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Demonstrating a strong PAIS research focus on emerging areas, Volume 35 (2014) of the high-profile international journal Third World Quarterly, which is well into its fourth decade of publishing scholarship and policy-related articles in international studies, showcases four very distinctive articles by PAIS members including:

Peter Ferdinand, ‘Rising powers at the UN: an analysis of the voting behaviour of BRICS in the General Assembly’, 35, Issue 3, pages 376-91.

Dominic Kelly and Charalampos Efstathopoulos (formerly a doctoral candidate supervised by Dominic and now Lecturer in the Dept. of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), ‘India, developmental multilateralism and the Doha ministerial conference’, 35, Issue 6, pages 1066-81.

Shaun Breslin, ‘Financial transitions in the PRC: banking on the state? 35, Issue 6, pages 996-1013.

Peter Burnell, ‘International support for action on climate change and democracy: exploring complementarities’, in 35, Issue 7, pp.1216-38.

Just published at Springer (June 2014): Philippe Blanchard, Felix Bühlmann & Jacques-Antoine Gauthier (eds). Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications.

This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on political trajectories and processes, life course and contemporaneous and historical careers. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more generally.

This volume promotes the dialogue between approaches to sequence analysis that developed separately, within traditions contrasted in space and disciplines. It includes the latest developments in sequential concepts, coding, atypical datasets and time patterns, optimal matching and alternative algorithms, survey optimization, and visualization.

Field studies include original sequential material related to parenting in 19th-century Belgium, higher education and work in Finland and Italy, family formation before and after German reunification, French Jews persecuted in occupied France, long-term trends in electoral participation, and regime democratization.

Overall the book reassesses the classical uses of sequences and it promotes new ways of collecting, formatting, representing and processing them. The introduction provides basic sequential concepts and tools, as well as a history of the method. Chapters are presented in a way that is both accessible to the beginner and informative to the expert.

Professor has published a book with Princeton University Press - 'Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships' (co-authored with Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

The book offers a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, explaining why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should--and should not--have over their children.

Challenging some of our most commonly held beliefs about the family, 'Family Values' explains why biological parents have no fundamental right to parent the children they have produced, why a child's interest in autonomy severely limits parents' right to shape their children's values, and why parents have no fundamental right to confer wealth or advantage on their children.

'Family Values' reaffirms the vital importance of the family as a social institution while challenging its role in the reproduction of social inequality and carefully balancing the interests of parents and children.

Professor , Professor of Politics & International Studies, has been chosen as the FTGS [Feminist Theory and Gender Studies] Eminent Scholar for ISA 2015.

The Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section of the International Studies Association brings together scholars who apply feminist theory to International Relations or look at the field through a gender lens. In addition, those whose interests focus on gender-related topics throughout the field of international studies, including women in development and cross-cultural comparative studies, are encouraged to participate. The section provides mechanisms for discussion and exchange about the international dimension of scholarship on gender and about the gender dimension of scholarship in international affairs.

Professor Rai will attend at the 2015 Emnent Scholar Panel, where her work will be honoured.

In addition to this, a Korean Translation of Professor Rai's book, "Gender and the Political Economy of Development" (2002, Polity Press) is being released. The book has been translated by Dr Jinock Lee, who is a PAIS alumni and is now at Korea Women’s Political Solidarity.

The deputy editor of the Times Higher Education, John Morgan, recently visited campus. His subsequent article, "Campus close-up: University of 糖心TV," features PAIS and Monash University's forthcoming , which is currently under development, but will launch in 2015 and enable students to study both here at 糖心TV and in Australia.

The Double Degree programmes allow students to follow one of the regular MA programmes in PAIS for one year as well as a Masters programme at another university for one year. Students receive an MA from each university.