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Posts by Adrian Mateo

Will the rest of the world bail out the Eurozone?

The euro zone crisis rumbles on. Just when European policymakers reach a semblance of consensus, further twists emerge, rendering each action one step behind the rapidly unfolding events. At a recent meeting of the Integrating Global Society Priority Group at the University of Nottingham, several academics warned that European policymakers are unlikely to resolve the …

Confronting the Euro crisis

The Integrating Global Society Priority Group and the China Policy Institute held a roundtable to brainstorm the Euro crisis and its implications in May. We examined the issues involved from both European and global perspectives, and reached the following conclusions: 1.  A Greek exit from the Euro is now a real possibility and such an …

Why should China’s leadership succession matter to the rest of the world?

The formal process for the once-in-a-decade leadership succession in China is scheduled for the autumn. But the process to work out the succession is well underway. It came to the fore when the charismatic Party Secretary for Chongqing got into trouble when his former police chief sought asylum in the US consulate in February. He …

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Global restructuring and the unevenness of resistance

On 27 January 2012, the workshop Globalisations: The Return of History or the End of the Future? was held at the University of Nottingham, UK. This event included scholars from across all three of the University’s campuses in the UK, Ningbo China and Malaysia as well as the participation of international figures such as Professor …

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Struggle against free trade, prospects for transnational solidarity

The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), the University of Nottingham hosted a two day workshop on ‘Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity’ on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2011. The workshop was timely to debate alternatives to free trade among labour within the context of …

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The cosmos has no camps – on public engagement with science and the role of social scientists

When talking with research funders of research administrators about my work on the boundaries of science and society, they quite often ask me why I don’t do ‘a Brian Cox’ (and, much more rarely, a Jim Al-Khalili or a Kathy Sykes or, perhaps in the future, an Alice Roberts, not to mention David Spiegelhalter, Marcus du Sautoy …

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Challenging the logic of free trade

Challenging the Logic of Free Trade: A Report from the ‘Free Trade, Trade Unions and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity’ Workshop On 2 and 3 December 2011, the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice in partnership with the Integrating Global Society research priority group at the University of Nottingham hosted a two-day workshop on free …

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Why we need to recapture ‘marketing’ from the ‘marketisation’ of higher education debate

Critics of marketing in higher education (HE) argue that a fundamental and inexorable conflict exists between the intrinsic purposes and values of education and what has been described as an increasing shift towards ‘marketisation’ or ‘corporatisation’ i.e. treating HE as a commodity open to market forces with students as its primary customers. Some have asserted …

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Why do we punish financial services firms?

It was announced on 5th December 2011 that HSBC Bank was to be fined £10.5 million by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for unsuitable investment advice provided by its subsidiary NHFA, which resulted in the mis-selling of investment bonds to thousands of elderly and disabled customers. The details of the case have been widely reported, …

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Currency Wars: why uneven development matters

The announcement in September 2010 by the Brazilian Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, that an ‘international currency war’ had broken out signalled a new stage in the unfolding of the current financial crisis.  Although initially described as a ‘credit crunch’, which made the crisis appear to be a mere temporary inconvenience, the financial problems caused by …

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