The coming federal budget, to be tabled in May, would be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first opportunity to build what he calls “values-based capitalism”. In an essay published in The Monthly, Chalmers envisions an Australian capitalism that is not defined by just one notion of value (presumably [...]
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We are delighted and very grateful to receive the 2022 AIPEN Richard Higgott Prize for our article “COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state,” published in the journal, Review of International Political Economy. It is getting harder to remember just how extraordinary, and [...]
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Call for Papers for the 12th Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) workshop organised by the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland
The COVID-19 pandemic has not so much changed but catalysed trends in the global political [...]
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Many recipes you read online come with moving origin stories, telling the reader how the writer learned a secret recipe from their long-lost great grandmother or something like that. This recipe doesn’t. The story is quite simple. Like many people growing up in Israel (and other parts of [...]
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We are witnessing in growing horror daily scenes of panic-buying and empty supermarket shelves. Australians are hoarding basic goods, like toilet paper, pasta and rice, in preparation for a large-scale COVID-19 outbreak. Similar behaviour has occurred in other countries, like the United [...]
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The debate about China’s rapidly growing global investment and development financing footprint has focused on deciphering Chinese intentions—whether China aims to revise or maintain the US-led ‘liberal international order’. A manifestation is the controversial ‘debt trap diplomacy’ [...]
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Wesley Widmaier has produced an outstanding and original book in Economic Ideas in Political Time, drawing together and extending upon several branches of political economy and social psychology. His signature contribution is to combine constructivist and institutionalist approaches and [...]
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I am writing to solicit expressions of interest to serve on the judging panel of the AIPEN Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize. As many would know, we recently awarded the prize for the third time, see below on the past awardees. The judging panel for the prize’s first three years was [...]
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