Bøker i RIPE Series in Global Political Economy-serien

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book asks two broad questions: how and by whom have the meanings of different terms used to describe, challenge and defend global trade politics been constructed?

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.

Presenting a concise and instructive introduction to the origins, development and significance of the Amsterdam School's distinct approach, this book provides a unique overview of the School's contemporary significance for the field of International Political Economy.

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.