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Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for International Development, visited the 果冻传媒 on 1st May 2014 to deliver the first GRP International Development Annual Public Lecture.

The lecture was organised by the in conjunction with , and the 果冻传媒 in Westminster programme.

The event also featured an ‘international development marketplace’ – which used the Zeeman Street area to bring together relevant projects and initiatives from across the University.

The Secretary of State spoke on “The Girl Effect: Why tackling gender inequality can transform the developing world”. DfID’s strategy highlights four areas of intervention – maternal mortality, access to economic resources, education and prevention of violence against girls and women. DfID also supports women’s political empowerment strategies. How far has this strategy been successful? What are the challenges, especially in this time of a global economic crisis that girls and women in the global South continue to face?

The event drew over 450 registrations, including 100+ from local alumni, school partners and regional stakeholders. Chris White MP was also in attendance.

The speech itself was well received, with Professor of PAIS, one of the organisers, also introducing the event. Professor , Provost of the 果冻传媒, hosted the Q&A.

Rt Hon. Justine Greening MP has stated that she enjoyed the evening, was impressed with the University and, in particular, liked meeting our students and the school children from .

Assistant Professor 's book "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" has won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.

The St Ermin’s Hotel in St James’s Park, London began this annual award for the best new intelligence book in recognition of the hotel’s long connection with the British intelligence community. The award is open to all non-fiction titles concerned with the world of intelligence published in English during the previous year and which, in the opinion of the judges, adds substantially to the published literature.

He was awarded the £3,000 prize at by intelligence expert Nigel West, who chaired the judging panel.

West described the book as "a survey of how successive British governments have exercised censorship and stifled public discussion about the security and intelligence services. Altogether a very impressive, balanced study of what has become a veritable cottage industry of publications that attempt to lift Whitehall's veil of secrecy".

This year’s judging panel also included literary agent Andrew Lownie; historian Daniel J Mulvenna; British intelligence analyst; lecturer Glenmore Trenearn-Harvey; and author and screenwriter Michael Smith.

Ben Clift’s participation in the PSA 2014 conference panel ‘Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform,’ sponsored by British Journal of Politics & International Relations, was filmed and will soon be available on the PSA Website:

Post Crisis Economic Governance and Reform

The aftermath of the 2008 banking crisis continues to frame political and economic debate. The three papers in this panel relate to different aspects of the post-crisis period.

Panel Chair: Dr Andrew Baker (Queen's University Belfast)

Panel Discussant: Professor Michael Moran (University of Manchester Business School)

Panel Members:

• Professor Andrew Hindmoor (University of Sheffield) 'Masters of the Universe but Slaves of the Market: Competition and Crisis'.
• Dr Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge) 'The Missing Party: the European banks, the Financial crisis, and the Euro Zone'.
• Professor Ben Clift (果冻传媒) 'Its Mostly Fiscal: Post Crisis Economic Governance, IMF/Advanced Economy Relations and Evolving Fiscal Policy Ideas'.

This panel was sponsored by the British Journal of Politics and International Relations who held a drinks reception afterwards.

Dr has been awarded a prestigious Research Fellowship by the , which is due to commence on the 1st October 2014 for 12 months.

The Fellowship will allow Dr Holmes to complete a research monograph entitled 'Visions of perfectibility: state, market and alternatives in the formation of economic ideas'. The book will examine the way in which public economic discourse has become trapped within a notion of opposition between state and market, unpacking the history of ideas that gave rise to this situation as a set of ‘visions of perfectibility’. It will observe how state-market opposition has constrained debate on economic management in the post- 2008 landscape, before exploring various sites for re-imagining the purpose of the economy outside of the bounds of state and market.

A new research paper by - SPERI Paper No.10 –The Hollande Presidency, the Eurozone Crisis & the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude.

You can now download the next in the SPERI Paper series Paper No.10 – The Hollande Presidency, the Eurozone Crisis & the Politics of Fiscal Rectitude by Ben Clift (SPERI Honorary Research Fellow & Professor of Political Economy, 果冻传媒).

The paper analyses the political economy of the Hollande Presidency in France, evaluating the economic policies pursued by the French Socialist President since May 2012. It explains the limited coherence and success of economic policy under Hollande in terms of constraints operating at domestic and European levels, and through credibility concerns of financial markets. Domestically, it highlights difficulties managing the presidential majority, notably due to presidentialised factionalism within French Socialism. At the European level it explores disagreements within the Franco-German relationship over which economic ideas should underpin macroeconomic policies to tackle Europe’s recession and efforts to resolve the Eurozone crisis.

Download the paper, free, here