International Political Economy

This book investigates the performance of the economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), focusing in particular on the role of corruption and the underlying institutional structure in determining economic growth and the prospects for development...

John Ruggie introduced the concept of embedded liberalism in a 1982 article that has become one of the most frequently cited sources in the study of international political economy. Here leading scholars combine to offer a better understanding of what embedded liberalism means, why it matters and ho..

In this book Vlado Vivoda aims to examine the drastically changed environment following Fukushima the disaster, to analyse Japan’s energy security challenges and evaluate Tokyo’s energy policy options. By looking at how the disaster exacerbated Japan’s existing energy security challenges Vivoda cons..

In this book Vlado Vivoda aims to examine the drastically changed environment following Fukushima the disaster, to analyse Japan’s energy security challenges and evaluate Tokyo’s energy policy options. By looking at how the disaster exacerbated Japan’s existing energy security challenges Vivoda cons..

Examining the case of the Ogoni struggle against the Shell oil company, Agbonifo argues for a decolonization of the environment and to see it from the perspective of local communities. Exploring the material, symbolic, provincial and nationalist dimensions of Ogoni motivation, this book is the first..

This edited collection makes a highly significant critical contribution to the field of environmental politics, exploring the relationship between governance, power and knowledge through a variety of approaches and perspectives...

This work seeks to explore the ethical dimension of economic citizenship in Anglo-American finance. It engages with ethical debates about the place of finance in people’s everyday lives and the place of ordinary people in making finance what it is: the visible hands that make a market...

This inspiring collection analyzes the contribution of EU development policy to poverty reduction and provides suggestions to enhance its effectiveness. It focuses on various aspects of the policy - trade, agriculture and food security, and modes of policy making and implementation - and concludes w..

Bridging foreign policy analysis and international political economy, this volume offers a new look at the problem of agency in comparative regional integration studies. It examines evolving regional integration projects in the Eurasian space, defined as the former Soviet Union countries and China, ..

The first part of this book provides an overview of political science approaches to European political economy, both mainstream and critical ones. As such, it contributes directly to the current debate among scholars of political science and international political economy concerning the nature of t..

Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations, this new edition focuses on ..

Exchange Rate Crises in Developing Countries..