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Dr. Kent Moors has been named scholar-in-residence at the Institute for Energy and the Environment.

Dr. Clifford Bob has published The Global Right Wing and The Clash of World Politics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, 2012).

Dr. Mark Haas has published a co-edited volume, The Middle East and the United States:  History, Politics, and Ideologies (5th edition), published by Westview Press.  The co-editor is David Lesch.  Dr. Haas also contributed two chapters to it:  The Introduction (co-written with David Lesch) and "Ideology and Iran's American Policies, 1997-2008."

Dr. Haas wrote a chapter, "America's Golden Years?  U.S. Security in an Aging World, which appeared in:  Political Demography:  Interests, Conflict and Institutions, edited by Jack Goldstone, Monica Duffy Toft, and Eric Kaufmann (Paradigm Press, 2011).

The Clash of Ideologies:  Middle Eastern Politics and American Security, is the latest book by Dr. Haas, and it is scheduled to be printed in March 2012.

Dr. Lew Irwin's book, Disjointed Ways, Disunified Means:  Learning from America's Struggle to Build an Afghan Nation, is forthcoming from the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College in 2012.

Congratulations to Dr. Moors on his new book, The Vega Factor, Oil Volatility and the Next Global Crisis.

Congratulations to Fr. Sawicki who is celebrating his Silver Jubilee.

Congratulations to Dr. Haas who won the Fr. Richard V. Paluse Mission-Related Research Award for 2011-2012.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Rubin who won the 2010 Carey McWilliams Award for the Best Paper on Politics, Literature, and Film.