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Maria Koinova’s article “Diasporas and Democratization in the Postcommunist world” is among the most downloaded articles in Communist and Postcommunist Studies. The piece compares the mobilization patterns of Ukrainian, Serb, Armenian, and Albanian diasporas in the United States regarding issues of contested sovereignty in their original homelands. Communist and Postcommunist Studies is a leading peer-reviewed and ISI-ranked journal in area studies, offering analysis on historical and current political, social, and economic processes of countries of in the postcommunist space and also China.

The article is available through Open Access at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967067X09000026

The list of most downloaded articles is available at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/communist-and-post-communist-studies/most-downloaded-articles/

The fourth revised and updated edition of Peter Burnell, Lise Rakner and Vicky Randall’s popular textbook Politics in the Developing World, published by Oxford University Press, comes out in February.

‘Burnell, Rakner, and Randall offer us a comprehensive overview of politics in the developing world and a perfect blend of real world empirics and social science theory. If you are looking for an ideal textbook – this is it.’ Professor Nancy Bermeo, Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Oxford.

You can purchase the book from the Oxford University Press website: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199666003.do

Dr Peter Ferdinand was recently quoted by The Sun on Russia's relationship with Ukraine and the EU.

The National Bureau of Asian Research has been working with the Johns Hopkins University Press to distribute Asia Policy through Project MUSE. Subscriber usage reports for 2013 have recently been published and PAIS Head of Department, Professor Chris Hughes, had the most downloaded article.

Asia Policy is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal presenting policy-relevant academic research on the Asia-Pacific that draws clear and concise conclusions useful to today’s policymakers.

Professor Hughes is alongside esteemed company in the list with the likes of Cha, Friedberg, Lampton and Williamson.

The full list of most downloaded articles in 2013:

1. Christopher W. Hughes - North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Implications for the Nuclear Ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
2. Yasheng Huang - Rethinking the Beijing Consensus
3. Yan Xuetong - Strategic Cooperation without Mutual Trust: A Path Forward for China and the United States
4. Victor D. Cha - Complex Patchworks: U.S. Alliances as Part of Asia's Regional Architecture
5. Hanscom Smith - Toward a Universal Japan: Taking a Harder Look at Japanese Soft Power
6. Peter Jennings - The U.S. Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific: An Australian Perspective
7. David M. Lampton - China and the United States: Beyond Balance
8. Chaesung Chun - U.S. Strategic Rebalancing to Asia: South Korea's Perspective Aaron
9. L. Friedberg - The Next Phase of the "Contest for Supremacy" in Asia
10. John Williamson - Is the "Beijing Consensus" Now Dominant?

Professor Shaun Breslin's article "China plays politics with debt while the West holds its breath" has been published on The Conversation website.

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http://theconversation.com/china-plays-politics-with-debt-while-the-west-holds-its-breath-22374