Politics and International Studies at The University of Warwick

17/09/2026

A double success for PAIS 🥳

We are proud to be ranked 5th in the UK for both Politics and International Relations in the Guardian University Guide 2027.

The results represent a significant advance on last year and recognise the strength of the student experience and outcomes at PAIS.

15/09/2026

Meet Elina! 👋✨

Third-year PAIS student Elina shares her favourite module, what she loves about PAIS, and her advice for new students 🎓

💡 Her advice: Go to your seminars, it’s one of the best ways to meet people and make friends!

09/09/2026

We are excited to be collaborating with PSA Environment to host a workshop on ‘The Environmental Politics of War’ this September.

Join us to explore this important topic and hear from researchers working across environmental politics, conflict and security.

📅 Full details and sign up:

This workshop will foster critical discussions around the environmental politics of war and conflict.

08/09/2026

PAIS Professor Tom Long has published a new essay in Foreign Affairs, co-authored with Stewart Patrick of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

“The Small Suffer What They Must?” examines how disruptions to the global order affect smaller states, and what these changes mean for the future of international politics.

Read the full article here:

Band together or struggle alone in a disordered world.

07/09/2026

A day in the life of a graduate!

Join Adrian as he takes us through his graduation day this summer, celebrating this incredible milestone. ✨

Congratulations, Adrian! We’re so proud of you and all our graduating students. 💙

11/08/2026

🏆️ Huge congratulations to PAIS's Keith Hyams and Jess Sutherland who recently won a Warwick Award for Public and Community Engagement for online engagement!

Their award-winning project is Democracy:Differently, a podcast which brings together academics, policymakers and public figures to make complex political ideas accessible to wider audiences.

The podcast team also includes students Daniel White, Milly McCallum and Woody Pal.

🔗 Find out more and listen to the podcast here: https://democracydifferently.org/

03/08/2026

PAIS's Alex Jabbour's co-authored article "Mass attitudes towards Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: Tentative support for top-down opinion formation" is out now in the European Journal of Political Research 📰 👓

The article studies variation in mass attitudes towards the Russo-Ukrainian War. It uses survey data to test four hypotheses about the reasons for support among European for Russia's invasion. The authors find that neutral and pro-Kremlin attitudes are most strongly linked to the positions of respondents’ preferred political parties, followed by disinformation and ideology.

🔗 Read the article in full here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1475676526101352

31/07/2026

PAIS's Tom Long published an essay in the prominent magazine Foreign Affairs, entitled "The Small Suffer What They Must?" Co-authored with Stewart Patrick of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the article examines how disruptions in global order are affecting smaller states. Ignoring these issues will eventually damage the interests of great powers, too.

"Ultimately, a superpower that roils the waters around smaller states will find that the waves reach its own shores."

Band together or struggle alone in a disordered world.

30/07/2026

We are excited to be collaborating with the PSA Environment Specialist Group
to host a workshop on 'The Environmental Politics of War' in September.

Full details and sign-up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-environmental-politics-of-war-tickets-1992632953805

29/07/2026

Two hundred years ago, the first diplomatic conference in the Western Hemisphere concluded with a treaty of “perpetual union,” pledging mutual defense and an “unalterable peace” among its Spanish American signatories. Then, the newly independent countries of the Americas feared an invasion backed by the Holy Alliance.

Despite its failings, the 1826 Congress of Panama emerged as a symbol of Latin American cooperation. Yet, the bicentenary of the event falls at a low moment for Latin American cooperation, which has largely failed to unite in response to the unilateralism of the second Trump administration.

What can this history tell us today, when Latin America once against faces unilateralism and intervention?
In a new essay in Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and co-author Carsten-Andreas Schulz assess the legacies and lessons of this overlooked anniversary.

Read it here:

The 1826 Congress of Panama sought to resist the predations of great powers. It was as relevant then as it is now.