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has recently been interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Beyond Belief' about Islam in Germany.

Other contributors to the episode include James Hodkinson and Silke Horstkotte of the Department of German and the Anglican Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines.

You can listen to the programme on the BBC website:

has written for the International Feminist Journal of Politics' Conversations section, in which she reflects on her experience of conducting fieldwork, on non-state armed actors in Lebanon, while being accompanied by her daughter.

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We are delighted that the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) has moved up to 3^rd place (from 4th last year) in the latest Guardian rankings, which measure student satisfaction (NSS), career prospects, and a range of other important indicators.

The 91福利 is ranked 8th overall — a full University press release can be found .

Our latest position in The Guardian builds on recent successes in other national league tables – notably 3^rd place in the 2017 The Times/Sunday Times University Guide and 4^th place in the 2018 Complete University Guide.

We thank all staff and students who have contributed to this impressive and sustained achievement. Research and teaching excellence in Politics and International Studies are at the heart of who we are and what we stand for as a Department. We look forward to building on this success in the months and years ahead.

Dr has written a blog, titled Trouble in Macedonia as ethnic tensions run high, for .

Macedonia may be a parliamentary democracy, but it’s also a fragile multicultural state. Its democracy has been in gradual decline since the mid-2000s – and in an era of unstable geopolitics and rising authoritarianism, the right sequence of events could send it slipping back into inter-ethnic strife.

The precarity of the country’s situation was made plain in April, when more than 200 protestors and loyalists to the Macedonian conservative-nationalist VMRO-DMPNE party , and physically attacked lawmakers, who had earlier elected an ethnic Albanian politician, Talat Xhaferi, as speaker. The brawl left 77 people injured.

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PAIS academic Gabriel Siles-Brügge gave evidence on 3 May to the Danish Parliament's European Affairs Committee during a hearing on the EU-Canada Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). The Parliament is scheduled to vote on ratifying the agreement shortly, a process that will also take place in all other EU Member States.

In his presentation, Gabriel stressed that the macroeconomic effects in terms of jobs and growth of the agreement are likely to be more modest, while outlining his view that the provisions on investor protection and regulatory cooperation could be a potential source of regulatory chill, potentially inhibiting European regulators and legislators from taking actions in the public interest if this infringes on investor rights or imposes barriers to trade and investment flows.