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PAIS has just secured a new undergraduate exchange programme with Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Two places are available for 2012-13 for current Second Year students on the BA in Politics and the BA in Politics with International Studies. Students would spend their Third Year at Monash and return to Warwick to complete their degree in a Fourth Year. The year in Monash will be an intercalated year that will not count directly toward your degree but you will graduate as a "with Study Abroad" student.

Students will study Semester 2 at Monash followed by Semester 1 as follows:

• Semester 2 - July 13, 2012 to November 20, 2012
• Semester 1 - February 23, 2013 to July 3, 2013

Full details including orientation and examination dates

Please note that the successful students will need to travel to Australia relatively soon after the end of Term Three of this year at Warwick. You will obviously not have the long summer holiday this year, though you will get the long Australian summer vacation from late November to February which I imagine will be ample compensation!

Information about Politics and International Relations at Monash and the undergraduate modules available

The turnaround time for applications is very tight as we need to inform Monash of the students selected by the beginning of the Easter vacation - the deadline for applications is therefore 4pm on Wednesday February 29, 2012.

HOW TO APPLY

Application will be by a one page letter, e-mailed to Charlotte Lewis, detailing your motivations for wanting to participate in the exchange. Your letter could contain information on:

• Why do you want to study in Australia?
• How will you adapt to life at Monash and cope with being away from Britain?
• What benefits will you receive by spending your third year abroad?
• What previous experiences have you had that make you suitable for the exchange?
• Why should you be selected for the exchange?

You must attach a separate page detailing your contact information (including your preferred e-mail address, and your home and university addresses and phone numbers), degree programme, details of the modules you are taking this year, and the names of your module tutors and your personal tutor.

The application deadline is next Wednesday, February 29, 2012.

Your applications will then be assessed by the selection committee, a short-list will be drawn up, and potential candidates may be interviewed by Dr. Trevor McCrisken, Director of Exchange Programmes, and another member of the PAIS staff early the following week. We will consider academic performance, the motivations behind your application, and will be looking for maturity and evidence of adaptability which will help you adjust to life in Australia.

We look forward to your applications.

A Knowledge Centre article by Dr Ben Richardson and Dr Ben Clift

In December 2011 the leaders of France and Germany declared that the EU needs a new treaty to deal with the Eurozone debt crisis, yet the proposals owe more to German rather than French fiscal policy. To mark 40 years since Britain entered the Common Market, Drs Ben Clift and Ben Richardson ask: What’s next for the euro and the EU itself?

Read the full article

A video of Sir Robert Worcester's recent seminar on the US Elections (held 11th Jan) is now available:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/videos

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to circulate the attached call for papers for a GR:EEN workshop entitled: ‘Regional Governance and Global Crises’.

The workshop will be hosted by the University of Warwick from 18-19^th June 2012.

Deadline for abstracts: 15^th February 2012.

The workshop is open to both Warwick and non-Warwick participants from academic and practitioner circles.

Themes and questions to consider include:

• Impact of the global economic crises:

• What has been the impact of the global economic crises on regionalism?
• Has the crises affected levels and/or types of regional integration?
• How do crises affect government and public perceptions of the role of regional governance in the global political economy?

• Responses to the crises:

• What regional mechanisms have been established in response to the crises?
• How effective are they?

• Comparison: The Asian financial crisis and the current global crisis

• What are the implications of the crises for the role of regional actors and structures in global politics?

All enquires to toni.haastrup@warwick.ac.uk or yong-soo.eun@warwick.ac.uk

Kind wishes,

Laura

Laura Downey
GR:EEN Programme Manager
Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0)2476 574421
www.greenfp7.eu

Because it is so important to us to have your views, we are offering 4 Amazon vouchers to the PAIS cohort eligible to fill in the National Student Survey . The value of these vouchers will be the same as the response rate - eg, if you all replied, £100. The four vouchers will be allocated randomly by a raffle – so please do fill in the survey soon!