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- POLSIS Seminars: Discuss Democratic Decay, the Bulgarian elections and the COP 26 Summit
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- Thursday 25th November 2021
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- In a special POLSIS seminar Anand Menon from UK in a Changing Europe discussed Britain After Brexit with staff and students.
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- Thursday 11th November 2021
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- In a special seminar, two experts on European politics, Dr Isabelle Hertner and Dr Ed Turner, examined the recent elections in Germany.
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- Friday 22nd October 2021
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- Academics from POLSIS met to discuss a new paper by Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis, 'Explaining Brexit: A Bullingdon Dinner Gone Wrong?'
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- Tuesday 7th September 2021
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- Eleven undergraduate students from POLSIS and IDD took part in a Model NATO on May 18, sponsored by the UK embassy in Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Thursday 20th May 2021
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- George Kyris is the co-founder and chair of the new ECPR Research Network on Sovereignty, Statehood and Conflict, connecting scholars from across the world and a variety of discipline backgrounds.
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- Wednesday 12th May 2021
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- Susan Shirk talks to POLSIS Asian Politics research group
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- Monday 10th May 2021
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- Dr Tim Haughton and Yuxiang Lin collaborated with Emilia Zankina to examine the Bulgarian elections in an article for the Washington Post
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- Friday 9th April 2021
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- Dr Daniele Albertazzi of POLSIS published a new book, Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe (Routledge, 2021), part of the Populism in Action Project . It is co-edited with Davide Vampa.
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- Tuesday 30th March 2021
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- Dr Tim Haughton's co-authored book, The New Party Challenge, examining party politics in Central and Eastern Europe has just been published by Oxford University Press
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- Friday 18th December 2020
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- In a joint event hosted by politics academics at the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, Catherine De Vries (Bocconi) and Sara Hobolt (LSE) discussed their new book, Political Entrepreneurs.
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- Friday 20th November 2020
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- By Dr Adam Quinn, Senior Lecturer in American and International Politics
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- Friday 13th November 2020
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- By Dr Alex Oaten, Teaching Fellow in Political Sciences
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- Friday 13th November 2020
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- By Christopher Featherstone, Doctoral Researcher, Political Science and International Studies
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- Friday 13th November 2020
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- In a special seminar Adam Quinn, Jeannie Morefield and Patrick Porter examined the 2020 US election results and their significance for the United States.
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- Tuesday 10th November 2020
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- Leading scholar of the EU, Vivien Schmidt (Boston University) spoke at a special POLSIS seminar examining the causes and consequences of the Eurozone crisis
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- Monday 2nd November 2020
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- Demonstrating the vibrancy of the POLSIS PhD student community, Joseph Ward, a Doctoral Researcher in POLSIS, published an article on the Brexit Doctrine and the Imperative Mandate in the journal Parliament Affairs.
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- Friday 31st July 2020
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- David Petraeus on why he thinks it is time to remove the names of traitors from U.S military installations.
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- Thursday 11th June 2020
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- Daniele Albertazzi introduces an EA Worldview series which focuses on the strategies adopted by populist parties within certain countries either to challenge their governments' responses to the pandemic or support them.
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- Tuesday 12th May 2020
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- In a special seminar, experts from POLSIS/School of Government provided analysis of the state of the race for the Democratic nomination after Super Tuesday.
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- Monday 9th March 2020