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I am happy to announce that Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff (Clare College, 2009) was elected as a municipal councillor for the District of Saanich, British Columbia, Canada on 15 October 2022. Teale completed his PhD in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge on a Commonwealth Scholarship. In addition to now serving on...

POLIS's Surer Mohamed and Rumbidzai Dube , along with Tyra Amofah-Akardom reflect on the Black Cantabs Research Society − a counter-history project, designed to uncover and preserve the legacies of Black Cambridge alumni − and discuss what it means to be a Black student at Cambridge in this article: https://www.cam.ac.uk/...

George Joffé, who died on 28 May 2022 at the age of 81, taught for many years at Cambridge, first in the Centre of International Studies and then in POLIS after the Centre merged with the Department of Politics. As an Affiliate Lecturer, he taught a course on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa in the MPhil in...

The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilised the Middle East, ruptured the European Union, and exposed old political fault lines...