Other News
PhD funding success
Masumi Owa has secured a Japan Foundation Endowment Committee grant to support her thesis research into ‘Collective Action in Global Governance: the Case of OECD Development Assistance Committee’.This will make a useful contributon to funding her research.
ASIA'S FASTEST GROWING RELATIONSHIP
A Knowledge Centre article by Vicky Tuke
This year marks the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between two of the world’s largest democracies - India and Japan. In this article, Warwick PhD candidate Victoria Tuke investigates their complex shared history and asks if their deepening relationship is here to stay.
THE PROBLEM WITH BANKS
A Knowledge Centre article by Dr Timothy J. Sinclair
Media coverage of the financial crisis has resulted in much anger and panic, but have we been guilty of viewing the situation through rose-tinted glasses? In this video and article, Dr Timothy J. Sinclair offers some observations on global finance, including the role of banks - the subject of a forthcoming book co-written with Warwick colleague Dr Lena Rethel.
Sir Robert Worcester to speak on elections
On Wednesday 11 January, Sir Robert Worcester, founder of MORI, will be speaking on US and UK elections as part of the PAIS seminar series.
The seminar will take place in room S0.18 in the Social Sciences building at 4.00pm; refreshments will be available from 3.30.
Sir Robert is the chairman of the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary in 2015 Committee. He is also Visiting Professor of Government and a former Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, where he is Chancellor, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University.
EUROPEAN BORDER SECURITY AFTER THE ARAB SPRING
An EU-GRASP policy brief by Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams
What is being done to secure the EU’s 11,000km external land borders, 43,000km sea borders, and 593 international airports confronted by c.700 million border-crossers per annum -- up to 4million of whom, according to British MEP Sir Graham Watson, are potentially “illegal"?
This was the focus of a recent conference on European Border Security in Brussels attended by Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams as part of the FP7 funded EU-GRASP project of which PAIS is a Partner Institution.