Books in the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy series

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.

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 evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly if we also wish to raise ethical questions about the changing political and institutional practices of transnational governance. Bridging the normative concerns of political theorists with the historical and institutional focus of scholars of international relations and international political economy, this book is of broad interest to students and researchers concerned with international relations, civil society, global governance and ethics.

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.

Exploring difficult and crucial aspects of the transnational gender politics of globalization, this book provides a unique and valuable introduction to the history of the concept of social reproduction from an inter-disciplinary perspective.

Money, finance and credit are literally the lifeblood of the modern economy. This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of the potential and the problems arising from the application of multi-level governance literature to the monetary and financial domain.

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.

Provides an introduction to the various theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production. This book examines issues such as: human trafficking and sex work; women and work; and, migration, labor and gender inequality.

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.

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.

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.

Provides an explanation of neoliberal hegemony, which systematically considers and analyzes the networks and organizations of around 1,000 self-conscious neoliberal intellectuals organized in the Mont Pelerin Society.

Investigates how global 'standards of market civilization' have emerged, their justification, and their political, economic and social impact. This book explores the idea of a 'standard of civilization', its implications for governance, and the use of such standards in political theory and economic thought, as well as its historical application.

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?.

Focuses on the emergence of employment policy as a political issue and examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. This title combines theoretical chapters with case-studies of Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Central Europe.

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.

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.

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.

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