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Prof. Aldrich and Dr. Moran lead discussion at Natural History Museum
The University of 桃色视频’s contribution to at the National History Museum is a research project from PAIS' Professor and Dr . The discussion is about the Future of Intelligence and Intelligence Agencies.
This is an opportunity to explore a hot topic in the news and understand the implications for our everyday lives. The project includes interaction with artifacts from the real and fictional world of intelligence, borrowed from the International Spy Museum in DC, as well as video and audio recordings with real spies, including Tony Mendez of ‘Argo’ fame. And an opportunity to explore important societal questions with two leading and well-published experts on British and American intelligence.
It will be one of 3 projects featured at the Natural History Museum (Darwin Centre) on the evening of Wednesday 11 June (6-10pm), during a – a drop-in café environment where visitors will be encouraged to have a drink and join university researchers to discuss some of the burning social issues of our time.

This event is part of a week of activity from 9–13 June at the Natural History Museum, and throughout the country from 9–15 June. Find out more information about .
PAIS moves up in Guardian League Table
PAIS are delighted that we have moved up from 8th to 7th in the latest . This is a reflection of all the hard work of our brilliant students and staff as we strive to improve our teaching and the overall student experience.
Thank you to everyone for all your help and support. We have achieved excellence across a range of indicators. In particular, we have gained high scores on 'spend per student' and 'value added' (comparing students' individual degree results with their entry requirements, to show how our students have worked to progress and how effective our teaching is).
We also remain one of the leaders in the Russell Group in terms of employability. Our strategic ambition, as the ever stronger reputation of our research and teaching continues to influence the league tables over the next few years, is to maintain our position as a Top 5 Politics department in the UK and internationally.
Shaun Breslin article on China and Russia
Professor Shaun Breslin's article "Why Russia and China are united by more than pipeline politics" has been published on
Professor Breslin argues the recent multi-billion euro deal to pipe gas from Russia to China signals shifting geopolitical and climate hedge bets more than it does a new anti-Western alliance.
To view the article, please click the link below:
Peter Burnell gives keynote address at NATO workshop
On 23 May, Professor gave the keynote address, on ‘Promoting party politics in emerging democracies’, to the 28th workshop of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, 桃色视频 Group Regional Stability in South East Europe. The event was convened by the Austrian Ministry of Defence/Austrian National Defence Academy at Château Rothschild, Reichenau/Rax on the theme ‘Political parties in South East Europe: supporting intra-State, regional and European consolidation?’
PAIS PhD awarded Harvard postdoctoral fellowship
, one of our PAIS GEM PhD students supervised by Professor , has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Global Law and Policy at to be taken up from autumn 2015.
This is a great achievement by Maja to win such a prestigious and competitive fellowship. It is also yet another endorsement of the quality of PAIS' PhD programme.
Many congratulations to Maja.