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Tom Long's new article "Issue-Areas, Sovereignty Costs, and North Americans’ Attitudes Toward Regional Cooperation" has been published by Global Studies Quarterly. In the article, Tom and coauthors Malcolm Fairbrother (Umea University) and Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz (Bates College) examine how people's views of regional cooperation in North America diverge from their attitudes toward trade integration alone. Connecting the study of public opinion with more multifaceted approaches of comparative regionalism, they argue that public attitudes are shaped by citizens’ perceptions of the asymmetric patterns of national-level benefits and vulnerabilities created by regional cooperation.

You can read the article here:

On Monday 28th February the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a major report on the effects of climate change, who is most vulnerable, and prospects for adaptation to climate change, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (). This drew on research by six members of the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS). In particular it cited the research of Dr Morten Fibieger Byskov, Prof Simon Caney, Prof Keith Hyams, and Prof Ed Page on the demands of climate justice. And it cited research by Prof Caroline Kuzemko and Prof Mat Watson on the political economy of energy.

Dr Hiroshi Nakatani works at the Air Staff College of Japan Air Self Defence Force in Tokyo. He has a PhD from University of Reading (2019), where he was supervised by Professor Beatrice Heuser, and an MA from University of Birmingham (2011).

The talk examines the formative period of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan between 1945 and 1970, discussing how the concept of US extended nuclear deterrence over Japan came to emerge and develop in both Japan and the US.

It will be of interest for those studying international relations, international security and nuclear proliferation.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Seb Rumsby has written an article for The Conversation, titled "Economic migration: the root problem is not smugglers but global inequality."

This piece is based on his ground-breaking new research on the everyday politics of undocumented Vietnamese migration to the UK, which is being funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. Seb says: "Ever since the tragic deaths of 27 migrants in the UK-France channel in December 2021, I've been burning to write something in defence of economic migration, which is much maligned in our mainstream media. I want to join the dots between my own research of undocumented migrants with other people's research exposing the massive inequalities of our global economic system. From here, I can show how economic migrants have just as much right to seek a better life as asylum seekers."

"Economic migration is not going to go away - I'm afraid it will only be a matter of time before the next dinghy sinks in the English Channel. On the contrary, it's only going to get bigger with climate change making more of the planet uninhabitable. We can challenge the familiar narratives of 'they're coming to take us over' or 'there's not enough space for them all', but only if we appreciate how our economic system creates such crazy inequalities that makes economic migration inevitable."

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Dr. Titipol Phakdeewanich is based at the Faculty of Political Science at Ubon Ratchathani University in Thailand. Previously, he has been a Visiting Research Fellow on Human Rights at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden. His research is focused on finding actual solutions to problems experienced by the under-represented, marginalised, and disenfranchised groups within Thailand. In this seminar, Dr. Phakdeewanich discusses the relevance of the Thai ‘patronage system’ as a paradigm for understanding politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date: 25th February 2022

Time: 09:00-10:00 AM

Venue: Zoom meeting

This seminar is part of the East Asia Study Group (EASG) Seminar Series. For further information, meeting link and passcode, please contact the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk