With original archival documents and interviews from the US and Europe, Michelle Frasher brings the reader into the negotiating room with American, German, and French officials as they confronted the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system and made decisions that affected the course of European integration and the contemporary neoliberal order.
She identifies crisis as the catalyst for change in international monetary policies, but argues that the causes of crisis originated from a multitude of factors such as market speculation, American hegemony,...
With original archival documents and interviews from the US and Europe, Michelle Frasher brings the reader into the negotiating room with A...
Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization; but international labour movement demobilization is not necessarily an irreversible trend. Globalization has prompted workers and their organizations to find new ways to mobilise.
This book examines international working-class opposition to globalization. It chronicles and critically scrutinizes the emergence of distinctively new forms of labour movement organization and mobilization that constitute creative initiatives on the part of labour. Workers have developed new ways to confront employer power...
Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization; but international labour movement demobilization is not necessari...
The trade regime established at the end of the Second World War did not cater for and in some cases excluded the developmental interests of the newly independent countries.
This book provides a longitudinal study of developing country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations. It examines three periods of coalitional bargaining that have all been relatively unsuccessful in significantly amending the architecture of international trade, despite some modest successes. It offers a detailed analysis of:
The first attempts to revise the trade regime in the 1960s through...
The trade regime established at the end of the Second World War did not cater for and in some cases excluded the developmental interests of the new...
This book examines the evolution and application of participatory trade politics in West Africa and discusses the theoretical implications for political economy and global governance approaches to trade policy-making.
The author traces the involvement of a network of West African global justice Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), local NGO and movement platforms, and trade unions in the negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. Building on this empirical analysis, she develops a theoretical framework of trade policy formation that is not limited to...
This book examines the evolution and application of participatory trade politics in West Africa and discusses the theoretical implications for poli...
This book makes an innovative link between classical liberalism and questions of international economic order. The author begins with an outline of classical liberalism as applied to domestic economic order. He then surveys the classical liberal tradition from the Scottish Enlightenment to modern thinkers like Knight, Hayekn and Viner. Finally, he brings together the insights of thinkers in this tradition to provide a synthetic overview of classical liberalism and international economic order. The author's deployment of classical liberalism strikes a different note to other 'liberal'...
This book makes an innovative link between classical liberalism and questions of international economic order. The author begins with an outline of cl...
Much has been written about the many economic benefits of globalization and the triumph and spread of democratic liberalism with the end of the Cold War, following the demise of the Soviet Union. This work takes issue with such 'wine and roses' perspectives about the future of the Western democracies and their faith-based views on the moral purity of a globalized marketplace. It also questions many of the assumptions found in the status quo reinforcing discipline of international political economy (IPE)-a discipline that focuses on the formal and legitimate economies and the facade they...
Much has been written about the many economic benefits of globalization and the triumph and spread of democratic liberalism with the end of the Cold W...
The book's objective is to explore the challenge of thinking methodically - in a theoretically and empirically informed way - about alternative forms of capitalism. What are the most effective ways to conceptualize the existing models of capitalism that have captured the public imagination and are currently floating around in the public debate? How can one mobilize empirical analysis and theory in thinking about the realm of possibilities and about the future of economic order, but avoid the twin perils of scientism and historicism? This book is an attempt to respond to these and related...
The book's objective is to explore the challenge of thinking methodically - in a theoretically and empirically informed way - about alternative for...
This book addresses whether and how multilateral economic regimes can successfully transition from international institutions-cooperation among states-to global governance-cooperation among states and nonstate actors.
The unprecedented era of peace and prosperity since World War II has been underpinned by multilateral economic regimes, yet in recent years the rise of nonstate actors has intensified international conflicts regarding fundamental questions of how to govern. This book asks whether and how multilateral regimes will be able to adapt. Based on an analysis of...
This book addresses whether and how multilateral economic regimes can successfully transition from international institutions-cooperation among sta...
This book analyses the logic of applying the American Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky s Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) to the financial crisis of 2007-08. Arguing that most theories of financial crisis, including Minsky s own, only describe events, but do not actually explain them, the book surveys theories of financial crisis that have been developed to describe instability in the post-WW2 US financial system and analyses them in their historical context.
The book argues that explanation of the financial crisis of 2007-08 should involve interpretation of the concept...
This book analyses the logic of applying the American Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky s Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) to the financi...
The emergence of a new regional economic architecture in Northeast Asia raises a number of important political economic implications. This book investigates the rationale, structure and form of this development. It critically examines the evolution of the political economy of Northeast Asian regionalism.
This book is a combination of strong pre-existing and working knowledge of the political economies of three countries: China, Japan and Korea. Due to the exploratory, theory-building nature of the research, and interviews with key informants combined with critical published...
The emergence of a new regional economic architecture in Northeast Asia raises a number of important political economic implications. This book inv...
