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RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

About the Book Series

For almost two decades now, the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy published by Routledge has been an essential forum for cutting-edge scholarship in International Political Economy, which we understand to be a broadly defined area of research that may cut across other disciplines. The series brings together new and established scholars working in critical, cultural and constructivist political economy. Books in the RIPE Series typically combine an innovative contribution to theoretical debates with rigorous empirical analysis.

The RIPE Series seeks to cultivate:

  • Field-defining theoretical advances in International Political Economy.

  • Novel treatments of key issue areas, such as global finance, trade, and production, both historical and contemporary.

  • Analyses that explore the political economic dimensions of relatively neglected topics, such as the environment, gender, race, and colonialism from both Western and non-Western perspectives.

  • Accessible work that will inspire advanced undergraduates and graduate students in International Political Economy.

Susanne Soederberg – Queen’s University, Canada

Adrienne Roberts – The University of Manchester, UK

Samuel Knafo – University of Sussex, UK

Naná de Graaff – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Please copy in Lydia de Cruz, the Editor at Routledge, on any proposal submissions ([email protected]).

85 Series Titles


Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy Crises in the 21st Century

Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy: Crises in the 21st Century

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Di Muzio, Matt Dow
September 26, 2022

Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, and perhaps remaking aspects of the global political economy. Since the 1970s, neoliberal capitalism has been the guiding principle of global development...

Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance The European Union’s Trade-Labour Linkage in a Value Chain World

Free Trade Agreements and Global Labour Governance: The European Union’s Trade-Labour Linkage in a Value Chain World

1st Edition

By Adrian Smith, James Harrison, Liam Campling, Ben Richardson, Mirela Barbu
May 06, 2022

Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the impact of the EU’s ‘new generation’ free trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the EU and its trading partners, it considers ...

Urban Displacements Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism

Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism

1st Edition

By Susanne Soederberg
December 31, 2020

WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2021 https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/ipeg/articles/ipeg-2021-book-prize-winner-announced With an eye to further our understanding of everyday life in global capitalism, Urban Displacements provides the first systemic critical political economy ...

Beyond Defeat and Austerity Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe

Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe

1st Edition

By David Bailey, Mònica Clua-Losada, Nikolai Huke, Olatz Ribera-Almandoz
February 11, 2020

Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. Whilst there are many reasons to lament the trajectory of change within Europe’s ...

Thinking Ecologically About the Global Political Economy

Thinking Ecologically About the Global Political Economy

1st Edition

By Ryan Katz-Rosene, Matthew Paterson
February 11, 2020

This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE). Katz-Rosene and Paterson address a lacuna in the literature by exploring the question of how thinking ecologically transforms our understanding of what IPE is and should be.The volume shows the ways in ...

Affective Politics of the Global Event Trauma and the Resilient Market Subject

Affective Politics of the Global Event: Trauma and the Resilient Market Subject

1st Edition

By James Brassett
December 17, 2019

Market life is increasingly conducted in the shadow of global events like 9/11, the Sub-Prime crisis and Brexit. Within International political economy (IPE) two broad positions can be discerned: either the event is ‘just an event’, a superficial spectacle in an otherwise straightforward story of ...

Polanyi in times of populism Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas

Polanyi in times of populism: Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas

1st Edition

By Christopher Holmes
December 12, 2019

The rise of populism across Europe and the US – first in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and then in the shape of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Brexit vote in 2016 – are indicative of a seismic shift in the terrain of economic ideas in public discourse....

Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk Money Cultures at the Bank of England

Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk: Money Cultures at the Bank of England

1st Edition

By John Morris
December 12, 2019

Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis. Providing both a ...

Bitcoin and Beyond Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance

Bitcoin and Beyond: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance

1st Edition

Edited By Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
July 29, 2019

Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 several hundred different ‘cryptocurrencies’ have been developed and become accepted for a wide variety of transactions in leading online commercial marketplaces and the ‘sharing economy’, as well as by more traditional retailers, manufacturers, and even by ...

Culture, Political Economy and Civilisation in a Multipolar World Order The Case of Russia

Culture, Political Economy and Civilisation in a Multipolar World Order: The Case of Russia

1st Edition

By Ray Silvius
October 18, 2018

This book seeks to understand how Russia’s multifaceted rejection of American unipolarity and de-territorialised neo-liberal capitalism has contributed to the gestation of the present multipolar moment in the global political economy. Analysing Western world order precepts via the actions of a ...

The State of Copyright The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world

The State of Copyright: The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world

1st Edition

By Debora Halbert
August 23, 2018

This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws. While mapping out the primary actors in the context of globalization and the modern political economy of information ownership, the argument is made that alternatives to further ...

Corporate Human Rights Violations Global Prospects for Legal Action

Corporate Human Rights Violations: Global Prospects for Legal Action

1st Edition

By Stefanie Khoury, David Whyte
August 14, 2018

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that ...

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