Events

Warwick’s Global Research Priorities programme in Global Governance invites all interested PhD students and early career researchersto an informal workshop with our visiting scholar, Professor Mitchell Orenstein. The workshop will be held on Thursday, 25 April 2013 from 12-2pm. A buffet lunch will be provided.

The workshop will look in particular at the role of international organizations in global politics, particularly in relation to the production and circulation of policy ideas. Orenstein argues that international organizations are far more flexible than most structuralist accounts predict. International organizations frequently have shown themselves to be open to new ideas and approaches espoused by well-positioned policy entrepreneurs. International organizations tend to navigate a route between complex and shifting ideas and interests, rather than adhere to a consistent, single path.

Professor Orenstein is a scholar of international politics focusing on the role of policy paradigms in economic reform. His research lies at the intersection of comparative politics, international political economy, and global public policy. Orenstein’s first book, Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2001), won the 1997 Gabriel A. Almond Award of the American Political Science Association and Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform (Princeton University Press, 2008) won the 2009 Charles H. Levine Prize of the International Political Science Association.

This is a special opportunity for early-career scholars to interact with a leading researcher of global governance and policy paradigms. Please sign up to attend by contacting Ura Martin at u.martin@warwick.ac.uk by Wednesday, 24 April.