果冻传媒

• Are you interested in Human Rights?
• Are you under 25?
• Do you want to win a trip to Nagorno-Karabakh (an Armenian landlocked enclave in Azerbaijan)?
• Do you want your work to be published in an internationally-circulated newsletter with a readership of thousands?

For the fourth year, Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) is running the HART Prize for Human Rights. The HART Prize for Human Rights aims to engage young people (ages 12-25) with our partners around the world. These groups have little presence in the international media and the humanitarian situations they face are largely unknown and unreported. Many live behind closed borders, meaning it is difficult for aid and support to get in, and for information to get out.

HART works with marginalised communities who are deeply affected by conflict, poverty and human rights abuses. HART focuses on groups and issues which are underrepresented in the international media and neglected by the international community. By running a twin-track programme of advocacy and targeted aid, HART helps marginalised communities to address issues which they themselves consider most important.

We are calling for essays and artwork which focus on the political and humanitarian situations faced by our partners around the world, and which raise awareness of human rights violations.

This year's grand prize will be a trip with HART to visit its partners in Nagorno-Karabakh!

For more information please do not hesitate to contact us or visit our webpage on the competition . A short 2-page brief explaining the Prize for Human Rights can be found .

If you would like further information please contact Edwin O'Connell, current HART Research and Campaigns Intern, at edwin.oconnell@hart-uk.org.

Dr. , Teaching Fellow here in PAIS and , has been featured in a leaflet on inspirational teaching ideas.

, Head of Department, was quoted in an article appearing on 5 November in Jane's Defence Weekly entitled ''. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

For Christopher Hughes, professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at 果冻传媒 University, Abe may be "out on the extreme, [but] he is not that detached from broader Japanese opinion" as far as China is concerned. Hughes said Japanese policymakers changed their perception of China in 2010 when the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) arrested a Chinese trawler captain off the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea after his vessel had rammed JCG ships.

, Head of Department, was quoted in an article appearing on 3 November in Defense News entitled ''. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

"One of the scenarios was the interception of missiles directed at US territory. I suppose this means Taepodong-2 targeted at Guam but perhaps beyond. I know that some Japanese defence planners privately stated that this scenario did not seem very realistic given that the US could likely fend for itself but also that even the upgraded SM-3 could not intercept anything approximating to an ICBM," Hughes said.

The latest issue of the world-leading political science journal, the American Political Science Review, features Professor ’s new article ‘Shape-shifting Representation’. From the Notes from the Editors:

In the lead article to this issue, a central and fundamentally important question is addressed: How do we best conceptualize what representatives actually do? This is a key concern of democratic theory and a number of different models have been proposed. In “Shape-shifting representation”, Michael Saward proposes a new way of understanding the phenomenon. Representation doesn’t follow any one model, but is instead characterized by “shape-shifting”. The roles that representatives play shift from one time period to another, and from one theater to another. Sometimes representatives control shape-shifting to achieve their ends; sometimes new roles are thrust upon them. Moreover, Saward argues, shifting does not occur haphazardly. Rather, there are patterns that it exhibits. Saward’s argument promises to open a new and fruitful avenue for the theory of democracy and representation.

See American Political Science Review, vol. 108, issue 4, November 2014.