Books in the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy series

This book represents the first systematic attempt to explore the financial crisis in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective and is essential reading for both policy-makers and academics interested in national governance.

Timely, informative and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those seeking to understand American politics and current developments within the global political economy.

Examines the social, political and economic impacts of trade, paying attention to the textiles and clothing sector with respect to developing countries. This book is suitable for those studying and researching international and comparative political economy, developing area studies, economics, law and geography.

Analyzes the restructuring of the Polish state since 1989 by connecting concrete instances of policy to broader historical processes, social structures and political economy.

Shows how one dominant financial system within Europe came to collapse and evaluates the role of large banking groups which presented political-economic projects to public institutions arguing that what benefited them also meets the social needs of others. In reality, their solutions create more problems than they solve.

Presents an intellectual history of the economy, explaining how the economy came to be analytically separated from its social and political moorings in the 19th century. This title offers a historical perspective on IPE concerns, and links IPE with the growing field of contextualist intellectual history.

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.

Examines whether global finance can provide values like social security, equality and democratic accountability. This book develops a pragmatic approach, focusing on the Tobin tax and explores alternative possibilities for global financial governance.

Challenges the powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. This title provides a fundamental cultural critique of political economy and critically describes the nature of the mainstream understanding of economics.

Addressing the contemporary debate about the "third way" in European social democracy, this text examines the exemplar case of social democracy, "the Swedish model", and challenges the "third way" perspective.

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.

Presents a fresh framework for understanding capital as a mode of power. Challenging the liberal and Marxist approaches, this book articulates a theory of accumulation, and develops empirical methods of research.

Examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties. This book assesses how the discourse and politics of sustainable development have contributed to the internationalisation of the state.

Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. This book reconnects the social constitution of corporate power and changing forms of shareholder activism.

Taking into account of developments at the World Trade Organization and at the World Intellectual Property Organization, this book incorporates the author's research on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Containing the theoretical and analytical elements, it offers an analysis of how intellectual property is politically constructed.

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.

Examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable legitimate market sectors that are being legalised and decriminalised by governments.

Investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. This book examines the ways in which the development has begun to be promoted among the metropolitan public.

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.

An analysis of the development of capitalist classes, such as the Freemasons, that cross national boundaries in the global political economy. The author develops a broad-ranging understanding of class in the process of globalisation within several theoretical frameworks. In the RIPE SERIES IN GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY.

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

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.

Analyses how global governance impacts on the lives of ordinary people. This volume includes four case studies on labour, migration, children and development that explore the actual nature of governance policies in the GPE.

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.

This work is a useful addition to the literature on globalization and examines the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of transparent global governance and civil society. It traces the history of the institutions of global governance (The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc) and the emergence of the anti-globalization movement.

This book provides an innovative and in-depth account of the contemporary political economy of capitalist development in the Southern Cone countries of Latin America - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.