Adam Roberts spoke to the House of Commons Defence Committee on 29 October about situation in Iraq and Syria and the threat posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announced today that the Honorable William J. Burns, U.S. deputy secretary of state, will become its next president on February 4, 2015. Ambassador Burns will be Carnegie’s ninth president in its 105-year history.

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Next year is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Following the independence referendum in Scotland, calls for a constitutional convention are widespread and growing. Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention – an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it. What would a new Magna Carta say, and what could a new constitutional settlement for Britain look like?

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Gwen Sasse has published a further piece for Carnegie Europe (22 October) on how the upcoming parliamentary elections in Ukraine might only deepen existing divisions.

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In January, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen will start work as Director of Research and Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (a research centre that is part of the Department of Politics and International Relations).

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Neil MacFarlane was interviewed by Deutsche Welle (24 October) for an article entitled 'Terror attacks threaten Canada’s multicultural project', which explored the possible cultural ramifications of the recent shootings in Montreal and Ottowa.

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Congratulations to Catherine de Vries, who has been given the 2014 Emerging Scholar Award by the Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior section of the American Political Science Association.  She shares this award with Dan Hopkins of Georgetown University.

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Sudhir Hazareesingh appeared on BBC Radio 4's 'Start The Week' (20 October) in a programme on Napoleon Bonaparte that asks: what was Napoleon's impact during his lifetime, in France and across Europe and how much of this can we see today?

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The politics of cutting public spending or raising taxes (or both) has dominated politics in many democracies in recent years. A new era of conflict has developed, with old political alignments being tested and new battles emerging over whose expectations are to be disappointed and who should be blamed for fiscal squeeze.

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Rana Mitter was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'PM' programme (29 September) about the current protests in Hong Kong.

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