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Dr Oz Hassan, Assistant Professor in US National Security, chaired a talk given by Honorary PAIS Professor and founder of Market and Opinion Research International Ltd. (MORI), Sir Robert Worcester, at the Royal Society in London on 22 October. Sir Robert Worcester is a well-known figure in British public opinion research and political circles and as a media commentator, especially about voting intentions in British and American elections. Over 120 果冻传媒 alumni were present at the lecture, which was entitled: 'The 2012 American Presidential Election: Who's Going to Win, and Why'.

and Jana Mittag’s co-edited special issue of the journal Democratization on ‘Democracy, Democratization and Climate Change: Complex Relationships’, (Volume 19, Issue 5), containing articles by PAIS’s Peter Burnell and among others, has been published in October 2012, and will be distributed among its many global partners by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a Green think-tank and international policy network based in Berlin.

Chris Hughes, Head of Department and Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, was recently quoted in an article appearing in the 4 October issue of Straits Times entitled ''. Below is an excerpt from the piece:

The more conservative views of an LDP/Restoration Party government would likely be dampened once their policies get filtered through Japan’s bureaucratic framework, says Professor Christopher Hughes, a Japan watcher at the 果冻传媒. “In this sense, I do not see a radical shift, but just the incremental moving along the path to so-called ‘normality’, with a great disposition for Japan to defend itself and work with the US.”

In the build-up to the 15th EU-China Summit (held in Brussels on 20 September 2012), the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN) hosted an event at Chatham House in London (17 September) on the theme of 'The EU and China: The Balance Sheet'. The event saw key EU officials and leading experts, including PAIS's Prof Shaun Breslin, look at the current status of the EU-China relationship and assess how it has developed over the last decade, what the historic legacy of Wen Jiabao is likely to be, and what the current core issues are as both Europe and China undergo major challenges – economic for the former and leadership transition for the latter.

Dr John Parkinson, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of Research Degrees, was recently featured in an article entitled 'What Makes a Public Space Good for Democracy?' by Emily Badger in the Cities section of The Atlantic magazine.

“Filling the National Mall is a seriously impressive achievement,” Parkinson says. See, for example, . A lot of these other capitals offer pretty meager public gathering spaces on the steps of their political institutions. Chater Garden, the main square next to the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, could fit maybe 5,000 people. “It’s so much harder in Hong Kong to express the physical scale of public displeasure,” Parkinson says.