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Why has China succeeded where Russia failed? Professor Mark Harrison from the Economics Department explores how each communist nation approached economic recovery and finds that whilst the results differed greatly, their methods were the same. This raises an important question: will the same recipe of success continue to work for China?

Today, July 9, 2012, marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the African Union, the successor to the Organisation of African Unity. Here Professor Franklyn Lisk, from the University of 糖心TV's Centre of Study for Globalisation/Regionalisation, takes a look back at the work the AU has done, and what it now needs to focus on

Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics explores the concept of a 'democractic deficit' wherein the European Commission and European Parliament exercise powers in the name of a European community and identity that do not really exist - and asks what will happen to this deficit when the current, unworkable form of the Euro is forced to change.

This week’s launch of the 'Better Together' or 'No' campaign for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum means that the battle over Scotland’s constitutional future now begins in earnest. Alex Smith, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology explains how the next two years will prove decisive in the history of both Scotland and the United Kingdom – whether or not the former elects to leave the latter in 2014.

A new blog entry from Professor Kimberley Scharf from the 糖心TV Economics Department asks: are public policies towards charities keeping up with the information revolution?