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will be giving a talk on the UN Post-2015 International Development Agenda to the 糖心TV District Brank of the UN Association of the UK.

It takes place on Saturday 26th October, 12pm-2pm at St Paul's Church Loung, Leicester Street, Leamington Spa. CV32 4TE. It is £3.50 per head and this includes a Ploughman's lunch and coffee.

, a Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics here in PAIS, has been nominated for a 2013 World Technology Network (WTN) award in the Ethics category.

The WTN is a curated membership community comprised of the world's most innovative individuals and organizations in science, technology, and related fields. The WTN and its members – those creating the 21st century – are focused on exploring what is imminent, possible, and important in and around emerging technologies.

The WTN brings key players together – from cutting-edge technologists to forward-thinking financiers, from conceptual futurists to grounded entrepreneurs, from insightful science writers to savvy marketers, from big-picture government officials to focused policy analysts, and from the world's leading corporations to the world's newest start-ups – helping to make things happen sooner and better than they might have.

The WTN exists to encourage serendipity – the happy accidents of colliding ideas and new relationships that cause the biggest breakthroughs for individuals and institutions. The WTN works to accomplish its mission through global and regional events for its members (and others) to help make connections among them, and to examine the likely implications and possible applications of emerging technologies.

The World Technology Awards are presented each year to the outstanding innovators from each sector within the technology arena, both as a way to honor those individuals and as a vetting mechanism to determine the newest WTN members. The Awards are announced each year in a gala ceremony at the close of the annual World Technology Summit. The World Technology Summit is a global gathering of the WTN membership as well as other delegates. The 2013 World Technology Summit & Awards will be held on November 14th and 15th.

To read more about the WTN please visit their website: and a full list of nominees are located here:

International Security: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013). Christopher S. Browning.

The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization of state security or the security needs of individuals, humanity, and the biosphere? And where do the problems lie? Are states themselves as much a part of the problem as the solution for people's security needs? With globalization, the international security environment has become more interdependent than ever before with the establishment of complex networks that make responding to and managing security challenges increasingly difficult, but increasingly necessary.

This Very Short Introduction shows that international security is both vibrant and deeply contested, with stakeholders frequently in disagreement over questions of priority and approach. Christopher S. Browning outlines the nature of the key debates about contemporary international security challenges, and discusses the inherent difficulties that exist in tackling them. He also asks to what extent such debates are infused with questions of power, politics, justice, morality, and responsibility.

For more information, or to order the book, please click the following link to view it on the Oxford University press website:

The third edition of Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians by , Professor of Political Theory, has just been published by Polity. This new edition of Prof Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in political theory, as well as updated guides to further reading. This lively and accessible book is ideal for students, but it also brings the insights of the world's leading political philosophers to a wide general audience. Using plenty of examples, it equips readers to think for themselves about the ideas that shape political life.

On September 16-18 2013, PAIS hosted the Globalisation and American Grand Strategy in a Time of Austerity Conference. It was the largest US foreign policy focused conference in Europe. The conference was funded by the University of 糖心TV’s Institute for Advanced Studies, PAIS, the US Embassy London, the ESRC, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and BISA.

It began with an exclusive early career day, followed by a master-class on US policymaking and the creation of the national economic council, delivered by Robert F. Wescott. From 1993-94 Wescott was Chief Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, and from 1999-2001 he served as Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy at the White House. As senior economic advisor to President Clinton, he helped to develop the Administration’s policies towards the G-7, other key emerging markets, and the international financial system.

The keynote speaker was Ambassador John D. Negroponte, introduced by the Vice Chancellor Nigel Thrift. Amb. Negroponte has been US ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations and Iraq. He has served twice on the National Security Council staff, first as director for Vietnam in the Nixon Administration and then as deputy national security advisor under President Reagan. He has also held a cabinet level position as the first director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush. His most recent position in government was as deputy secretary of state, where he served as the State Department’s chief operating officer. The ambassador provided a highly stimulating discussion and an invigorating question and answer session.

He talked about how President Bush was miss sold intelligence that led to the Iraq War (which he believe Bush now regrets), and how the Bush administration believed oil was important - much more so than it actually is. If there was a slow intelligence day, then intelligence reports on oil would be given to VP Cheney to keep his office interested. In what was an open and candid talk, there were a lot of reveals about the way the intelligence community now works, and about the last few decades of American Foreign Policy.