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In Foreign Policy magazine's new series "The Historical Presidency", PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz put Donald Trump's recent threats to reclaim the Panama Canal in a long-term perspective. Trump's early-term threats against Panama follow a long pattern, they argue. US governments treat the small country's sovereignty as conditional. And though Panama seemed to cave in to Trump, the isthmisan country has a long history of surprisingly successful pushback. The United States may, once again, regret overplaying its hand in the isthmian country.

Read the article -> Trump Isn't the First U.S. President to Threaten Panama's Sovereignty

As tensions escalate between Cambodia and Thailand along the borders, young participant-researchers from both countries met in Kuala Lumpur to plan peaceful responses. Since beginning their collaborative research last year into the drivers of cross-border online conflict, they have built a strong network, recently naming it Peace Developer, committed to countering harmful narratives. During the visit, they also met with local Malaysians to learn from the country’s multicultural experience, exploring how such models might inform approaches to regional tension.

The gathering was part of a broader participatory and action-oriented research project co-developed with Women Peace Makers (Cambodia), Wocation (Thailand), and PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma, whose doctoral research explores what happens to peace research when those affected by conflict become the researchers themselves. The visit was supported by PAIS through the Warwick Impact Fund.

In a new article in The Conversation, PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz draw on an overlooked French intervention in Mexico to reflect on the tensions underpinning today's crisis of international order.

Read the article -> How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order 

On 1-2 May, the University of Warwick hosted a visit by Ambassador Ignacio Higueras Hare, Peru’s ambassador to the Court of St. James.

Please read the full article on Peru’s Ambassador Visits Warwick - Archived.

To mark the opening of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome (2025), PAIS is proud to present a new report outlining a strategic framework for engaging the Global Ukrainian Community (GUC) in Ukraine’s recovery. The report emphasizes democratic participation, human rights, and democratic governance as key pillars of this engagement.

You can read the full report here -> Engaging the GUC-Democracy and Human Rights, Warwick ICMPDLink opens in a new window