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Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

Series Editor: Jacqueline Best, Ian Bruff, Paul Langley, Anna Leander

This series, published in association with the Review of International Political Economy, provides a forum for current debates in international political economy. The series aims to cover all the central topics in IPE and to present innovative analyses of emerging topics. The titles in the series seek to transcend a state-centred discourse and focus on three broad themes:

* the nature of forces driving globalisation forward

* resistance to globalisation

* the transformation of the world order

New and Published Books

1-10 of 35 results in Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

  1. Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire

    Marketing Development

    By April Biccum

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Nation-States and Money

    The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies

    Edited by Emily Gilbert, Eric Helleiner

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by...

    Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization

    Trade Reform and Economic Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing

    By Tony Heron

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    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...

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge

  4. The International Political Economy of Transition

    By Stuart Shields

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Shortlisted for the 2013 BISA IPEG Book Prize, this book explores how Eastern Europe’s post-communist transition can only be understood as part of a broader interrogation of neoliberal hegemony in the global political economy, and provides a detailed historical account of the emergence of...

    Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge

  5. A Critical History of the Economy

    On the birth of the national and international economies

    By Ryan Walter

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and politics to develop a detailed intellectual history of how the economy came to be seen as an independent domain. In contrast to typical...

    Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge

  6. The Politics of European Competition Regulation

    A Critical Political Economy Perspective

    By Hubert Buch-Hansen, Angela Wigger

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    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...

    Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge

  7. The Political Economy of Global Remittances

    Gender, Governmentality and Neoliberalism

    By Rahel Kunz

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Over the last decade, a new phenomenon has emerged within the international community: the Global Remittances Trend (GRT). Thereby, government institutions, international (financial) organisations, NGOs and private sector actors have become interested in migration and remittances and their...

    Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge

  8. Global Public Policy

    Business and the Countervailing Powers of Civil Society

    Edited by Karsten Ronit

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    We are in a critical period where civil society organizations actively influence business political behaviour, while corporations and business associations are adopting new and flexible strategies aimed at closer contact with civil society. Against the backdrop of such broad reorientations, this...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge

  9. National Currencies and Globalization

    Endangered Specie?

    By Paul Bowles

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Globalization and money – two concepts inextricably linked. In many ways the speed with which financial resources traverse the globe, the opportunities which this provides for the efficient allocation of resources, the possibilities which this creates for financial crises and traders who act as...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge

  10. Variegated Neoliberalism

    EU varieties of capitalism and International Political Economy

    By Huw Macartney

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    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...

    Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Rethinking Global Political Economy: Emerging Issues, Unfolding Odysseys
    Edited by Kurt Burch, Robert A. Denemark, Kenneth P. Thomas, Mary Ann Tétreault
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  2. The State of Copyright: Cultural Creation, State Practices and Intellectual Property
    By Debora Halbert
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  3. The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: The New Enclosures?
    By Christopher May
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  4. Financial Regulation after the Global Financial Crisis
    Edited by Tony Porter
    To Be Published December 29th 2013
  5. The Political Economy of Currency Contests: The Euro vs. the Dollar in the Emerging Markets
    By Miguel Otero-Iglesias
    To Be Published March 30th 2014

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