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Foreign Affairs, the leading magazine for analysis and debate of foreign policy, economics and global affairs, has written a positive short review of Dr Maria Koinova's new book “Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States,” University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Foreign Affairs is published by the US Council on Foreign Relations and is a top journal in the discipline of International Relations.

You can read the review at the following link: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140537/maria-koinova/ethnonationalist-conflict-in-postcommunist-states-varieties-of-g

Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff (George Washington University) is visiting PAIS on Jan. 8-9, 2014 in the context of academic activities of the European Council Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.”

Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff will give:

• a Master class on "Policy-relevant and Internet-based Research,” on Jan. 8, 12.30- 2.30 pm in the Wolfson Research Exchange (3). For more information, click here.
• a PAIS Department Talk: “The In-Between Advantage: Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Institutional Reform” on Jan. 8, 4.00-5.30 pm in S. 018, refreshments will be served from 3.30 pm. The talk will be based on her new book. Please click here for more information.
• Workshop “Diasporas and International Politics” on Jan. 9, 2014, based on in-depth reading of papers.

Professor Brinkerhoff is specialist in international development, governance, public-private partnerships, NGOs, and diaspora politics. Her publications include six books, three co-edited journal issues, and over fifty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from policy evaluation, to NGOs, failed states, governance, diaspora identity, development, and citizenship. She is the author of Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); the editor of Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); and co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).

The ESRC has agreed to fund the AiO project, in which Professor Tom Sorell is Co-Investigator and Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo is Research Fellow. The IERG share of the funding is £210,000.

This project, which is led by Professor Tim Grant of Aston University, uses forensic linguistic techniques which will make it possible for police more effectively to counter paedophile activity on the internet. The Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group (IERG) is responsible for ethics work in this project.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Masumi Owa on being granted an award from the BISA (British International Studies Association) Founders Fund to support completion of her doctoral thesis on ‘Collective action in global governance: the case of the Development Assistance Committee.’

Shaun Breslin was invited to give the keynote opening lecture at the annual Australian Political Studies Association conference in Perth. The conference theme was governing the resource boom with Breslin’s presentation, “Low Profile No More? Resource (In) Security and Chinese World Views” focussing on the international politics of Chinese energy concerns.

Watch the keynote lecture