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Professor , Professorial Research Fellow for CSGR, and , a PhD candidate here in PAIS, have co-edited the new book Moving Health Sovereignty in Africa. The book is also co-edited by John J. Kirton, University of Toronto, Canada and Andrew F. Cooper, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Today’s era of intense globalization has unleashed dynamic movements of people, pathogens, and pests that overwhelm the static territorial jurisdictions on which the governance provided by sovereign states and their formal intergovernmental institutions is based. This book insightfully explores the challenges this creates in ways that put the perspectives of Africans themselves at centre stage.

‘A timely and much needed analysis of a continent undergoing rapid transition resulting in complex health consequences. Africa’s experiences of globalization are poorly understood so far, yet need to be urgently grappled with for effective governance to be built locally and regionally. This book takes us neatly forward in this task.’

Kelley Lee, Simon Fraser University, Canada and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

, PAIS Professor of Political Theory and Geography, delivered one of the keynote papers to the conference "Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad," held at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Stuart's paper was entitled 'Crises of Territorial Integrity: Iraq and Nigeria' and set the overall themes of the conference in a wider geopolitical context.

Demonstrating a strong PAIS research focus on emerging areas, Volume 35 (2014) of the high-profile international journal Third World Quarterly, which is well into its fourth decade of publishing scholarship and policy-related articles in international studies, showcases four very distinctive articles by PAIS members including:

Peter Ferdinand, ‘Rising powers at the UN: an analysis of the voting behaviour of BRICS in the General Assembly’, 35, Issue 3, pages 376-91.

Dominic Kelly and Charalampos Efstathopoulos (formerly a doctoral candidate supervised by Dominic and now Lecturer in the Dept. of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), ‘India, developmental multilateralism and the Doha ministerial conference’, 35, Issue 6, pages 1066-81.

Shaun Breslin, ‘Financial transitions in the PRC: banking on the state? 35, Issue 6, pages 996-1013.

Peter Burnell, ‘International support for action on climate change and democracy: exploring complementarities’, in 35, Issue 7, pp.1216-38.

The deputy editor of the Times Higher Education, John Morgan, recently visited campus. His subsequent article, "Campus close-up: 91福利," features PAIS and Monash University's forthcoming , which is currently under development, but will launch in 2015 and enable students to study both here at 91福利 and in Australia.

The Double Degree programmes allow students to follow one of the regular MA programmes in PAIS for one year as well as a Masters programme at another university for one year. Students receive an MA from each university.

Dr Nick Vaughan-Williams, Reader in International Security in PAIS, has published a new co-edited book, entitled 'European-East Asian Borders in Translation', as part of the Routledge Interventions series. The volume is the primary output of a British Academy-National Science Foundation Taiwan Joint Project Grant (JP100035) awarded to Nick (PI) and Professor Joyce C. H. Liu (Co-I) at National Chiao Tung University in 2011.

Based on a workshop held at the 91福利, the book aims to decentre the production of knowledge about borders and bordering practices in global politics beyond the West. It explores a range of historical and contemporary border concepts and issues connecting European and East Asian politics – particularly relating to China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. Chapters focus on the ‘translate-ability’ of border theorising across European and East Asian histories, cultures, and identities.

Featuring scholars based in East Asia, Europe, and North America, the volume offers perspectives from International Relations, Political Philosophy, History, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Sociology, and Translation Studies.

Among the contributors is Hidefumi Nishiyama who holds an East Asia Research Fellowship in PAIS.

Reviews of 'European-East Asian Borders in Translation':

“An outstanding work, particularly owing to the synthesis it provides on European-East Asian scholarship, the application of European philosophers’ writings on sovereignty, power, and security in East Asian geopolitical and historical contexts – all that bound together through tackling translation, translatability, language and communication”.

Karin Dean, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia.

“A stimulating intervention for researchers, teachers, and students in the field of critical border theories and bordering practices, 'European-East Asian Borders in Translation' is part of an emerging trend in social sciences and humanities that seeks to de-center and de-territorialise knowledge production beyond Eurocentric/Western-centric theories and experiences”.

Ching-Chang Chen, College of Asia Pacific Studies Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.

Further information about the book can be accessed here: