Nicholas Sowels
Biographic Data
| ID | 5913532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Sowels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sowels |
| SIGNATURE | SOWELS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The European Union and the pursuit of global governance in a multi‐polar, fractured world
It is said that the liberal, rules-based international order that was constructed in the ‘West’ during the Pax Americana following World War II, and which was successfully extended during the 1990s following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is now seriously under threat—for many reasons. These include the war launched against Iraq in 2003 by the United States (US) and its allies; China's search for alternative institutions for international c…
The changing post‐Brexit UK‐EU relationship and rules‐based global governance
In 2023, relations between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) began taking on a more reasoned approach. The Windsor Framework, agreed in February between the Sunak government and the EU, resolved most of the tensions about trade with Northern Ireland. 2023 also witnessed a more pragmatic approach to dealing with several issues harming (British) business and unnecessarily grating post‐Brexit relations with the EU. Furthermore, the…
The Impact of the Covid Pandemic on UK Economic Policy and Its Legacy
This article examines the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK in comparison to previous shocks since 1980. It details the economic measures taken by the public authorities to deal with the crisis, including massive public spending to support household incomes and powerful monetary policy measures. The analysis then looks at the economic legacies of the pandemic, especially concerning public debt and inflation, noting that at the ti…
Covid‐19 and the fiscal and monetary challenges to implementing Our Common Agenda
This contribution examines the fiscal and monetary policy legacies of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Thanks to exceptional support from governments and central banks, the world economy returned rapidly to growth following the dramatic global lockdowns of spring 2020. However, the huge fiscal and monetary interventions involved raise significant challenges for future growth and financial stability, especially given the sharp rise in inflation from mid‐202…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Incomes, Inequality and Poverty in the United Kingdom
The Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world with incredible speed in early 2020, leading to lockdowns across the globe, and a huge collapse in output. The UK government, as elsewhere, stepped in rapidly and massively to support household incomes, most notably with the furlough scheme and an increase in benefits. As a result, household incomes were generally kept stable – and even increased for households with the least pay. This article sets out…
Ever Greater Divergence’, but
As in many other fields, UK‐EU relations in financial services are set on a path of ever greater divergence. This follows logically from Theresa May’s Lancaster House speech in January 2017 announcing that the UK would leave the single market. The City‐based policy community then quickly moved from hoping to keep passporting rights to the EU market, towards searching for access based on ‘equivalence’. But as negotiations became more acrimonious f…
Operation Warp Speed as a “Moonshot”
This article presents Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a federal government project launched by the Trump administration in May 2020 to develop a vaccine against COVID-19. In contrast with the often incoherent and sometimes reckless behaviour of President Trump during the pandemic, OWS was a focussed and largely successful initiative to support vaccine research, manufacture, and delivery. It contributed to the discovery and early deployment of several…
A Brief Introduction to Complexity Theory in Managing Public Services
This article seeks to provide a brief overview of the development of complexity theory in public sector management. The article starts by reviewing the emergence of complexity theory, first in natural sciences and then in social sciences, as an attempt to analyse complex systems and phenomena which direct “Newtonian” causalities fail to explain fully. Next, it looks at how such complexity theory – which makes the distinction between complexity an…
Public Services in the UK
This special edition of the French Journal of British Studies was prompted by the eruption of a number of scandals concerning private companies involved in the running of public services in the UK, notably the liquidation of Carillion in January 2018. Carillion was a multinational construction and facilities management services company based in Wolverhampton, employing 19,000 people in the UK alone. It was heavily involved in the provision of pub…
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Operation Warp Speed as a “Moonshot”
This article presents Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a federal government project launched by the Trump administration in May 2020 to develop a vaccine against COVID-19. In contrast with the often incoherent and sometimes reckless behaviour of President Trump during the pandemic, OWS was a focussed and largely successful initiative to support vaccine research, manufacture, and delivery. It contributed to the discovery and early deployment of several…
A Brief Introduction to Complexity Theory in Managing Public Services
This article seeks to provide a brief overview of the development of complexity theory in public sector management. The article starts by reviewing the emergence of complexity theory, first in natural sciences and then in social sciences, as an attempt to analyse complex systems and phenomena which direct “Newtonian” causalities fail to explain fully. Next, it looks at how such complexity theory – which makes the distinction between complexity an…
Public Services in the UK
This special edition of the French Journal of British Studies was prompted by the eruption of a number of scandals concerning private companies involved in the running of public services in the UK, notably the liquidation of Carillion in January 2018. Carillion was a multinational construction and facilities management services company based in Wolverhampton, employing 19,000 people in the UK alone. It was heavily involved in the provision of pub…
Ever Greater Divergence’, but
As in many other fields, UK‐EU relations in financial services are set on a path of ever greater divergence. This follows logically from Theresa May’s Lancaster House speech in January 2017 announcing that the UK would leave the single market. The City‐based policy community then quickly moved from hoping to keep passporting rights to the EU market, towards searching for access based on ‘equivalence’. But as negotiations became more acrimonious f…
Covid‐19 and the fiscal and monetary challenges to implementing Our Common Agenda
This contribution examines the fiscal and monetary policy legacies of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Thanks to exceptional support from governments and central banks, the world economy returned rapidly to growth following the dramatic global lockdowns of spring 2020. However, the huge fiscal and monetary interventions involved raise significant challenges for future growth and financial stability, especially given the sharp rise in inflation from mid‐202…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Incomes, Inequality and Poverty in the United Kingdom
The Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world with incredible speed in early 2020, leading to lockdowns across the globe, and a huge collapse in output. The UK government, as elsewhere, stepped in rapidly and massively to support household incomes, most notably with the furlough scheme and an increase in benefits. As a result, household incomes were generally kept stable – and even increased for households with the least pay. This article sets out…
The European Union and the pursuit of global governance in a multi‐polar, fractured world
It is said that the liberal, rules-based international order that was constructed in the ‘West’ during the Pax Americana following World War II, and which was successfully extended during the 1990s following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is now seriously under threat—for many reasons. These include the war launched against Iraq in 2003 by the United States (US) and its allies; China's search for alternative institutions for international c…
The changing post‐Brexit UK‐EU relationship and rules‐based global governance
In 2023, relations between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) began taking on a more reasoned approach. The Windsor Framework, agreed in February between the Sunak government and the EU, resolved most of the tensions about trade with Northern Ireland. 2023 also witnessed a more pragmatic approach to dealing with several issues harming (British) business and unnecessarily grating post‐Brexit relations with the EU. Furthermore, the…
The Impact of the Covid Pandemic on UK Economic Policy and Its Legacy
This article examines the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK in comparison to previous shocks since 1980. It details the economic measures taken by the public authorities to deal with the crisis, including massive public spending to support household incomes and powerful monetary policy measures. The analysis then looks at the economic legacies of the pandemic, especially concerning public debt and inflation, noting that at the ti…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · European union (3 works) · International trade (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works) · Brexit (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)