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Professor has been awarded a major prize for his new book, The Birth of Territory (University of Chicago Press).

Professor Elden’s book has won the Meridian Book Award of the (AAG). This distinction ‘recognises one outstanding book published each year that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography’.

More information about the award and past winners is available at the following link:

You can read more about the book on the University of Chicago Press website:

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 .

’s article “Diasporas and Democratization in the Postcommunist world” is among the most downloaded articles in Communist and Postcommunist Studies. The piece compares the mobilization patterns of Ukrainian, Serb, Armenian, and Albanian diasporas in the United States regarding issues of contested sovereignty in their original homelands. Communist and Postcommunist Studies is a leading peer-reviewed and ISI-ranked journal in area studies, offering analysis on historical and current political, social, and economic processes of countries of in the postcommunist space and also China.

The article is available through Open Access at:

The list of most downloaded articles is available at:

The fourth revised and updated edition of , Lise Rakner and Vicky Randall’s popular textbook Politics in the Developing World, published by Oxford University Press, comes out in February.

‘Burnell, Rakner, and Randall offer us a comprehensive overview of politics in the developing world and a perfect blend of real world empirics and social science theory. If you are looking for an ideal textbook – this is it.’ Professor Nancy Bermeo, Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Oxford.

You can purchase the book from the Oxford University Press website:

has been working with the to distribute Asia Policy through . Subscriber usage reports for 2013 have recently been published and PAIS Head of Department, Professor , had the most downloaded article.

Asia Policy is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal presenting policy-relevant academic research on the Asia-Pacific that draws clear and concise conclusions useful to today’s policymakers.

Professor Hughes is alongside esteemed company in the list with the likes of Cha, Friedberg, Lampton and Williamson.

The full list of most downloaded articles in 2013:

1. Christopher W. Hughes - North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Implications for the Nuclear Ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
2. Yasheng Huang - Rethinking the Beijing Consensus
3. Yan Xuetong - Strategic Cooperation without Mutual Trust: A Path Forward for China and the United States
4. Victor D. Cha - Complex Patchworks: U.S. Alliances as Part of Asia's Regional Architecture
5. Hanscom Smith - Toward a Universal Japan: Taking a Harder Look at Japanese Soft Power
6. Peter Jennings - The U.S. Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Perspective
7. David M. Lampton - China and the United States: Beyond Balance
8. Chaesung Chun - U.S. Strategic Rebalancing to Asia: South Korea's Perspective Aaron
9. L. Friedberg - The Next Phase of the "Contest for Supremacy" in Asia
10. John Williamson - Is the "Beijing Consensus" Now Dominant?