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, Head of Department, was recently featured in a 1 April article entitled (translated from Japanese) 'Talking about how to defend one's country' in the Kenron section of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, which has a daily circulation of over 8 million copies in Japan.

Prof Hughes's section of the article is entitled 'Japan’s searching for a posture, but a strategy cannot be seen'. In the piece, Prof Hughes gives his opinion on Japan’s national interest in moving towards the exercise of collective self-defence and the impact this will have on its security and military policy.

Read the article (Japanese only)

Dr and Dr 's research has been cited in the newly released House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report on The UK’s Response to Extremism in North Africa. Citing their written evidence no fewer than three times throughout the report, the committee tied their research to the following policy recommendations:

Addressing terrorism in the Western Sahel-Sahara region comprehensively means addressing the environmental conditions that are allowing it to grow: poverty and inequality, corruption and mis-governance, the pressure of fast-growing populations on depleting natural resources, insufficient cross-border co-operation, and the spread of extremist ideology. This is a huge task requiring international co-operation across a number of disciplines. We [the committee] see signs that development and investment challenges are beginning to be addressed, but are concerned that co-operation on security matters should not be neglected.

We [the Committee] recognise that the UK Government has sought to secure international co-operation, for instance through the communiqué agreed at the 2013 G8 summit. We recommend that the UK Government, in its response to this report, outlines how it proposes to maintain momentum on this issue over the remainder of this Parliament, particularly in relation to security and intelligence co-operation.

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 1

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 2

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 3

and are editing a new book series for , entitled Global Reordering.

Global Reordering invites manuscript submissions based on innovative empirical research that is theoretically-informed and is relevant for contemporary policy debates. Key areas include: changing modes of global governance and multipolarity; global public policy networks; emerging powers and multipolar alternatives; regions and regionalism; as well as regional and global leadership.

This major new text introduces the analytical tools required to understand and interpret 21st century advanced capitalism and its evolution in the wake of the global financial crisis. Placing Comparative Political Economy in the context of key concepts and theoretical debates in the long-established field of Political Economy, it maps the terrain, substantive focus and evolution of the comparative approach. Furthermore, it connects Comparative Political Economy systematically to the subfield of International Political Economy (IPE), making the case for cross-fertilisation between these closely related fields.

The book is published by Palgrave in April, and the launch event will take place in .

As part of their translations programme, have confirmed a Chinese (simplified) translation deal with Beijing Yanziyue Culture and Art Studio for and Christopher Murphy's book, Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945.

Beijing Yanziyue Culture and Art Studio plan to publish hardback copies of their edition by 17th February 2016.

You can purchase the English copy of the book on the .