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Professor Shaun Breslin has recently given The Sir John Monash Lecture, titled "Where is China heading? Domestic uncertainties and global ambitions" at Monash University Malaysia.

When Xi Jinping took over the reins of power in China, he identified four major tasks. He needed to change the model of economic development; repair the relationship between the Communist Party of China (party) and the people; strengthen the party; and fill a moral and ethical void in society.

The environmental problems that hit Beijing was added as a fifth urgent task. Trying to deal with all of these at the same time has proved far from easy. The result has been uncertainty and unease over where China is going domestically - politically, economically and socially. Xi also moved on to consolidate China's global role, and to more clearly articulate a vision for China as a new type of Great Power.

This lecture traces the evolution of both of these domestic and international agendas, and tries to seek the ways in which they interact. It has a specific focus on the domestic sources (or otherwise) of Chinese power on the global scene.

Vincenzo Bove has recently published a column titled "Diversity and Economic Development" on VoxEU.org.

The column explores evidence on how immigration affected economic development between 1960 and 2013 through its effect on the cultural and ethnic composition of the destination country. Cultural heterogeneity appears to have had a positive impact on economic development, and the positive effect of diversity seems to have been stronger in developing countries.

VoxEU is the Centre for Economic Policy Research's policy portal and promotes "research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading economists."

The article can be read at: http://voxeu.org/article/diversity-and-economic-development

Dr Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor, US Politics and International Studies, recently appeared on ABC News in Australia discussing whether or not NATO allies have anything to fear about a Donald Trump presidency.

The video can be viewed at this link.

The Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick is delighted to announce a rise in our ranking from 6^th to 4^th out of 83 Politics Departments nationally in the 2017 Complete University Guide.

The CUG says of PAIS:

“At fourth place, the University of Warwick remains one of the most reliable choices of university, staying ahead of Durham in this year's Subject Tables due to their admirable scores for Student Satisfaction. There are five core BAs to choose from, including a joint honours degree with Sociology, and a combination degree with French, German, Hispanic or Italian Studies.

This news of course follows on from our recent ranking of 3^rd overall in the 2017 Times/Sunday Times University Guide and 1^st for overall student satisfaction in the 2016 NSS among Politics Departments in the Russell Group.

Kseniya Oksamytna’s chapter entitled ‘'Civil Society and the UN Security Council: Advocacy on the Rwandan Genocide'’ has appeared in the book ‘Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs’ edited by Raffaele Marchetti:

http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781349949373

The chapter demonstrates that Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and Médecins sans frontières were indispensable sources of information about the events in Rwanda during the first weeks of the 1994 genocide, especially for the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Also, Kseniya has recently prepared a policy brief for the ‘Providing for Peacekeeping’ project of the International Peace Institute, the Elliott School and the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. The brief examines Ukraine’'s contributions to peacekeeping operations by the UN and regional organisations. It can be accessed here:

http://www.providingforpeacekeeping.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ukraine-Oksamytna-6-Sept-2016.pdf