The Robert W. and Jessie Cox Award
2008 Co-Recipients: Arne Ruckert
Arne Ruckert is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund's development policies, which have appeared in Studies in Political Economy, the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, and Labour, Capital and Society. He has recently co-edited a collection on Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas (Palgrave, forthcoming), and is currently co-editing a collection on the World Bank and Poverty Reduction. He received the prestigious Government of Canada Award in 2004 and 2005, won the Canadian Confederation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Paper Competition in 2006, and was granted the International Studies Association's Robert W. and Jessie Cox Award in 2008. He is currently in the process of finishing his PhD dissertation on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) of Nicaragua and Honduras, and will take up a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa in July 2008.
Abstract for Winning Paper:
Transnational Governance through Inclusive Neo-Liberalism: The International Financial Institutions and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Development Paradigm
Sandy Brian Hager
Sandy Brian Hager is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. His research interests have focused on the political economy of welfare restructuring in the European Union, the subject of a forthcoming co-authored book, with Peo Hansen (Berghahn: Oxford and New York). More recently, his research has revolved around questions concerning capital theory, global finance and geopolitics. He is the secretary of the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPE-RN).
Sandy Hager est doctorant au département de science politique à l’Université York, à Toronto. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur l’économie politique de la reconstruction du bien-être au sein de l’Union européenne, un sujet dont il traitera dans un ouvrage co-signé avec Peo Hansen (Berghahn: Oxford and New York). Ses recherches récentes ont traité de la théorie du capital, la finance mondiale et la géopolitique. Il est secrétaire du Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPE-RN).
Abstract for the Winning Paper:
New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy': Citizenship and the Lisbon Agenda
