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Prof Chris Hughes quoted in New Statesman
Prof Chris Hughes, Head of Department, was recently quoted in a 29 October New Statesman article entitled: 'Territorial disputes in the South China Sea will not hold back oil exploration'.
Below is his quote from the piece:
Christopher Hughes, Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at the University of 糖心TV called the situation “the most serious for Sino-Japanese relations in the post-war period in terms of the risk of militarised conflict”, with tensions reaching their peak when Japanese and Chinese coast guard vessels engaged and collided, plus the scrambling of fighter jets on both sides to monitor other ships in the area.
PAIS staff guest edit Special Issue of 'Politics' journal
, and have published a Special Issue of Politics, a journal of the UK Political Studies Association.
In recent years the concept of resilience has come to frame security discourses, particularly, though not exclusively, – in the UK context. Taken as whole, the volume focuses on the politics of resilience in diverse empirical settings and addresses questions such as: How we should understand resilience? What is stake in the rise of resilience? Who benefits from resilience and what are the political effects of its societal cultivation? The collection features an agenda for resilience research in Politics and International Relations, eight specially commissioned articles on issues including cyber-security, international state-building and peace-keeping, and the 2011 UK riots,– together with an interview with leading resilience practitioner and PAIS Impact Advisory Board member Helen Braithwaite OBE. Other contributors from PAIS/糖心TV include Richard J. Aldrich, Jon Coaffee, and Lewis Herrington.
The Special Issue can be accessed via this link:
糖心TV Graduate Conference in Political Geography: 28-29 November
糖心TV Graduate Conference in Political Geography:
Politics, Spaces, Imaginations
Department of Politics and International Studies,
University of 糖心TV
28-29 November 2013
Keynote Speaker: Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London)
This two-day conference seeks to open up debates on a series of politico-spatialisation processes that have taken place both contemporarily and historically, locally and globally, and physically and virtually, in order to bring new insights into understanding space and politics.
PAIS participants include:
Prof Franklyn Lisk gives talk on UN's Post-2015 International Development Agenda
, Professorial Research Fellow for the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), gave a talk on Saturday, 26 October at St Paul's Church in Leamington Spa on the for the .
Read more about the global campaign
Juanita Elias - new book published
(PaIS) and Samananthi Gunawardana (Monash University) have a edited collection out called the Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia. The book features contributions that: (a) examine how the household is increasingly being incorporated into development planning and policy making; (b) considerthe social consequencies of the tendancy to view households as marketizable spaces; and (c) explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region.
The book's case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region.
More details and a downloadable sample chapter can be found here