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Philippe Schmitter will be visiting the department on May 13th and 14th to lead a and also give a talk as part of the .

Philippe Schmitter is Professor Emeritus at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. He was a member of the EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences from 1996 to 2004, having spent ten years as a faculty member at Stanford University and fifteen years at the University of Chicago.

Schmitter has conducted research on comparative politics and regional integration in both Latin America and Western Europe, with special emphasis on the politics of organized interests. With Gerhard Lehmbruch, he edited Trends toward Corporatist Intermediation and Patterns of Corporatist Policy-Making. He is the co-author (with Guillermo O’Donnell) of Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy (4 vols.) and is currently completing a book on Essaying the Consolidation of Democracy. In recent years, he has devoted increasing attention to the emerging polity of the European Union, first in a co-authored book on Governance in the European Union (with Gary Marks, Fritz Scharpf and Wolfgang Streeck) and later in a book entitled: How to Democratize the European Union ....and Why Bother? With Alexandre Trechsel, he has written a Green Paper for the Council of Europe on The Future of Democracy in Europe.

Schmitter has been the recipient of numerous professional awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim in 1978. He was also a vice-president of the American Political Science Association. He received the award for lifetime achievement in European politics by the ECPR in 2008, the award for lifetime achievement in the study of European integration by EUSA, the Mattei Dogan Prize of the IPSA, and the Johan Skytte Prize by Uppsala University – all in 2009.

Philippe Schmitter’s Departmental Seminar, entitled “Thoughts on the Future of 'Real-Existing' Democracy,” will be taking place on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 from 12 pm – 1.30 pm in S0.19, Social Sciences. Light sandwiches will be served from 11.30 am in the foyer outside of the seminar room. All welcome.

A new research paper by - SPERI Paper No.10 –The Hollande Presidency, the Eurozone Crisis & the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude.

You can now download the next in the SPERI Paper series Paper No.10 – The Hollande Presidency, the Eurozone Crisis & the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude by Ben Clift (SPERI Honorary Research Fellow & Professor of Political Economy, University of 糖心TV).

The paper analyses the political economy of the Hollande Presidency in France, evaluating the economic policies pursued by the French Socialist President since May 2012. It explains the limited coherence and success of economic policy under Hollande in terms of constraints operating at domestic and European levels, and through credibility concerns of financial markets. Domestically, it highlights difficulties managing the presidential majority, notably due to presidentialised factionalism within French Socialism. At the European level it explores disagreements within the Franco-German relationship over which economic ideas should underpin macroeconomic policies to tackle Europe’s recession and efforts to resolve the Eurozone crisis.

Download the paper, free, here

Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development will be visiting the University of 糖心TV on 1st May 2014 to deliver the first GRP International Development Annual Public Lecture.

Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has been shortlisted for the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.

The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.

The awards ceremony takes place on Tuesday 29th April at St. Ermin's Hotel, London.

Seventh 糖心TV/RIPE Debate on the Future of IPE - The Bretton Woods Institutions at 70

On Thursday 27th February 2014, the Politics and International Studies Department's International Political Economy cluster held its seventh which it runs in conjunction with the journal . This year鈥檚 debate focussed on the future of the Bretton Woods institutions on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the meeting that really embedded the idea of creating international institutions to help govern the spheres of international trade, international development and international finance. , and talked about the future roles of the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund respectively.

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor at the University of Manchester. His new book What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix it is out with Polity Press in 2014.

Sophie Harman is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. Her new book The New Political Economy of Global Health is under contract with Polity Press.

Dr Andr茅 Broome is Associate Professor at the University of 糖心TV. His new book  is out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.