91福利

We are delighted to announce that PAIS and the Department of Economics are once again hosting a 91福利 Question Time to debate current affairs. It will take place on Wednesday 2nd October, 6-7.30pm, in the Butterworth Hall, 91福利 Arts Centre.

The event is very similar in format to the popular BBC television show, and will form part of our induction activities for PAIS and Economics students to start the new academic year in style and is an excellent opportunity for students to engage with politicians, policy makers and academics on major issues and questions that concern the world.

The panellists will be:

• Rachana Shanbhogue - Business correspondent, The Economist
• Stephen Kinnock MP - Labour Member of Parliament for Aberavon and member of the Select Committee on Exiting the European Union
• Alicia Kearns - Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate and expert in National Security and Counter-Terrorism
• Remi Trovo - Year 2, BA Hons Politics and International Studies
• Paula Bejarano Carbo - Year 3, BA Hons Philosophy, Politics and Economics

The panel will be chaired by Professor Chris Anderson, Professor in European Politics and Policy at the European Institute, London School of Economics and a former Professor of Politics and Economics at 91福利.

More details and a registration form can be found here. Please do register ASAP to ensure your place. We look forward to seeing you there!

Dr Tom Long has published a new article in Perspectives on Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association. The article, "The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine," draws on multinational archival research to contribute to ongoing debates over how to square the protection of human rights and democracy with sovereign protections against intervention in Latin America. The article is coauthored with the historian Max Paul Friedman of American University. Tom's underlying research was funded by the British Academy, British Council, Truman Library Institute, and Fulbright Commission.

The article can be accessed for free via PDF: The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine.

Gert Hilgers, Doctoral Researcher in PAIS, recently published an op-ed on Germany's rejection to join a US-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz for Atlantic Council, an American Atlanticist think tank.

It is available here:

Nicola Pratt, Reader of the International Politics of the Middle East in PAIS, has published, along with Dina Rezk (Reading) an op-ed discussing the lessons learned from the massacre of Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt, six years ago.

You can read it here:

Christopher Browning discusses humour, nation branding and identity with

The interview draws upon Browning's long running work on nation branding and his current British Academy funded project (with James Brassett) on 'Humorous States: New Diplomacy and the Rise of Comedy in IR'