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August sees the publication of the third of four new books from PAIS’s Peter Burnell in 2011, in the shape of Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies, edited jointly with Prof. André Gerrits of Leiden University. This Routledge book was previously a special issue of the journal Democratization. Previous months saw Burnell’s monograph Promoting Democracy Abroad: Policy and Performance (Transaction Publishers at Rutgers, New Jersey) and, co-edited with Professors Vicky Randall (Essex) and Lise Rakner (Bergen) the third revised and updated edition of their Oxford University Press textbook Politics in the Developing World. His International Politics and National Political Regimes: Promoting Democracy-Promoting Autocracy, edited jointly with Prof. Oliver Schlumberger (Tübingen) is a book version of their special issue of the journal Contemporary Politics, contains additional material by the editors on the ‘Arab spring’, and will be published by Routledge in November.

Dr Steven Kettell was invited to give a lecture to the world's oldest secular society (the Leicester Secular Society). The talk was on Political Science, Religion and Secularisation.

He has also taken part in an online discussion organised by the Knowledge Centre on the subject of 'Britain and the War on Terror'. .

As dramatic events continue to unfold in the Arab world, Dr Nicola Pratt was invited to speak by the Women's Professional Association (London) on 'The Role of Women in Shaping a New Arab World'.

She was also invited by Poet in the City to speak on the Egyptian revolution as part of , sponsored by the Lord Mayor of London

Finally, Nicola was invited by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Orpington branch) to speak on ‘The Arab Spring and its Implications’.

Following a visit to Cairo at the beginning of June, Nicola published a short article, ‘’ on Jadaliyya.com.

The first GR:EEN working papers are now .

GR:EEN is an EU-funded project, co-ordinated by the 神马福利影片, which assesses Europe's role in the emerging global order.

Professor Shaun Breslin has recently completed a visiting fellowship at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and put together a special issue on 'China and the Crisis' for the journal Contemporary Politics (17: 2). You can .