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Development Studies PhD Student Baptiste Albertone has published a new article in the Review of International Political Economy. The article is titled Lost principles of a ‘sustainable developmentalism’, and it covers the 70s and 80s critical turn in developmental thinking. Albertone argues that the eco-development concept of this time form the fou…

Dr Jostein Hauge's article 'The free trade myth: how the US manipulates global markets for economic supremacy' has now been read 250,0000 times. This makes it 2023's most read piece published by a University of Cambridge academic on theconversation.com. The article has been read across Indonesia, the Philippines, the USA, Vietnam and Brazil and rep…

Collaborating with Rebecca Tapscott, Development Studies PhD student Daniel Rincon-Machon has published a new article on ethics in social science research. The article has been published by the Journal of Peace Research. See below for Daniel's short description of his work.Social scientists conducting research with people (so-called, "human subject…

Dr Ilias Alami's newest book, The Spectre of State Capitalism, has just been published by Oxford University Press. Co-written with Prof. Adam D. Dixon, Dr Alami's new book provides a comprehensive study of the material, discursive, and ideological dimensions of the ongoing reconfiguration of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-inv…

We're happy to announce that Dr Marthe Achtnich has won the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize for Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean. The Susan Strange Best Book Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book published in any field of International Studies.The judging panel release…

Ana Rojo Fierro is an incoming PhD candidate for our 2024-25 academic year. Gates Cambridge has awarded her a full-cost scholarship on the grounds of 'outstanding intellectual ability'."I was born and raised in Mexico, a country with boundless cultural and natural richness, but which has been disrupted by almost two decades of conflict. To understa…

The shortlist for this year's Susan Strange Best Book Prize includes Dr Marthe Achtnich's new book Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean. The Susan Strange Best Book Prize is awarded for an outstanding book published in any field of International Studies. The winner of the prize will be a…

Dr Marthe Achtnich has recently published a book with Cambridge University Press: ‘Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean.’The arrival of unauthorized migrants at the shores of southern Europe has been sensationalized into a migration ‘crisis’ in recent years. Yet these depictions fail to …

The grants will fund projects to examine why Brazil is building prisons exponentially, who benefits, and how the expansion in the number of prisons is changing Brazilian society - and not for the better.The first endowment is a 3 year Leverhulme Research Project Grant amounting to £299,000. It will be used to fund “The Prison Consensus: Incarcerati…

Dr Jostein Hauge has recently published a book with Oxford University Press, titled “The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization”. The book investigates how industrialization pathways are shaped by recent technological developments, new forces of globalization, and the threat of ecological collapse. It also charts new p…

Assistant Professor Ilias Alami has had a new paper published in the European Journal of International Relations. Written with Jack Taggart, Dr Alami's paper is titled A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism. Please follow the link below to access Dr Alami's paper.Link: https://journal…

Dr Tadashi Hirai, Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate at the Centre of Development Studies, has published a new article in the journal World Development. His paper, 'Measuring capabilities: taking people's values seriously', integrates insights from the capability approach to development and positive psychology, with the aim of making policy…

The Gates Cambridge Trust has recently interviewed one of the Centre of Development Studies' former PhD students about her work with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Dima Krayem, who conducted her doctoral research as a Gates Cambridge Scholar under the supervision of Dr Maha Abdelrahman, Reader in Middle Eastern Politics and Development, is now a Senio…

We are very pleased to report that PhD graduate, Dr Shreyashi Dasgupta, has been awarded Honourable Mention, for the prestigious Bayly prize for Best Dissertation.The Royal Asiatic Society found Shreyashi's dissertation, entitled "The Accommodation City: Private, Low-Income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai" to be of outstanding merit. Sh…

First year PhD Candidate Felipe Puccioni has had an article published by GV Law Review, a prestigious academic Brazilian journal. Felipe  analysed data from all of 33 Courts of Accountability of Brazil. The study, using a multiple linear regression, has confirmed forecasts made by Peter Evans (2004) and Brinkeroff (2010) about the importance of pub…