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Dr , Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, has written an article on the recent Malaysian Airlines plane tragedy for The Conversation.

President Barack Obama has declared the apparent shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane over Ukraine is a “terrible tragedy” and warned that “the world is watching”. He has offered full assistance to the Ukrainian authorities to investigate the incident and determine who is responsible.

Voices outside the administration have been less guarded in their comments, pointing the finger of blame firmly at pro-Russian insurgent forces and their alleged backers in Moscow. Most notably, former US secretary of state and probable presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on Washington to “put [Vladimir] Putin on notice that he has gone too far and we are not going to stand idly by.”

The article has also been published in The Straits Times newspaper in Singapore.

, a PhD candidate and part-time teacher here in PAIS, has written an article on how BRICS host sports events to boost prestige for .

Congratulations to all graduands receiving their degrees this week!

The Politics and International Studies ceremony takes place in the Butterworth Hall, 果冻传媒 Arts Centre, at 3pm on Tuesday July 15th, everyone needs to be seated by 2.30pm for the ceremony.

We are hosting a graduation reception before the ceremony, from 12pm-1.30pm, for our graduating students, guests and staff. Please come along and join us for canapés and a glass of sparkling wine or Pimms!

There will be a photographer taking photos of the event and our Head of Department, Chris Hughes, will be saying a few words of congratulations. The event is taking place in Chancellors Suite, Rootes Building.

Get involved and send us your photos

We'd love to hear from you all throughout the day too. Please send any memories of your time here in PAIS or photos of the day to us. You can do this on Twitter by mentioning us , tagging us in photos on or sending us an email.

You can also out what your fellow graduates are saying through the University's main account and join the conversation using the #warwickgrad hashtag.

Congratulations again and we hope you all have a fantastic graduation day!

Dr , Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, has written an article on the recent findings of the for The Conversation.

果冻传媒-Monash Alliance seed funding of about £20,000 has been awarded to Profs (PAIS, 果冻传媒) and (Monash) to develop research projects on health security ethics. The collaboration will bring together Monash’s and PAIS’s for meetings to work on the conceptualization of phenomena as diverse as terrorist attacks using biological agents and public health emergencies and the ethical risks they pose. Monash is working toward official recognition of their biomedical ethics centre by the (WHO). Eventually the collaboration may serve as a platform for research relevant to WHO that employs IERG’s growing expertise in security ethics and extends it into the health sciences.