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PAIS are delighted that we have moved up from 8th to 7th in the latest . This is a reflection of all the hard work of our brilliant students and staff as we strive to improve our teaching and the overall student experience.

Thank you to everyone for all your help and support. We have achieved excellence across a range of indicators. In particular, we have gained high scores on 'spend per student' and 'value added' (comparing students' individual degree results with their entry requirements, to show how our students have worked to progress and how effective our teaching is).

We also remain one of the leaders in the Russell Group in terms of employability. Our strategic ambition, as the ever stronger reputation of our research and teaching continues to influence the league tables over the next few years, is to maintain our position as a Top 5 Politics department in the UK and internationally.

Professor Shaun Breslin's article "Why Russia and China are united by more than pipeline politics" has been published on

Professor Breslin argues the recent multi-billion euro deal to pipe gas from Russia to China signals shifting geopolitical and climate hedge bets more than it does a new anti-Western alliance.

To view the article, please click the link below:

On 23 May, Professor gave the keynote address, on ‘Promoting party politics in emerging democracies’, to the 28th workshop of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, Study Group Regional Stability in South East Europe. The event was convened by the Austrian Ministry of Defence/Austrian National Defence Academy at Château Rothschild, Reichenau/Rax on the theme ‘Political parties in South East Europe: supporting intra-State, regional and European consolidation?’

, one of our PAIS GEM PhD students supervised by Professor , has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Global Law and Policy at to be taken up from autumn 2015.

This is a great achievement by Maja to win such a prestigious and competitive fellowship. It is also yet another endorsement of the quality of PAIS' PhD programme.

Many congratulations to Maja.

Dr has written a briefing titled 'Egyptian universities on the frontline of protest' for . The briefing exposes the scale of the crackdown on Egyptian university campuses over the past academic year.

Dr Pratt documents an extensive catalogue of abuses by the security forces including shooting protesting students, arbitrary mass arrests and repeated assaults on university campuses with tear gas and birdshot. Yet student protests have continued for months, as activists challenge the military regime.