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A Knowledge Centre article by Dr George Christou

As the Greek debt crisis deepens and fears spread of a domino effect among other Euro-zone countries, what's next for the beleagured euro? Associate Professor of European Politics, Dr George Christou, looks at the pros and cons of adopting a Eurobond scheme, and what a rejection of 'solidarity through integration' might mean for the future of Europe.

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On Monday 15 August, Mike Thomson investigates the collapse of the US UK special relationship in 1973 in a Radio 4 'Document'. The programme is based on a document about Henry Kissinger brought to light by Prof Aldrich and used in his book GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency.

A full describing the programme and Prof Aldrich's contribution has been released by 糖心TV's Communications Office.

You can on BBC iPlayer.

August sees the publication of the third of four new books from PAIS’s Peter Burnell in 2011, in the shape of Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies, edited jointly with Prof. André Gerrits of Leiden University. This Routledge book was previously a special issue of the journal Democratization. Previous months saw Burnell’s monograph Promoting Democracy Abroad: Policy and Performance (Transaction Publishers at Rutgers, New Jersey) and, co-edited with Professors Vicky Randall (Essex) and Lise Rakner (Bergen) the third revised and updated edition of their Oxford University Press textbook Politics in the Developing World. His International Politics and National Political Regimes: Promoting Democracy-Promoting Autocracy, edited jointly with Prof. Oliver Schlumberger (Tübingen) is a book version of their special issue of the journal Contemporary Politics, contains additional material by the editors on the ‘Arab spring’, and will be published by Routledge in November.

On 2 June, Dr Chris Moran discussed the relationship between the fictional James Bond and the real-life CIA in a lecture delivered in the Library of Congress. His discussion is further detailed in a forthcoming book Classified: Secrecy and the State in Post-War Britain.

Chris' lecture was broadcasted on American TV; you can watch it .

The Reconceptualising Gender research network, funded by the British Academy and co-directed by Nicola Pratt, will host a visit by Prof. Islah Jad, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Birzeit, Palestine, to 糖心TV, 1-20 August. During her visit, Prof. Jad will give a public lecture on higher education in Palestine under Israeli occupation as well as participating in a workshop with members of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.