International Political Economy MPhil/PhD

Overview

• Research income: The contributing departments receive research income from the the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and other institutions. The Department of European & International Studies has received funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Research Council and from the EU Framework Programme 7.
• Current number of academic staff: 41.
• Current number of research students: 36
• Recent publications:
  • The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy
  • Centre-Left Parties and the European Union
  • Economic Government in the European Union.
  • Europarties after Enlargement. Organization, Ideology and Competition
  • The European Union and Global Capitalism
  • Deciphering Capital
  • Food, Health, and the Knowledge Economy
  • Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy
  • Hegemony and the Future of the City of London.
  • The Quest for a European Strategic Culture.
  • Fragmented Fatherland: Immigration and Political Violence in Germany 1945 – 2000.
  • Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational Risk
  • John Dewey: The Global Public and Its Problems
  • La France en révolte
  • Learning in Morocco: Language, Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream
  • Lobbying in EU Foreign Policy-Making
  • North Korea-US Relations: Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un
  • The Oxford Handbook of the European Union
  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy
  • Polanyi in Times of Populism
  • The Political Economy of the Egyptian Revolution: Mubarak, Economic Reform and Failed Hegemony
  • Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France
  • Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885
  • Should We Abolish Household Debts?
  • Wage-Led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery

Course Detail

The Department of European and International Studies is committed to the interdisciplinary study of Europe in a global context. Our approach to the study of Europe in the world is holistic, including historical, political, economic, social, cultural, philosophical and anthropological aspects. EIS international studies research focuses on international political economy and foreign policy. Together, these overlapping research agendas, seek to achieve the strategic aim of becoming a leading centre for excellence in the study of crisis and limitations of European and global order.

The Department is host to a cluster of internationally recognized specialists in International Political Economy. Their research interests include European political economy; the globalization of production; the political economy of finance and crisis, Latin America, East Asia, energy and migration. Applications are invited for the PhD in International Political Economy to work with and under the supervision of these scholars.

Information is current, but staff members can change.