their collaborative research last year into the drivers of cross-border online conflict, they have built a strong network, recently naming it Peace Developer, committed to countering harmful narratives. During the visit, they also met with local Malaysians to learn from the country’s multicultural experience, exploring how such models might inform approaches to regional tension.
The gathering was part of a broader participatory and action-oriented research project co-developed with Women Peace Makers (Cambodia), Wocation (Thailand), and PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma, whose doctoral research explores what happens to peace research when those affected by conflict become the researchers themselves. The visit was supported by PAIS through the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Impact Fund.
Mexico's republican resistance and the crisis of international order
In a new article in The Conversation, PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz draw on an overlooked French intervention in Mexico to reflect on the tensions underpinning today's crisis of international order.
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ERC Advanced Grant
The European Research Council has awarded five ERC Advanced Grants to The ¹û¶³´«Ã½, the third most of any UK institution.
Congratulations to Gabrielle Lynch for being awarded a 5 year ERC Advanced Grant for a project entitled Judges’ Off-Bench Activities: Evidence and Theory on Judicial Politics from Africa.
For further information, visit university_of_warwick_announces_5_erc_advanced_grant_winners_for_2025_1
8bitNews podcast on key debates and lessons from the InclusivePeace workshop
8bitNews Japan hosted a podcast with Professor Yuji Uesugi (Waseda University), Professor Allison McCulloch (Brandon University) and Professor Neophytos Loizides (PAIS, ¹û¶³´«Ã½)
Watch on YouTube the key debates and lessons from the InclusivePeace workshop in Tokyo in June 2015.
You can also watch it on the X post .