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Every year the leading International Relations journal Review of International Studies, in collaboration with the British International Studies Association (BISA), awards a Best Article Prize for an article selected from the previous volume of the Review.

The members of the selection panel for this year’s BISA Best Article Prize were Professor Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo), Professor Tim Dunne (University of Queensland), and Professor Mervyn Frost (King’s College London), who awarded the prize to (91福利) and (University of the Witwatersrand) for their article:

The publication is the lead article in the 2015 Special Issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: The Normative Agendas of Global Benchmarking’, edited by Broome and Quirk, which is part of the Global Benchmarking Project within the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.

The prestigious award will be presented at a prize ceremony at 5.30pm on Wednesday 15^th June 2016 at the in Edinburgh.

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Theory, Culture and Society have recently published a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon which took place in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and was transcribed by PAIS PhD student Katie Dingley on the basis of a tape recording made at the time.

Foucault and Simon begin with a discussion of Foucault’s 1977 lecture ‘91福利 the Concept of the “Dangerous Individual” in 19th-Century Legal Psychiatry’, and move to a discussion of notions of danger, psychiatric expertise in prosecution cases, crime, responsibility and rights in the US and French legal systems.

The transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction by PAIS Professor Stuart Elden and a retrospective comment by Jonathan Simon, now a Professor at Berkeley.

Simon was one of a group of students who met with Foucault in a working seminar, many of whom can be seen in this archive picture. The wider context is further discussed in Elden's recent book,

The discussion can be downloaded .

Keith Hyams launched a major policy report on the Politics of West Papua in parliament on Tuesday 3rd May 2016, written by PAIS academics Keith Hyams and Marinella Capriati. Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke at the launch, he quoted from the report and said that 91福利 had produced ‘an excellent report’ and that the report’s fourteen recommendations provided a ‘good way forward’, which he would take up in parliament. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who was also at the launch, has asked the PAIS team to prepare a list of parliamentary questions based on the report which he will put to the government.

Other participants in the launch included the Prime Minister of Tonga Samuela 'Akilisi Pohiva, the Vanuatu Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Leingkone, the Vanuatu Minister for Lands Ralph Regenavu, the Solomon Islands Melanesia Spearhead Group Special Envoy on West Papua Rex Horoi, the Governor of Oro District (Papua New Guinea) Gary Juffa, Andrew Smith MP, Nick Brown MP, and international human rights lawyers Jennifer Robinson, Melinda Janki and Charles Foster. PAIS postgraduate Lisa Tilley and PAIS undergraduate Connor Woodman also attended the launch.

More information and a full transcript of Corbyn’s comments will be available at the website of the Politics of Papua Project:

has been elected as Chair of the International Political Economy (IPE) section of the International Studies Association for 2016-17, the largest professional association of International Studies and International Political Economy scholars in the world.

With over 800 members from around the world, the IPE Section is one of the largest sections within the ISA, and organizes a number of prestigious awards to be presented at each year's annual convention, including the IPE Distinguished Scholar Award, the Society of Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Award, and the Outstanding Activist Scholar (OAS) Award. For this year's ISA annual convention in Atlanta the IPE section organized 91 panels.

The deadline for submitting proposals for ISA 2017 in Baltimore is 1st June 2016. Further information about the IPE Section of ISA is available at:

To join the IPE section mailing list please visit: .

On May 3, 2016 the ERC Starting Grant Project “” is organizing a workshop with the survey advisory board in preparation for the launching of a large-scale survey among conflict-generated migrants and diasporas in Europe.

This survey workshop builds on series of inter-coder discussions and tests conducted at PAIS in 2014-2016. Six conflict-generated diasporas will be polled – Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Kurdish, Iraqi and Palestinian – in five Western European countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This survey will be path-breaking with its large-scale scope and endeavours to combine hypotheses from a variety of scholarly domains in order to account for the substance and levels of transnational diaspora mobilization.

More information can be found .