International Institute for Research and Education

The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) is a research and educational centre based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It conducts training and publishes research for and by progressive activists around the world.

The Institute was established in Brussels in 1982 by Royal Charter. It relocated to Amsterdam in the late 1980s.

The IIRE is often associated with the ideas of two of its founding Fellows. Ernest Mandel and Livio Maitan were leaders of the Fourth International in the decades after the Second World War. Their writings have both been published by the Institute. After Mandel's death the IIRE was selected to house the Ernest Mandel Study Centre, which opened in 1995.

In 2006 the IIRE moved out from its old premises near Vondelpark. The new premises, in Zeeburg were inaugurated in September 2007. [http://www.iire.org/content/view/98/1/lang,en/]

Fellows

The Institute's best-known Fellows include:

* Gilbert Achcar (Lebanon/France), SOAS, political scientist and author of books including "Clash of Barbarisms" and "Eastern Cauldron" , editor of "The Legacy of Ernest Mandel".
* Daniel Bensaïd (France), , author of numerous studies in philosophy, sociology and politics including Les discordances du temps.
* Susan Caldwell (Canada), Dawson College, lecturer in psychology, women's studies and North-South studies
* James Cockcroft (USA/Canada), author and Latin Americanist whose new books in 2000-01 were "La esperanza de México, América Latina, Latino Visions", and "Salvador Allende".
* Stephanie Coontz (USA), Evergreen State College, historian, author of feminist studies including "The Social Origins of Private Life" and "The Way We Never Were".
* Janette Habel (France), , author of Ruptures à Cuba.
* Michel Husson (France), Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, author of workers including "Sommes-nous trop?"
* Michael Löwy (Brazil/France), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Paris, sociologist of religion and author of many books including "Redemption and Utopia". (see his articles in French on ecosocialism and in Spanish on Che Guevara )
* David Mandel (Canada), Université du Québec à Montréal, political scientist and editor of the bilingual Russian-North American journal "Alternatives".
* Braulio Moro (Mexico), economist.
* Pierre Rousset (France), former IIRE director, author of works on both East Asian politics and ecology, and chair of the ecology working group of ATTAC.
* Catherine Samary (France), Dauphine University, Paris, economist and specialist on Eastern Europe, author of works including "Yugoslavia Dismembered".
* Anthony Arthur Smith (USA), Iowa State University, philosopher and author of books including "Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics".
* Eric Toussaint (Belgium), director, Committee for Cancellation of Third World Debt, author of works on Latin American history and international political economy.
* Josette Trat (France), , author of works of feminist theory and former editor of "Cahiers du féminisme".
* Marcel van der Linden (Netherlands), International Institute of Social History , labour historian and co-editor of "The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914".
* Francois Vercammen (Belgium), Ernest Mandel Foundation, director of the IIRE's Brussels research centre.
* Peter Waterman (Netherlands/UK) specializes on the new social unionism, on the new global solidarity movements and on global solidarity culture and communications. He has recently written or co-edited, "Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation, Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms, Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms," and "Labour Rights in the Global Economy". He also writes about and is active on the internet.
* Robert Went (Netherlands), University of Amsterdam, economist, former IIRE co-director, author of works including "Globalization: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical Responses", co-editor of "The Price of the Euro" and author of "The Enigma of Globalization".

External links

* [http://www.iire.org/ IIRE website]