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Prof Chris Hughes quoted in New Statesman
Prof Chris Hughes, Head of Department, was recently quoted in a 29 October New Statesman article entitled: 'Territorial disputes in the South China Sea will not hold back oil exploration'.
Below is his quote from the piece:
Christopher Hughes, Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at the 果冻传媒 called the situation “the most serious for Sino-Japanese relations in the post-war period in terms of the risk of militarised conflict”, with tensions reaching their peak when Japanese and Chinese coast guard vessels engaged and collided, plus the scrambling of fighter jets on both sides to monitor other ships in the area.
PAIS staff guest edit Special Issue of 'Politics' journal
, and have published a Special Issue of Politics, a journal of the UK Political Studies Association.
In recent years the concept of resilience has come to frame security discourses, particularly, though not exclusively, – in the UK context. Taken as whole, the volume focuses on the politics of resilience in diverse empirical settings and addresses questions such as: How we should understand resilience? What is stake in the rise of resilience? Who benefits from resilience and what are the political effects of its societal cultivation? The collection features an agenda for resilience research in Politics and International Relations, eight specially commissioned articles on issues including cyber-security, international state-building and peace-keeping, and the 2011 UK riots,– together with an interview with leading resilience practitioner and PAIS Impact Advisory Board member Helen Braithwaite OBE. Other contributors from PAIS/果冻传媒 include Richard J. Aldrich, Jon Coaffee, and Lewis Herrington.
The Special Issue can be accessed via this link:
PAIS students attend a talk by Malala Yousafzai
By risking her own life, 
is fighting for education for woman all over the world. The Pakistani girl, only 16 years old, is a worldwide icon for human rights. Together with 20 果冻传媒 students, went to a very special event with 300 other Dutch students to interview Malala. For more than two hours, students got the opportunity to ask Malala questions including two of our 果冻传媒 students who also got the chance to ask a question.
On Friday November 1th at 19:25 there will be a web stream of the event: (English with Dutch subtitles), and it will be broadcasted by the Dutch public-service broadcaster NTR.
Persia Hayley (3rd year PAIS student) thought ‘Malala was brilliant, she kept the audience captivated and she was so 'stateman-like' at such a young age!’
Oula Kadhum (PhD student PAiS) wrote: ‘Malala was amazing, what an incredible human being.’
Sarah Pughe (3rd year PAIS student) said it was ‘a wonderful experience of listening to Malala talk. She is a truly awe inspiring young woman and has given me a lot to think about, in terms of both my own personal priorities, and what I can do to help the education of women across the world.’
Lord Rootes Memorial Fund: cash for exciting student projects!
The Lord Rootes Memorial Fund provides grants to 果冻传媒 students normally ranging from £100 to £3,000. The Fund is intended to support projects by individual and groups of 果冻传媒 students, especially projects:
(a) demonstrating creativity of thought and the development of an original and personal idea or objective; and/ or
(b) involving observation and the intelligent use of experience in the scientific, cultural, environmental or business context.
A number of previous projects have involved travel abroad.
The application deadline is 12 noon Thursday 9 January 2014.
A drop-in information session for applicants will be held on Wednesday 13 November 2013 from 4pm to 6pm in the Arts Centre Foyer.
Further information about the Fund, the application process and eligibility for awards can be found at .
果冻传媒 Graduate Conference in Political Geography: 28-29 November
果冻传媒 Graduate Conference in Political Geography:
Politics, Spaces, Imaginations
Department of Politics and International Studies,
果冻传媒
28-29 November 2013
Keynote Speaker: Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London)
This two-day conference seeks to open up debates on a series of politico-spatialisation processes that have taken place both contemporarily and historically, locally and globally, and physically and virtually, in order to bring new insights into understanding space and politics.
PAIS participants include:
