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Professor Shaun Breslin's article "Why Russia and China are united by more than pipeline politics" has been published on

Professor Breslin argues the recent multi-billion euro deal to pipe gas from Russia to China signals shifting geopolitical and climate hedge bets more than it does a new anti-Western alliance.

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On 23 May, Professor gave the keynote address, on ‘Promoting party politics in emerging democracies’, to the 28th workshop of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes, Study Group Regional Stability in South East Europe. The event was convened by the Austrian Ministry of Defence/Austrian National Defence Academy at Château Rothschild, Reichenau/Rax on the theme ‘Political parties in South East Europe: supporting intra-State, regional and European consolidation?’

, one of our PAIS GEM PhD students supervised by Professor , has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Global Law and Policy at to be taken up from autumn 2015.

This is a great achievement by Maja to win such a prestigious and competitive fellowship. It is also yet another endorsement of the quality of PAIS' PhD programme.

Many congratulations to Maja.

Dr has written a briefing titled 'Egyptian universities on the frontline of protest' for . The briefing exposes the scale of the crackdown on Egyptian university campuses over the past academic year.

Dr Pratt documents an extensive catalogue of abuses by the security forces including shooting protesting students, arbitrary mass arrests and repeated assaults on university campuses with tear gas and birdshot. Yet student protests have continued for months, as activists challenge the military regime.

, a first year PhD student in PAIS, has been awarded a £600 Travel Grant from the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). Her thesis, supervised by Professor and Dr , investigates territorial conflicts in Chile, Peru, and Ecuador.