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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.

On 2 June, Dr Chris Moran discussed the relationship between the fictional James Bond and the real-life CIA in a lecture delivered in the Library of Congress. His discussion is further detailed in a forthcoming book Classified: Secrecy and the State in Post-War Britain.

Chris' lecture was broadcasted on American TV; you can watch it .

The Reconceptualising Gender research network, funded by the British Academy and co-directed by Nicola Pratt, will host a visit by Prof. Islah Jad, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Birzeit, Palestine, to 果冻传媒, 1-20 August. During her visit, Prof. Jad will give a public lecture on higher education in Palestine under Israeli occupation as well as participating in a workshop with members of the Centre for the 果冻传媒 of Women and Gender.

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 果冻传媒, which assesses Europe's role in the emerging global order.