Career: Nicola Phillips is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. She joined Politics in 2002 as a Hallsworth Research Fellow and later Senior Lecturer. From 1997 to 2003 she was Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Nicola Phillips is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House in London and holds or has held a number of other visiting positions in various institutions in the UK, Europe and Latin America. From October 2004 to March 2005 she was Ford Foundation Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Inter-American Studies and Programmes (CEPI) at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. Professor Phillips is also the Director of the newly established Centre for the Study of Political Economy at Manchester. The Centre brings together around 70 colleagues from across the Faculty of Humanities, aiming to revitalise the idea of political economy as a field and develop a distinctively interdisciplinary approach to its study. Professor Phillips’s research interests include the political economy of development and the political economy of the Americas. Current research projects include the political economy of migration and development, the implications of the emergence of China and India for global development, the political economy of US hegemony, and the study of political economy and development. Nicola Phillips is Managing Editor of the journal New Political Economy (see url below) and is co-editor of the Lynne Rienner International Political Economy Yearbook series.

Publications include: Case Studies in Latin American Political Economy (co-editor) 1999, Developments in Latin American Political Economy: States, Markets and Actors (co-editor) 1999, New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy: Theories and Cases (co-editor) 2002, The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America 2004, Globalizing International Political Economy (editor) 2005; several book chapters and numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Politics, School of Social Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, England; Tel: +44 (0)161 275-4900; Fax: +44 (0)161 275-4925; Email: nicola.phillips@manchester.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.socialsciences.man.ac.uk/politics/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13563467.asp/ .