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Why has China succeeded where Russia failed? Professor Mark Harrison from the Economics Department explores how each communist nation approached economic recovery and finds that whilst the results differed greatly, their methods were the same. This raises an important question: will the same recipe of success continue to work for China?

Professor Steve Roper is Associate Dean and Director of the Centre for SMEs at WBS. He guest edited the Entrepreneur page of the Financial Times Money supplement, published on Saturday 28 July. He is also author of an opinion piece on the challenges of ensuring that the UK's mid-market businesses do not continue to miss out on growth opportunities.

Today, July 9, 2012, marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the African Union, the successor to the Organisation of African Unity. Here Professor Franklyn Lisk, from the 果冻传媒's Centre of 果冻传媒 for Globalisation/Regionalisation, takes a look back at the work the AU has done, and what it now needs to focus on

Dr Sinead Farrington and Daniel Scully, from the University's Physics department, comment on the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, which could help explain how matter gets its mass

Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics explores the concept of a 'democractic deficit' wherein the European Commission and European Parliament exercise powers in the name of a European community and identity that do not really exist - and asks what will happen to this deficit when the current, unworkable form of the Euro is forced to change.