Authority in the Global Political Economy

Authority in the Global Political Economy
Author: Volker Rittberger
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This volume analyzes changing patterns of authority in the global political economy with an in-depth look at the new roles played by state and non-state actors, and addresses key themes including the provision of global public goods, new modes of regulation and the potential of new institutions for global governance.

Private Power and Global Authority

Private Power and Global Authority
Author: A. Claire Cutler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2003-08-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521533973

Transnational merchant law, which is mistakenly regarded in purely technical and apolitical terms, is a central mediator of domestic and global political/legal orders. By engaging with literature in international law, international relations and international political economy, the author develops the conceptual and theoretical foundations for analyzing the political significance of international economic law. In doing so, she illustrates the private nature of the interests that this evolving legal order has served over time. The book makes a sustained and comprehensive analysis of transnational merchant law and offers a radical critique of global capitalism.

A World of Struggle

A World of Struggle
Author: David Kennedy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0691180873

How today's unjust global order is shaped by uncertain expert knowledge—and how to fix it A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this provocative book, David Kennedy draws on his experience working with international lawyers, human rights advocates, policy professionals, economic development specialists, military lawyers, and humanitarian strategists to provide a unique insider's perspective on the complexities of global governance. He describes the conflicts, unexamined assumptions, and assertions of power and entitlement that lie at the center of expert rule. Kennedy explores the history of intellectual innovation by which experts developed a sophisticated legal vocabulary for global management strangely detached from its distributive consequences. At the center of expert rule is struggle: myriad everyday disputes in which expertise drifts free of its moorings in analytic rigor and observable fact. He proposes tools to model and contest expert work and concludes with an in-depth examination of modern law in warfare as an example of sophisticated expertise in action. Charting a major new direction in global governance at a moment when the international order is ready for change, this critically important book explains how we can harness expert knowledge to remake an unjust world.

The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance

The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance
Author: S. Guzzini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-10-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137283556

The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies. Guzzini and Neumann combine these to look at an increasingly global politics with a growing number of agents, recognising the emergence of a global polity.

Governance in a Global Economy

Governance in a Global Economy
Author: Miles Kahler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2003-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691114021

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China in the Global Political Economy

China in the Global Political Economy
Author: Gordon C.K. Cheung
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2018
Genre: China
ISBN: 1784714917

Is the US losing its economic authority to China, whose global economic identity is being determined more by entrepreneurial spirit than developmental principle? Through the exercise of soft power and hard currency in some areas of the global economy, China has clear national interest in the protection of intellectual property rights, financial integration and sovereign wealth funds. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will set new standard to global economic development.

Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy

Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy
Author: Randall Germain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367877293

This edited volume addresses the 2007/2009 financial crisis as the occasion to engage critically with the corpus of Susan Strange's work, in order to consider what changes (if any) this crisis portends for the structural organization of the global political economy. The contributors use Strange's rich conceptual framework to explore the financial crisis and its aftermath, and reflect critically on the broader contributions which her work has made to the discipline of IPE. The volume makes three valuable contributions for scholars and students. First, it raises the profile of Susan Strange, a unique and powerful contributor to the field of IPE whose ideas matter to our current circumstance and can provide deep and enduring insights into important questions and issues. Secondly, each contributor to this volume combines her work and ideas with that of other traditions or individual theorists in ways that extend and/or deepen Strange's own efforts. Finally, this volume leaves us with a judicious optimism about the future of both IPE and the world as it actually is, on the ground. This book will be of interest to scholars and students who are interested in the dynamics shaping contemporary and future developments in the global political economy, as well as those who are interested in the theoretical debates about how to study IPE.

Power in the Global Age

Power in the Global Age
Author: Ulrich Beck
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745694535

This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of "golden handcuffs" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly what is needed in order to regain national autonomy, not least in relation to a highly mobile world economy. It is imperative that the maxim of nation-based realpolitik - that national interests have necessarily to be pursued by national means - be replaced by the maxim of cosmopolitan realpolitik. The more cosmopolitan our political structures and activities, Beck suggests, the more successful they will be in promoting national interests, and the greater our individual power in this global age will be.

The Political Power of Global Corporations

The Political Power of Global Corporations
Author: John Mikler
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-02-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745698492

We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of profit maximization. In this book, John Mikler re-casts global corporations as political actors with complex identities and strategies. Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively profit-driven entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or modify the agendas of states but to govern in their own right. He also explains why we need to re-territorialize global corporations as political actors that reflect and project the political power of the states and regions from which they hail. We know the global corporations' names, we know where they are headquartered, and we know where they invest and operate. Economic processes are increasingly produced by the control they possess, the relationships they have, the leverage they employ, the strategic decisions they make, and the discourses they create to enhance acceptance of their interests. This book represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.

Power Shift

Power Shift
Author: Peter Newell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108832857

A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.