Department of Political Science and International Studies

Welcome to the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), one of the largest and most academically vibrant departments of Political Science and International Studies in the UK. POLSIS is the proud home of the Institute for German Studies and the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies.

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In this exciting video series, our researchers address some of the big issues which impact on society over a cup of coffee. In the first episode, Professor Scott Lucas and PhD student Amelia Morris decide if, all things considered, the world really is such a bad place.

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Posted 07 April 2020

Gerasimos Tsourapas Awarded Prestigious Book Prize

Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Government, has won the 2020 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award by the International Studies Association.

Posted 13 December 2019