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The Department of Politics and International Studies would like to invite all PAIS undergraduate students and their guests to our drinks reception which will take place before your graduation ceremony on Thursday 18^th July 2013. The event will be in Chancellors Suite, Rootes Building, from 12noon-1.30pm, there will be a buffet lunch available and refreshments so please come along and join us for a glass of bucks fizz to toast your future success.

Prof Richard Aldrich contributed an article to The Conversation entitled 'Forget GCHQ, the real surveillance state is yet to come' on 12 June. The article comments on the current state of internet surveillance and speculates where it will be in future.

Chris Moran featured on a 'Spies and Secrecy' panel with Peter Hennessy as part of Warwick Book Festival. The new festival is an initiative launched by the Institute of Advanced Study in partnership with Queen Mary University, London, and celebrates some of the finest contemporary writing on a diverse range of historical periods, themes and ideas. Chris also took part in the Warwick Words festival of literature and spoken word, speaking on James Bond's enduring popularity.

In May, Prof Franklyn Lisk, PhD candidate Hany Besada, and Philip Martin of Norwegian People's Aid co-authored a paper, which was prepared and submitted to the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, entitled 'Regulating Extraction in the Global South: Towards a Framework for Accountability.'

The panel was set up by the Secretary-General of the UN and co-chaired by the UK Prime Minister and the Presidents of Indonesia and Liberia, and issued its report, 'A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,' at the end of May.