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Dr has written a blog, titled Trouble in Macedonia as ethnic tensions run high, for .

Macedonia may be a parliamentary democracy, but it’s also a fragile multicultural state. Its democracy has been in gradual decline since the mid-2000s – and in an era of unstable geopolitics and rising authoritarianism, the right sequence of events could send it slipping back into inter-ethnic strife.

The precarity of the country’s situation was made plain in April, when more than 200 protestors and loyalists to the Macedonian conservative-nationalist VMRO-DMPNE party , and physically attacked lawmakers, who had earlier elected an ethnic Albanian politician, Talat Xhaferi, as speaker. The brawl left 77 people injured.

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Taking the next step: new frontiers in the interdisciplinary study of finance

Agenda

It is a strange moment for young scholars to research finance. The furore of the Great Financial Crisis and the Eurozone Crisis has faded, yet the risks and uncertainties of finance remain the same. Rampant speculation and asset bubbles continue to thrive. Public debt and private debt is back to pre-crisis levels, and the financialization of virtually all aspects of economic and social spheres is deepening further. Meanwhile, research efforts in recent years have unveiled finance as a richly heterogenous field reaching far beyond what is commonly assumed to be financial. A large amount of work across disciplines has uncovered new ways in which finance is changing both itself as well as economies, societies and politics more broadly.

The purpose of this Early Career Researcher Workshop is to reflect on the current juncture of finance research, to understand the complexities of finance and to discuss the changes and continuities in a research agenda gradually moving on from the overriding concern with the crisis. Therefore, the workshop seeks to address several new research areas within finance which we believe can benefit from interdisciplinary engagement and it aims to cultivate an academic sensitivity to the plurality of approaches that sustain the current lines of finance research.

Call for Papers

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Timeline

Application deadline: 1 June 2017
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2017
Papers due: 31 August 2017
Workshop: 25-26 September 2017

Professor J. P. Singh will be presenting his work on 'Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations', on the 10th May from 16:30-18:00 in room A0.23 (Social Sciences).

J. P. Singh is Chair and Professor of Culture and Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh. In his new book, Sweet Talk, he reveals how the global North ultimately bars developing nations from flourishing in the world economy. His talk will offer a provocative rethinking of how far our international relations have come, and how far we still have to go.

The Department of Politics and International Studies has once again ranked ; overall the University of 糖心TV is 8th.

This latest good news follows on from PAIS' ranking of 44th in last month’s QS World University Rankings (up from 50th last year). Well done to all staff and students on this collective achievement.

Professor has won a prestigious Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. Brian has previously taught Public Policy in PAIS and has an interest in mass urban housing. He has extensive experience of working with the public and private sectors including local government.

The Leverhulme Emeritus project will provide a policy study of innovative approaches to the provision of prefabricated (offsite and "pop-up") housing in London. The context is the housing crisis in the capital and the urgent quest by the Mayor for new approaches to mass housing provision and resident involvement in planning.

The project, which is due to start on 1 September 2017 and will last for 24 months, holds the exciting prospect of networking with leading edge public and private sector innovators, a possible link to the 糖心TV University London Centre and contact with the Ostrom Centre at Indiana University who are using the same analytical framework.

Very many congratulations to Brian on this outstanding achievement, which means that PAIS is soon to hold 8 live awards with The Leverhulme Trust, spanning their Early Career Fellowship, Research Fellowship, Philip Leverhulme Prize, Major Research Fellowship, and Emeritus Fellowship schemes.

Further details on these and other projects in PAIS can be found here: