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SOUND KNOWLEDGE: PROFESSOR JAN AART SCHOLTE
A KnowledgeCentre interview with PAIS Prof Jan Aart Scholte
Working in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, Professor Jan Aart Scholte focusses his work on democratic participation, democratic accountability and the impact globalisation may be having on both. He discusses his passions, concerns and his role as the academic lead for Warwick’s cross-departmental research on global governance.
Prof Peter Burnell to give lecture at College of Europe in Warsaw
Prof Peter Burnell is scheduled to give a guest lecture on 9 July at the College of Europe in Warsaw's PhD Summer School on 'The EU, it's neighbourhood and the ENP'.
His talk is entitled 'Democracy support perspectives on the "Arab awakening"'.
New monograph by Prof Franklyn Lisk on HIV/AIDS governance
Prof Franklyn Lisk recently co-authored a new monograph with Sophie Harman, entitled Governance of HIV/AIDS: Making Participation and Accountability Count, to be published in October 2013 by Routledge. The book examines the roles and influence of multiple actors and initiatives that have come to constitute the global response to the epidemic. It considers how these actors and structures of governance enhance, or limit, participation and accountability; and the impact this is having upon effective HIV/AIDS responses across the world.
A previous monograph by Franklyn, Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, has also recently been translated into Mandarin.
REPOSITIONING JAPAN ON THE GLOBAL STAGE: THE NATURE OF THE SHINZO ABE ADMINISTRATION
A KnowledgeCentre article by Misato Matsuoka, PhD candidate
Collaborating author Miriam Grinberg, PhD candidate
With upper house elections due to take place on 21 July 2013, the future direction of Japanese foreign policy, as well the administration, is under debate with relations between Japan, the US, China and South Korea being amongst the policies being debated. Misato Matsuoka and Miriam Grinberg look at the current political debate and what may result from an end to what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called the "twisted parliament."
PhD Candidate awarded Toshiba International Foundation Scholarship
Miriam Grinberg, a first-year PhD candidate in PAIS, has been awarded a Toshiba International Foundation Scholarship for 2013-14. The award goes towards funding Miriam's fieldwork next year in Japan, where she will be conducting interviews and archival studies as part of her dissertation research entitled 'The US-Japan alliance and the relocation of Futenma: Sites of discursive exchange in the reproduction of security alliances'.