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Professor (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, .
• 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 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).

PAIS Associate Professor appeared live on BBC World TV programme "Impact" on Friday November 29th. Trevor participated in a discussion on Guantanamo Bay and talked about the reasons why President Obama is finding it so difficult to make good on his pledge to close the detention facility. The programme focused on the case of Shaker Aamer, the last British citizen being held, who was first detained by the US authorities 12 years ago. Also taking part in the discussion were the lawyer for Shaker Aamer, Clive Stafford Smith, and Dr David Nicholl, who has written about the medical ethics of force-feeding hunger-striking detainees. Trevor focused on the political barriers being faced by the Obama administration in its attempts to release or transfer to the US or to third countries.

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Dr talks on Russia Today's flagship show Cross Talk about democracy and the Arab Spring, sharing some of the results of his ESRC funded Future Research Leaders Project.

Dr was interviewed live on the on BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire this morning about the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy's assassination.

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, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, introduced and chaired a session at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC for the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) on 12 November entitled 'Cost and benefits to US strategic interests from UK renewal of Trident'.