{"id":4879,"date":"2022-07-01T10:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2022-07-01T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:11:08","slug":"june-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/07\/01\/june-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"June News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Elections, No-Confidence Votes, Activism, Rail Strikes and Rebel Tactics, there is no no shortage of tumultuous global events to keep our students and academics busy. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">International affairs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As an International student studying International Relations with International Law, Maureen Bungei had diversity and a multicultural experience at the top of her list when choosing where to study. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4862\/one-of-the-best-decisions-i-ever-made\">She blogs here!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>What would it be like to debate on world problems at the United Nations? Student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4830\/model-united-nations-diplomacy-negotiation-and-friendship\"><strong>Halle Breed tells us about joining Model United Nations<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Politics at Home<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;The unions didn&#8217;t cause our summer of discontent&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/508\/cunliffe-philip\">Dr Philip Cunliffe<\/a> on the three days of National Train strikes. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4856\/this-is-not-a-class-war\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Boris Johnson survived the no-confidence vote. Can he cling on to power? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/512\/goodwin-matthew\">Professor Matthew Goodwin<\/a> discussed the implications for the PM himself, the by-elections, and what this means for the Conservative Party as a whole. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4794\/broadcast-professor-matthew-goodwin-discusses-boris-johnsons-narrow-survival-in-confidence-vote\">Watch here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>And Abroad<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An online conference, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/conflict-analysis\/\">Conflict Analysis Research Centre\u00a0<\/a>(CARC) earlier in June examined Turkish Foreign Policy from domestic, regional and global perspectives.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4781\/understanding-turkeys-realignment-in-the-middle-east\"> More information<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2985\/belgioioso-margherita\">Dr Margherita Belgioioso<\/a> was awarded the HFG Distinguished Scholar Award last year to undertake this study rebel tactics in Southern Thailand. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4819\/rebel-tactics-local-public-support-and-the-upcoming-phase-of-the-peace-talks-in-southern-thailand\"><strong>How is her research coming along?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Two months after winning the Presidential election in France, the centrist coalition has lost dozens of seats after a strong performance by the left alliance and the far right. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/511\/devellennes-charles\">Dr Charles Devellennes<\/a>\u2069 discusses the French legislative elections. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4845\/emmnanuel-macron-has-suffered-a-humiliating-defeat\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Taking Action<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At the end of 2021 people across Canterbury came together to \u2018reclaim these streets\u2019. Politics and History student Meg Payne was one of the organisers. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/4800\/taking-action-reclaim-the-streets\">She blogs about the campaign 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>Elections, No-Confidence Votes, Activism, Rail Strikes and Rebel Tactics, there is no no shortage of tumultuous global events to keep our students and academics busy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/07\/01\/june-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879"}],"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=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}