Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
About the Book Series
International political economy is emerging as an increasingly important subdiscipline of international relations. This cutting edge series examines the latest arguments and research in this field including:
- Liberalist, Realist and Marxist thought
- the interaction of politics and economics in the global economy
- states versus transnational corporations
In an increasingly interdependent world, this series sheds light on global trends from an international perspective.
Varieties of Capitalism, Types of Democracy and Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Masanobu Ido
July 03, 2014
This book combines two strands of international political economy; examining how capitalism and democracy shape and are shaped by each other. Although until now considered separately, this path-breaking book proposes an innovative view of a political-economic system that inextricably links the ...
Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy and Development: Assessing Contours, Correlates and Concomitants of Globalization
1st Edition
By Indra de Soysa
June 19, 2014
The effects of globalization on economy and society are highly contested subjects in academic and political arenas. This study brings an empirical perspective to the crucially important arguments that encapsulate the major debates in this area. Using quantitative data, this book addresses the shape...
Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order: Studies in Theory and Intellectual History
1st Edition
By Razeen Sally
February 25, 2014
This book makes an innovative link between classical liberalism and questions of international economic order. The author begins with an outline of classical liberalism as applied to domestic economic order. He then surveys the classical liberal tradition from the Scottish Enlightenment to modern ...
Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations: The Growth Paradigm
1st Edition
By Stephen J. Purdey
May 08, 2012
The ubiquity of the commitment to economic growth, which Purdey refers to as the growth paradigm, is extraordinary. National governments around the world are seized of the same objective. Major international institutions such as the UN, the WTO, the World Bank, IMF and OECD, powerful international ...
Contested Capitalism: The political origins of financial institutions
1st Edition
By Richard W. Carney
December 02, 2011
This book examines the political origins of financial institutions across fifteen developed democracies, with focused case studies on the US, France, Japan, Austria, and Germany. The institutional arrangements of financial systems are widely seen as a central distinguishing feature of ‘varieties of...
Welfare, Right and the State: A Framework for Thinking
1st Edition
By David P. Levine
February 09, 2011
This book develops a creative theoretical framework for understanding the welfare state: the theory of the state and the idea of welfare connected to autonomy. Written by a well-known expert of political economy and welfare, it explores the nature of welfare and connects welfare not to basic needs,...
Economic Globalisation as Religious War: Tragic Convergence
1st Edition
By Michael McKinley
July 24, 2008
Using a critical theory approach to analyze the globalization of the world economy, this provocative and topical new book presents economic globalization not as a recent development, but rather as a familiar process that has occurred throughout history. Michael McKinley argues that it is ultimately...
The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Governance States
1st Edition
By Graham Harrison
December 04, 2007
Shortlisted for the Inaugural International Political Economy Group annual book prize, 2006.An incisive exploration of the interventions of the World Bank in severely indebted African states. Understanding sovereignty as a frontier rather than a boundary, this key study develops a vision of a ...
Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era: Towards a Hybrid Capitalism
1st Edition
By Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
December 19, 2003
Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era examines the dynamic ways in which millions of ethinic Chinese in East and Southeast Asian economies organize their economic activities. It analyses how Chinese capitalism has changed under conditions of contemporary globalization and anticipates what the future ...
America's Trade Policy Towards Japan: Demanding Results
1st Edition
By John Kunkel
August 29, 2003
In a few years, the United States has gone from worrying about Japan's economic might to worrying about its meltdown. The rise and fall of America's 'results-oriented' trade policy towards Japan captures this turnaround.John Kunkel traces this Japan policy to a crisis in the institutions, laws and ...
Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation: The Architecture and Extension of International Trade Regulation
1st Edition
By Rorden Wilkinson
February 05, 2001
This book explores the significance of the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as some of the issues brought into sharper focus by the Seattle demonstrations of 1999. Located within the broader study of global governance, Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation ...
Globalization and Social Change
1st Edition
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By Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Jacques Hersh
January 29, 2001
Globalization and Social Change challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization. Rather than seeing globalization as 'the end station of capitalism', it presents the development of this phenomenon as a disruptive and conflicting process....