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PaIS Undergraduate Seminar Registration Instructions
For 2nd and 3rd Year Students seminars will become available for you to sign up to on MyPaIS at approximately 11AM on Friday 28th September.
For 1st Year Students seminars will become available for you to sign up to on MyPaIS at approximately 11AM on Monday 1st October.
First Year Undergraduates Quick Start Guide
In your first year your CORE modules will be Introduction to Politics, World Politics and Introduction to Research Methods. In addition to this you will need to choose one OUTSIDE OPTION from another department to make up your 120 CATS of study for your first year.
Prof Trevor McCrisken interviewed in International Affairs
Prof Trevor McCrisken was recently interviewed by International Affairs' editor Caroline Soper on Obama ending the war in Afghanistan, and the other articles in Volume 88, Number 5.
Listen to the full interview below:
Offer Holders: Welcome to Warwick!
This is just a friendly reminder to all incoming students to check out the Welcome to Warwick pages, where you can enrol online, sign up for your student ID card, get your Warwick email and login details, etc. Remember, you must enrol so that you're ready to start your course at the beginning of term--1 October!
Undergraduates also have an induction on the 1st October.
Are Drones the New Weapon of Choice in the Battle for Public Opinion?
A Pinpoint Politics article by Helen Jane Martin
Cases of deaths caused by US drone strikes are rarely far from front pages, with high-profile insurgents regularly falling victim to their new mechanised enemy. Yet, despite this publicity, reliable statistics are unavailable on the number of strikes, the number of deaths, and, importantly, the locations of strikes. This is not only down to the CIA’s secrecy concerning the operation, but also because in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where most of the attacks are taking place, the environment for outsiders and foreigners is nothing short of hostile. The most comprehensive effort to scale the impact of the new drone war has been carried out by the New American Foundation which offers an interactive map based on the strikes. However, the organisation admits that this effort is still not the full story, stating that it only gives best approximations of locations and its details of drone attacks are reliant on media organizations for their information.