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Dr Finbarr Livesey

Dr Finbarr Livesey 1972-2019

Obituary of Dr Finbarr Livesey 1972-2019

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Dr Aaron Rapport 1980 - 2019

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Welcome to POLIS

Cambridge has a long and distinctive tradition in the study of politics and international relations.

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Professor Erik Jones

2019 Alcuin Lecture

This year’s lecture, titled “Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Europe and the United States” was given by Professor Erik Jones, Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy and Director of European and Eurasian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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Speaker Dr Robert Saunders

2019 Antcliffe Lecture

The title of the 2019 Antcliffe Lecture was “Thirty Years On: Thatcher, 1989 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall”. The Lecture was given by Dr Robert Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, Queen Mary, University of London.

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Talking Politics

TALKING POLITICS is the podcast that will try to make sense of it all. Each Thursday, in Cambridge, David Runciman will talk to his regular panel along with novelists, comedians, historians, philosophers - and even a few politicians - and ask them what they think is going on... It’s the political conversation everyone is...

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2019-2020 Joffe Award Winner Announced

5 October 2020

The Department of POLIS is delighted to announce that the Joffé Award for 2019-2020 has been presented to Timothy Doner , for his dissertation entitled 'Iran, Kazakhstan, and Great Power Politics in Central Asia, 2013-2019'. The Joffé Award is presented each year to the student writing the best MPhil dissertation on the...

R.A. Butler Prize winners 2020

29 September 2020

Online event for this year's prizewinners

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