by Timothy M. Shaw (Editor), Laura C. Mahrenbach (Editor), Renu Modi (Editor), Xu Yi-chong (Editor)
About the Author
Timothy M. Shaw is Visiting Professor in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA as well as Adjunct Professor at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Laura C. Mahrenbach is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Renu Modi is Associate Professor and former Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Mumbai, India.
Xu Yi-chong is Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Australia.
About this book
Published 35 years after Palgrave Macmillan’s landmark International Political Economy (IPE) series was first founded, this Handbook captures the state of the art of contemporary IPE. It draws on the series’ history of focussing on the oft-neglected study of the global South.
Providing interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars hailing from the global North and South, the Handbook illustrates the theoretical innovations and empirical richness necessary to explain today’s ever-changing world. This is a world in which the global South and North are not only being transformed by the end of bipolarity and the rise of the BRICS, but also by diverse global crises and growing cross-border challenges. It is a world where human development, governance and security are becoming ever more elusive, where, profoundly altered by the rise of new technologies, the structure of relations between nations itself is changing, becoming increasingly interconnected, both digitally and physically.
Understanding these issues is of critical importance to better understand and anticipate current and future global transformations. This Handbook is the ideal primer for all scholars, practitioners and policy makers looking to do so.
Table of contents
1 Continuities and Change in IPE at the Start of the Twenty-first Century 1
Part I Contemporary IPE Theory 25
2 Financial Statecraft 27
3 Global Market Power 43
4 Political Economy and International Economic Law 59
5 Varieties of Global Governance 75
6 Regionalism: In Crisis? 89
7 Domestic Politics and the Societal Approach 103
8 Neoliberalism 119
9 Comparative Capitalism 135
Part II Global Reordering 153
10 Small and Least-Developed Countries 155
11 Global Middle Classes 169
12 International Migrations, Diasporas, and Remittances 183
13 Middle Powers in the International Political Economy 201
14 Conceptualising Emerging Powers 217
15 Emerging Economies, Emerging Horizons 233
16 China and Global Resources 245
Part III Global Crises 263
17 The IPE of International Currency Leadership 265
18 Implications of Brexit 283
19 The IPE of Financial Derivatives Beyond Crisis 301
20 ‘Fintech’ and Financial Inclusion 317
21 Risk 331
22 Tax Avoidance 345
23 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 359
24 Advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 377
25 The Role of Agriculture for Food Security and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa 391
Part IV Emerging Issues in Contemporary IPE 411
26 What Is Globalisation? 413
27 Sovereign Wealth Funds and International Political Economy 429
28 Competition Law and Policy as an Emerging IPE Issue 447
29 Reviewing the Costs and Benefits of Mano Dura Versus Crime Prevention in the Americas 465
30 Combatting Piracy in the Horn of Africa Waters 485
31 A Political Economy of Water 501
32 Sustainability 517
33 Natural Resources 535
34 Carbon Capitalism and World Order 555
35 Commodities 571
36 The Political Economy of Border Regimes 587
37 Internet Gambling and International Political Economy 601
38 Digital Technological Innovation and the International Political Economy 615
39 Gender 633
40 Sport and Contemporary International Political Economy 651
41 The International Political Economy of Health 667
Index 683
Series: Palgrave Handbooks in IPE
Length: 718 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (December 20, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1137454423
ISBN-13: 978-1137454423
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