Can public discourse impact AI regulation? In their newly published JCMS paper, Kerem Öge and Manuel Quintin show that frames and discourse coalitions influence the scope and ethos of US and EU facial recognition policies. 📰

CRIPS (Critical International and Political Studies) are incredibly excited to announce this year's annual lecture with our guest speaker Professor Andrew Baldwin from Durham University.

PAIS's Miri Davidson has contributed to a collective discussion article in International Political Sociology's Special 20th Anniversary Issue 📰 👓 Read the group's reflections on "The Uses and Abuses of the Anti-Colonial in Global Reactionary Politics" here: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

Europe is rearming — but what about the politics behind it? New @ConversationUK piece by PAIS' Professor Richard Youngs explores the overlooked political consequences of rising defence spending 🔗 theconversation.com/europe-is-re... #EU #Politics #Security #WarwickPAIS

Join the Society & Culture Spotlight at the University of Warwick for their upcoming symposium: "Not Another Crisis! Knowledge in and beyond disciplines".

The Geopolitics of Memory in the Indo-Pacific Wednesday 10th June Birmingham-Warwick Joint Conference 09:00-18:30 S0.19, Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick Campus

PAIS's Chris Moran is featuring in another Sky Arts Documentary. Catch him tonight at 9pm in Ian Fleming and the Cure of James Bond! 📺️ 🕵️

Studying Politics and International Studies at Warwick not only means you'll be at a Global Top 50 department, learning from our world-leading expert teachers, but you'll also be part of our thriving and supportive community Join Suzan for a day in the life of seminars and the Big PAIS Party 📚️ 🥳

WICID is excited to launch the ‘development studies reading group’. This will be a space to build community, share ideas, and discover new readings together. For their first ‘brown bag’ style meeting, they will discuss over lunch an essay by Pramod Parajuli, “How can Four Trees Make a Jungle?”.

PAIS's Chris Clarke, Mareike Beck, Asha Herten-Crabb and Caroline Kuzemko will all be contributing to the interdisciplinary workshop "Capitalist Institutions & Power" this week. Join them and colleagues from the School of Law and Department of Sociology for a day of panels and a public lecture.

Join us for our departmental seminar this week when we will be visited by Professor Nicole Curato from the University of Birmingham. She will be presenting on “After America First: The Urgent Case for a Global Deliberative Democracy” from 5-6:30pm on Wednesday 13th May in OC1.02 👩‍🏫

The EASG is delighted to welcome Dr Flavia Lucenti (Luiss Guido Carli University) for a fascinating discussion drawn from her forthcoming book, Global Resentment: Chinese and Russian Narratives of International Order.

PAIS PhD researcher, Sena El Banna, has won the 2025 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize for her paper "Family afterlives of activism among Egyptian Islamist women since the Revolution".

All Warwick graduates progressing to a PAIS MA programme are eligible for a 20% tuition-fee discount. This financial support enables our students to continue their studies in a global Top 50 Politics and International Studies department (QS 2026 rankings).

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships.

The East Asia Study Group is hosting a timely discussion on recognition, pragmatism, and foreign‑policy adaptation in an era of shifting geopolitical pressures with Dr Wrenn Yennie Lindgren of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships.

Our book talk with Mirko Palestrino (QMUL) is coming up! Mirko will be discussing his brilliant first book "Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime" and offering advice on how to turn a PhD thesis into a book. Join us on 13th May, 12-1:30pm in S0.08

Join the IPE cluster at the University of Warwick for a day-long workshop on the 'University in Crisis' on the 21st May, 10am-5pm. All are invited to discuss the current impasse of the university, including debt, marketisation and the future of higher education.

You are invited to join us at the Warwick Festival of Peacebuilding on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th May 2026 for discussion and celebration of peace and reconciliation.

The EASG is launching the EASG Early Career Spotlight Lecture, a new annual platform celebrating outstanding early career researchers in East Asian Politics and International Relations.

All Warwick graduates progressing to a PAIS MA programme are eligible for a 20% tuition-fee discount.

Looking forward to this discussion next week!

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships.

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships.

The BISA Undergraduate Network are hosting a networking and panel event on campus next week. All students welcome but registration is necessary.

PAIS's Tom Long won the 2026 best article award from the ISA Diplomatic Studies Section for “Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85.” The piece was published in Journal of Global History, with Carsten-Andreas Schulz of Cambridge.

At the end of last month, The African Judiciaries Research Network (AJRN) (headed by PAIS's Gabrielle Lynch) - together with the International Commission of Jurists, University of Nairobi, and South African Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice - organised a two-day convening in Nairobi

🏅 More prize winning for PAIS! 🎉 The article, 'The power in re-telling research: a Cambodian community-based approach generating knowledge by subjects of study', has won an Australian PGR award in Development Studies.

Huge congratulations are due to PAIS's winners at the University's Research Celebration Awards 🎉 🎊

If participation is so central to participatory and action-oriented research, how can researchers foster forms of participation that are more meaningful, engaged, and genuine? 🧵

Next term may still feel a long way off but the events calendar is already filling up! On May 13th, the International Relations and Security Cluster we will be hosting @palestrinomirko.bsky.social for a talk on his new book Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime.

Join BISA's @girwgbisa.bsky.social and @cmsbisa.bsky.social working groups for a panel discussion of PAIS's Julia Welland’s new book Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism, 2-3:30pm on the 22nd April.

🥌 While the Winter Olympics feel long in the past now spring is here, why not revisit those recent glory days where you briefly remembered the rules to curling with PAIS's @chizhang.bsky.social 's recent co-authored article on the most-decorated freestyle skier in Olympic history, Eileen Gu? ⛷️

As well as the keynote address, the MA in International Development symposium, "Rethinking Development in a Multipolar World" included two fascinating panels of experts from Warwick and beyond.

We’re proud to share PAIS is in the Top 50 globally in the QS World University Rankings 2026. 1st in England (outside Oxbridge & London), 8th in the UK, 18th in Europe, and 49th worldwide. Thank you to our staff, students, and partners for making this possible. #UniversityofWarwick #PAIS #Top50

Caroline Kuzemko's new book "Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It" is out now open access with Cambridge University Press 🔓️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... See below for more details 🧵

PAIS’s @tomlongphd.bsky.social has published an article in @cambridgecria.bsky.social entitled "Latin American small states in the Belt and Road Initiative: Narrating status amidst US-China tensions" 🧵

Caroline Kuzemko, Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It, @universitypress.cambridge.org, February 2026 (print and open access) www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... @warwickpais.bsky.social @cisk.bsky.social

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PAIS at the PSA Annual Conference 🎓 Our PAIS Environment Cluster will be presenting at the PSA Conference in Oxford, showcasing research in environmental politics and beyond. 👉 Full programme: www.psa.ac.uk/wp-content/u... 👉 Explore our Climate MA: warwick.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Raymond Hyma has published a new policy brief in collaboration with @swisspeace.bsky.social , advising policy-makers and peace practitioners to consider the potentially harmful impacts that social media antagonism can bring into conflict dynamics. 🧵

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships.

One of the highlights of our MA in International Development is its Annual Symposium. This year's symposium on "Rethinking Development in a Multipolar World" took place last week and we were honoured to host H.E. Ambassador Anaïse Manuel, Haiti's Ambassador to the UK, to give the keynote address.

Last Thursday evening, the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (BREM) network hosted a fascinating event about Dr Hannah Owens' (PAIS) project "Locating the Rural in International Aid Work".

📢 New publication! 📢 We are happy to share yet another great PhD project by @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social (@dfuturevub.bsky.social, @warwickpais.bsky.social) for our PhD Summary and Review series!

All prospective students who receive an offer for one of our MA programmes and exhibit strong academic potential are eligible for one of our new scholarships. The international MA student scholarship is £3,000 towards your study on one of our 7 MA programmes in our large, world-leading department.

PAIS’ Prof. Maria Koinova launches new report on how the Global Ukrainian Community can support Ukraine’s recovery. The framework highlights rights, participation, diaspora expertise, and long‑term reform. Webinar recording available in English & Ukrainian here buff.ly/jlOOgnP

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All Warwick graduates progressing to a PAIS MA programme are eligible for a 20% tuition-fee discount. This financially supports students to continue their development in PAIS, for example through attending our many expert talks, or taking part in our student research assistantship scheme.