Department of Politics and International Relations

Department of Politics and International Relations

We are one of the top-ranked departments for the study of politics worldwide, and have an exceptional reputation for research. We have over fifty specialists in the key areas of politics and international relations who all contribute to our thriving research environment.

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21 January 2025

Annual Warrender Lecture - Territorial Justice: A Cosmopolitan Theory

Professor Ypi, Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, joins us for the Annual Warrender Lecture.

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18 December 2024

Sheffield Students Take on G20

This year, eight students from the Faculty of Social Sciences attended the annual G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

15 October 2024

Reflections from the Stateless Rohingya refugees in Malaysia

In the latest Open Access article of Dr Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli, written with co-authors Dr Bayes Ahmed and Professor Peter Sammonds, she explores the resettlement preferences of refugees relocated from an asylum country to a third country.

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