Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

Capitalist Alternatives

Models, Taxonomies, Scenarios

By Paul Dragos Aligica, Vlad Tarko

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

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...

Published November 6th 2014 by Routledge

States, Nonstate Actors, and Global Governance

Projecting Polities

By Ed Fogarty

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

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...

Published September 12th 2014 by Routledge

Global Criminal and Sovereign Free Economies and the Demise of the Western Democracies

Dark Renaissance

Edited by Robert J. Bunker, Pamela Ligouri Bunker

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

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...

Published September 4th 2014 by Routledge

Varieties of Capitalism, Types of Democracy and Globalization

Edited by Masanobu Ido

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

This book combines two strands of international political economy; examining how capitalism and democracy shape and are shaped by each other. Although until now considered separately, this path-breaking book proposes an innovative view of a political-economic system that inextricably links the...

Published July 4th 2014 by Routledge

Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy and Development

Assessing Contours, Correlates and Concomitants of Globalization

By Indra de Soysa

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

The effects of globalization on economy and society are highly contested subjects in academic and political arenas. This study brings an empirical perspective to the crucially important arguments that encapsulate the major debates in this area. Using quantitative data, this book addresses the shape...

Published June 23rd 2014 by Routledge

Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order

Studies in Theory and Intellectual History

By Razeen Sally

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

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...

Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge

Trade, Development and Globalization

By Syed Javed Maswood

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

This book provides a longitudinal study of developing country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations. 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...

Published August 21st 2013 by Routledge

Transatlantic Politics and the Transformation of the International Monetary System

By Michelle Frasher

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

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...

Published August 2nd 2013 by Routledge

The Political Economy of Space in the Americas

The New Pax Americana

By Alejandra Roncallo

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

This book presents a novel and cutting-edge interpretation of the evolving political economy of the Americas. Through a combination of qualitative research and theory, it considers the reconstruction of American-led hegemony in the Americas since the 1982 debt crisis and presents an examination of...

Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge

Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations

The Growth Paradigm

By Stephen J. Purdey

Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

The ubiquity of the commitment to economic growth, which Purdey refers to as the growth paradigm, is extraordinary. National governments around the world are seized of the same objective. Major international institutions such as the UN, the WTO, the World Bank, IMF and OECD, powerful international...

Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge