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PAIS IPE Annual Debate - 'Climate Change: Power, Resistance and Transitions' - Wednesday May 18th
Caroline Kuzemko has put together an absolutely stunning panel for the PAIS Annual IPE Debate,
This year the debate will speak to the title: 'Climate Change: Power, Resistance and Transitions' and speakers are our very own Caroline, Mat Paterson (Manchester), Pete Newell (Sussex) and Marie Claire Brisbois (Sussex).
It takes place on Wednesday May 18th, in S0.21, 2-4pm.
New Global Webinar Series: US FOREIGN POLICY 鈥 DE(CON)STRUCTED!
Scholars from City University London, Cambridge University and PAIS have joined together for an online global webinar series. The global webinar runs for six weeks and provides an alternative syllabus on US Foreign policy, connecting scholars from around the world with a global audience:
- America鈥檚 Exceptional Imperialism? The enlightenment, modernity and the making of American exceptionalism
- Global Racial Capitalism –violence and the forging of state, nation, and American empire
- America, Britain and White World Order
- The world and the violent American century
- American and a global empire of knowledge
- Imperial threat construction? Yellow peril politics, again?
The series is open to the public, students and academic staff.
To register:
Ben Clift鈥檚 new article on the OBR & UK fiscal policy
Ben Clift鈥檚 finds UK technocratic fiscal policy-making to be a more social and political process than many advocates of economic rules-based policy acknowledge. The article delineates a yawning gap between the theory and practice of technocratic economic governance, which is saturated with politics. Fiscal rules engender new forms of contested politics and elite statecraft and expert technocracy.as rules are circumvented, breached or changed.
A related blog post analyses OBR commentary on the Chancellor鈥檚 spring statement:
EASG Seminar with Dr. Basri on Malaysian Development Financial Institutions
Dr Mohd Faizal Basri is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Management and Economics, Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Malaysia. He is also a visiting associate professor at Politics and International Studies, University of 糖心TV, UK. He holds a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in International 糖心TV and MBA from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He also holds a PhD in Islamic Finance from Durham University, UK. His research interests are in the area of Islamic banking and finance. In his early career, Dr Mohd Faizal served AmBank (M) Berhad in the Banking Inspection & Quality Assurance department for several years. Before joining UPSI, Dr Mohd Faizal worked as a lecturer at UiTM.

Roundtable: The War in Ukraine
Roundtable: The War in Ukraine
14 March, 2022 – 15:00 – 16:00 (GMT, London)
The Politics and International Studies Department at the University of 糖心TV in collaboration with the EU Jean Monnet Network 鈥淏etween the EU and Russia鈥 is organising an online roundtable to shed light on the current political developments in Ukraine after Russia鈥檚 invasion in February 2022.
The webinar will draw on the expertise of scholars with extensive research in the region, including on issues of foreign and security policy, EU-Russia relations, secessionism and interventionism, and international migration.
Panellists:
Prof. Richard Youngs (PAIS/糖心TV and Carnegie Europe)
Author of Europe's Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Prof. Oxana Shevel (Tufts University, USA and Associate at Harvard鈥檚 Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Ukraine Initiative)
Author of Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Prof. Maria Popova (McGill University and EU Jean Monnet Chair)
Author of Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts In Russia and Ukraine, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Moderator:
Prof. Maria Koinova (PAIS/糖心TV)
Author of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Registration is required prior to the event:
