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James Brassett, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel, Ben Richardson and Luke Bantock have launched a new website for teaching IPE. The site is called I-PEEL: International Political Economy of Everyday Life and uses familiar objects and practices as routes into the discipline.

The site is open access and features 29 contributions from leading scholars in IPE and cognate fields. Funding support was provided by IATL and PAIS.

We are delighted to announce that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the Department of Economics are hosting a Warwick Question Time on the hot topic of Globalisation and Anti-globalisation. It will take place on Monday 2^nd October, 6.15-7.45pm, in Butterworth Hall. By joining together it means we can put on the biggest and best event possible and ensure PAIS students can take full advantage of the opportunity. Based on student feedback it is clear you would like more events of this kind and we are looking forwarding to starting off the 2017 academic year in such an exciting way.

The format is very similar to the popular BBC television show and it will allow an engagement with politicians, policy informers, academics and broadcasters. The event will have a real PAIS flavour, both in terms of the topic area and in the Chair of the Panel:

The panellists will be:

• Professor Kate Williams – Historian and Broadcaster
• Chris White – MP for Warwick and Leamington, 2010-2017
• Katy Chakrabortty- Head of Advocacy, Oxfam GB
• Samira Ahmed – Award Winning Journalist and Broadcaster
• Dr Dennis Novy – Associate Professor of Economics
• Dr Faiza Shaheen – Director of CLASS

The Panel will be Chaired by Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor in PAIS

More details and a registration form can be found here. Please do register asap to ensure your place. We look forward to seeing you there!

PAIS PhD candidate, Daniela Richterova, discovered unique communist-era documents and covert photographs of the Cold War’s most prominent terrorist figures – Carlos the Jackal and Abu Daoud. This document cache, made up of thousands of Eastern Bloc government and secret service reports, demonstrates the Czechoslovak communist regime’s ambivalent relationship with the two terrorists. Crucially, this new information helps us understand how and why states establish relations with violent non-state actors. It also illuminates some of the best kept secrets of Cold War espionage and international terrorism.

Daniela’s research was recently featured in The Guardian, the Czech weekly Respekt, and the Israeli daily Maariv.

A recent paper by Dr Vincenzo Bove, "Police Officer on the Frontline or a Soldier? The Effect of Police Militarization on Crime", published in the August issue of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, has received worldwide coverage.

It was cited and discussed by The Economist, in the United States section of the print edition and by journalistsresource.org.

The article was also cited by The Washington Post and The New York Times in articles about President Trump’s plans to give surplus military weapons to local law enforcement agencies and in The Wall Street Journal.

Professor Franklyn Lisk was invited to be the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony on 17th August 2017 of the Inaugural Conference of the Graduate School of Public Policy (GSPP) at Nazarbayev University (NU), Astana, 17-19 August.

The mission of the GSPP is to promote the development and quality of life in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian region through good public policy aimed primarily at improvement in good governance, diversification of the economy, and institutional reforms. The GSSP conference, which had as it theme "Good Governance and Economic Diversification in Resource-rich Economies", brought together about 75 participants from academic, governmental and private institutions in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. My keynote address entitled, "Promoting Good Governance in Natural Resources Management for Sustainable Development: Towards a Framework for Transparency and Accountability" (attached) was well received and generated a lively Q&A session afterwards. In a vote of thanks, the Dean of the GSPP, Prof Weng Tat Hui, expressed great satisfaction with the address which he found "insightful" and “personally benefitted from".

NU which was established in 2011 and named after the President of Kazakhstan is arguably the best university in the post-Soviet space between China and the Polish border. It teaches entirely in English, and its strategic international university partners include, Cambridge, UCL, Duke, Pittsburgh, Colorado school of Mines and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. NU is also a founding member of the recently established Asian Universities Alliance of Leading Universities, and it aspires to become a research -intensive university of international standing.

Warwick is the top-recruiting UK University in Kazakhstan with a stable student population of about 70 - a position and reputation that has been significantly enhanced by our collaborative relation with NU since 2013. Past and current areas of collaboration include Foundation Year Programme, School of Engineering, Public Policy and Diplomacy and Capacity-building for Professional Services and International Cooperation departments, as well as student mobility activities. In this regard, PAIS is currently collaborating with NU through its participation in a multi-university Horizon 2020-funded research project, EL-CSID. Many visits have taken place between academics/researchers and professional staff of both universities, and high level meetings have occurred including a meeting of the then two Provosts (Stuart Croft and Anne Lonsdale) in December 2015). A draft MoU is now being considered by both universities by which a strategic international partnership relationship between the two institutions will be formalised.

In addition to meeting with the Dean and academics of the GSPP, Professor Lisk also had a meeting with the Provost and head of NU Prof Ilesanmi Adesida and his senior management team engaged in international cooperation and global partnership including the Vice-President for International Cooperation, Ms Kadisha Dairova, and the Director for Global Experience Sharing, Ms Madina Aitakannova. The possibility of Prof Adesida visiting Warwick later this year or early next year was mentioned in their discussion on the establishment of strategic partnership between Warwick and NU. Prior to my visit to Astana, Franklyn had been briefed by the Executive Office of the V-C and the Office of Global Engagement in preparation for his meeting with the NU Provost and his team.

You can read Professor Lisk's keynote speech here.