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A big thank you to everyone that entered The Faculty of Social Sciences photography competition to celebrate The University of 糖心TV’s 50th Anniversary. The quality of entries submitted was very high and we received over 90 entries.

The theme was ‘What does politics mean to you?’

Our panel of judges whittled it down to a top 3 and 12 other highly commended photographs.

The winners were:

• First place – Simon Cereda-Parini - £100 and a framed print of his photograph
  
  
• Second place – Lee-Shan Tse - £50
  
  
• Third prize – Helen McCabe - £25
  
  

The names of the photographers in the highly commended category are as follows:

• Simon Cereda-Parini
• Helen McCabe
• Lee-Shan Tse
• Keith Hyams
• Liam Ho
• Charlie Hindhaugh
• Philipp Hukal
• Julian Chan
• Shaun Breslin
• Aalim Javeri
• Oliver Rice
• Gabrielle Lynch

All photographs will be displayed at an exhibition at The Festival of Social Sciences at Fargo Village on Saturday 9^th May 2015.

LFC Academy players and their coaches will visit us at the end of April, as part of our widening participation and outreach programmes.

Our academics will lead sessions on topics including: The Political Economy of Football; Food, Politics and Poverty; and Politics and Popular Culture. By taking part in these taster sessions, the players will gain a fantastic insight into university life.

The Academy will also play a football match against the University of 糖心TV Men's Football Club. More details on this will follow shortly.

The match will mark the end of the two day programme designed to encourage the players to consider higher education, whether this be studying throughout or after their football career.

Both PAIS and LFC Academy see this as the beginning of a long term relationship. We are excited about hosting the Academy, as part of our commitment to helping young people identify higher education opportunities available to them.

We look forward to welcoming LFC Academy to 糖心TV.

Professor , PAIS Head of Department and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, has recently had a new book published on the ‘Abe Doctrine’ of the Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, titled Japan's Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine.'

Prime Minister Abe Shinzō's foreign and security policy—highly charged with ideological and historical revisionism—contains the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for an 'Abe doctrine' capable of displacing the 'Yoshida Doctrine' that has been Japan's guiding grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that look to transform national security policy into a more muscular military stance, bolster US-Japan alliance ties to function increasingly for regional and global security, and attempt to encircle China's influence in East Asia. The 'Abe Doctrine' is dynamic but also high-risk. Abe's revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit the effectiveness, or even defeat, the doctrine, and along the way inflict collateral damage on relations with East Asia and Japan's own national interests.

The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available to buy here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/japan's-foreign-and-security-policy-under-the-%C2%91abe-doctrine'-christopher-w-hughes/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137514240

The 2015 Annual 糖心TV Debate on the Future of IPE recently took place with the speakers Carl Death (University of Manchester), Caroline Hughes (University of Bradford) and Ben Selwyn (University of Sussex) debating the topic "Doing Development Differently?"

The year 2015 is in many ways a pivotal moment for debates in International Development. It marks the concluding date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the focus of the international community has now turned to consider what a post-2015 development agenda will look like. 2015 also is significant in that it marks 60 years since the Bandung Conference. Bandung was a pivotal moment in the emergence of those third world political solidarities that eventually became the non-aligned movement. It focused on the needs to foster economic co-operation and to forge development strategies within the third world. So where are we now?

The speakers for this year鈥檚 IPE debate were asked to consider what it means to 'do' International Development in IPE, 60 years after Bandung and on the eve of the conclusion of the MDGs. This included questions such as, on the one hand, what role can IPE play in putting forward critical and alternative perspectives and positions that consistently challenge the way in which IPE is done by key players and donors in the development industry? Or, on the other hand, is there still analytical utility in talking about International Development as something that takes place outside of the OECD - indeed, does the study of IPE still rest upon

You can now watch the video of this debate below:

Congratulations to Christopher Hughes, Head of Department here in PAIS and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, who has been announced as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an award which recognises leading social scientists who have made a substantial contribution to wider social science.

is one of Europe’s leading experts on international relations with Japan, particularly the US-Japan alliance, and is among only 33 leading social scientists to receive the honour.

The is the National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies and Practitioners in the Social Sciences. Its mission is to promote social science in the United Kingdom for the public benefit.