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Jennifer Philippa Eggert, ESRC Doctoral Research Fellow in PAIS, has written a blog for Connect Futures on why we need gendered approaches to counter-extremism.

Jennifer's piece can be read here: http://connectfutures.org/terrorists-extremists-arent-bunches-guys-gender/

We are thrilled to announce to all students and staff that PAIS is ranked 3rd out of 79 Politics Departments in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 league table.

We are ranked 1st for both the student experience and teaching quality in the entire Russell Group of elite Politics Departments.

Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams, Head of PAIS, commented: “Congratulations to all students and staff on this outstanding performance. This latest ranking in The Times/Sunday Times is yet further evidence of PAIS’ position as one of the UK’s leading all-round Politics and International Studies Departments. Our deep commitment as a community of scholars to tackling some of the biggest global challenges today — inequality, education, migration, climate change, conflict, to name only a few — means that our cutting-edge research feeds directly into our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The strengths and benefits of this symbiotic approach to research and teaching is reflected time and time again in our consistent appearance at the very top of all major league tables in the UK and beyond".

Thank you to all our students and staff for PAIS' continued success.

The complete Politics rankings can be viewed here.

Nicholas Shaxon, author/journalist and member of the Tax Justice Network, will be at Warwick to present and discuss his work on “National Competitiveness and the Finance Curse”, on Friday, 21st October from 2pm to 3:30pm (in the Wolfson Exchange, Room 1). ALL WELCOME.

Here are some links to other areas of Nick's work if you would like to know more:

'Treasure Islands', his book about tax havens can be found here: treasureislands.org

“A Tale of Two Londons", Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/society/2013/04/mysterious-residents-one-hyde-park-london;

Vanity Fair article on Donald Trump and Tax: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/the-great-trump-tax-mysteries

12 May 2017, Scarman House, University of Warwick; co-organised between PAIS and the Department of Philosophy.

A unique opportunity for a conversation between terrorism researchers and epistemologists about the epistemological challenges and fallacies of counterterrorism. The workshop will have a broad focus and will include discussion of the nature of knowledge, calculation, ignorance, illusion, epistemic vices and counterfactual thinking in counterterrorism.

This cross-disciplinary one day workshop, which supported by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will be one of the first events of its kind in the UK.

The speakers will include:

• Ruth Blakeley (University of Kent)
• Quassim Cassam (University of Warwick)
• Stuart Croft (University of Warwick)
• Hamed El-Said (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School)
• Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick)
• Richard Jackson (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS))
• Lee Jarvis (University of East Anglia)
• Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh)
• Sara Silvestri (City University)

No registration fee; please email q.cassam@warwick.ac.uk to reserve your place.

The research workshop bringing together PAIS colleagues with scholars from the Balsillie School of International Affairs took place in Waterloo in September 22^nd-24^th, 2016.

This was a tremendously successful and fruitful set of substantive research discussions between a variety of established scholars and early career researchers from Waterloo, Wilfried Laurier, and eight Warwick academics.

Keynote lectures were given by Lena Rethel on ‘The Politics of Financial Ideas: Grafting Islamic Finance’ and Nick Vaughan-Williams on ‘European Border Security and the “2015 Mediterranean migration crisis”’.

Centred on two broad thematic areas – migration, borders and security on the one hand, and the global political economy of trade and finance on the other – the workshop has led to no fewer than five well-developed research project ideas.

These ideas are being actively pursued, with follow up meetings planned amongst the project groups to coincide with various international conferences - and bids for external funding in prospect within the next eighteen months.

Thanks in particular go to John Ravenill, Suzan Ilcan and Andrew Thompson of the Balsillie School who made us feel so welcome, and organised a wonderful programme of events, both academic and social. On the Warwick side Ben Clift, Jill Pavey, and Jade Perkins were key to making the visit such a success.

With our double MA degree already established we look forward to further deepening the relationship with BSIA over the coming years across research and teaching activities.