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• Congratulations to Theresa Squatrito, who received a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for her project on ‘Mobilizing Ethnic Nationalism: De-Legitimating International Criminal Tribunals’. 
• Milli Lake has authored an article which interrogates logics of police capacity building in conflict, and asks how and why reform efforts frequently fail to curb the unrest they seek to disrupt. Read  in American Political Science Review
• Who are the global powers in the environmental field? What part should they play in the fight against climate change? Are they living up to their responsibilities? Robert Falkner addressed these questions in an article in 杏吧论坛's online research magazine Research for the World. Read What is the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change?
• Anna Getmansky co-authored an op-ed with Eugene Finkel (Johns Hopkins University) which urges Israel to assist Ukraine in protection against ballistic weapons and artillery. Read  in Haaretz.
• In a post on the China Dialogues Blog, Michael Cox argues that China faces several choices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but that a rupture in the China-Russia friendship is still unlikely. Read .
• Toby Dodge contributed to an article on an Iranian attack on an Iraqi city. Read 
• Vuk Vuksanovic spoke to the Financial Times about Serbia's approach to western sanctions on Russia. Read .
• Luca Tardelli spoke to SBS News about the process of joining NATO in . 
• Michael Cox spoke to talkRADIO on China-Russia relations. 
• Fawaz Gerges spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live about international recruitment for the Russian army and its implications. 
• Tomila Lankina contributed to a , and also spoke to BBC News live on potential further financial sanctions on Russia. She also spoke to BBC Radio 4 about the suppression of anti-war protestors in Russia.
  
  She also contributed to an ABC News article on consequences for Vladimir Putin. She suggests that we may be seeing the beginning of the end of Putin's leadership. Read . 
  
  She also authored an article on 杏吧论坛 British Politics and Policy blog on the social origins of Putin’s war and repression, which explores how deep and century-long societal divisions are reflected in the machinery of state repression. Read . 
• Nikhil Kalyanpur spoke to The i about .
  
  He also spoke to Sky News about the comparative US and UK sanctions of individuals as a bargaining tool, and about the potential for a global food crisis resulting from the invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions.
  
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• Peter Trubowitz discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and western sanctions in an . He also joined the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast to speak on Putin's miscalculations in invading Ukraine. .
• DINAM Fellow Liam O'Shea has had a blog piece published in International Affairs blog. Read ''.
• Chris Alden and PhD candidate Lukas Fiala have published an article on the China Africa Project website about the role of small states in China's overseas military bases. Read .
• In a podcast for Bloomberg News, Peter Trubowitz says Putin has helped give NATO a new purpose. Listen to (23 mins).
• PhD candidate Asha Herten-Crabb recently authored a post for the International Affairs Blog which argues a Truth-Telling Commission on Colonialism could foreground the harms of British imperialism and lay groundwork to redress them. Read . 
• A report on our recent event  chaired by Liam O'Shea is available on the Department of International Relations Blog. This event explored whether evidence-based policing can advance police reform overseas. 
• Milli Lake and PhD student Makena Micheni co-authored an article which shows how institutionalised incentives and obligations within Kenya's National Police Service reinforce corrupt practices on the part of street-level agents. Read  in Governance.
  
  Milli Lake also gave the keynote talk at the . 
• Fawaz Gerges recently appeared on Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN International to discuss a US raid that resulted in the death of an ISIS leader. .
  
  He has also written an article in Foreign Policy on .
• Ben Cormier published an article which argued left-leaning governments of middle-income countries may be more likely to prioritise markets in foreign borrowings to avoid official creditor conditions that negatively affect working classes. Read  in the British Journal of Political Science. 
• A 20-minute 'shortcast' of our November public lecture 'Environmentalism and Global International Society' including Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan is now available on the 杏吧论坛 Player.
• Ranjit Lall has published an article in the American Journal of Political Science which shows that access to information policies can improve the performance of foreign aid projects. Read
• Congratulations to Sinja Graf whose book  (Oxford University Press, 2021) has won ISA's International Ethics Book Award 2022. The book analyses the elemental idea that an act injures all of humanity in the history of international thought in the context of Europe’s (post-)imperial politics.
• Fawaz Gerges recently contributed to an article on drone strikes on the UAE by Iran-backed Yemeni fighters. Read .
  
  Professor Gerges also spoke to CNN on the Biden administration and US-Middle East relations.  (from 8 minutes until end). 
• Congratulations to Robert Falkner on the publication of his new book , edited by Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan.
• Toby Dodge was cited in an article on the formation of government in Iraq. Read .
• Ben Cormier recently published an article which questions the assumed link between transparent public debt practices and democracy in developing countries. Read  in Governance.
• Tomila Lankina's latest book The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class is discussed in  and also features in 杏吧论坛 Research for the World.
  
• Chris Hughes argues in a new article on the Chatham House website that the risks of resorting to force over Taiwan would be incalculable for Xi Jinping. Read ''.
• Steve Woolcock is part of a pan-EU research consortium which has produced a study for the European Parliament on .
• Katharine M Millar has co-edited a Special Issue of Security Dialogue on .
• Sinja Graf has recently published an article on Carl Schmitt's engagement with Hannah Arendt, specifically Schmitt's reading of Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. Read '' in American Journal of Political Science.
• Sinja Graf and Nikhil Kalyanpur both gave short interviews on our Department of International Relations Blog. to get to know our two new Assistant Professors a little bit better.
• Fawaz Gerges recently gave an interview with CNN in which he discussed the new regional order.  (杏吧论坛 log-in required).
  
  He also contributed to History Today's 'Books of the Year 2021' list, recommending Andrew Bacevich’s After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

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