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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just issued the

This research represents a global consensus on climate mitigation, sources of emissions, progress towards meeting targets, and the impact of national climate pledges on long-term emissions goals.

The report cites PAIS scholars, including six papers by Simon Caney and four by Caroline Kuzemko. Their work explores, and highlights the importance of, ethical considerations and political institutions respectively.

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.

Tom Long's new article "Issue-Areas, Sovereignty Costs, and North Americans鈥� Attitudes Toward Regional Cooperation" has been published by Global Studies Quarterly. In the article, Tom and coauthors Malcolm Fairbrother (Umea University) and Clarisa P茅rez-Armend谩riz (Bates College) examine how people's views of regional cooperation in North America diverge from their attitudes toward trade integration alone. Connecting the study of public opinion with more multifaceted approaches of comparative regionalism, they argue that public attitudes are shaped by citizens鈥� perceptions of the asymmetric patterns of national-level benefits and vulnerabilities created by regional cooperation.

You can read the article here:

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: