Dr Mohd Faizal Basri is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Management and Economics, Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Malaysia. He is also a visiting associate professor at Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business and MBA from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He also holds a PhD in Islamic Finance from Durham University, UK. His research interests are in the area of Islamic banking and finance. In his early career, Dr Mohd Faizal served AmBank (M) Berhad in the Banking Inspection & Quality Assurance department for several years. Before joining UPSI, Dr Mohd Faizal worked as a lecturer at UiTM.

Roundtable: The War in Ukraine

14 March, 2022 – 15:00 – 16:00 (GMT, London)

The Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Warwick in collaboration with the EU Jean Monnet Network “Between the EU and Russia” is organising an online roundtable to shed light on the current political developments in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

The webinar will draw on the expertise of scholars with extensive research in the region, including on issues of foreign and security policy, EU-Russia relations, secessionism and interventionism, and international migration.

Panellists:

Prof. Richard Youngs (PAIS/Warwick and Carnegie Europe)

Author of Europe's Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Prof. Oxana Shevel (Tufts University, USA and Associate at Harvard’s Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Ukraine Initiative)

Author of Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Prof. Maria Popova (McGill University and EU Jean Monnet Chair)

Author of Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts In Russia and Ukraine, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Moderator:

Prof. Maria Koinova (PAIS/Warwick)

Author of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States, Oxford University Press, 2021.

Registration is required prior to the event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-the-war-in-ukraine-tickets-293151693607 

Our thoughts are with all members of our community who are affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

If you’re worried or concerned about the events unfolding in the region, please remember the forms of support that are open to you within PAIS and at the University. You can speak with your Personal Tutor, with the PAIS Director of Student Well-Being, and other members of staff. You can access support from the University's Wellbeing Support Services team via the wellbeing portal or by calling 024 7657 5570.

As students of Politics and International Studies you will no doubt be following the developments very closely. When you engage in discussions with each other please do remember the University's Dignity at Warwick Policy, the University Principles and Values and the PAIS Online Etiquette Policy.

Dr Hiroshi Nakatani works at the Air Staff College of Japan Air Self Defence Force in Tokyo. He has a PhD from University of Reading (2019), where he was supervised by Professor Beatrice Heuser, and an MA from University of Birmingham (2011).

The talk examines the formative period of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan between 1945 and 1970, discussing how the concept of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan came to emerge and develop in both Japan and the US.

It will be of interest for those studying international relations, international security and nuclear proliferation.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Seb Rumsby has written an article for The Conversation, titled "Economic migration: the root problem is not smugglers but global inequality."

This piece is based on his ground-breaking new research on the everyday politics of undocumented Vietnamese migration to the UK, which is being funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. Seb says: "Ever since the tragic deaths of 27 migrants in the UK-France channel in December 2021, I've been burning to write something in defence of economic migration, which is much maligned in our mainstream media. I want to join the dots between my own research of undocumented migrants with other people's research exposing the massive inequalities of our global economic system. From here, I can show how economic migrants have just as much right to seek a better life as asylum seekers."

"Economic migration is not going to go away - I'm afraid it will only be a matter of time before the next dinghy sinks in the English Channel. On the contrary, it's only going to get bigger with climate change making more of the planet uninhabitable. We can challenge the familiar narratives of 'they're coming to take us over' or 'there's not enough space for them all', but only if we appreciate how our economic system creates such crazy inequalities that makes economic migration inevitable."

You can read Seb's article here.