A couple of months ago, I had to update some materials on one of our courses. Written in 2015, it dealt with the UK's relationship with the EU.
We can leave the extent of the rewrite by noting that I was just happy to have something material to contribute.
Obviously, this is an extreme example - a function of our distance learning model and material revision cycle - but it highlights a long-standing challenge of how to address the ever-changing landscape of politics and international relations in our classes.
This has been brought home once again by this weekend's election of a new Australian government.
Normally, it's not somewhere that much crosses my path, but I've been working on a climate policy negotiation for our new IR programme and have spent some time of late working up country information sheets for the various roles. Including, well, you get the idea.
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