Politics and International Studies at The University of Warwick

11/08/2026

🏆️ Huge congratulations to PAIS's Keith Hyams and Jess Sutherland who recently won a Warwick Award for Public and Community Engagement for online engagement!

Their award-winning project is Democracy:Differently, a podcast which brings together academics, policymakers and public figures to make complex political ideas accessible to wider audiences.

The podcast team also includes students Daniel White, Milly McCallum and Woody Pal.

🔗 Find out more and listen to the podcast here: https://democracydifferently.org/

03/08/2026

PAIS's Alex Jabbour's co-authored article "Mass attitudes towards Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: Tentative support for top-down opinion formation" is out now in the European Journal of Political Research 📰 👓

The article studies variation in mass attitudes towards the Russo-Ukrainian War. It uses survey data to test four hypotheses about the reasons for support among European for Russia's invasion. The authors find that neutral and pro-Kremlin attitudes are most strongly linked to the positions of respondents’ preferred political parties, followed by disinformation and ideology.

🔗 Read the article in full here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1475676526101352

31/07/2026

PAIS's Tom Long published an essay in the prominent magazine Foreign Affairs, entitled "The Small Suffer What They Must?" Co-authored with Stewart Patrick of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the article examines how disruptions in global order are affecting smaller states. Ignoring these issues will eventually damage the interests of great powers, too.

"Ultimately, a superpower that roils the waters around smaller states will find that the waves reach its own shores."

Band together or struggle alone in a disordered world.

30/07/2026

We are excited to be collaborating with the PSA Environment Specialist Group
to host a workshop on 'The Environmental Politics of War' in September.

Full details and sign-up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-environmental-politics-of-war-tickets-1992632953805

29/07/2026

Two hundred years ago, the first diplomatic conference in the Western Hemisphere concluded with a treaty of “perpetual union,” pledging mutual defense and an “unalterable peace” among its Spanish American signatories. Then, the newly independent countries of the Americas feared an invasion backed by the Holy Alliance.

Despite its failings, the 1826 Congress of Panama emerged as a symbol of Latin American cooperation. Yet, the bicentenary of the event falls at a low moment for Latin American cooperation, which has largely failed to unite in response to the unilateralism of the second Trump administration.

What can this history tell us today, when Latin America once against faces unilateralism and intervention?
In a new essay in Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz assess the legacies and lessons of this overlooked anniversary.

Read it here:

The 1826 Congress of Panama sought to resist the predations of great powers. It was as relevant then as it is now.

27/07/2026

🎓 Congratulations to our wonderful PAIS graduates – the Class of 2026! 🎉

On Friday 24th July the Department of Politics and International Studies was delighted to join students, families, friends and colleagues in celebrating this important milestone at the University of Warwick's Graduation ceremonies.

Before the ceremony, graduates gathered at the PAIS Reception to share memories, celebrate achievements and look ahead to the future. We were also delighted to hear from PAIS alumna Rachael Crook, whose inspiring speech reminded graduates that the knowledge and skills they have gained can help make the world a better place.

We are immensely proud of all that our students have accomplished and are excited to see where their next chapter takes them.

Congratulations to the Class of 2026, and welcome to the Warwick alumni community!

26/07/2026

📺️ For our last look this week at the JCMS special issue, we also have a video summary of Kerem Öge's co-authored article with Manuel Quintin, "Framing Artificial Intelligence: Public Discourse on Facial Recognition in the European Union and the United States".

Watch the SciTube video below, read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70078 and check out the rest of the special issue!

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25/07/2026

📰 Another PAIS researcher, Kerem Öge, is also featured in the "Tracing Frame Trajectories in Policy Debates: Placing the EU in Global Discourse Networks" special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies.

Co-authored with Manuel Quintin, Öge's article "Framing Artificial Intelligence: Public Discourse on Facial Recognition in the European Union and the United States" shows that dominant frames in public discourses on facial recognition have shifted from security to ethics, influencing US and EU policies.

👀 Keep an eye out for a video summary tomorrow and read it here now: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70078

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24/07/2026

📺️ Our final look at Özlem Atikcan's articles in her co-edited special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies comes in video form.

Produced with SciTube , this video summarises the article we shared yesterday "An Endogenous ‘Refugee Crisis’: Exploring Frame Drain and Emerging Conflicts in Migration Politics", co-authored by Atikcan, Sofie Roehrig and Tim Henrichsen.

Watch it below or on Youtube: https://youtu.be/5dAalYnSs-I?si=GMfqNubLb9JDCqdN
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23/07/2026

📰 The third article that Özlem Atikcan has co-written as part of the Journal of Common Market Studies special issue we're featuring this week applies the conceptual work done in the previous piece to the European "refugee crisis".

With her co-authors, Tim Henrichsen and Sofie Roehrig, Atikcan shows that the crisis amplified existing tensions between security and human rights frames in the EU and introduced a new fault line around externalisation. Furthermore, they demonstrate that while human rights frames are still widely invoked, they are increasingly empty of normative commitment

🔗 Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70125

Keep an eye out tomorrow for a video summary of this piece!
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