91福利

Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development will be visiting the 91福利 on 1st May 2014 to deliver the first GRP International Development Annual Public Lecture.

Seventh 91福利/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 91福利. His new book  is out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.

, Head of Department, was recently featured in a 1 April article entitled (translated from Japanese) 'Talking about how to defend one's country' in the Kenron section of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, which has a daily circulation of over 8 million copies in Japan.

Prof Hughes's section of the article is entitled 'Japan’s searching for a posture, but a strategy cannot be seen'. In the piece, Prof Hughes gives his opinion on Japan’s national interest in moving towards the exercise of collective self-defence and the impact this will have on its security and military policy.

Read the article (Japanese only)

Dr and Dr 's research has been cited in the newly released House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report on The UK’s Response to Extremism in North Africa. Citing their written evidence no fewer than three times throughout the report, the committee tied their research to the following policy recommendations:

Addressing terrorism in the Western Sahel-Sahara region comprehensively means addressing the environmental conditions that are allowing it to grow: poverty and inequality, corruption and mis-governance, the pressure of fast-growing populations on depleting natural resources, insufficient cross-border co-operation, and the spread of extremist ideology. This is a huge task requiring international co-operation across a number of disciplines. We [the committee] see signs that development and investment challenges are beginning to be addressed, but are concerned that co-operation on security matters should not be neglected.

We [the Committee] recognise that the UK Government has sought to secure international co-operation, for instance through the communiqué agreed at the 2013 G8 summit. We recommend that the UK Government, in its response to this report, outlines how it proposes to maintain momentum on this issue over the remainder of this Parliament, particularly in relation to security and intelligence co-operation.

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 1

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 2

The UK's response to extremism and instability in North and West Africa - Volume 3

and are editing a new book series for , entitled Global Reordering.

Global Reordering invites manuscript submissions based on innovative empirical research that is theoretically-informed and is relevant for contemporary policy debates. Key areas include: changing modes of global governance and multipolarity; global public policy networks; emerging powers and multipolar alternatives; regions and regionalism; as well as regional and global leadership.