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Department of Politics and International Studies @Cambridge_Uni researching the world's most complex and pressing issues in politics and around the world.
Joined January 2014
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'What is Structural Injustice?' is out now. Jude Browne and @MaeveMckeown's new book, published by @OxUniPress, is the first edited collection to bring together the voices of structural injustice scholars to provide an overview of this important concept.
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Congratulations to @DianeCoyle1859 on being recognised in this year's King’s Birthday Honours List.
Professor Coyle CBE has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to Economics. Diane's work has had a profound impact on the field of economics & society at large.
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HIRING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: .We are currently recruiting six Assistant Professors: an Assistant Prof in Political Theory, an Assistant Prof in the Political Economy of Development and three Assistant Profs in Development Studies. Apply by: 10 March 2023 .
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On 27th June, our Department lost a great colleague, lecturer and friend, Dr Aaron Rapport. We will miss his kindness, wisdom, humour and most of all the way he loved life and how greatly he fought for it.
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Congratulations @pjsloman on winning a 2021 Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence 👏👏👏. More here>>
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Congratulations to @AyseZarakol on being awarded the prestigious Koç University Rahmi M. Koç Medal Of Science and for being the first winner in the disciplines of political science and international relations. @EmmaCambridge.
Koç Üniversitesi Rahmi M. Koç Bilim Madalyası’nın olağanüstü ve ufuk açıcı çalışmaları ile sekizinci sahibi olan Cambridge Üniversitesi’nden Prof. Dr. Ayşe Zarakol’u tebrik ederiz. Our wholehearted congratulations go to Prof. Ayşe Zarakol from University of Cambridge as the
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We continue to be deeply concerned by the ongoing detention of Cambridge PhD student Peter Biar Ajak by authorities in Juba, South Sudan and echo his family’s calls for his immediate release. --Department of POLIS.
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This year marks a major expansion of the Department as we welcome ELEVEN ✨ new colleagues throughout 2021 - . @wjhurst @Steven_m_ward @LuciaReisch @natalyanaqvi @RebeccaBuxton @TristenNaylor @haugejostein @joevarock @schulz_c_a . Find out more>> .
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The Department is pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Lisa Smirl PhD Prize for best PhD has been awarded to Dr Niyousha Bastani @bniyoush for her dissertation titled 'Subjects of Care: Ethics, Education, Extremism'.
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The Department is delighted to announce the winner of the Lisa Smirl prize for the best PhD completed in POLIS during 2019/20. The prize is awarded to Jaakko Heiskanen, for 'The Ethnos of the Earth: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and International Order'. Congratulations Jaakko!.
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📢 We are excited to announce this year's Cambridge Historical International Relations Conference will be held on 10 May in the ARB. The conference is for academics and graduate students interested in historical approaches to international relations.
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POLIS' Tribute to our beloved colleague and friend Dr Aaron Rapport
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The Department of Politics and International Studies @Cambridge_Uni is looking for Assistant Professors. Learn about these positions and what @Dept_of_POLIS has to offer including expectations, opportunities and salary here: . Apply by: 10 March 2023
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Wonderful to be acknowledged by the @guardian best UK universities 2023 rankings. Coming in first in our subject area is no small feat. Well done to everyone in @Dept_of_POLIS for this recognition. @Cambridge_Uni
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Excited to announce that Professor Jude Browne, Head of POLIS, will deliver this year's Alan Turing Lecture on "AI and Political Responsibility," drawing from her forthcoming book on Political Responsibility and Tech Governance. @Kings_College #AI .
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Congratulations to @AyseZarakol who has been awarded the 2023 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for her book 'Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders'. The prize is awarded by @isanet for best book related to historical international relations.
The second winner of the 2023 Guicciardini Prize is Ayşe Zarakol @AyseZarakol's "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders", "a powerful challenge to standard western IR conceptions of the development of sovereignty and international order". Our congratulations!
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A tribute to our colleague and friend, Dr Finbarr Livesey who will be greatly missed at POLIS and on the MPP Programme
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Join us for the annual Alcuin Lecture featuring our special guest, intellectual, historian and author, Perry Anderson who will discuss the European war in the east. For more information and to register:
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The Department of Politics and International Studies @Cambridge_Uni is looking for 5 Assistant Professors. Learn about these positions and what @Dept_of_POLIS has to offer including expectations, opportunities and salary here: . Apply by: 10 March 2023
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Don't forget to get your tickets to this year's Public Policy Lecture. We are excited to welcome Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) who will discuss the question, 'Do we need a new paradigm for economic policy?' . Register now:
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A sunny good morning to @DianeCoyle1859 who has joined the Department today as the Bennett Professor of Public Policy. Great news for POLIS, @CamPolicyInst and public policy @Cambridge_Uni in general.
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🔥Are we fired up about the Cambridge Historical International Relations Conference this Friday? Check out the final programme for the day. Pop it in your calendar🗓️ and attend sessions as your schedule allows. We look forward to seeing you there.👀.
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If you’re in the #deptofpolis today come and say ‘Hi’ to Murray, lovely whippet that belongs to our Head of Department, Prof. David Runciman. We were so excited to meet him 🐕🐾 #POLIS #petsatwork #somuchexcitment #whippet #murrayinthehouse
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Such a lovely news for #deptofpolis !!! Congratulations to Dr Adam Branch on his Readership and also to Dr Lauren Wilcox and Dr Peter Sloman to be promoted to University Senior Lectureship 🎉🎊 Well done to all of you 😊🥳 #promotions #POLIS #congratulations #bestteamever.
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🥳Congratulations to @dylanloh (POLIS and @Catz_Cambridge alumnus) on the publication of your new book 'China's Rising Foreign Ministry'.
In China's Rising Foreign Ministry, @dylanloh upends conventional understandings of Chinese diplomacy by underlining the importance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its diplomats in contemporary Chinese foreign policy. #ReadUP.
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Thank you to all #POLIS supervisors for their terrific work! You’re simply the best. 🏆🥇👏🏻 #supervisors #deptofpolis #gardenparty
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Ep08 of #Electionpodcast with @JeremyCliffe on Brexit, the future of the UK & the fate of David Cameron
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Sidgwick Site this morning. Have a nice weekend everyone ☀️ #deptofpolis #POLIS #sunrise #autumnvibes
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Huge congratulations to @AyseZarakol (POLIS) on being awarded the 2024 ISA John Ruggie Annual Best Book Award for her book 'Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders'. More about the book:
Delighted to celebrate the 2nd birthday of Before the West by announcing it will be receiving the 2024 ISA John Ruggie Annual Best Book Award (Given that I would never have set on this path if not for "Territoriality and Beyond" I am especially touched)
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We are delighted to announce the 2024 Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching has been awarded to Dr James Wood (@thinkwoodist). Read more about what Dr Wood's students had to say about him and Dr Wood's reaction to the announcement here:
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Congratulations to Farhana Rahman, winner of POLIS' first Fieldwork Photography Competition with her piece entitled: "Beyond Borders" taken in the Balukhali Rohingya Refugee Camp, Bangladesh. @CambridgeGender
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Book now for the launch on 29 Jan of the new Centre for the Future of Democracy, headed by Prof David Runciman. The launch will also feature leading Cambridge academics Dr Roberto Foa and Prof Helen Thompson.
Is democracy in a global crisis? A new Centre for the Future of Democracy is being launched in the new year, headed by Prof David Runciman. The launch event is on 29th Jan. Book early.
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Wonderful article by PhD Candidate, @AlinaUtrata in American Political Science Review @apsrjournal offering a new perspective on space colonisation by Silicon Valley elites - The article titled 'Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley' is available now.
Very, very excited (but still slightly stunned) to say that my article about Silicon Valley and outer space colonization is now online at @apsrjournal. More—and many more thank yous!—to come, but for now the open access link is here.
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@CambridgeGender will mark the end of our ‘Gender and Technology’ project with an event celebrating @TheGoodRobot1 and launching the new book 'Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Intelligent Machines' with special guests @laurenfklein and @kanarinka.
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@CambridgeGender will mark the end of our ‘Gender and Technology’ project with an event celebrating @TheGoodRobot1 and launching the new book 'Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Intelligent Machines' with special guests @laurenfklein and @kanarinka .
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Interesting new article in @EuroJournIR from @IliasAlami from @CdsCambridge and @drjacktaggart titled 'A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism'. Read it now:
New open-access article out in @EuroJournIR, written with @drjacktaggart! We ask: "To what extent is neoliberal global economic governance transforming in a world where states play greater roles as promoters, supervisors and owners of capital?" ../1
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Congratulations @gdenyerwillis on being awarded by @LeverhulmeTrust for his outstanding research on everyday patterns of political order with attention to policing and inequality, via ethnography and a focus on Brazil. Read now>>
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Congratulations to Professor Duncan Bell on being elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Join the Europe Centre @ POLIS 🇪🇺and @cjbickerton for Re-Bordering Europe - Europe’s Crises and EU Boundary Formation - Monday 15 Feb at 3 pm. #europe #borders Register here now:
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Congratulations to Prof. Jude Browne on winning the Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize 2020. Excellence in teaching!
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Just over a week ago, POLIS HoD, Professor Jude Browne delivered a rousing lecture on 'AI and Political Responsibility' at this year's Alan Turing Lecture. Tickets were scarce for this popular event, but you are in luck - it is now available to watch.
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The best supervisors of 2018-19: Dr Ashley Walsh and Dr James Wood, voted by #POLIS undergraduate students 🏆 Congratulations!!!
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Pleased to see the CamPo exchange programme, which started in POLIS, has now been extended to enable closer research ties and funding of joint projects!
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Apply now for SHARE @Cambridge_Uni, our paid 4-week research experience programme in humanities & social sciences for underrepresented undergrads considering postgraduate study. Find out more at our webinars on 5 & 6 Feb. #SHARE2023 #PhD #summerinternship
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@TheGoodRobot1 has over 10,000 downloads! Congratulations to @CambridgeGender researchers Eleanor Drage and @KerryMackereth on this significant milestone. Join them each week for in depth discussions on tech, gender and feminism.
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Congratulations to @KerryAMcInerney and @DrEleanorDrage on their new book "Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism". Pre-order your copy now.
My next edited book w workwife @KerryAMcInerney "Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism" is now available for pre-order! Essayists respond to the question of 'what is good technology?', beautifully illustrated by Sinjin Li.
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The full video of @DianeCoyle1859's Inaugural Lecture is now available to watch on the POLIS website:
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Congratulations to @AyseZarakol on yet another award for her fabulous book 'Before the West'. If you haven't read the 2024 ISA John Ruggie Annual Best Book Award winner, check it out here.
Very pleased to pick up the 2024 ISA John Ruggie Best Book award together with Jordanna Matlon
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We're delighted and proud that Aaron Rapport is one of the winners of this year's Pilkington Prizes:
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Assembling for the year group photo! We all managed to fit somehow #welcometopolis #inductionday
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What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And what does feminism have to say about it? . @CambridgeGender researchers @KerryMackereth and Eleanor Drage have launched a new Podcast🚀 @TheGoodRobot1 🤖 . First episodes are available now 🎧
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🎉Huge congratulations to @AyseZarakol (POLIS), one of Cambridge's newly elected Fellows of the @BritishAcademy_ for the humanities and social sciences! 👏. This is fantastic news and so well deserved.
Congratulations to our six Professors who have just been elected as Fellows of the @BritishAcademy_ for the humanities and social sciences! 👏. This honour recognises their work in fields ranging from medieval history to international relations. Read the full story here 👇.
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Congratulations @sharath_sri, @DrEllaMcPherson, and @s_lehuede on the 22-23 @CarrCenter Technology & Human Rights Fellowships to undertake a project, Provocations for Human Rights Practitioners: Technology, Power and Voice. @Cambridge_Uni @CGHR_Cambridge.
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Tonight saw the launch of In The Long Run, our new blog of writing on politics and public policy: @inthelongrunuk.
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We have raised £217.76 from the Macmillan coffee morning organised today in the Alison Richard Building 🎉🎊🎈Thank you to everyone who supplied cakes, donated money and enjoyed our initiative this morning ❤️
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Congratulations to Dr Marthe Achtnich (@CdsCambridge) on being awarded the Susan Strange Best Book Prize for her outstanding book 'Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean (@CambridgeUP)' . More:
🔊We are thrilled to announce that this years Susan Strange Best Book Prize was awarded to Marthe Achtnich (@Dept_of_POLIS) for the book:. 'Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands' (@CUP_PoliSci). Congratulations! 🎉.Read more from #BISA2024:
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David Runciman on Fire and Fury: could a book bring down a president?
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And here is the group photo with the first cohort for the History and Politics tripos #welcometopolis @CamHistory @pjsloman
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Coming this February, the 9th annual Antcliffe Lecture will be delivered by Lord Hague of Richmond.@WilliamJHague. Drawing on his more than 25 years as a Conservative politician, he will reflect on the state of contemporary British politics. Book now:
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Cambridge University Open Days part 1 went really well. Thank you to everyone who man the politics stand. We shall continue tomorrow.
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Congratulations to former POLIS PhD student Andrea Binder @abinder1 who has won the Körber Foundation's German Dissertation Award 2020 @KoerberScience.
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New Event: Join us on 24 May for the next seminar in the POLIS Political Economy Series. @ingridharvold will be sharing her thoughts on 'Decolonizing development economics: the radical potential of dependency theory'. Register now:
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Christmas jumpers on, radiators off! The Green Team Christmas Jumper Day 2016 off to a great start @CambridgeSust
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An article by our colleague @cjbickerton in the @guardiannews about the death of the Labour party.
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A huge welcome to the new History & Politics students who started yesterday! :)
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COVID19 has worsened Italy's economic crisis, pushing Italexit closer—but it has created opportunities for reform of the eurozone. Can reform be achieved? How radical will it have to be?. Join @luciobaccaro and @cjbickerton Wed 9 June at 5:30pm . Register>
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Sneaky snap of Jude Browne receiving her Pilkington Prize earlier this evening. Her teaching is "5⭐️, incred." according to our students.
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Launch of a fantastic new blog for postgraduate students in SHSS. It is edited and written by students from across the School and will give our PhD students a place to share experiences of the highs and lows of doing a PhD and talk about their research. #camresearcher #PhDlife.
Cupcakes are ready and laid out for our launch party - starting at 5pm! Seminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane #camresearcher #TCRLaunch #PhDlife
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We are excited to welcome Dr Jack Copley .@JackCopley6 to POLIS next Wednesday 26 April when he will share the benefit of his expertise on the dilemmas of decarbonisation in an era of economic stagnation. For more info and to reserve your spot:
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Can our faith in democracy survive the pandemic? 🗳️😷. Don't miss David Runciman of @TPpodcast_, Roberto Foa and Lucia Rubinelli @luxrub in the next instalment of @YoursCambridge 's Cambridge Conversations>> . TOMORROW Thurs 6 May at 5pm. Register▶️
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Final illustrious panel of the day feat. POLIS HoD David Runciman, @MarteauTM, @DianeCoyle1859 and @Gus_ODonnell #policycam
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‘Choices in public policy: evidence, fairness and the art of the possible’ a lecture with Paul Johnson
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POLIS student Razan Elshazali.& @CUSudSoc are working to raise awareness of the crisis in Sudan. Civilians are caught in the middle of a deadly power struggle and Sudan is facing a humanitarian emergency. Here is a note from Razan about how you can help.
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Meet POLIS People campaign continues! On IGTV you can now watch videos of our lovely PhD students: Maria Chiara Vincinguerra Alice Musabende and Leonie de Jonge #deptofpolis #POLIS #meetpolispeople #PhD
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All our new students in one place for the first time; just about enough chairs for them all! #welcometopolis #inductionday
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Well this is a fun one. Join us tomorrow for a game of the political strategic board game 'How to win Brexit'. Thurs 4 May from 12-3pm, Rm 119 in the ARB. Register now: @Cambridge_Uni @Kings_Politics #brexit @RussellDFoster @kings_eis @jangrzymski.
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Thinking about our incoming students, this #tbt is the 2016/17 intake for the MPP, MPhil IR & Politics and PhD Politics & Int. Studies.
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This years Alcuin Lecture titled "Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?" given by @anandMenon1 is now available to view on our website
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A warm welcome to our new MSt students who are starting with us today.
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ELECTION podcast: #Chilcot David Runciman and Glen Rangwala on the real lessons to learn from Chilcot and much more.
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Including @DrDuncanBell's fine work 'Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire' #stockingfiller
Foreign Affairs' reviewers pick the best books of 2016:
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If you missed Professor Judith Butler's very popular lecture 'Who is Afraid of Gender?' here is some exciting news. Watch it online now.
Professor Judith Butler's 'Who Is Afraid of Gender?' lecture recording is now available online! You can view the lecture here:
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Booking is open for our Subject Masterclass for Year 11/12 students interested in politics on 14th July
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Join us on Wednesday 1 May when Dr Ardi Imseis (@ArdiImseis), Professor of international law, Queen’s University, joins us to discuss his book, 'The United Nations and the Question of Palestine'. More info:
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Applications for the 2017-18 @CRASSHlive Quentin Skinner Fellowship in Modern Intellectual History are now open:
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MPhil Public Policy student Humaira shows us her experience of living and studying in Cambridge under the Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship scheme for students from areas of instability or zones of conflict.
Watch Humaira, a Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship holder from Afghanistan and Public Policy MPhil student, talk about her experience studying at the #UniversityofCambridge.
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Good luck to all students who sit POL7 and POL13 exams today! #deptofpolis #POLIS #exams #undergrads #goodluck.
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Congratulations to Dr Thomas Hopkins and Dr Caroline Ashcroft, joint recipients of our first Supervisor Award
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The 22/23 holder of the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair is Chris Bickerton (@cjbickerton). His recent inaugural lecture, titled 'The long 1989' is now available along with more information about the event @WienerAnspach @QueensCam @CamHistory.
“The long 1989”, @cjbickerton's public lecture at ULB in the framework of the Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, is now available online (with pictures of the event and its great audience, including @NathalieBrack and @RamonaComan1) .
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A very warm congratulations to Jude Browne on her Professorship 🎊🎉#deptofpolis #POLIS #professorship #congratulations #welldone.
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Congratulations to PhD student Adam!
We're very excited to announce the winner of the 2018 Northedge Prize: @AdamBLerner with his essay 'The Uses and Abuses of Victimhood Nationalism in International Politics'. Congratulations!.
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Thanks to @OrRosenboim and Maja Spanu for putting on such an interesting conference yesterday.
Why are there no women in the history of international thought? Patricia Owens in our conf on IR and History @QueensCam @Dept_of_POLIS
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What colonial British colonial law made possible – religious freedom understood through internal security – the war on terror has made likely. Dr Iza Hussin on empire and law in international history and IR:
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So pleased that @BurcuAOzcelik and Eliza Garnsey have been awarded postdoc Fellowships from @LeverhulmeTrust and @britac_news respectively.
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