Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

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11. Governing International Labour Migration

    Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas

    Edited by Christina Gabriel, Hélène Pellerin

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment. It examines how labour mobility and the governance of labour migration are changing by exploring the links between political economy...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
12. Conflicts in Environmental Regulation and the Internationalisation of the State

    Contested Terrains

    By Ulrich Brand, Christoph Görg, Joachim Hirsch, Markus Wissen

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties. Using historical-materialist state and regulation theory, it assesses how the discourse and politics of sustainable development have...

    Published June 9th 2010 by Routledge
13. Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform

    A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax

    By James Brassett

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to consider alternative possibilities for...

    Published May 26th 2010 by Routledge
14. Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

    By Amy Lind

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives,...

    Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
15. 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 August 31st 2009 by Routledge
16. The Child in International Political Economy

    A Place at the Table

    By Alison M.S. Watson

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This pioneering volume argues for the inclusion of children, and the structure known as ‘childhood’, as a permanent social category worthy of continued study within the discipline of international political economy (IPE). Fundamentally, and very simply, IPE is concerned with the dynamics of...

    Published December 7th 2008 by Routledge
17. Governing Financial Globalization

    International Political Economy and Multi-Level Governance

    Edited by Andrew Baker, David Hudson, Richard Woodward

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Money, finance and credit are literally the lifeblood of the modern economy. The distribution of money and credit are essential to productive investment in trade and industry, to the maintenance of consumer purchasing power and demand, to individuals' social status and standard of living, and...

    Published June 9th 2008 by Routledge
18. Images of Gramsci

    Connections and Contentions in Political Theory and International Relations

    Edited by Andreas Bieler, Adam Morton

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    A comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Gramsci’s theory and practice at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Whilst commentaries on Antonio Gramsci and arguments surrounding his political and intellectual legacy have proliferated, little attention has been hitherto directed to...

    Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
19. Global Standards of Market Civilization

    Edited by Brett Bowden, Leonard Seabrooke

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Global Standards of Market Civilization 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. Key chapters show how as&...

    Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge
20. Beyond Globalization

    Capitalism, Territoriality and the International Relations of Modernity

    By Hannes Lacher

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Hannes Lacher presents a new critical social theory of international relations that integrates sociology, history and political geography to understand the formation and development of modern international relations. Far from implying a return to state-centrist Realism, this essential new volume...

    Published October 21st 2007 by Routledge