From 2008 onwards, PaIS, in conjunction with the Review of International Political Economy, has hosted an annual Warwick RIPE debate. The debates bring together internationally renowned scholars to talk about issues at the cutting edge of IPE. The 2012 debate was on Trouble in the Eurozone: Whose Crisis? and featured Professor Brigitte Young (Münster), Professor Magnus Ryner (Oxford Brookes) and Dr Ben Clift (Warwick). Listen to the podcasts from the event via the Knowledge Centre.

A pre-debate interview with the first two of these speakers is available here along with the questions posed to Prof. Young and Prof. Ryner. In her recent article 'The Truth About the Eurozone Crisis' Prof. Young has argued that Merkel and Sarkozy have not acted to save the peripheral countries but their own national banking structures.

A pre-debate interview with the third speaker, Dr. Clift, discusses the political economy of France, Sarzoky and the Eurozone crisis. Much of this draws on his recent article 'Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-Dirigiste Responses to the Global Financial Crisis'.

The debates are the department's flagship IPE event and continue to draw large audiences. Further details and audio recordings can be found on the sub-pages below:

Warwick RIPE Debate 2008 - Benjamin Cohen, Richard Higgott and Matthew Watson on 'American' versus 'British' IPE

Warwick RIPE Debate 2009 - Mark Blyth, Jeffrey Chwieroth, Shirin Rai and Matthew Watson on The Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy

Warwick RIPE Debate 2010 - Vivien Schmidt, Ben Rosamond, Colin Hay and Colin Crouch on The Fall, Rise, Fall and Rise of the State within Modern Capitalism

Warwick RIPE Debate 2011 - Philip Cerny, Jan Aart Scholte and Richard Higgott on Rethinking World Politics