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, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, has been interviewed by a number of different news outlets this week, discussing the US and Iraq.

Dr McCrisken has also appeared on ABC1 in Australia and in an interview with the Press Association.

Politics and International Studies at the 果冻传媒 has achieved an impressive 90 per cent overall satisfaction rating in the National Student Survey (NSS).

The NSS is completed by finalist students, across all our degree programmes, and is used to help compile university and subject league tables.

Our scores have significantly increased across the range of NSS questions. Our Departmental figures show particularly large increases of 8 per cent on feedback and 16 per cent on personal development.

Our score for feedback is now 2nd in the Russell Group (a group of 24 leading teaching and researching universities in the UK) and the highest in the Faculty of Social Sciences, amongst departments with core BA degrees.

We are number 1 in the Russell Group for organisation and management and enhancing the communication skills of our students. We are number 3 in the Russell Group for personal development.

Overall we are 3 points above the Russell Group average in terms of overall satisfaction and ahead of the Russell Group average in 5 of the 6 NSS Categories (feedback and assesment, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, and personal development).

We would like to thank all our graduating students for this great result and all our staff for their hard work in promoting teaching excellence and the student experience.

We look forward to working with all our students next year to further enhance the student experience in PAIS.

, researcher in International Politics, has had comments published in the :

, a PhD candidate in PAIS, has published an article for the (ORSAM).

Until recently, Turkey appeared to be the player who had gained the most from the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. By 2013, Turkey’s trade with Iraq amounted to $11.9 billion, making Iraq Turkey’s second largest trading partner. The first five months of 2014, exports to Iraq had already equaled to $5.4 billion, an increase of 11%. This relationship is not only significant because of exports, but when compared to trade with Germany, Turkey’s largest trading partner, with exports equal to $13.3 billion and imports equal to $24.1 billion, Turkey only imports $200 million from Iraq, thus tilting the balance in Turkey’s favor. More than 1,500 Turkish companies operate throughout Iraq and export a wide array of goods such as furniture, diapers, milk, pipes and doors.

The photographs from our graduation reception, in the Chancellors Suite, are now available to view:

The photographs are also on our , where you are able to tag yourselves and your friends!

Congratulations again to everyone who graduated from everybody in the department.