Day 1: 

11.00-12.00: IPEG AGM
CSGR seminar room in the Social Studies building

12.00-12.30: Registration

12.30-13:30: Keynote 1

• Randall Germain

13.30-15.00: Panel 1 Reflections on the financial structure (I)

• Chris Clarke (Warwick) Who Are the Gamblers Now?  Casino Capitalism and the Financialised Subject.
• Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Oxford Brookes) Is Dollar Hegemony in Decline? The ‘Persistent Myth’ (Yet Again?)
• Lena Rethel & Timothy J. Sinclair (Warwick) The Problem with Banks.
• Joerg Wiegratz (Sheffield) The normative underpinning of contemporary capitalism: the case of economic fraud and malpractice.

15.15-16.45: Panel 2 Reflections on the financial structure (II)

• Ben Clift (Warwick) The Battle of Economic Ideas and the Global Financial Crisis: The IMF, the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude and Debt and Deficit discourse.
• Huw Macartney (Manchester) The competitiveness of European space and financial governance reform.
• Randall Germain (Carleton) Structural power and the consequences of the financial crisis in terms of a new global articulation of power.
• Stuart Shields (Manchester) & Sara Wallin (Sheffield) The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development:  The Gender Action Plan and neoliberalisation after the “crisis”.

17.00-18.00: Keynote 2

• Paul Langley

Day 2:  

9.00-10.00: Keynote 3

• Geoffrey Underhill

10.15-11.45: Panel 3 Reflections on the knowledge structure

• Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (LSE) All the Trader’s Men: Knowledge Producers in the Trade Field.
• Chris Farrands (Nottingham Trent) A Critical Understanding of Energy Security: Security Structures and Knowledge Power in Interaction.
• Caroline Kuzemko (Warwick) Energy: the Fifth Source of Structural Power?
• Leonard Seabrooke (CBS & Warwick) & Eleni Tsingou (CBS) Professional Competition in Turbulent Times: Linked Ecologies in Fast and Slow Burning International Crises.

11.45-12.45: Keynote 4

• Nicola Phillips

12.45-13.15: Lunch

13.15-14.45: Panel 4 Reflections on the production structure (I)

• Karen Buckley (Limerick) Structuralism and dialectical silences in Global Political Economy.
• Simon Glaze (Brookes) ‘Digging back to its roots’: Adam Smith, William James and the self in IPE.
• Phoebe Moore (Salford) The Precarious Spirit of Capitalism.
• Ben Richardson (Warwick) & Pamela Richardson, (KwaZulu-Natal) Lights, Camera, (Re) Action! Filming Production and Politicising Trade.

15.00-16.30: Panel 5 Reflections on the production structure (II)

• Matthew Bishop (West Indies) Voices from the periphery: reassessing Caribbean political economy and its potential contribution to IPE.
• Jamie Jordan (De Montfort) Passive Revolution within the EU’s Periphery: The  Case of Greece.
• Fabiola Mieres (Manchester) Migration within IPE: The embedding of private recruitment practices in the Mexico-US migratory system.
• Matthew Watson (Warwick) The Political Economy of Disappointment: Historical Reflections on the False Promise of a Consumer Lifestyle.

16.45-18.00: Editors roundtable – reflections on 40 years of publishing in IPE

• Ronen Palan
• Len Seabrooke
• Rorden Wilkinson

IPEG members now have to rank their three top choices in order of preference, which will then be graded as follows: First Choice (3 points), Second Choice (2 Points), Third Choice (1 point). The four nominees with the greatest points total from this ordering process will then constitute the shortlist, which will be announced at the annual IPEG workshop, in September.  The deadline for ranking your three choices is 1 June 2011 and votes should be sent to Adam.Morton@nottingham.ac.uk.

Toby Carroll, Delusions of Development: The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia (Palgrave, 2010).

Phil Cerny, Rethinking World Politics: A Theory of Transnational Neopluralism (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Randall Germain, Global Politics and Financial Governance (Palgrave, 2010).

Sophie Harman, The World Bank and HIV/AIDS: Setting a Global Agenda (Routledge, 2010).

Ray Kiely, Rethinking Imperialism (Palgrave, 2010).

Huw Macartney, Variegated Neoliberalism: EU Varieties of Capitalism and International Political Economy (Routledge, 2010).

Phoebe Moore, The International Political Economy of Work and Employability (Palgrave, 2010).

Manuela Moschella, Governing Risk: The IMF and Global Financial Crises (Palgrave, 2010).

Daniel Mügge, Widen the Market, Narrow the Competition: Banker Interests and the Making of a European Capital Market (ecpr Press, 2010).

Anastasia Nesvetailova, Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion (Pluto Press, 2010).

Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson, Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy and Christian Chavagneux, Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works (Cornell University Press, 2010).

Jamie Peck, Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Kees Van Der Pijl, The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy (Pluto Press, 2010).

September 14-15 2011 Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Randall Germain, Richard Higgott, Paul Langley, Nicola Phillips, Geoffrey Underhill
Confirmed roundtable participants:
Ronen Palan, Tony Payne, Len Seabrooke, Rorden Wilkinson

2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of IPEG.  Formed in 1971 on the initiative of Susan Strange, then with the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, IPEG received funding from the ESRC and became affiliated with BISA when that organisation was founded in 1974.  The event aims to critically reflect on the history of IPEG as an organisation, and the evolution and development of IPE as a field of study since the founding of IPEG. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for scholars to reflect on the place of recent events in the discipline’s history and future.

We seek papers that will take the core themes in Strange’s work – the production structure, the security structure, the financial structure, and the knowledge structure – as a point of departure for reflections on the state of IPE and the international political economy. Papers are welcome that address any aspect of the theory, practice, politics and history of these issues broadly understood.

Travel and accommodation bursaries will be available for postgraduate paper presenters

Paper proposals (i.e. a title and brief abstract) should be submitted by May 7th 2011 to the IPEG Convenor, Stuart Shields, at the following address: stuart.shields@manchester.ac.uk.

Nominations have to be made by IPEG members though self-nominations and edited books are ineligible.  Nominated books must have been published in the preceding year, 2010. All nominations should be sent to: Adam.Morton@nottingham.ac.uk. The deadline for the close of long-list nominations is 4 April 2011.

After that date, IPEG members will be contacted to rank their three top choices in order of preference, which will then be graded as follows: First Choice (3 points), Second Choice (2 Points), Third Choice (1 point). The four nominees with the greatest points total from this ordering process will then constitute the shortlist, which will be announced in June 2011. From the shortlist of four books an eventual winner of the prize will be announced in the New Year, 2012. As ever, it is imperative to get nominating and then voting.

Also, after the completion of this year’s prize judging, Adam will be stepping down as the Convener of the panel of the prize judges as it is a three year stint. Anyone interested in taking the role on after Adam (from January 2012) should contact either Adam or myself.

This year the IPEG prize panellists are delighted to announce the award of the annual book prize to Penny Griffin’s Gendering the World Bank: Neoliberalism and the Gendered Foundations of Global Governance (Palgrave, 2009), which tackles the performativity of the World Bank and its discursive (heteronormative) articulation of neoliberalism. Breaking truly new ground in traversing debates on gender, queer theory, development studies, and political economy, Gendering the World Bank delivers a fresh and innovative analysis of the manner in which neoliberal development strategy is gendered through heterosexual configurations of World Bank discourse. The book departs from what can be called a “diffusionist” account of capitalism, meaning the straightforward unfolding of neoliberalism from a capitalist “centre” in the North to a dependent and reactive “periphery” in the South, to thereby also connect with wider postcolonial thought. By offering a compelling statement on the boundaries of heterosexualised discursive practices in IPE, Gendering the World Bank makes a distinctive contribution to revealing the gendered foundations of neoliberal global governance. This year witnesses another first in the history of IPEG, with the prize awarded to a book that focuses on the discourses of sex and gender in global governance. It is hoped that Penny Griffin’s book will offer the opportunity for greater intellectual reflection on World Bank discourse and lead to the sparking (rather than parking) of debate on the normative articulations of gender and heterosexuality so central to the formation of social identities and economic behaviour in IPE.

Previous awardees:

2009 — William Robinson, Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

2008 — Matthew Patterson, Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

2007 — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (mit Press, 2006); and

2006 — Graham Harrison, The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Governance States (Routledge, 2004).

Proposals should include details of convenor, chair and discussant (if
included), panel/round table title, description, paper
giver/participant contact details, paper titles and short abstract no
more than 200 words. Panels should comprise either 4 papers or 3
papers plus a discussant. Round tables should comprise up to 4
panellists and a chair.

BISA’s cfp indicates that proposals for innovative panels and sessions
which do not follow the usual format of academic paper presentations,
such as workshops, posters, film and media presentations, interview
conversations, and others, are encouraged.

closing date 19 October

IPE/Global Governance reader/chair

http://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/soton/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*B9EF2CF4D49CC464

2-year China and Global Politics position.

http://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/soton/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*228F7848CEA5C09F

IPEG has been guaranteed 1 panel slot for BISA 2011.  In addition we are allowed to submit up to 4 more IPEG panels for consideration.  At the last BISA in Leicester we actually submitted 7 and had 6 IPEG panels accepted. The other panel was also accepted but not publicised as an official IPEG panel (?!).

The deadline for panel proposals to be considered as IPEG sponsored is 5pm on November 1st 2010 and should be emailed to me at stuart.shields@manchester.ac.uk.  Any proposals receive after that will have to go through the normal BISA procedure.

Proposals should include details of convenor, chair and discussant (if included), panel/round table title, description, paper giver/participant contact details, paper titles and short abstract no more than 200 words. Panels should comprise either 4 papers or 3 papers plus a discussant. Round tables should comprise up to 4 panellists and a chair.

BISA’s cfp indicates that proposals for innovative panels and sessions which do not follow the usual format of academic paper presentations, such as workshops, posters, film and media presentations, interview conversations, and others, are encouraged.

Ian is Lecturer in European and International Politics at the University of Manchester, and his recent book Culture and Consensus in European Varieties of Capitalism: A ‘Common Sense’ Analysis (Palgrave) was shortlisted for IPEG’s 2008 Book Prize and was also IPEG’s 2009 nomination for the BISA Susan Strange Book Prize. In addition, he is the coordinator of the fast-growing Critical Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological Association, and hopes that his election will help promote further the profile of IPE scholarship.

Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure due to the increasing transnationalisation of production and informalisation of the economy.

Through a range of different case studies of concrete instances of successful as well as failed strategies, this book draws out possibilities of, but also obstacles to, transnational labour solidarity in times of global restructuring. It covers inter-trade union co-operation as well as co-operation between trade unions and social movements within the formal and informal economy, and the public and private sector.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Political Economy, International Relations, Industrial Relations, Globalisation, Geography and History, as well as trade union researchers and social movement activists.

More information is available on the publisher’s website at:
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580830/

A flyer of the book offering a 20% discount can be found at:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ldzab/Transnational%20Solidarity%20flyer.pdf