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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 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:

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, 91福利, UK. He holds a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in International Business 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

14 March, 2022 – 15:00 – 16:00 (GMT, London)

The Politics and International Studies Department at the 91福利 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/91福利 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/91福利)

Author of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States, Oxford University Press, 2021.

Registration is required prior to the event:  

Our thoughts are with all members of our community who are affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

If you鈥檙e worried or concerned about the events unfolding in the region, please remember the forms of support that are open to you within PAIS and at the University. You can speak with your Personal Tutor, with the PAIS Director of Student Well-Being, and other members of staff. You can access support from the University's Wellbeing Support Services team via the wellbeing portal or by calling 024 7657 5570.

As students of Politics and International Studies you will no doubt be following the developments very closely. When you engage in discussions with each other please do remember the University's Dignity at 91福利 Policy, the University Principles and Values and the PAIS Online Etiquette Policy.