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Caught up in the globalist illusion of the 1990s, social theorists have heralded the coming of a global age in which international politics would be transformed beyond recognition. This book presents a theory that integrates sociology, history and political geography to understand the formation and development of modern international relations.

Delivering an analysis of the efforts being made to socially regulate globalization, this study evaluates the effectiveness of non-governmental organizations and the problems they face. With case studies on the clothing industry, sustainable forestry and corporate social responsibility, it explores the tensions between politics and management.

This book addresses such core issues as global civil society, power and knowledge, the covert world, multilateralism, and civilizations and world order. It is essential reading for all students and academics in the field.

How and why do countries bargain together in world affairs? Why are such coalitions crucial to developing nations? This study answers these questions, showing why successful coalition building is a difficult and expensive process. It also investigates the relevance and workability of coalitions as an instrument of bargaining power for the weak.

This book develops a performative politics of the global event, providing a route into understanding and interpreting the possibilities and limits of the affective turn in market life and holds implications for the classic questions of IPE: who wins, who loses, and how might it be changed?.

Bitcoin and Beyond enhances interdisciplinary conversations and mutual learning and provides academics, policymakers, the the general public with a critically informed understanding of the implications that Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain technologies pose for the governance of a rapidly changing global political economy.

This book asks two broad questions: how and by whom have the meanings of different terms used to describe, challenge and defend global trade politics been constructed?

Presenting a concise and instructive introduction to the origins, development and significance of the Amsterdam School's distinct approach, this book provides a unique overview of the School's contemporary significance for the field of International Political Economy.

Presenting a concise and instructive introduction to the origins, development and significance of the Amsterdam School's distinct approach, this book provides a unique overview of the School's contemporary significance for the field of International Political Economy.

This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel thesis first put forward by Nitzan and Bichler in their Capital as Power.

Bitcoin and Beyond enhances interdisciplinary conversations and mutual learning and provides academics, policymakers, the the general public with a critically informed understanding of the implications that Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain technologies pose for the governance of a rapidly changing global political economy.

As pillars of the post-1945 international economic system the Regional (and Sub-Regional) Development Banks (RDBs) have long been considered mini-World Banks, reiterating the policy approach of the largest official multilateral development lender in the world. The main objective of the collection is to identify what role the RDBs play in global economic governance and why. This edited collection draws together cutting edge original research on these understudied institutions. In the burgeoning sub-field of global economic governance as well as the broader study of international organisations (IOs), too often the focus remains on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Second-order IOs, such as the RDBs, receive much less attention despite their longevity and regional importance. This volume corrects this oversight by bringing together research on the RDBs that interrogates the role and impact of these organisations in global economic governance. The book investigates: the African Development Bank (AfDB); the Asian Development Bank (AsDB); the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and select sub-regional development banks in comparison to the World Bank. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of IPE, IR and Development Studies.

Neoliberalism has been the reigning ideology of our era. For the past four decades, almost every real-world event of any consequence has been traced to the supposedly omnipresent influence of neoliberalism. Instead, this book argues that states across the world have actually grown in scope and reach.

Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy offers students and scholars the first methods book for the critical school of International Political Economy (IPE). What does it mean to 'do' critical research? How do we write about the evidence we present? This volume explores our shared critical ethic to demonstrate how methods are transformative and reimagines research strategies as both an embodied practice and a social process. By presenting methodologically informed ways of researching, enriched by real-life accounts from academics doing empirical research, the volume seeks to forge a new collaborative path that builds a critical ethic and modes of inquiry within International Political Economy. Substantive chapters advance the pluralism of the critical school of cultural political economy and seek to articulate its nascent research ethic. Short autobiographical vignettes articulate the professional journeys of contributors who 'do' critical political economy. There is practical advice on how to develop evidence from an iterative reflexive research strategy. Using this innovative format offers a guide to methods in critical political economy by engaging directly with the people doing research, not only as technical practice but also as lived experience. The combination of research and practice presented throughout the book offers an extensive and authoritative framework for evaluating how methods are part of critical research and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of IPE.

This volume offers students and scholars the first methods book for the critical school of IPE.

This book addresses the financial crisis as the occasion to engage critically with the work of Susan Strange, in order to consider what changes this crisis portends for the structural organization of the global political economy. The contributors use Strange¿s rich conceptual framework to explore the financial crisis and its aftermath, and reflect critically on the broader contributions which her work has made to the discipline of IPE. This book will be of interest to scholars and students who are interested in the dynamics shaping contemporary and future developments in the global political economy, as well as those who are interested in the theoretical debates about how to study IPE.

This volume moves beyond the current literature by discussing the European crisis in terms of asymmetric interaction of national economies and uneven development. It goes beyond common approaches which analyse the crisis by focusing either on single countries or on the EU as a single entity and systematically integrates the analysis of economic or "technical" solutions to the crisis within a broader framework of global political economy.

This new volume presents innovative approaches to the fundamental issues of the global political economy, in particular post Cold War development, analyses of capital and negative aspects of globalization.

This book provides a comprehensive and focused overview of the changing dynamics between public and private forms of transnational financial regulation, addressing recent and emerging trends in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.

This book provides a comprehensive and focused overview of the changing dynamics between public and private forms of transnational financial regulation, addressing recent and emerging trends in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.

Bringing together a number of interdisciplinary experts, Nation-States and Money provides a very topical, varied perspective on the past and possible future between money and nation-states.

Brings together leading scholars, representing a range of political views, to investigate how global standards of market civilization have emerged, their justification, and their political, economic and social impact. This book presents case studies that demonstrate the emergence of the standards and the diffusion of liberal capitalist ideas.

This book provides the definitive account of resistance movements across the globe. Combining theoretical perspectives with detailed empirical case studies, it explains the origins, activities and prospects of the 'anti-globalisation' movement.

Focuses on the emergence of employment policy as a political issue and examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU.