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Stuart Elden’s book Shakespearean Territories was published in late 2018 by University of Chicago Press. The book uses readings of a number of Shakespeare’s plays to explore different aspects of territory.

Shakespeare’s plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history.

The book explores how Shakespeare can be read as developing a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place.

More details about the book can be found at the publisher website: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo28246205.html

"The Global Governance of Systemic Risk" published in New Political Economy 

Matt Kranke and David Yarrow's article examines the global governance of systemic risk after the financial crisis. Analysing the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), they argue that attempts to render risk measurable sideline the political ambitions of macroprudential theory, especially the need for public control of financial practices. In the end, systemic risk may merely appear easier to control while genuine containment would require a critical rethinking of financialisation processes.

The article was published under a Creative Commons Attribution License and is thus freely available via the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2018.1545754.

British International Studies Association

Working Group on the “International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diasporas” 

Call for Papers for a BISA Workshop 

The Migration – Security Nexus from a Transnational Perspective 

Organised by Dr. Foteini Kalantzi and Dr. Maria Koinova

21 February 2019, Thursday, at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Currently more than 250 million migrants live outside their country of birth. It is expected that this number will rise because of population growth, climate change, growing inequality and increasing connectivity. At the same time, the changes in the balance of power in the geopolitical arena, massive displacement of people because of conflict and war create significant management challenges for states and the international community. Large numbers of people arrive at the shores of countries in the Mediterranean, refugees die at sea undertaking dangerous journeys and criminal networks exploit this situation.

There is also a growing reluctance by states to accept refugees, xenophobic rhetoric is on the rise and far-right populist anti-immigrant figures successfully convince publics of ill fortunes that immigrants might bring. In addition, there is a growing number of countries that refuse to sign the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, whose goal is to better manage migration at local, national, regional and global levels.

The intensification and militarisation of border controls in the Mediterranean, the operation of military forces, the use of ‘extraordinary measures’ and the expansion of detention centres presents new challenges to the migration governance in the EU and nation-states within and beyond it.

This workshop intends to focus on the global governance of migrants from the perspective of the migration-security nexus including its transnational dimension, examine the position of nation-states in the new challenges of globalisation and transnationalism, the growing securitisation of migration, and the changing role of NGOs, diasporas, and other non-state actors.

If you are interested, please send a paper abstract of 300 words maximum and a short bio of up to 300 words to Dr. Foteini Kalantzi (foteini.kalantzi@sant.ox.ac.uk) and Dr. Maria Koinova (m.koinova@warwick.ac.uk) by 7 January, 2019. The organisers will decide about accepted abstracts by 10 January 2019. Limited financial support will be available.

Students on the PAIS MA Module 'Theories and Traditions in Public Policy' spent the 30th of November at the Cabinet Office, engaging in a simulation of the upcoming Departmental Spending Review with civil servants.

Tuesday 2nd July, 2019. 9.30am—5.00pm. Maths Building, University of Warwick.

Proposals for our fifth annual research conference are invited from all academic staff and doctoral researchers in the Department of Politics and International Studies.

We welcome the following types of proposals: (1) paper proposals; (2) panel proposals; (3) roundtable proposals.

For papers please submit the paper title, author name(s), and 200-word abstract.

For panels please submit the panel title, details of 4 paper proposals, and name of panel chair.

For roundtables please submit the roundtable title, 200-word abstract on the roundtable theme, list of 4—5 contributing speakers, and name of roundtable chair.

Please e-mail all proposals to Jill Pavey: J.Pavey@warwick.ac.uk by Wednesday 1st May, 2019