International Political Economy

This book examines the BRICs and other emerging economies by analysing their institutional development, their main continuities and changes as well as their differences. It provides a comparative analysis of the political economies of the BRICs, together with South Africa and Turkey...

This book examines the BRICs and other emerging economies by analysing their institutional development, their main continuities and changes as well as their differences. It provides a comparative analysis of the political economies of the BRICs, together with South Africa and Turkey...

This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel thesi..

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. In conducting a historicizing critique of Minsky’s work this book seeks to illustrate how the abstraction of financial "risk" which..

The wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean is in transition. This collective project by leading experts represents a unique combination of International Theory and International Politics analysis that deals exclusively with the wider Eastern Mediterranean. It scrutinizes in a multidimensional man..

The global financial crisis, which started in the United States in 2007 and spread to Europe in 2009, has shown that the Economic and Monetary Union is faulty, preventing monetary policy autonomy and inhibiting competitiveness. Part of the response to the crisis so far has been incremental moves tow..

This comparative book investigates the impact that the EU has on regionalization elsewhere through its inter-regional relations. Covering agriculture, trade, ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and Commonwealth amongst other topics, it investigates whether the EU contributes directly, as well as indirectly, to i..

This book provides an accessible introduction to international investment policy and seeks to explain how the EU became an actor in the global investment regime. It offers a detailed analysis of the EU’s participation in all major trade and investment negotiations since the 1980s and EU-internal com..

EU-Russian energy dialogue represents a policy issue that forces us to take a serious look at several crucial questions related to the present and future of Europe. This book not only outlines the overall characteristics of the energy dialogue, but also illustrates the involved policy implementation..

Current economic imbalances are causing some Eurozone Member States to rethink their economic and political views concerning the euro. This timely work clarifies perceptions of the euro and demonstrates that it has become a true common currency, and the Eurozone an optimal currency area. The book is..

This book analyses how financial elites in the key dollar-holding emerging markets of China, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Brazil, perceive the contest between the euro and the dollar for global currency status. It also assesses how far the Eurozone has gone in challenging US hegemony in monetary affair..

A few years have passed since the Lisbon Treaty came into force but the question still remains of what the Lisbon Treaty has actually brought about. Was it just 'relatively insignificant' as some scholars have claimed, or was it 'something' more? This book sets out to look at this question and it do..