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- The next University of Birmingham Postgraduate Open Day will be held on Tuesday 20 November 2012 from 11.00am.
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- Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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- Jack Copley, who graduated from POLSIS in July 2012 with a first class degree in Political Science, has recently had an article published on the Irish current affairs website Politico. The article, which is based on his prize-winning undergraduate dissertation, analyses the impact of the Celtic Tiger phenomenon on a working class district of Dublin.
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- Friday 28th September 2012
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- On Tuesday 04 September 2012, the University of Birmingham hosted the Third Annual Symposium on "The Challenges to Trust Building in Nuclear Worlds" entitled "Trust, Cooperation and the Global Nuclear Future".
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- Thursday 20th September 2012
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- Human insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) arises from the intersection of diverse threats, including environmental problems, food and water scarcity, and ethnic and cultural conflicts. If the European Union is to pursue comprehensive security in the MENA, it must learn from its past mistakes of endorsing authoritarian regimes and develop a new approach in its relations with the polities and societies emerging from the so-called 'Arab Spring', writes POLSIS's Michelle Pace.
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- Monday 10th September 2012
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- Induction for all new postgraduate students to POLSIS will take place from 10.00am 21 September 2012, in the Muirhead Tower Lecture Theatre G15, by Starbucks. From Monday 17th September, please pick up information about your degree programme from room 350 3rd floor Muirhead Tower.
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- Friday 31st August 2012
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- Sonia Boddie, who is studying a Masters in Public Administration, talks about her experiences at Birmingham and the opportunities she has has whilst studying for her Masters.
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- Friday 24th August 2012
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- Rhys Crilley talks about his choice to continue his studies at Birmingham after completing his Undergraduate study here and how the future looks for him in Postgraduate study.
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- Thursday 23rd August 2012
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- Giving up on international negotiations over the Iranian nuclear issue would be a tragic mistake, write Dani Nedal and Nicholas J. Wheeler. This article is part of our securities studies research agenda series.
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- Thursday 23rd August 2012
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- Little more than a year after its secession from Sudan, South Sudan remains crippled by twin economic and security crises. Leaders north and south of the new international border need to rise to the challenge of reaching a comprehensive settlement, writes Professor Stefan Wolff.
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- Wednesday 15th August 2012
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- The West's intervention in Libya and the on-going violence in Syria have placed a renewed spotlight on the principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P) human life. In this first post of a two part series, Dr Edward Newman argues that far from emerging into an new international 'norm', R2P is exposing fissures in a changing global order.
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- Friday 3rd August 2012