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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.

Tom Long's new article "Issue-Areas, Sovereignty Costs, and North Americans’ Attitudes Toward Regional Cooperation" has been published by Global Studies Quarterly. In the article, Tom and coauthors Malcolm Fairbrother (Umea University) and Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz (Bates College) examine how people's views of regional cooperation in North America diverge from their attitudes toward trade integration alone. Connecting the study of public opinion with more multifaceted approaches of comparative regionalism, they argue that public attitudes are shaped by citizens’ perceptions of the asymmetric patterns of national-level benefits and vulnerabilities created by regional cooperation.

You can read the article here: https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/2/1/ksac011/6546417

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 

On Monday 28th February the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a major report on the effects of climate change, who is most vulnerable, and prospects for adaptation to climate change, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/). This drew on research by six members of the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS). In particular it cited the research of Dr Morten Fibieger Byskov, Prof Simon Caney, Prof Keith Hyams, and Prof Ed Page on the demands of climate justice. And it cited research by Prof Caroline Kuzemko and Prof Mat Watson on the political economy of energy.

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.