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Join Dr Anwen Elias and Institute of Welsh Affairs for launch of new their new report, ‘Fostering Democratic Innovations in Wales: Lessons From Around the World’. When/Where: March 4th, 11-12noon, online: More details and registration here: www.iwa.wales/events/foste...

Reminder- @hannahhughes.bsky.social Book Launch this Thursday, 27th, 16:15pm! Details below. 🌿🌍🌿

Dr Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social has had an incredible busy week, speaking with various media outlets on the Russian-Ukraine-U.S unfolding situation. Last night, 17th Feb she was speaking to BBC News on the Trumps peace negotiations regarding Ukraine.

Please join us to celebrate the Creating Safer Spaces Network! When: Friday 21st February, 1-2:30pm, Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More details below in the flyer- all welcome! 🕊️

Nice example of the different types of teaching we have in the Department: here's Dr Gillian McFadyen's module, Questions of International Politics, where students engage in webinars with authors of their weekly seminar readings- getting to speak and critically engage with the authors one-on-one.

🙌Dr Shivani Singh! 🙌 Congratulations to Dr Singh on successfully defending her thesis: The Game of Accommodation: Explaining the Behaviour of China, India and Pakistan in the Institutions of the Global Nuclear Order’ with examiners Prof Nick Wheeler (Birmingham) and our own Dr Haris Efstathopoulos 🎉

At a recent Foreign Affairs Committee on Syria @interpolaber.bsky.social was well represented with Prof @htoros.bsky.social a PhD graduate, speaking on Syria whilst LibDem MP Edward Morello, a graduate of InterPol & strategic studies, was asking questions 🙌👍 committees.parliament.uk/event/23136/...

🚨Guest Speaker Event🚨 'Small States of South Asia, China and Shifting US Policies' with Madhuka Rukmalgama of the Lakshman Kadirgmar Institute, Sri Lanka. Join us for a discussion of South Asian State foreign policy. Date: 14 February 18:00-19:00 Venue: Steve Crichter Room, InterPol Building

📣Book Launch Event! 📣 When: Thursday 27th February at 16:15-17:45 Hybrid: Ty Trafod, Visualisation Centre, Aberystwyth University & Teams You are warmly invited to the launch of @hannahhughes.bsky.social new book on climate politics and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

📣Dr Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social explores in a new @uk.theconversation.com article the role of North Korea in the Ukraine conflict, and Putin's intentions with Kim Jong-un. theconversation.com/north-korea-...

Our own Prof Bliesemann de Guevara will be visiting Tallinn this month. Berit will be discuss unarmed, civilian-to-civilian protection amidst violent conflict and inviting attendants to fundamentally rethink their understanding of security. More info here: securityhub.ee/news/open-le...

The end of the first week of Semester 2 teaching and the sun is shining 🌞 Enjoy the weekend InterPol!

📣Congratulations to our own @catrineds.bsky.social on the forthcoming publication of her edited volume, A Welcoming Nation? with @laurasocres.bsky.social and Rhys Dafydd Jones. The book explores the migratory experience in and through Wales. Available this summer @uniwalespress.bsky.social 🙌

Our Stitched Voices Exhibition in the InterPol Foyer has expanded with a new piece by Prof Berit Bliesemann de Guevara- the murmuration over Aberystwyth Pier.

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💫 新年快樂 🌕 🌜🐍 Tomorrow is Lunar New Year 🏮✨We are celebrating with decorations, sweets and a film night. 🎓🎉As you come into the building, you will see Chinese calligraphy wishing you a happy and academically successful new year. You'll also find some sweets, so help yourself! 1/2

🎉 Congratulations Dr Onyinyechukwu Durueke, a Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Department, who has just published this article about Nigeria's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security in the journal Women's Studies International Forum www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉 Congratulations to our colleagues Elin Royles and Huw Lewis on the publication of their chapter in the edited volume States of Language Policy, from Cambridge University Press. 1/2 www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Good to see that my chapter (co-authored with the editor, Alexander Hill) on women in the Soviet/Russian armed forces is soon to be published this new Routledge handbook (don't look at the price though!) www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Happening this week! Thursday, 30 January ⬇️

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📽️ Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a great film - Everything, Everywhere All at Once! Thursday, 20 January at 6pm in C22 Hugh Owen 📽️

🍕 All Third Year Undergraduates in the Department are invited for pizza on Monday, 27 January at 1pm in the Main Hall, just before the dissertation workshop, as a welcome back to our finalists at the start of their final semester before graduation. 🍕

This week our colleague @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social participated in a workshop, funded by the Learned Society of Wales and Academi Heddwch with the Welsh Refugee Council with a focus on digital storytelling and forced migration in Wales 1/2 wrc.wales/aberystwyth-...

There is a lovely tribute to our former colleague Professor Andrew Linklater, who passed away in 2023, published by the British Academy, of which he was a fellow. Professor Christopher Hill is the author. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/55...

Lovely spot at Swansea Uni today with our Mum Quilt for midwives workshop on the lived experience of postpartum mums. 🧵🪡🙌🏼 @interpolaber.bsky.social

We recently posted about the publication of the new edition of Global Politics: An Introduction - one of the book's new chapters was written by our colleague @lucytaylor12.bsky.social and draws on her research on the indigenous experience in Patagonia

💻 On Monday, 20 January in collaboration with Channel Talent, the Department will offer a webinar for sixth form pupils taking Politics A level that will explore the implications of the Trump administration planned policy changes for American democracy. www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/us-pol...

New publication - Dr Danielle Young, who will be joining the Department as a lecturer in semester two, has recently published an essay in Ethics and International Affairs about the challenges of solar engineering governance #climate www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yes! If you're interested in the #IPCC, science, and the distribution of authority between #developing and #developed in the #politics of #climate change, then my book might be for you... Available in print and open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

🎉 Congratulations to our colleague @hannahhughes.bsky.social whose new book The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change, published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social, is now out!

Our colleague Emeritus Professor Hidemi Suganami recently gave an interview to e-ir that ranges across the intellectual development of his ideas and his most recent publication: the new book Causal Inquiry in IR, co-authored with Adam Humphrey www.e-ir.info/2025/01/07/i...

A new edition of the amazing Global Politics: An Introduction is out later this month! Edited by Emeritus Professor @jennyedkins.bsky.social, Maja Zehfus and @tom-gregory.bsky.social, it has been thoroughly updated and includes 6 new chapters. ⬇️ www.routledge.com/Global-Polit...

Semester One exams begin today - good luck to all of our students who are taking them! 🍀

🎙️This morning I spoke to @georginagodwin.bsky.social on Monocle Radio about some of the latest developments in #Russia's war in #Ukraine and what a second Trump administration might mean for the conflict. The interview starts 6 minutes and 30 seconds into the recording. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Dr Ahmad Umar, a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, contributed his analysis about the UK joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership to Britain's World magazine, published by the Council on Geostrategy www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-as...

Congratulations to our colleague @guttmannaviva.bsky.social on the recent publication of her article in the Journal of Contemporary History, where she explores the ways that intelligence-sharing can be used to manipulate partner agencies' perceptions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations to Patricia for telling this important story of the way that women shaped international thought...and the department in Aber gets a mention!

A reminder to anyone considering applying to study for a PhD with us - the deadline for the University's Aberdoc studentships is fast approaching: 10 January 2025! www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/...