New America, a prominent think tank in Washington, is hosting an online panel on small states in international relations, featuring Tom Long's new book, A Small States Guide to Influence in World Politics. The panel will be held at 13:30 EST/18:30 BST on 4 May 2022. The panel features Tom, Emily Wilkinson of ODI, and Wazim Mowla of the Atlantic Council. It will be moderated by Professor Jim Goldgeier.

RSVP here: https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/events/new-research-to-bridge-the-gap-dr-tom-long/

Caroline Kuzemko has put together an absolutely stunning panel for the PAIS Annual IPE Debate,

This year the debate will speak to the title: 'Climate Change: Power, Resistance and Transitions' and speakers are our very own Caroline, Mat Paterson (Manchester), Pete Newell (Sussex) and Marie Claire Brisbois (Sussex).

It takes place on Wednesday May 18th, in S0.21, 2-4pm.

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’s 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: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2022/april/us-foreign-policy-deconstructed

Ben Clift’s co-authored article ‘Remembering and Forgetting IPE: Disciplinary History as Boundary Work’ (with Peter Marcus Kristensen and former PAIS legend Ben Rosamond - both at the University of Copenhagen), is the lead article in the latest issue (Vol. 29, No. 2) of Review of International Political Economy

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2020.1826341

First presented to PAIS’s IPE cluster in November 2017, where the authors received fabulously helpful and constructive comments, this work explores the disciplinary politics of IPE as a field by lifting the lid on the ‘boundary work’ that disciplinary histories in textbooks perform. The paper analyses how academic gatekeepers in positions of disciplinary influence shape perceptions about appropriate conduct within the field, what constitutes its core, and what lies outside its realm. Disciplinary history entails forgetting certain events, scholars and works that do not fit the prevailing chronology, marginalising or excluding some topics, debates and questions from the core of the field. We evidence our claims about the boundary work done in narrating IPE’s origins through bibliometric mapping and network analysis of IPE citation patterns and practices. We find that IPE is a narrower, more blinkered field than it typically presents itself to be.

A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work has been published by University of Minnesota Press.

Stuart Elden (PAIS) and Adam David Morton (University of Sydney) have edited Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural à l’urbain and supplementary texts. On the Rural reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle.

The book was translated by Robert Bononno, with one essay each by Matthew Dennis (formerly Warwick Philosophy) and Sîan Rosa Hunter Dodsworth. Stuart and Adam edited the texts, add detailed notes, and wrote a substantial introduction.

Further details of the book here - https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/on-the-rural