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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.

Staff members from here in the department have decided to take on this summer’s , in order to raise funds for . Some have even signed up for the adventurous ‘Pretty Muddy’ version!

All funds raised will go directly to Myton. Any donations, big or small, will be greatly appreciated.

Please visit their page here and show your support:

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.

The (EJIR) have published ’s article "Why Do Conflict-generated Diasporas Pursue Sovereignty-based Claims through State-based or Transnational Channels? Armenian, Albanian, and Palestinian Diasporas Compared."

Over the past decade, diaspora mobilization has become of increasing interest to International Relations scholars who study terrorism, civil wars and transnational social movements and networks. Nevertheless, an important area remains under-researched: conditions, causal mechanisms and processes of diaspora mobilization vis-a-vis emerging states, especially in a comparative perspective. This article asks why diaspora entrepreneurs in liberal states pursue the sovereignty goals of their original homelands through the institutional channels of their host-states, through transnational channels or use a dual-pronged approach. Empirically, the article focuses on a comparison between the Albanian, Armenian and Palestinian diasporas in the UK and their links to the emerging states of Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh and Palestine.

The EJIR is a top journal in International Relations, the article can be read by clicking the following link:

This major new text introduces the analytical tools required to understand and interpret 21st century advanced capitalism and its evolution in the wake of the global financial crisis. Placing Comparative Political Economy in the context of key concepts and theoretical debates in the long-established field of Political Economy, it maps the terrain, substantive focus and evolution of the comparative approach. Furthermore, it connects Comparative Political Economy systematically to the subfield of International Political Economy (IPE), making the case for cross-fertilisation between these closely related fields.

The book is published by Palgrave in April, and the launch event will take place in .