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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


Transnational Capital and Class Fractions The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered

Transnational Capital and Class Fractions: The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered

1st Edition

Edited By Bob Jessop, Henk Overbeek
August 10, 2018

Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School’s (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics. Contending that politics in advanced capitalist countries ...

The Capitalist Mode of Power Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value

The Capitalist Mode of Power: Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Di Muzio
July 31, 2018

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 ...

Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy

Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy

1st Edition

Edited By Johnna Montgomerie
May 01, 2017

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 ...

Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis

Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis

1st Edition

Edited By Tony Porter
January 27, 2017

The global financial crisis that began in 2007 was the most destructive since the 1930s. The rapid spread of the crisis across borders and the complexity of these cross-border linkages highlighted the importance for authorities of working together in responding to the crisis. This book examines ...

Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures Critical Political Economy and Post-Keynesian Perspectives

Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures: Critical Political Economy and Post-Keynesian Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Johannes Jäger, Elisabeth Springler
October 26, 2016

The crisis in Europe is often discussed as a crisis of European integration or a crisis of national economies within Europe. Both the ‘methodological Europeanism’ and ‘methodological nationalism’ miss out the important links between economic and political processes at different spatial scales ...

Variegated Neoliberalism EU varieties of capitalism and International Political Economy

Variegated Neoliberalism: EU varieties of capitalism and International Political Economy

1st Edition

By Huw Macartney
February 22, 2016

We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives. Variegated Neoliberalism explains why its inequalities persist and how they undermine more social-minded policies towards finance in the EU. The book suggests that ...

The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand From Deregulation to Debacle

The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand: From Deregulation to Debacle

1st Edition

By Xiaoke Zhang
December 07, 2015

This is the first systematic attempt to explore the causal relationship between financial market reform and financial crisis in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It examines the political underpinnings of financial policy-change and provides an in-depth analysis of market ...

The Euro, The Dollar and the Global Financial Crisis Currency challenges seen from emerging markets

The Euro, The Dollar and the Global Financial Crisis: Currency challenges seen from emerging markets

1st Edition

By Miguel Otero-Iglesias
October 12, 2015

This book analyses how financial elites in key dollar-holding emerging markets perceive the contest between the euro and the dollar for global currency status. It also assesses how far the Eurozone has gone in challenging US hegemony in monetary affairs through the prism of these elites. Drawing on...

The Southern Cone Model The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America

The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America

1st Edition

By Nicola Phillips
September 08, 2015

Developing an original blend of perspectives from the fields of international and comparative political economy, this book presents an innovative and in-depth account of the contemporary political economy of the southern cone of Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.It ...

Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration

Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration

1st Edition

By Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
May 21, 2015

This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a ...

The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization Trade Reform and Economic Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing

The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization: Trade Reform and Economic Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing

1st Edition

By Tony Heron
November 10, 2014

Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book tackles arguably the most perennial and deep-rooted of all questions in political economy, and questions the ...

The Politics of European Competition Regulation A Critical Political Economy Perspective

The Politics of European Competition Regulation: A Critical Political Economy Perspective

1st Edition

By Hubert Buch-Hansen, Angela Wigger
November 10, 2014

The Politics of European Competition Regulation provides an original and theoretically informed account of the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades. Applying a critical political economy perspective, this book ...

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