Politics @ Surrey

The blog of the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey

Fade to meh

Maybe it’s the coronavirus, maybe it’s the floods, maybe it’s the excitement around the Prime Minister’s engagement/child-to-be, but we seem to have largely given up talking about Brexit any more. Sure, there’s debate if you want it, tucked away in the Westminster/Brussels bubble and deep in the inside sections of the paper, but it’s a […]


Using Simulations to Teach International Relations

A separatist movement takes over an American-owned gas plant in an authoritarian Middle Eastern state. Pro-democracy activists take to the streets to protest a President’s decision to remove term limits. Nationalist fishermen attempt to evade Chinese warships to plant the Filipino flag on Scarborough Shoal. The UN Special Representative convenes a conference to negotiate a […]


What’s it all for?

You might have noticed – or might even be participating in – the strikes across UK universities that begin today. We don’t have it here, since the local branch narrowly failed to secure the necessary turnout, but those that did vote very strongly supported strike action (as did nearly every branch across the UK). You […]


Must… concentrate… more…

36 hours. That’s about how long we actually had a wide-spread debate about what’s actually in the Withdrawal Agreement, back when it was agreed late in 2018. Yes, it’s been thrown around in debate ever since, but it was only for that brief window that the substance got a decent sounding and consideration in the […]


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