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What are the unique challenges that LGBTIQ+ migrants and asylum seekers face, in their home countries, in the course of migration, and in receiving countries? Listen to our panel discussion to find out.

Regulation is all pervasive in the modern state, from regulating financial services to the water industry, airlines to food safety.

In 2011, the Fulbright Scholar Program celebrates its 65th
anniversary as America's preeminent international educational
exchange program. In recognition of its international impact, this
is a timely occasion to recall the program's history and note the
roles of political scientists who have taught and conducted research
around the globe as Fulbright Scholars.

EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE IS DIFFERENT FROM, NOT INFERIOR TO, THE AMERICAN VARIETY. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE IS UNDOUBTEDLY MORE PROFESSIONALIZED AND, IN THIS SENSE, MAINTAINS MORE CONSISTENT STANDARDS THAN ITS EUROPEAN COUNTERPART. THE AMERICAN PROFESSION HAS CERTAINLY PRODUCED A GREATER VOLUME OF TOP-NOTCH RESEARCHERS, BUT THIS IS PRIMARILY A FUNCTION OF NUMBERS. IT IS DOUBTFUL WHETHER THE AVERAGE AMERICAN SCHOLAR IS MUCH DIFFERENT FROM THE AVERAGE EUROPEAN. AMERICAN STANDARDS HAVE NOT BECOME THE BENCHMARK FOR QUALITY POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CONDUCTED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, EITHER IN CONCEPTUAL OR METHODOLOGICAL TERMS.

If victors write history, and Bashar al-Assad is consolidating his grip on Syria after nearly a decade of civil war, is there any hope of justice for victims of state-sponsored abuse in Syria?

Russia and China have blocked efforts to set up an international tribunal for Syria, so Syrians in exile have been searching for ways to use national laws, and the principle of universal jurisidiction to pursue accountability.

Last year Germany arrested two Syrian men and charged them with committing crimes against humanity. When they go on trial this year, it will be the world's first prosecution for state-backed torture in Syria.
Activists have also filed cases in Norway, Sweden and Austria, and international groups are stockpiling evidence in the hope of future court cases.

But with the top members of Assad's government safely ensconced in Damascus, how much impact can these cases have?

About the speaker:

Emma Graham-Harrison is senior international affairs correspondent for the Guardian and Observer. She has covered conflicts, political crises, energy and the environment in more than 40 countries across five continents, and was based in China, Afghanistan and Spain for over a decade, before returning to London to take up her current roving role. She graduated from Oxford with a first class degree in Chinese Studies, and speaks Mandarin and Spanish. Awards include Foreign Reporter of the Year at the 2017 British Press Awards; her investigative work on the Cambridge Analytica investigations was also recognised at the British Press Awards and by the London Press Club.

Is anyone's esteem for political science better suppressed than a political scientist's? Ordinary modesty is admirable, but his is professionally destructive. For, not only hiding his light under a bushel, he follows the more nihilistic course of blowing it out. Granted that many political scientists neither deprecate their discipline nor permit a low regard for it to stultify their work, I have been repeatedly assured by members of the profession that no social science is more retarded and none less promising for systematic theory. Thus they hide—even from their own eyes—their discipline's accomplishments. This I shall try to show, offering two books as evidence. There is other evidence, too. When even politically ignorant undergraduates complain that the major in political science is thin, no imaginable poverty of the field explains enough. Such a phenomenon proves concealment, either deliberate or unintended.