Other News
THE EURO CRISIS: SOLIDARITY AND INTEGRATION OR IMPLOSION IN THE EURO-ZONE?
A Knowledge Centre article by Dr George Christou
As the Greek debt crisis deepens and fears spread of a domino effect among other Euro-zone countries, what's next for the beleagured euro? Associate Professor of European Politics, Dr George Christou, looks at the pros and cons of adopting a Eurobond scheme, and what a rejection of 'solidarity through integration' might mean for the future of Europe.
Teaching Political Economy workshop hosted at Warwick
The Teaching Political Economy workshop provided a unique forum to discuss pedagogy in the discipline. It featured presentations from Kees van der Pijl (Sussex), Matthew Watson (Warwick), Richard Woodward (Hull) and Earl Gammon (UEA) on the content and delivery of political economy courses. The University of Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning also led a session on teaching innovations. In total, 37 academics attended from twenty higher education institutions. The audio recordings of these presentations will be uploaded to the website of the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) of BISA, along with course outlines that the participants brought along with them to share. The workshop was supported with generous funding from the politics departments at Warwick, Manchester and Sheffield, as well as IPEG itself.
Current students/Staff resources website
The Current Students website and and Staff Resources pages have been amalgamated into a PAIS Intranet. When the new website design goes live in the end of September, it will be obvious where to click to access all current student and staff information. In the meantime, you can get into the relevant areas of the intranet by clicking the PAIS Intranet tab on the left side of the page.
Prof Richard Aldrich contributes to Radio 4 programme
On Monday 15 August, Mike Thomson investigates the collapse of the US UK special relationship in 1973 in a Radio 4 'Document'. The programme is based on a document about Henry Kissinger brought to light by Prof Aldrich and used in his book GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency.
A full press release describing the programme and Prof Aldrich's contribution has been released by Warwick's Communications Office.
You can listen to the 'Document' programme on BBC iPlayer.
Prof Peter Burnell publishes 3rd book in 2011
August sees the publication of the third of four new books from PAIS’s Peter Burnell in 2011, in the shape of Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies, edited jointly with Prof. André Gerrits of Leiden University. This Routledge book was previously a special issue of the journal Democratization. Previous months saw Burnell’s monograph Promoting Democracy Abroad: Policy and Performance (Transaction Publishers at Rutgers, New Jersey) and, co-edited with Professors Vicky Randall (Essex) and Lise Rakner (Bergen) the third revised and updated edition of their Oxford University Press textbook Politics in the Developing World. His International Politics and National Political Regimes: Promoting Democracy-Promoting Autocracy, edited jointly with Prof. Oliver Schlumberger (Tübingen) is a book version of their special issue of the journal Contemporary Politics, contains additional material by the editors on the ‘Arab spring’, and will be published by Routledge in November.