Books in the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy series

Craig Murphy's groundbreaking book examines the measures that global institutions have taken, assesses the limited success of global governance and provides a coruscating expose of its failures.

A comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Gramsci's theory and practice at the beginning of the 21st-century. This volume brings together leading authorities engaged in common debates to produce, a major collection that clarifies, addresses, and lays bare the manifest connections and contentions within political and international theory.

This book rewrites global political economy by bringing disparate features of globalization into relation and providing an accessible narrative of "how we got here," "what's going on," and "what it means" from a critical vantage point.

How and why do countries bargain together in world affairs? Why are such coalitions crucial to developing nations? This study answers these questions, showing why successful coalition building is a difficult and expensive process. It also investigates the relevance and workability of coalitions as an instrument of bargaining power for the weak.

This explanation of neoliberal hegemony systematically considers and analyzes the networks and organizations of around 1000 self conscious neoliberal intellectuals organized in the Mont Pelerin Society.

This volume provides a wide ranging discussion of both the potential and the problems arising from the application of the multi-level governance literature to the monetary and financial domain, through a range of case studies and conceptual

Caught up in the globalist illusion of the 1990s, social theorists have heralded the coming of a global age in which international politics would be transformed beyond recognition. This book presents a theory that integrates sociology, history and political geography to understand the formation and development of modern international relations.

This book challenges the predominance of neo-liberalism as a mode of knowledge about contemporary world finance, and claims that it neglects the social and political bases as well as the malign consequences of change.

Delivering an analysis of the efforts being made to socially regulate globalization, this study evaluates the effectiveness of non-governmental organizations and the problems they face. With case studies on the clothing industry, sustainable forestry and corporate social responsibility, it explores the tensions between politics and management.

Examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and more broadly looks at the role of ideas in international development institutions and how they have affected current development discourse.

This book provides the definitive account of resistance movements across the globe. Combining theoretical perspectives with detailed empirical case studies, it explains the origins, activities and prospects of the 'anti-globalisation' movement.

This volume deepens our understanding of the normative tensions central to the way in which governance is changing under globalization, and illuminates the political realities which governance confronts.

This book addresses such core issues as global civil society, power and knowledge, the covert world, multilateralism, and civilizations and world order. It is essential reading for all students and academics in the field.

This book develops a performative politics of the global event, providing a route into understanding and interpreting the possibilities and limits of the affective turn in market life and holds implications for the classic questions of IPE: who wins, who loses, and how might it be changed?.

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). This book offers an examination of the child within IPE. It is suitable for students of IPE, Childhood Studies, and International Relations.

Addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. This title states that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people's sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood.

This book investigates the ways in which activists, scholars, and communities are resisting the expansion of copyright and patent law in the information age.

Neoliberalism has been the reigning ideology of our era. For the past four decades, almost every real-world event of any consequence has been traced to the supposedly omnipresent influence of neoliberalism. Instead, this book argues that states across the world have actually grown in scope and reach.

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

Features feminist experts from around the world to provide an analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context. This work provides a challenging approach to the issues of gender and the processes of globalization in the new millennium.

A comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Gramsci's theory and practice at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This book provides a comprehensive and focused overview of the changing dynamics between public and private forms of transnational financial regulation, addressing recent and emerging trends in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.

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 critical ethic to demonstrate how methods are transformative and reimagines research strategies as both an embodied practice and a social process. By presenting methodologically informed ways of researching, enriched by real-life accounts from academics doing empirical research, the volume seeks to forge a new collaborative path that builds a critical ethic and modes of inquiry within International Political Economy. Substantive chapters advance the pluralism of the critical school of cultural political economy and seek to articulate its nascent research ethic. Short autobiographical vignettes articulate the professional journeys of contributors who 'do' critical political economy. There is practical advice on how to develop evidence from an iterative reflexive research strategy. Using this innovative format offers a guide to methods in critical political economy by engaging directly with the people doing research, not only as technical practice but also as lived experience. The combination of research and practice presented throughout the book offers an extensive and authoritative framework for evaluating how methods are part of critical research and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of IPE.