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Take part in International Summer School
The Warwick International Summer School offers unique accredited courses taught in prestigious departments by expert academics using innovative teaching methods. Our specially designed programmes offer undergraduates from all over the world a chance to combine intensive academic study with a varied social agenda exploring the diversity of British culture and heritage.
The Summer School is split into two three-week blocks, and each course will run either in Block 1 (29 June to 19 July) or Block 2 (20 July to 9 August). When you've chosen the course you'd like to take, please check carefully which block it will run in. If you see two courses you'd like to take, you're welcome to join us for two courses and stay for six weeks rather than three!
Please see www2.warwick.ac.uk/summerschool for more general information, and www.warwick.ac.uk/iss for information about the International Summer School.
Ben Clift's New Book, 'Comparative Political Economy'
This major new text introduces the analytical tools required to understand and interpret 21st century advanced capitalism and its evolution in the wake of the global financial crisis. Placing Comparative Political Economy in the context of key concepts and theoretical debates in the long-established field of Political Economy, it maps the terrain, substantive focus and evolution of the comparative approach. Furthermore, it connects Comparative Political Economy systematically to the subfield of International Political Economy (IPE), making the case for cross-fertilisation between these closely related fields.
The book is published by Palgrave in April, and the launch event will take place in PAIS on May 7th.
Spy Museum Internship Opportunity
The International Spy Museum (SPY) in Washington, DC is preparing to move to a new location with expanded exhibition spaces, providing the opportunity to develop new and/or enhanced exhibits. To prepare for the move, scheduled for 2017, SPY is building a team to research key issues, identify and procure new artefacts for the permanent exhibition, and determine the structure and focus of the new museum.
The Museum is currently welcoming applications from PAIS students to support this team. We are happy to proceed with a rolling deadline.
Prof. Elden awarded book prize
Professor Stuart Elden has been awarded a major prize for his new book, The Birth of Territory (University of Chicago Press).
Professor Elden’s book has won the Meridian Book Award of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). This distinction ‘recognises one outstanding book published each year that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography’.
More information about the award and past winners is available at the following link: http://www.aag.org/awards/meridian_book
You can read more about the book on the University of Chicago Press website: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo15506915.html
Chinese translation of Chris Moran's book
As part of their translations programme, Edinburgh University Press have confirmed a Chinese (simplified) translation deal with Beijing Yanziyue Culture and Art Studio for Christopher Moran and Christopher Murphy's book, Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945.
Beijing Yanziyue Culture and Art Studio plan to publish hardback copies of their edition by 17th February 2016.
You can purchase the English copy of the book on the Edinburgh University Press website.