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Michael Saward, Professor of Politics and International Studies and the Director of the Warwick ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to commence in 2016. The Fellowship project is entitled Democratic Design: modelling political futures.

Richard Aldrich has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The end of secrecy? Whistle-blowers, electronic data and the transparent state,’ which argues that State secrecy is under pressure.

Hosted by the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Warwick, Dr Maria Koinova leads the discussion on Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton: Achievements, Challenges and Transnational Diaspora Activism.

Dr Waqar Azmi OBE (Remember Srebrenica), Dr Eric Gordy (UCL) and Dzeneta Karabegovic (University of Warwick) join Maria on the panel.

For more on Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty, please see their webpage.

Dr Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, recently appeared on Vic Minett's radio programme on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, discussing the asssasination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

You can listen to the piece using the player below.

Last week, Dr. Georg Löfflmann was on local BBC radio, taking part in 10 back-to-back interviews that reached over 500,000 people. Dr Löfflmann was commenting on Donald Trumps' remarks banning all Muslims from entering the US and the presidential campaign:

"Trumps' derogatory remarks are just the latest instalment in a series of outrageous comments that have also targeted women, Mexicans, and Syrian refugees. So far however, he has not suffered for these remarks in the polls, but instead has seen his numbers up. Trump stands for a worrying development regarding the deterioration of public discourse in the US, and the shift of the entire Republican Party to the Right."