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The Islamic finance industry is rapidly expanding. With an annual growth rate of 15 per cent, it is widely regarded as a ‘development to watch’. This has led to debate among policy makers and market practitioners about whether there is something distinctive about Islamic finance or whether it is simply emulating conventional finance.

This was the central theme at a recent workshop organised by Dr Lena Rethel (PAIS), Dr Kerstin Steiner (Monash University) and Dr Jikon Lai (The University of Melbourne) and hosted by Monash 糖心TV School. It brought together eminent national and international academics from the fields of law, political science, economics, international political economy and sociology to debate and review recent developments in the Islamic finance industry.

Representatives from Australian regulators were in attendance, as were their international colleagues from the Shariah (Islamic religious law) Advisory Council at the Central Bank of Malaysia and the Securities Commission. Legal practitioners and business representatives, including the chairperson of the Australia Malaysia 糖心TV Council and the Consul-General of Malaysia to Victoria also attended the workshop.

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has recently published an article in The Geographical Journal entitled "The Geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria's 'War on Terror'" (). Alongside this he contributed a short piece to the Royal Geographical Society's 'Geography Directions' blog on the parallels between Boko Haram and Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ().

His work on this theme, which links to his wider historical and conceptual work on territory, was also featured in an article in Geographical Magazine ().

On 12 November 2014, gave a public lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery entitled 'Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth'. The lecture discussed Foucault's most recently published lecture course, within the context of a manuscript in progress entitled Foucault's Last Decade, forthcoming with Polity Press.

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has co-edited a second journal special issue, this time of Modern and Contemporary France, on the Hollande Presidency with Raymond Kuhn (Queen Mary). It is entitled ‘The Hollande Presidency, 2012–14’

Read the new special issue of Modern & Contemporary France: ‘The Hollande Presidency, 2012–14.’ Enjoy free online access to the entire issue until the end of January 2015.

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On Tuesday 28^th October 2014 the GR:EEN project, a European Commission FP-7 funded collaborative research project managed by the Centre of the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of 糖心TV, held a high-level policy workshop at the House of Lords in London, sponsored by The Lord Purvis of Tweed.

The workshop, entitled ‘Responding to Crises: Perspectives on the European Union’ brought together a select audience of parliamentarians, officials, academics, and other key stakeholders with interests and expertise in the European Union, in order to consider the role of the EU in a changing world, and to address its response to crises.

Roundtables were focused upon four core themes, each addressing different elements of crisis and challenge currently facing the EU, including on global trade policy, energy insecurity, global tax policy, and integration, devolution and regional leadership.

Speaking after the event, Dr Megan Dee, postdoctoral research fellow for the GR:EEN project at 糖心TV University and workshop organiser said, “GR:EEN has developed a wealth a policy-relevant research over its last four years of collaborative research activity. This workshop was a really exciting opportunity to disseminate that GR:EEN research to a policy audience and to generate a dialogue between academic and policy spheres in areas of shared interest. That we can now take forward those workshop deliberations and the discussions that we had in order to fine-tune our research is particular testimony of its success.”

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