1. Why Do They Hate Us?
2. The Most Powerful Women You’ve Never Heard Of
3. Think Again: Al Qaeda
4. 5 Reasons Obama Will Win in November
5. The Worst Places to Be a Woman
6. 5 Reasons a Sarkozy Loss Will Be a Disaster
7. The New al Qaeda Franchises
8. Citizen Chen
9. Hi, I Killed Osama bin Laden and I Approve This Message
10. The Dumb Idea Hall of Fame
11. 9 Ways of Looking at Chen
12. May Day Madness

1. This Fight Ain’t Over
2. A Murderer’s Manifesto and Me
3. Red, Delicious, and Rotten
4. The Palestinians’ Imaginary State

[Source: Foreign Policy]

1. How to Win a Trade War with China - By Clyde V. Prestowitz
2. If There’s a War with China, It Won’t Be a Trade War — It’ll Be a Real One - By Evan A. Feigenbaum

Assertive Chinese and job-hungry Americans are gearing up for a trade war across the Pacific. Fortunately, cooler heads will likely prevail.

3. It’s the Occupation, Stupid - By Robert A. Pape

Extensive research into the causes of suicide terrorism proves Islam isn’t to blame — the root of the problem is foreign military occupations.

4. The Democrats Really Do Need Fox News - By Shadow Government’s Peter Feaver

The following new books and journals are published by Springer.

1. Book Highlights in Sociology

The following e-books are currently accessible via HKU campus network. If you are trying to access them from home, please connect your home PC to HKU campus network via HKUVPN.

• New Racism
• Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?
• Neurosociology
  

2. Theoretical Principles of Sociology

• Theoretical Principles of Sociology  Volume 1: Macrodynamics
• Theoretical Principles of Sociology  Volume 2: Microdynamics

3. Free access to Race and Social Problems

This journal will offer FREE ONLINE ACCESS to all FULL TEXT articles during 2009 and 2010. HKUL users are also able to access the journal via http://library.hku.hk/record=b4288839

4. Journal Highlights

• Journal of Happiness Studies

Special Issue: On Advice For A Happy Life (Open access)

• Contemporary Islam

Special Issue: Muslims and Media: Perceptions, Participation, and Change  

LSE IDEAS is a centre for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy. Its mission is to use LSE’s (The London School of Economics and Political Science) intellectual resources to help train skilled and open-minded leaders and to study international affairs through world-class scholarship and engagement with practitioners and decision-makers. IDEAS Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. The following are the forthcoming events in November:

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 6.30pm, Old Theatre

Speaker: Professor Gilles Kepel

Chair: Professor Arne Westad

Thailand: A Nation in the Making

Thursday, 26 November 2009, 6:30pm, The Box (Tower 3, 5th Floor)

Speaker: Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Chair: Tan Sri Dr Munir Majid

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