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Autumn 2025 SPIRe Newsletter

Autumn 2025 SPIRe Newsletter

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This issue includes:

Lucía Tiscornia receives ERC starting grant on Criminal Governance in Unexpected Contexts
National University of Ireland Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning
Elizabeth Meehan Prize for Dawn Walsh
Best Paper Award for Linette Lim
Inaugural Paper Prize for Lucas de Melo Prado
Spotlight on Food Security: UCD and AfDB Co-Host High-Level Conference in Dublin
Alumni Event: “Ireland’s Presidency: More Than a Figurehead?”

PSAI Workshop on Methods in Political Theory
How To Save Democracy Live: What Can Ireland Teach The World About Citizens’ Assemblies?
Let the People Decide? Hope, Fear, and the Realities of Direct Democracy
Constitutional Visions from the Grassroots
Trump 2.0: Economic Security of Korea and Ireland in the Twilight of the Rules-Based International Order?
New Book: The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Trade, and Unequal Globalization, by Samuel Brazys

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