Hi everyone!
Welcome to all the students who are joining the Department of International Politics and welcome back to our returning second and third year students! We have some great events coming up this week and excellent contributions to political analysis from members of the Department.
Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Fellowship, 2020-1
The Balfour Project is delighted to announce the Peace Advocacy Fellowship Programme for 2020-1. Up to 10 Fellows will be appointed. Fellows will advocate the Balfour Project approach to peace on campus, including calling for British Government recognition of the state of Palestine alongside Israel and raising public awareness about our historical and ongoing responsibility to work for equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis.
The Fellows will receive training in negotiation skills, public speaking, fundraising, event planning, and more. They will also receive a small grant of £700.
Click here for more details and the application form. The closing date for applications is 9 October.
The City Politics Podcast, Episode 3: Social Democracy
On 26 November, 1942 the British Government released a report on “Social Insurance and Allied Services”. Known to history as the Beveridge Report, it laid the foundation for the UK’s welfare state. The Beveridge Report was no isolated phenomena. From the Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in America to the Godesberg Program in West Germany, social democracy came to define Western politics in the post-war period.
Since then social democracy has been left bruised by the neo-liberalism of Thatcher and Reagan, revived by so-called ‘third way’ politicians like Tony Blair, only to be challenged once again by 2008 Financial Crisis and the rise of populism.
Today we will give you the City view on the past, present, and future of social democracy.
Our guest is Dr Lise Butler, Lecturer in Modern History.
Also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
Lockdown Lecture: Allyson Benton and Andy Philips, Mind the Gap! Policy Dissonance and Financial Markets, Wednesday 23 September, 4-5pm BST
Violent events – like armed conflict and terrorist attacks, natural disasters and pandemics – frequently rattle financial markets and can even spill over to other markets around the world. We argue that government policy responses to major violent events can work to aggravate negative financial market reactions when policies are inappropriate for addressing the severity of the event and its impact. To make this case, we examine President Trump’s policy responses to the Covid19 pandemic, and show how his early denials aggravated negative financial market reactions.
Join via this link!
Inderjeet Parmar, Presidents Trump and Obama in the making of America’s terrible but perfect storm
You can catch up with last weeks Lockdown Lecture in case you missed it.
And be sure to read the companion piece that Professor Parmar wrote with Mark Ledwidge for the Observer Research Foundation.
You can read it here!
Book Launch: Lise Butler, Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left
The online event will celebrate the book launch with special guests (to be announced) sparking a lively discussion on the emotional drivers of political behaviour, the social sciences – and their inclusion in political discourse (both on left and right), and the role of knowledge and evidence in shaping public purpose in society.
You can register here!