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Professor Anthony King joined PAIS on 1st January 2016 as Chair in War Studies.

Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge will join the department in academic year 2016/17 as an Associate Professor, and Dr Ece Özlem Atikcan will join the department in academic year 2016/17 as an Assistant Professor.

Chair in War Studies: Professor Anthony King

Professor Anthony King specialises in the study of the war and the armed forces and is particularly interested in the question of small unit cohesion. His most recent publications include The Combat Soldier: infantry tactics and cohesion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Oxford, 2013) and (ed.) Frontline: combat and cohesion in the twenty-first century (Oxford, 2015). He is currently working on a new book on divisional command, supported by a research grant from the ESRC. This project also involves an international and interdisciplinary scholarly-practitioner conference, 'Command in the 21st Century' to be held at Warwick in September 2017. He has worked closely with the armed forces as an adviser and mentor. Having worked at the University of Exeter for almost two decades, he is excited about taking up the Chair in War Studies at Warwick and building on PAIS's traditional strengths in the security studies area.

Associate Professor: Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge

Gabriel Siles-Brügge has spent the last 3 years as a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester. His research and teaching interests sit at the intersection of public policy, EU politics and International Political Economy where, amongst other things, he focuses on the politics of trade and investment agreements and of economic ideas. He is the author of Constructing European Union Trade Policy (2014, Palgrave Macmillan) and (with F. De Ville) of TTIP: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (2015, Polity). At Warwick, Gabriel's research plans include projects exploring new patterns of societal mobilisation on trade agreements and the politics of econometric modelling and forecasting. He also plans to contribute to further embedding economic and quantitative literacy into the teaching of politics courses.

Assistant Professor: Ece Özlem Atikcan

Ece Özlem Atikcan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, in Quebec, Canada, and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at the University College London, the UK. Her research combines a theoretical focus on political campaigns, issue framing, lobbying, transnational social movements, and diffusion with a regional focus on the European Union. She has extensive fieldwork experience in Spain, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland. Based on over 160 in-depth interviews with campaigners, media content analyses and public opinion data, she studies EU referendum campaigns to understand the impact of campaign argumentation on public opinion. Her work has appeared in Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, and as a book with Cambridge University Press. She completed her M.A. in European Law at the University of Sussex and her Ph.D. in Political Science at McGill University.