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NEW>> Academic staff joining POLIS

27 April 2021

We are delighted to announce we have 11 new colleagues joining POLIS this year "Dear Colleagues, this year marks a major expansion of the Department, please do welcome and get to know our new colleagues as they join throughout the course of 2021." - Jason Sharman, Head of the Department William Hurst Chong Hua Professor of...

PRIZE>> Peter Sloman wins prestigious Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence

22 April 2021

Congratulations to Peter Sloman on winning a 2021 Pilkington Prize The Pilkington Prizes are awarded annually to members of staff in recognition of their contributions to teaching excellence. The awards were initiated by Sir Alastair Pilkington, who believed that the quality of teaching was crucial to the University's...

OPINION>> People of faith are allies to stall climate change

7 April 2021

Together, religious groups and scientists can be a powerful force for a liveable planet. To make sufficient progress in the fight against climate change, scientists need to start taking religious groups more seriously as allies, writes Cambridge political scientist, Dr Tobias Müller, in Nature . I am used to sceptical...

Sao Paulo, Brazil at night - lights can be seen across the city's buildings and skyscrapers

RESEARCH>> Mundane disappearance: The politics of letting disappear in Brazil

2 April 2021

Every year between 20 and 25,000 people ‘go missing’ in São Paulo state in Brazil But in Brazilian law disappearance is just a fato atípico , an ‘atypical occurrence’. There is no causal relationship between act and violence to be legally found. Nor, it seems, is there a pursuit to know. In a region well recognised for...

AWARD>> Giovanni Mantilla awarded 2021 Francis Lieber prize for best book in the field of the law of armed conflict

26 March 2021

The prestigious annual 2021 Francis Lieber prize for best book in the field of the law of armed conflict has been awarded to Giovanni Mantilla for his recently published book Lawmaking under Pressure. The Lieber Society of the American Society of International Law prize committee shared the following: Exploring the social...

GENDER STUDIES>> Pandemic has pushed many women into more traditional roles

11 March 2021

Emerging studies show that the pandemic has pushed many women into more traditional roles, negatively impacting gender equity in the workplace Meet alumna Rea Eldem and Francesca Root—who are working together to build more equitable organisational cultures IN-VISIBLE BERLIN supports organisations in their transformation...

LISTEN NOW: Centre for Geopolitics launches new podcast

11 March 2021

Cambridge Geopolitics Conversation Podcast The first episode on Democracy and Division , with Raffaello Pantucci is available now Suzanne Raine talks to Rafaello Pantucci about what far-right extremists have learned from Islamist terrorists.   Part of the Resistance, Radicalisation and Religion Series: Suzanne Raine...

GRADUATE RESEARCH>> Introducing a forum on Biden's Foreign Policy

12 February 2021

After a long, draining election, Joe Biden was elected as US president on 3 November 2020. After a volatile transition period that included many court challenges and an attempted insurrection, he was inaugurated on Jan 20, 2001. For many, it was a joyous occasion, given the unpopularity of the outgoing Trump Administration...

Study finds low-carbon policies can be ‘balanced’ to benefit small firms and average households

27 January 2021

A review of ten types of policy used to reduce carbon suggests that some costs fall on those less able to bear them – but it also shows these policies can form the bedrock of a ‘green recovery’ if specifically designed and used in tandem. Unless low-carbon policies are fair, affordable and economically competitive, they...

We remember Giulio Regeni and call for academic freedom without fear of persecution

27 January 2021

On the 5th anniversary of his disappearance, we pause to remember Giulio Regeni and share this open letter to call for academic freedom without fear of persecution Read and sign the letter here>>

NEW>> Academic staff joining POLIS

PRIZE>> Peter Sloman wins prestigious Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence

OPINION>> People of faith are allies to stall climate change

RESEARCH>> Mundane disappearance: The politics of letting disappear in Brazil

AWARD>> Giovanni Mantilla awarded 2021 Francis Lieber prize for best book in the field of the law of armed conflict

GENDER STUDIES>> Pandemic has pushed many women into more traditional roles

LISTEN NOW: Centre for Geopolitics launches new podcast

GRADUATE RESEARCH>> Introducing a forum on Biden's Foreign Policy

Study finds low-carbon policies can be ‘balanced’ to benefit small firms and average households

We remember Giulio Regeni and call for academic freedom without fear of persecution

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