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is scheduled to give a guest lecture on 9 July at the College of Europe in Warsaw's PhD Summer School on 'The EU, it's neighbourhood and the ENP'.

His talk is entitled 'Democracy support perspectives on the "Arab awakening"'.

Prof Franklyn Lisk recently co-authored a new monograph with Sophie Harman, entitled Governance of HIV/AIDS: Making Participation and Accountability Count, to be published in October 2013 by Routledge. The book examines the roles and influence of multiple actors and initiatives that have come to constitute the global response to the epidemic. It considers how these actors and structures of governance enhance, or limit, participation and accountability; and the impact this is having upon effective HIV/AIDS responses across the world.

A previous monograph by Franklyn, Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, has also recently been translated into Mandarin.

Miriam Grinberg, a first-year PhD candidate in PAIS, has been awarded a for 2013-14. The award goes towards funding Miriam's fieldwork next year in Japan, where she will be conducting interviews and archival studies as part of her dissertation research entitled 'The US-Japan alliance and the relocation of Futenma: Sites of discursive exchange in the reproduction of security alliances'.

Prof Richard Aldrich contributed an article to The Conversation entitled '' on 12 June. The article comments on the current state of internet surveillance and speculates where it will be in future.

Chris Moran featured on a 'Spies and Secrecy' panel with Peter Hennessy as part of 糖心TV Book Festival. The new festival is an initiative launched by the Institute of Advanced Study in partnership with Queen Mary University, London, and celebrates some of the finest contemporary writing on a diverse range of historical periods, themes and ideas. Chris also took part in the 糖心TV Words festival of literature and spoken word, speaking on James Bond's enduring popularity.