International Political Economy
Warwick has a global reputation as a leading centre for the study of International Political Economy (IPE). The IPE research group includes fifteen staff members and more than twenty doctoral students.
The basic premise of any work labelled political economy is that the political and the economic are seen not as discrete domains, but as part of an interconnected whole. Politics and economics are, in this view, inseparable analytically. IPE seeks to revitalise the classical and neo-classical political economy traditions, exploring the production, reproduction and distribution of power and wealth within the contemporary world order.
There are a number of strands of IPE research being undertaken, either individually or collaboratively, within the department. These include:
- Financial Markets and Economic Subjectivity
James Brassett, Benjamin Braun, Ben Clift, Christopher Clarke, Simon Glaze, Ben Jacoby, Owen Parker, Tim Sinclair, Katrine Steenland, Matthew Watson
- National Responses to Globalisation in Europe and Asia
Shaun Breslin, Ben Clift, Peter Ferdinand, Chris Hughes, Dominic Kelly, Steve Kettell, Iain Pirie, Shirin Rai, Sow-Keat Tok, David Webber, Matthew Watson
- Global and Regional Governance in Trade, Finance and Energy
Shaun Breslin, Dominic Kelly, Caroline Kuzemko, Ben Richardson, Tim Sinclair, Diane Stone, Jue Wang
- Civil Society, Epistemic Communities and Non-State Actors
James Brassett, Peter Ferdinand, Shirin Rai, Jan Aart Scholte, Diane Stone
- The Genealogy of Political Economy and the Notion of a ‘Transatlantic Divide’ Between British and American IPE
Ben Clift, Matthew Watson
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Wyn Grant, Dominic Kelly, Marika Mura, Iain Pirie, Ben Richardson, Carlos Zepeda
Teaching Political Economy, University of Warwick, September 2011
The Teaching Political Economy workshop provided a unique forum to discuss pedagogy in the discipline. In total, 37 academics attended from twenty higher education institutions. The workshop was supported with funding from the politics departments at Warwick, Manchester and Sheffield, as well as the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) of BISA.
An audio recording of the opening remarks and presentations by Kees van der Pijl (Sussex) and Matthew Watson (Warwick) on political economy theory is here.
The talks by Richard Woodward (Hull) on teaching globalisation and international finance, and by Earl Gammon (UEA) on the environment are here. Finally, the University of Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning led a debate on teaching innovations here.
Digital copies of the course outlines provided by the participants have been collated at the University of Manchester's pages on this event.
Podcasts
Video podcasts are available here. The latest is an interview with Dr Timothy Sinclair on 'The Politics of Risk and Finance'. Here, Dr Sinclair discusses the role of credit rating agencies, soverign debt in the Eurozone, and reform to the UK banking system.
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