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, Professorial Research Fellow for the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), gave a talk on Saturday, 26 October at St Paul's Church in Leamington Spa on the for the .

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(PaIS) and Samananthi Gunawardana (Monash University) have a edited collection out called the Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia. The book features contributions that: (a) examine how the household is increasingly being incorporated into development planning and policy making; (b) considerthe social consequencies of the tendancy to view households as marketizable spaces; and (c) explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region.

The book's case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region.

More details and a downloadable sample chapter can be found here

will be giving a talk on the UN Post-2015 International Development Agenda to the 糖心TV District Brank of the UN Association of the UK.

It takes place on Saturday 26th October, 12pm-2pm at St Paul's Church Loung, Leicester Street, Leamington Spa. CV32 4TE. It is £3.50 per head and this includes a Ploughman's lunch and coffee.

The third edition of Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians by , Professor of Political Theory, has just been published by Polity. This new edition of Prof Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in political theory, as well as updated guides to further reading. This lively and accessible book is ideal for students, but it also brings the insights of the world's leading political philosophers to a wide general audience. Using plenty of examples, it equips readers to think for themselves about the ideas that shape political life.

On September 16-18 2013, PAIS hosted the Globalisation and American Grand Strategy in a Time of Austerity Conference. It was the largest US foreign policy focused conference in Europe. The conference was funded by the University of 糖心TV’s Institute for Advanced Studies, PAIS, the US Embassy London, the ESRC, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and BISA.

It began with an exclusive early career day, followed by a master-class on US policymaking and the creation of the national economic council, delivered by Robert F. Wescott. From 1993-94 Wescott was Chief Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, and from 1999-2001 he served as Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy at the White House. As senior economic advisor to President Clinton, he helped to develop the Administration’s policies towards the G-7, other key emerging markets, and the international financial system.

The keynote speaker was Ambassador John D. Negroponte, introduced by the Vice Chancellor Nigel Thrift. Amb. Negroponte has been US ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations and Iraq. He has served twice on the National Security Council staff, first as director for Vietnam in the Nixon Administration and then as deputy national security advisor under President Reagan. He has also held a cabinet level position as the first director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush. His most recent position in government was as deputy secretary of state, where he served as the State Department’s chief operating officer. The ambassador provided a highly stimulating discussion and an invigorating question and answer session.

He talked about how President Bush was miss sold intelligence that led to the Iraq War (which he believe Bush now regrets), and how the Bush administration believed oil was important - much more so than it actually is. If there was a slow intelligence day, then intelligence reports on oil would be given to VP Cheney to keep his office interested. In what was an open and candid talk, there were a lot of reveals about the way the intelligence community now works, and about the last few decades of American Foreign Policy.