Speakers: Chris Doyle - Director, Council for Arab and British Understanding (CAABU), Eric Lee - Founding Editor of LabourStart and The New International Review and Husam Zomlot - Senior Political Advisor for the Palestinian Diplomatic Mission to the UK. Join the ICU-PPS as we discuss the situation in Gaza. This will be a panel discussion centered around various themes put to the panel, followed by an audience questions.

Speakers: Prof. George Philip - Professor and Reader in Latin American Politics at LSE; Specialist in Venezuela and Dr. Colin Lewis - Reader in Latin American Economic History @ The LSE; Ssecialist in Brazil and Social Policy. "The New Power Politics at Play" - with a focus on Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez

Speakers: Hugo De-Burgh - Author of China: Friend or Foe?; Professor of Journalism and Director of the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster and Dr. Kerry Brown - Senior Fellow, Asia Programme at Chatham House. Lecturer, Writer and Consultant on China. Join ICU-PPS for the first meeting of its Emerging Economies Series where we discuss China, and specifically: its poltical system in comparison to western democracy, its economic rise and its impact on the world and the political and media boundaries in which its citizens live

The most senior member of the Democratic Party of America in the UK - DAUK Chairman Bill Barnard - discusses some important issues surrounding the win for Obama in the USA and what it means for the USA and its policies.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad, 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia, joins us to discuss why he feels the war on Iraq is an unjust war and why it makes a strong case for criminalising the very act of war.

Dr. James Smith, the CEO of the Aegis Trust, Dr. Nigel Eltringham, Lecturer in Anthropology of the University of Sussex and John Gorski of the British Army Royal Engineers discuss genocide prevention and intervention.