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Following Professor Shaun Breslin's recent keynote Sir John Monash Lecture at Monash University Malaysia, an article, titled 'Becoming a superpower may not be Beijing's' has been published in the Malaysian business weekly newspaper The Edge.

The article can be read here.

, Professor of Politics and International Studies, has won a highly competitive Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. The Fellowship supports a 36 month programme of research entitled: 'China Risen? What is Global Power (and in What Ways Does China Have it)?’.

This is a terrific result for Shaun and for PAIS more generally, and brings our total number of current Leverhulme Major Research Fellows in the Department to three. Very many congratulations to Shaun!

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Erzsebet Strausz have won funding from the Wellcome Trust for their 12 month project, 'Counterterrorism in the NHS: Prevent Duty Safeguarding and the new 'Pathology' of Radicalisation'.

Juanita Elias and Shirin Rai have published a piece in OpenDemocracy about their report, Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers.

"Why was social care missing from the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement? It seems government fears the issue is just too big to tackle, or assumes someone – normally women – will always step in."

The article can be read here:

has recently published a column titled "Diversity and Economic Development" on .

The column explores evidence on how immigration affected economic development between 1960 and 2013 through its effect on the cultural and ethnic composition of the destination country. Cultural heterogeneity appears to have had a positive impact on economic development, and the positive effect of diversity seems to have been stronger in developing countries.

VoxEU is the Centre for Economic Policy Research's policy portal and promotes "research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading economists."

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