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Andy Aydın-Aitchison (University of Edinburgh - School of Law) has posted Victims, perpetrators, and bystanders: Atrocity and its aftermath in the films of Jasmila Žbanić on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Following cultural and visual criminologists, who explore cinematic representations...

Whenever I lecture around the world, whatever I talk about, there is almost always someone in the audience who wants to ask me about Sweden. Is it the successful example of socialism that many assume?

Tesla faces its first ever strike after refusing to negotiate with the Swedish trade union IF Metall.

Audio description and audio subtitling should become eligibility criteria for EU-funded film projects.

My contribution to the Esperanto film festival.

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Åke Bergmark and Hugo Stranz. Click here to access the article. In recent years, the perception of Swedish welfare as generous and all-inclusive has become increasingly questioned by scholars. This also applies to its final tier, social assistance, which is a… Continue reading Welfare With a Crooked Halo: Analysing Swedish Social Assistance Over Three Decades →

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The credits cost the state over $1.3 billion per year with a 19 percent return on investment. Lawmakers' proposals will do little to change that.

Raising public awareness of kleptocracy and its corrosive effects is essential to shore up democracies worldwide. With this understanding, the International Republican Institute (IRI) funded the production of a documentary on kleptocracy in Panama in 2023 to introduce this relatively new concept to citizens and focus reform on local and transnational systems that enable high-level […]
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by Karin Leijon, Uppsala University The judicial dialogue between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and national courts in the preliminary ruling procedure (Article 267 TFEU) is regarded as crucial for the functioning of the EU legal system because it aims to ensure a uniform application of EU law in all member […]
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by Karin Leijon, Uppsala University The judicial dialogue between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and national courts in the preliminary ruling procedure (Article 267 TFEU) is regarded as crucial for the functioning of the EU legal system because it aims to ensure a uniform application of EU law in all member […]
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Political Economy seminar
The Problem of History in IPE: An Intellectual History
Speaker: Randall Germain, Carleton University
When: 3-4pm, Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
Where: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 341, The University of Sydney
About the talk: The idea of history, although present throughout much of the traditional canon of political economy and its internationalized off-shoot – international political economy (IPE) – is today largely erased as a key theoretical feature of IPE research. Where it is included as a part of the research enterprise, it is most often formulated as either context for the problem under investigation, or as a linear unit of account such as t + 1. This represents a theoretical loss for the discipline of IPE, and my effort here is to recenter the idea of history as a core feature of IPE's broad research agenda. To do this, I first revisit how the idea of history is framed in the work of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Max Weber, to demonstrate that the idea of history was a critical element of the inspiration to political economy (and IPE). I then pick up how the idea of history informs what might be described as 'modern' IPE, most importantly in the work of foundational IPE scholars (Antonio Gramsci, Karl Polanyi, David Mitrany, E.H. Carr, Susan Strange and Robert Cox). This intellectual history reveals the important way in which the idea of history can frame the research enterprise of IPE as an examination of transformative change within the global political economy. In period marked by what appear to be deep and disruptive change, the idea of history is a necessary addition to the IPE conceptual and analytical toolkit.

About the speaker: Randall Germain is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Canada. His teaching and research examine the political economy of global finance, issues and themes associated with economic and financial governance, and theoretical debates within the field of international political economy. His scholarship has been published in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Global Governance, International Studies Quarterly, New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, and Review of International Studies. He is also the author of The International Organization of Credit (CUP, 1997) and Global Politics and Financial Governance (Palgrave, 2010). Most recently he edited Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy (Routledge 2016). His current research explores how the idea of history has informed disciplinary debates in IPE.
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I've posted a few times over the years about a trip I made with my partner to Leipzig in East Germany back in 1984, and I confess that the now-defunct country retains a kind of fascination for me. My rather banal judgement then and now is that the country, though marked by annoying shortages and […]

Video shows Hamas militants "dressing up as Jewish soldiers" to create propaganda.

While the state senate's bill would cap tax credits at 2.3 percent of the state's budget, any production filming at a big enough studio would be exempt.