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Dr Chris Moran appeared on BBC Radio Ulster on 13 January to discuss his recent monograph Classified. You can on the BBC website; Chris' spot begins at 05.44 into the programme.

On Wednesday 28 November, PAIS will hold the first annual Roger Duclaud-Williams Memorial Lecture as part of the PAIS Seminar Series. The lecture, entitled 'Rupert Murdoch and the Rise of Euroscepticism in the British Media' will be given by Dr Oliver Daddow of the Univeristy of Leiceister.

The event will take place at 16.00, with refreshments at 15.30, in S0.18 in the Socical Sciences Building. All are welcome.

, Reader in International Security in PAIS, has recently published a Special Issue of Geopolitics entitled ‘Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the ‘Lines in the Sand’ Agenda’. The volume, based on funding obtained from The British Academy (SG-50847), brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars from Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK to formalise ‘Critical Border Studies’ as a distinctive paradigm for the study of borders and bordering practices.

On Friday 9 November, John Parkinson will be interviewed live during the BBC News coverage of the Police and Crime Commissioners elections. Tune in at 11.20 to hear his commentary.

, Professor in PAIS and Associate Fellow of the , chaired an event at Chatham House on 29 October entitled 'China and the International Human Rights System'. Timed to coincide with China's leadership transition and its standing down from the UN Human Rights Council (after the maximum two consecutive terms), this event explored such questions as:

What are China's objectives for the international human rights system as its global power grows? Will it reshape or dismantle the world's human rights norms and the institutions that uphold them or is China on a trajectory towards greater cooperation in this field?

This event also saw the launch of a Chatham House report, 'China and the International Human Rights System', by Sonya Sceats and Prof Breslin.