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Professor has been awarded a major prize for his new book, The Birth of Territory (University of Chicago Press).

Professor Elden’s book has won the Meridian Book Award of the (AAG). This distinction ‘recognises one outstanding book published each year that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography’.

More information about the award and past winners is available at the following link:

You can read more about the book on the University of Chicago Press website:

’s article “Diasporas and Democratization in the Postcommunist world” is among the most downloaded articles in Communist and Postcommunist Studies. The piece compares the mobilization patterns of Ukrainian, Serb, Armenian, and Albanian diasporas in the United States regarding issues of contested sovereignty in their original homelands. Communist and Postcommunist Studies is a leading peer-reviewed and ISI-ranked journal in area studies, offering analysis on historical and current political, social, and economic processes of countries of in the postcommunist space and also China.

The article is available through Open Access at:

The list of most downloaded articles is available at:

Dr was recently quoted by The Sun on Russia's relationship with Ukraine and the EU.

has been working with the to distribute Asia Policy through . Subscriber usage reports for 2013 have recently been published and PAIS Head of Department, Professor , had the most downloaded article.

Asia Policy is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal presenting policy-relevant academic research on the Asia-Pacific that draws clear and concise conclusions useful to today’s policymakers.

Professor Hughes is alongside esteemed company in the list with the likes of Cha, Friedberg, Lampton and Williamson.

The full list of most downloaded articles in 2013:

1. Christopher W. Hughes - North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Implications for the Nuclear Ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
2. Yasheng Huang - Rethinking the Beijing Consensus
3. Yan Xuetong - Strategic Cooperation without Mutual Trust: A Path Forward for China and the United States
4. Victor D. Cha - Complex Patchworks: U.S. Alliances as Part of Asia's Regional Architecture
5. Hanscom Smith - Toward a Universal Japan: Taking a Harder Look at Japanese Soft Power
6. Peter Jennings - The U.S. Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Perspective
7. David M. Lampton - China and the United States: Beyond Balance
8. Chaesung Chun - U.S. Strategic Rebalancing to Asia: South Korea's Perspective Aaron
9. L. Friedberg - The Next Phase of the "Contest for Supremacy" in Asia
10. John Williamson - Is the "Beijing Consensus" Now Dominant?

Professor 's RELU funded research on biopesticides regulation has been showcased as an impact case study by the BBSRC.