2026 news
York is ranked 12th in the UK for Politics in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2027).
Dr Saba Joshi has recently published an article titled "State Hypermasculinity in World Politics" (co-authored with Dr Maria Tanyag, Australian National University).
Sara De Jong publishes new blog on Afghan interpreters
The Social Change Catalyst Blog for May 2026 comes from Nina Caspersen
YUSU Excellence Awards for Politics staff
In an era of shrinking civic space and unprecedented geopolitical volatility, how do peacebuilding practitioners and rights advocates navigate the various dilemmas and challenges for leading effectively?
Indrajit Roy joins the Journal of Development Studies as one of their Managing Editors
Is regulation always bad for trust? Or can regulation and trust sometimes reinforce one another?
Thalia Gerzso has a new policy brief out
Alfred Moore edits a new book
Gyda Sindre has written a paper which discusses the prospects for political integration of armed groups in the context of contemporary dynamics of armed conflict.
Professor Indrajit Roy has co-edited a Special Collection titled "Multiplexity 2.0: Power and plurality in a post-liberal world" just published in the prestigious Chatham House journal International Affairs. In addition to co-authoring the introduction to the collection, he has also contributed an article titled "Assering Southern agency: The moralistic realism of multiplexity" to the collection.
A newly published report “Civil War Paths: A Research Programme on Civil War as a Social Process” detailing key findings of the Civil War Paths project funded by the UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship “Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach” is now available to read.
Edited by José Gutiérrez Danton and Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín, Criminality, Political Power and Conflict, discusses historically grounded processes by which politics and criminality has been built as separated spheres of human activity through conflict and state-building.
Dr Bernardo Rangoni and Professor Mark Thatcher have published a new article in New Political Economy titled Re-politicising merger policy: regulating foreign takeovers in Britain and Italy.
Bernardo Rangoni has written a new chapter in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Governance
Gyda has co-authored a practitioner report for peace mediators