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The 2015 Annual 糖心TV Debate on the Future of IPE recently took place with the speakers Carl Death (University of Manchester), Caroline Hughes (University of Bradford) and Ben Selwyn (University of Sussex) debating the topic "Doing Development Differently?"

The year 2015 is in many ways a pivotal moment for debates in International Development. It marks the concluding date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the focus of the international community has now turned to consider what a post-2015 development agenda will look like. 2015 also is significant in that it marks 60 years since the Bandung Conference. Bandung was a pivotal moment in the emergence of those third world political solidarities that eventually became the non-aligned movement. It focused on the needs to foster economic co-operation and to forge development strategies within the third world. So where are we now?

The speakers for this year鈥檚 IPE debate were asked to consider what it means to 'do' International Development in IPE, 60 years after Bandung and on the eve of the conclusion of the MDGs. This included questions such as, on the one hand, what role can IPE play in putting forward critical and alternative perspectives and positions that consistently challenge the way in which IPE is done by key players and donors in the development industry? Or, on the other hand, is there still analytical utility in talking about International Development as something that takes place outside of the OECD - indeed, does the study of IPE still rest upon

You can now watch the video of this debate below:

The department is delighted that we have been ranked 35th in the world in Politics and International Studies in the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject, with an overall score of 60.8.

For the fourth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 3,467 universities were evaluated and 971 institutions were ranked in total. Over 82 million citations attributions were analyzed and the provision of 13,132 programs were verified.

The Opening Roundtable of the New Directions in International Political Economy will be held at 4.00pm on Wednesday 13th May 2015.

This is free to attend as a public event and all are welcome, but please register at: .

The Roundtable will be chaired by Dr Juanita Elias, and the lineup of prestigious speakers include:

Prof Matthew Watson (糖心TV)
Dr Niheer Dasandi (University College London)
Dr David Hudson (University College London)
Dr Adrienne Roberts (University of Manchester)
Prof Kees Van Der Pijl (University of Sussex)

Inquiries about the Roundtable should be sent to: ipeconference@warwick.ac.uk

Organized by James Brassett, André Broome, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel, and Ben Richardson, the 糖心TV 50th Anniversary Conference on New Directions in International Political Economy runs from 13th to 15th May 2015 and brings together over 150 scholars from 20 countries around the world to reflect on contemporary and future developments in the study of the global political economy.

Further information is available from the conference website:

The Global Slavery Index is profoundly flawed methodologically, yet it remains widely and often uncritically cited. What underlies the production and use of highly suspect statistics?

In a recent commentary piece published by the openDemocracy blog, from PAIS and Joel Quirk from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, criticize the flawed methodology and weak data used to produce rankings such as the Global Slavery Index.

The article draws upon material from a research project on global benchmarking () based in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at 糖心TV. A series of papers from this project will soon be published as a special issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: Normative Agendas and Global Benchmarking’.

The full commentary is available to view at:

On 20 February, Greece agreed to a four month extension of its current bailout programme, subject to the approval of reform measures proposed by the Greek government. In a recent commentary piece published by the London School of Economics European Politics and Policy blog, writes that while the election of the Syriza-led coalition in Greece was initially hailed as a game-changing event that could bring an end to austerity in Europe, the negotiations between Greece and the ‘Troika’ demonstrate why a sharp turn away from austerity policies in Eurozone bailouts remains highly unlikely.

The full commentary is available to view at: