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PAIS is pleased to announce a new studentship opportunity for MA Globalisation and Development students with , an international development charity working in Asia and Africa, for 2012/13.

• 3-5 weeks of work experience after the dissertation’s submission, working on global issues of development and mental health. Duration to be negotiated between BasicNeeds and the student.
• A selection of innovative topics to choose from reflecting real-life development issues
• Access to the BasicNeeds’ library and primary data at their Leamington Spa office
• A certificate from BasicNeeds/PAIS at the end of your studentship

The studentship will be split into two parts over the summer term and vacation. The chosen student will produce a rigorous dissertation on one of the titles agreed between PAIS and BasicNeeds. After submitting the dissertation the student will work with BasicNeeds to translate his/her research findings into reports, pamphlets, flyers and blogs etc that BasicNeeds will use to further their development work.

Read more about the studentship (and contact details)

A KnowledgeCentre podcast and article by Prof Shaun Breslin

China is being vaunted as the world's next super power, but is this ascendance reflected in its relationships with other nations and global powers? In this article and podcast, Professor Shaun Breslin explores China's relationship with the EU, and other global influences on its positioning in a new world order.

There can be no doubting the power of the Internet. News from around the world can be accessed in seconds in real time. Yet recently, acts such as SOPA and PIPA have received large amounts of attention in the press in efforts by government to increasingly regulate and censor the Internet. Meanwhile, in other countries around the world, the influence of social media in uprisings, freedom movements and education suggest that, as technologies develop, we are heading towards greater freedom and connectivity of information than ever before. This presents, therefore, a dichotomy for the near future of the Internet; Are we heading for increasing liberty or a lockdown of information.

Join Wael Abbas from Egypt and Monica Marks from Tunisia, who will be speaking about how the internet has affected the Arab Springs, as well as Denis Campbell and Bill Thompson who will be speaking about how censorship and social media affects the western society. Dr Nicola Pratt will chair the event.

The event will take place on Thursday 31st of January in room H0.52 from 6pm to 8pm. More information can be found on the ; the event is also .

, Professor in Politics, recently delivered the keynote lecture at three separate conferences:

• European University Institute (Florence), keynote lecture ‘Shape-shifting representation’ delivered to conference Representative Democracy in the 21st Century, 25 October 2012
• University of Utrecht, keynote lecture ‘Shape-shifting representation’ delivered alongside the Stichting Internationale Spinozaprijs recipient Pierre Rosanvallon, Seminar for Political History, 22 November 2012
• University of Oslo, keynote lecture ‘Rethinking representation’, delivered to The 4th International Conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice, “Problems of representation in modern democracies”, 10 January 2013

, a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the (CSGR), was recently featured in a 16 January article in the International Business Times entitled 'Mali Conflict: Counter-Terrorism Local Policy Only Way to Win the War'. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

If France wants to win the war, it has to involve the population in the Malian state through a communitarian network. The support for the French intervention and counter-terrorism is linked to integration of the population in political agenda and state modernity.