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The Data and Displacement project (PI: Vicki Squire) launched its final project report at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 12 September. The findings reveal that, as new ways to collect data continue to grow, humanitarian actors need to improve ethical and operational data practices for internally displaced persons (IDPs).

The AHRC and FCDO-funded team of researchers for the Data and Displacement project come from the Universities of 果冻传媒, Ibadan, Juba and Glasgow, and from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Over two years, the team of experts conducted 174 in-depth interviews with a range of stakeholders, including international data experts, donors, and humanitarian practitioners, as well as regional humanitarian actors and IDPs living in camps in north-eastern Nigeria and South Sudan.

You can read the report here.

PAIS PhD candidate Mauricio Palma-Guti茅rrez and PAIS's Tom Long have co-authored a new article. The piece has been published by Revista Desaf铆os as part of a forthcoming special issue on new trends in the study of Colombian foreign policy. The Spanish-language article, "Pol铆tica exterior colombiana y performatividad: 驴Un 'buen miembro' del Orden Internacional Liberal?" examines how Colombia's performances striving to be seen as a "good member" of liberal international order help co-constitute and legitimate that order. Palma-Guti茅rrez and Long illustrate these performances in two cases: the treatment of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia and the participation of Colombia in the prohibitionist "war on drugs."

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Tom Long's article, co-authored with Carsten-Andreas Schulz of Cambridge University, has been published by International Organization, among the most prestigious outlets in International Relations. "Compensatory Layering and the Birth of the Multipurpose Multilateral IGO in the Americas" emerges from Long and Schulz's AHRC-funded research on Latin America and the formation of international order. In the piece, Long and Schulz illustrate the innovations that led to the creation of the world's first multipurpose, multilateral international organization--a form associated with the League of Nations and the United Nations. The first such body was the Pan American Union, which developed between 1890 and 1910 through a series of bargains between the United States and Latin American states. The article builds a bridge between Global International Relations and the study of institutional design, while also advancing institutionalist understanding of the design and development of IOs.

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As the aftershocks of the Kwarteng mini-budget continue to reverberate, UK economic credibility and fiscal sustainability is in question. After initially declining the OBR鈥檚 independent technocratic oversight, Truss' government has struggled to assuage financial markets. Truss is taking a big economic risk, as the IMF pointed out.

Read Ben Clift's article for UK in a Changing Europe here:

Ben Clift has written a new piece for LSE blog (along with Sean McDaniel, formerly of PAIS) on the politics of productivity and the failings of Prime Minister Truss鈥檚 thinking about reviving Britain鈥檚 economic fortunes. This draws on their research published in BJPIR. This paper was recently selected by the editors as part of a virtual special issue on British Politics in times of crisis.

You can read Ben's piece here.