The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) is a research and educational centre based in
Amsterdam,
Netherlands. It conducts training and publishes research for and by progressive activists around the world.[citation needed]
The institute was established in Brussels in 1982 by
royal charter. It relocated to Amsterdam in the late 1980s.[citation needed]
The IIRE is often associated with the ideas of two of its founding Fellows.[citation needed]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.[1]
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),
Université de Paris VIII, author of numerous studies in philosophy, sociology and politics including Les discordances du temps.
James Cockcroft (United States/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 (United States),
Evergreen State College, historian, author of feminist studies including The Social Origins of Private Life and The Way We Never Were.
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.
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.
Francois Vercammen (Belgium), Ernest Mandel Foundation, director of the IIRE's Brussels research centre.
Peter Waterman (Netherlands/United Kingdom) 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.
The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) is a research and educational centre based in
Amsterdam,
Netherlands. It conducts training and publishes research for and by progressive activists around the world.[citation needed]
The institute was established in Brussels in 1982 by
royal charter. It relocated to Amsterdam in the late 1980s.[citation needed]
The IIRE is often associated with the ideas of two of its founding Fellows.[citation needed]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.[1]
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),
Université de Paris VIII, author of numerous studies in philosophy, sociology and politics including Les discordances du temps.
James Cockcroft (United States/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 (United States),
Evergreen State College, historian, author of feminist studies including The Social Origins of Private Life and The Way We Never Were.
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.
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.
Francois Vercammen (Belgium), Ernest Mandel Foundation, director of the IIRE's Brussels research centre.
Peter Waterman (Netherlands/United Kingdom) 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.