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Professor Michael Foley

Professor Michael Foley

WELCOME

You have arrived at the website at what is widely reputed to be the UK's premier department of international politics. With over 500 undergraduate students, a postgraduate school of 120 and an academic staff list that currently stands at 38 specialist lecturers and professors teaching over 90 module courses, the department is a world class centre of excellence, more.....

Why Study International Politics at Aberystwyth University

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New Professor of International Politics

Professor Campbell Craig

Professor Campbell Craig has just joined the Department. Professor Craig's latest book with Professor Fredrik Logevall of Cornell University entitled America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity has just been released by Harvard University Press.

Professor Michael Foley welcomes new members of staff

New Interpol Staff

(L-R Dr Kamila Stullerova, Dr Carl Death, Dr Naomi Head, Dr Grant Dawson, Professor Michael Foley, Professor Campbell Craig, Jan Ruzicka and Iain Wilson)

WORLD CLASS RESEARCH
The Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth is one of very few Politics or International Relations departments in the UK that can genuinely claim to be world class. Proof of the department's standing in the field came in the 2008 RAE, which rated Aberystwyth as the leading department of International Relations anywhere in the UK.

UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE PRIZES

The Department congratulates all our prize winners. Click here for further details.

GRADUATION 2009

Picture Gallery click here

VIDEOCASTS

See Professor Kenneth Waltz in Aberystwyth for 'The King of Thought Conference' in September 2008.

Click here for videocasts of the entire conference

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RAE 2008
No. 1 for International Politics!

Professor Andrew Linklater starts the International Politics Research Seminar for 2009/2010

Professor Andrew Linklater

'The Problem of Harm in World Politics'

The Department of International Politics welcomes its largest intake of freshers

Freshers

Congratulations to the Interpol Deans!

Professor Len Scott and Professor Colin McInnes

(L-R Professor Len Scott, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor Colin McInnes, Dean of Graduate Studies)

For the first time in the history of Aberystwyth University, two deans have been appointed from the same department.

The Institute for Welsh Politics at the National Eisteddfod in Bala August 2009

'Polisi Iaith: Yr Ymchwil Diweddaraf / Language Policy: The Latest Research'

IWP

(L-R John Glyn, Meri Hughes of the Welsh Language Board, Dr Huw Lewis and Dr Patrick Carlin)

RESEARCH CENTRES

Centre for Health and International Relations (CHAIR)
Click here to see their UNESCO HIV seminar videocast

Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies (CIISS)

Centre for the Study of 'Radicalisation' & Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV)

David Davies Memorial Institute (DDMI)

Institute for Welsh Politics

 

90th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

Thursday 3 December

Professor Ian Clark

'Copenhagen: The New Versailles?

7.00pm Old Hall, Old College

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Monday 7 December

Nik Gowing
(Main Presenter BBC World News)

 ‘Skyful of Lies and Black Swans: Who controls shifting information power in sudden crises?'

7.00 pm

Main Hall International Politics Building

INAUGURAL LECTURE

Professor Hidemi Suganami

'Positioning'

5.00pm Main Hall,
International Politics Building

Full details of semester one events

Highlights of 2008/2009

Professor Michael Shapiro

Professor Michael J. Shapiro (University of Hawaii) opens the 'Another Politics, Another Subject Conference' in April 2009 in the Department of International Politics with a talk entitled 'Anti-Sovereign Lives'

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Interpol student