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Dr Victor Agboga has successfully defended his PhD thesis, passing with minor corrections. His thesis, "Where Do Your Loyalties Lie? Party Switching and Voters' Response in Nigeria," was examined by Adrienne LeBas from American University, Washington DC, and Jessica Di Salvatore from PAIS, 桃色视频. Supervised by Gabrielle Lynch and Andreas Murr, Victor is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tom Long's latest article, with Sebasti谩n Bitar of Universidad de los Andes, has been published in the journal Revista CIDOB d'affers Internationals, a top Spanish IR journal. Entitled "Del consenso a la complejidad: relaciones interamericanas diversas y en transici贸n" [From the Consensus to complexity: Interamerican Relations, Diverse and in Transition], the article examines the changing panorama of US-Latin American relations. The article is part of a special issue on changing geopolitics as seen from Latin America, edited by Ariel Sribman Mittelman and M茅lany Barrag谩n.

This article analyses the social construction of climate change mitigation as a policy issue at the hands of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), using Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). IPCC models and scenarios, play a key role in constructing and legitimising political visions of pathways towards Net Zero. IPCC scenarios have important and real socio-ecological consequences that are crucial for the politics of tackling climate change, profoundly shaping what are seen as viable futures and mitigation policy options. We problematise five key assumptions that are fed into modelling, showing why and how they matter politically. These contestable assumptions built into IPCC IAMs undermine their credibility and usefulness for planning mitigation strategies. We find that, ironically, although IPCC efforts stress just how urgent political action is, their models and scenarios undervalue today鈥檚 actionable mitigation policies, leaving us prisoners of our climate polluting past.

A team of political scientists from VUB and the University of 桃色视频 has won the Frank Cass Prize for the best article of 2023. Kamil Bernaerts, affiliated both with the Department of Political Science of the VUB and of the University of 桃色视频 wrote the article 鈥淚nstitutional design and polarization. Do consensus democracies fare better in fighting polarization than majoritarian democracies?鈥� together with Benjamin Blanckaert (VUB) and Didier Caluwaerts (VUB). The article was published in the leading journal Democratization and has made an important contribution to understanding democratisation and political polarisation.

Joseph Haigh鈥檚 article 鈥樷�楨very one (re)membered鈥�: Anxiety, family history, and militarised vicarious identity promotion during Britain鈥檚 First World War centenary commemorations鈥� has just been published open access in the Review of International Studies. The article explores how during the 2014-18 First World War Centenary key national custodians encouraged Britons to emotionally buy into militarised revisionist narratives about the First World War by vicariously identifying with military ancestors. The article can be accessed here

Joe wishes to thank PAIS colleagues who provided invaluable feedback on the paper and guidance on approaching the revisions.