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Dr Peter Ferdinand to present paper to EU Parliament
Dr Peter Ferdinand recently wrote a briefing paper for the Security and Defence Committee of the EU Parliament entitled 'The positions of Russia and China at the UN Security Council in the light of recent crises'. Dr Ferdinand is due to present this paper to the committee this Thurday, 16 May, at the EU Parliament in Brussels.
Read the briefing paper (PDF)
PhD Candidate Promoted in Coventry City Council
PhD Candidate Damian Gannon was recently selected as the cabinet member for finance in Coventry. Damian has been a councillor for two years and will now be responsible for the City Council's budget.
Damian's PhD research focuses on the role of subjective understandings of democracy in shaping democratic practice.
Read about the promotion in the Coventry Telegraph
Lauren Tooker awarded international fellowship
Lauren Tooker, a first-year Erasmus Mundus doctoral fellow in PAIS, has been awarded a prestigious international fellowship by the US Social Science Research Council. Granted through a competitive global selection process, the six-month fellowship in Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles funds participation in international workshops at Warwick and at Carnegie Mellon in the US, as well as preliminary summer field research.
Lauren’s doctoral research looks at how we imagine and respond to indebtedness as a question of ethics in the global political economy.
Funding available for student projects with Monash University in Australia
Want to go to Australia and team up with students at Monash University? The University has up to £20,000 funding for student organised projects that will bring Warwick and Monash students together. This may be of particular interest to students already leading student societies and events such as the Politics Society, WIDS, One World Week, etc.
Here's what the University says about the scheme: "The aims of the scheme are to support the integration of the student bodies of both universities, to develop students as ‘global citizens’ through working as part of international teams, to increase both the impact and profile of existing student-led activities at both universities and to transfer knowledge and innovation in student activities across our campuses."
The next deadline for all funding applications is 15 May.
Dr Andre Broome contributes to European Politics and Policy Blog
Dr Andre Broome, Associate Professor of International Political Economy, recently contributed to LSE's European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog on 30 April with a commentary entitled 'Competing bureaucratic mandates have produced a ‘clash of organisations’ that impedes effective crisis management in Europe'. This blog post was based on an article Dr Broome wrote for the Journal of European Public Policy entitled 'The politics of IMF–EU co-operation: institutional change from the Maastricht Treaty to the launch of the euro'.
In the piece, he examines the evolution of bureaucratic cooperation between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union between the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and the launch of the euro in 1999. He finds that the exercise of informal influence by advocates for change within international organisations can shape the outcomes of formal decision-making processes, even when these cut across the national preferences of powerful states, but can also impede the development of robust formal structures for institutional cooperation that are needed for effective crisis management.
Dr Broome's blog entry has also now been cross-posted to Public Finance International's website as 'Global governance: clash of the titans'.