{"id":4441,"date":"2022-03-02T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:32:33","slug":"february-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"February News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Conflicting Positions. Ukraine is under attack, we try to understand Putin&#8217;s motivations as well as the UK&#8217;s position in this crisis in our and announce details of our upcoming Arms Trade Treaty panel debate in the February RoundUp. <\/p>\n<h2>Understanding Putin<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is Vladimir Putin is so obsessed with Ukraine? Russian and European politics expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2273\/sakwa-richard\">Professor Richard Sakwa<\/a> elucidates on the background behind tensions between Russia and Ukraine. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4404\/why-is-vladimir-putin-is-so-obsessed-with-ukraine\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Richard Whitman explores the U.K.\u2019s position in the heightening crisis for the Council on Geostrategy website. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4426\/5-minute-read-global-britain-the-european-security-activist\">Learn more here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">On the Home Front<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>UK PM Boris Johnson apologises in The House over anger at a lockdown drinks party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/512\/goodwin-matthew\">Professor Matthew Goodwin<\/a>\u00a0comments on Johnson\u2019s position in the Conservative party, police involvement, possible successors and a future general election. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4385\/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-johnson\">Watch here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The DUP took the decision to withdraw Paul Givan from his role as First Minister of Northern Ireland. Why did this happen and what does it mean? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4393\/explainer-paul-givan-resigns-why-and-what-it-means-for-the-dup\">Professor <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4393\/explainer-paul-givan-resigns-why-and-what-it-means-for-the-dup\">Feargal Cochrane explains the context and ramifications<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2271\/whitman-richard-g\">Professor Richard Whitman<\/a><\/strong> investigated the gender distribution in publishing in the Journal of Common Market Studies, since its inception to the present time, in the European Political Science article. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4417\/gender-gap-in-published-research-on-europe-is-significant\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the week that Covid measures were lifted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/508\/cunliffe-philip\">Dr Philip Cunliffe<\/a> urges us not to be too quick to celebrate too hastily in a Telegraph opinion piece. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4389\/the-ukraine-crisis-civil-liberties-and-the-politics-of-fear\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating School Success<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2985\/belgioioso-margherita\">Dr Margherita Belgioioso<\/a> won the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award and will research Rebel Tactics, Local Public Support and the Upcoming Phase of the Peace Talks in Southern Thailand. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4376\/belgioioso-wins-the-harry-frank-guggenheim-distinguished-scholar-award\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/\">Cambridge University Press<\/a> published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2595\/voller-yaniv\">Dr Yaniv Voller<\/a>\u2018s title \u2018Second-Generation Liberation Wars Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan\u2019. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Cambridge University Press publishes Dr Yaniv Voller\u2018s title \u2018Second-Generation Liberation Wars Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan\u2019.\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">What gets a conflict analyst get out of bed in the morning?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yaniv Voller is a Senior Lecturer specialising in Politics and Security in the Middle East and North Africa. We asked him some questions about his work, his motivations, and the University of Kent. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4459\/what-gets-a-conflict-analyst-get-out-of-bed-in-the-morning\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Looking forward<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Estimates suggest that approximately one billion small arms and light weapons (SALW) are circulating across the world. This <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/conflict-analysis\/\">CARC<\/a> event in March will discuss this question with German and British representatives from politics, academia, and civil society. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4399\/the-arms-trade-treaty-game-changer-or-teethless-tiger\">Join here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Politics and International Relations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflicting Positions. Ukraine is under attack, we try to understand Putin&#8217;s motivations as well as the UK&#8217;s position in this crisis in our and announce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":4476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}