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Photography Competition Winners
A big thank you to everyone that entered The Faculty of Social Sciences photography competition to celebrate The University of Warwick’s 50th Anniversary. The quality of entries submitted was very high and we received over 90 entries.
The theme was ‘What does politics mean to you?’
Our panel of judges whittled it down to a top 3 and 12 other highly commended photographs.
The winners were:
- First place – Simon Cereda-Parini - £100 and a framed print of his photograph
- Second place – Lee-Shan Tse - £50
- Third prize – Helen McCabe - £25
The names of the photographers in the highly commended category are as follows:
- Simon Cereda-Parini
- Helen McCabe
- Lee-Shan Tse
- Keith Hyams
- Liam Ho
- Charlie Hindhaugh
- Philipp Hukal
- Julian Chan
- Shaun Breslin
- Aalim Javeri
- Oliver Rice
- Gabrielle Lynch
All photographs will be displayed at an exhibition at The Festival of Social Sciences at Fargo Village on Saturday 9th May 2015.
PAIS Academics Participate in Democracy Promotion Workshop
Tina Freyburg, as a founding member of the International Research Network External Democracy Promotion, along with Peter Burnell, participated in the workshop ‘Interaction Between Internal and External Actors in Democracy Promotion’ organised by the Research Network and hosted at the Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE – German Development Institute) in Bonn, 25-27 March.
Invited participants from sixteen universities and research institutes explored new theoretical directions for paying greater attention to local actors in the interplay with external actors who are either involved in or are countervailing democracy promotion processes and outcomes.
Liverpool FC Academy to visit Politics and International Studies
LFC Academy players and their coaches will visit us at the end of April, as part of our widening participation and outreach programmes.
Our academics will lead sessions on topics including: The Political Economy of Football; Food, Politics and Poverty; and Politics and Popular Culture. By taking part in these taster sessions, the players will gain a fantastic insight into university life.
The Academy will also play a football match against the University of Warwick Men's Football Club. More details on this will follow shortly.
The match will mark the end of the two day programme designed to encourage the players to consider higher education, whether this be studying throughout or after their football career.
Both PAIS and LFC Academy see this as the beginning of a long term relationship. We are excited about hosting the Academy, as part of our commitment to helping young people identify higher education opportunities available to them.
We look forward to welcoming LFC Academy to Warwick.
New book by Professor Christopher Hughes
Professor Christopher Hughes, PAIS Head of Department and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, has recently had a new book published on the ‘Abe Doctrine’ of the Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, titled Japan's Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine.'
Prime Minister Abe Shinzō's foreign and security policy—highly charged with ideological and historical revisionism—contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for an 'Abe doctrine' capable of displacing the 'Yoshida Doctrine' that has been Japan's guiding grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that look to transform national security policy into a more muscular military stance, bolster US-Japan alliance ties to function increasingly for regional and global security, and attempt to encircle China's influence in East Asia. The 'Abe Doctrine' is dynamic but also high-risk. Abe's revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness, or even defeat, the doctrine, and along the way inflict collateral damage on relations with East Asia and Japan's own national interests.
The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available to buy here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/japan's-foreign-and-security-policy-under-the-%C2%91abe-doctrine'-christopher-w-hughes/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137514240
Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly interviewed by BBC on Radicalisation
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, a Research Fellow here in PAIS, was recently on BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire discussing the new Home Office report on Foreign Fighters and Radicalisation.
You can listen to Dr Heath-Kelly's interview below