About the project

The Foundations in IPE project was initially supported by the British Academy,  Leverhulme Foundation, Universities of Manchester and Derby between 2018-2020.   The project collects and publishes podcast and video interviews with some of the foundational thinkers in International Political Economy.  We also engage in discussion and debate on our Substack.

The project is led by Alex Nunn and Stuart Shields and is hosted in the Political Economy Centre and Global Political Economy Cluster at the University of Manchester.

Alexander Nunn

I am Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Manchester. My recent research programme focusses on 'the New Politics of Inequality' and works at several different spatial scales from the global to the very local. I was British International Association IPE Group Co-Convenor between 2014-2016. You can find out more about my work at my University web page and on Google Scholar.

Stuart Shields 

I teach International Political Economy at the University of Manchester. In 2005 I became founding secretary of the Critical Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological Association. I was coordinator of the British International Studies Association IPE working group between 2008 and 2011. From 2016 to 2019 I served as a member of the committee of the Robert and Jesse Cox awards for critical scholarship in International Politics for the International Studies Association. My 2012 book The International Political Economy of Transition (Routledge) was nominated for the 2013 IPEG prize and I co-edited Critical IPE: Dialogue Debate Dissensus (Palgrave 2011). My university webpage is here.