International Political Economy Series
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Series Editor: Timothy M. Shaw
'A major source of well-researched and intellectually innovative books on international political economy and development.' - Anthony Payne, University of Sheffield, UK
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To place an order for this series, so you receive a copy of every title immediately on publication, please quote the following series ISBNs:
Paperback: 978-0-333-71110-1
Hardback: 978-0-333-71708-0
Recently published
The Currency of Power
Andre Broome
Examines how the International Monetary Fund engages in the politics of ideas to shape domestic institutional change. Drawing on case studies from post-Soviet Central Asia, André Broome explains that how governments interpret their policy options mediates the IMF's influence over economic reform during periods of crisis and uncertainty.
March 2010 Hardback £57.50
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Celtic Tiger in Collapse
Peadar Kirby
Since the first edition there have been fundamental changes in the Irish growth model. The sudden collapse of the Irish economy in 2008 raises questions such as: why the sudden and deep decline in economic growth? What are the prospects for a return to growth? Answering these questions and more, this book is the definitive work on the Celtic Tiger.
February 2010 Hardback £60.00
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Edited by K Ravi Raman and Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Internationally renowned scholars investigate the discourses, practices and perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across a wide range of multicultural, multi-ethnic and cross country experiences. Case studies are included from Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
February 2010 Hardback £57.50
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China's Automotive Modernization
Gregory T. Chin
As a window for understanding the relationship between globalization and the state's pursuit of national industrial development, this book examines how and why the Chinese government succeeded in leveraging China's international competitive advantages to modernize the country's automotive industry.
January 2010 Hardback £60.00
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International Cultural Policies and Power
Edited by J P Singh
Political scientists by and large ignore cultural industries and technologies whereas they are prominent in other disciplines. This book provides insights from local, societal, national, and international levels in understanding cultural industries, technologies, and policies and integrates these perspectives into the study of political science.
January 2010 Hardback £57.50
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International Cultural Policies and Power
Kevin G. Cai
While major theories of economic regionalism in the existing literature are primarily constructed to explore institutionalized regional integration, European integration in particular, the analytical framework developed in this work explains the unique process and pattern of regional integration in East Asia.
January 2010 Hardback £55.00
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Chinese Capitalisms
Edited by Yin-wah Chu
In Chinese Capitalisms, experts examine the rise of capitalism on China and Taiwan, analyzing impacts exerted by global capitalism, Chinese civilization, and remnants of socialist practice. In focusing on these, they also address longstanding issues such as Weber's China Thesis, state-business relationships, and China's civil society, among others.
January 2010 Hardback £57.50
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance
Edited by Peter Utting and José Carlos Marques
This is the first of two volumes that examine the changing nature of state-business relations. This book assesses the potential and limits of CSR in developing countries, by focusing on aspects that are often ignored in the CSR literature: historical experience, theoretical perspectives, and institutional and political dimensions of change.
November 2009 Paperback £60.00
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Globalizing Social Justice
Jeffrey Atkinson and Martin Scurrah
A study of the international NGO advocacy for social and environmental justice, it looks at the fundamental issues of legitimacy, accountability and democracy that such activities involve and how they are manifested. It presents case studies on trade issues, labour rights, extractive industries and indigenous people in Asia and South America.
September 2009 Hardback £57.50
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Sugar: Refined Power in a Global Regime
Ben Richardson
Sugar is a commonplace product with a complex background, mainly because of the high degree of protectionism given to the industry and the benefits of ensuring domestic producers stay in business. This book asks why there are such disagreements over trade policy, who profits within the current regime, and where power ultimately lies.
September 2009 Hardback £57.50
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Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries
Edited by Owen Worth and Phoebe Moore
This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.
August 2009 Hardback £60.00
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Health for Some
Edited by Sandra J. MacLean, Sherri A. Brown and Pieter Fourie
Poverty and inequality are among the most significant determinants of health. Increased inequality gaps associated with globalization have serious implications for global health. Global changes in political economy shape global health influencing who bears the burden from epidemics, unhealthy environments and lack of access to health care.
August 2009 Hardback £60.00
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American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance
Edited by Leo Panitch and Martijn Konings
In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside traditional emphases on military intervention, looking instead to economics.
August 2009 Paperback £19.99
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Global Health Governance
Edited by Adrian Kay and Owain David Williams
Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of the challenges to global health governance and the contradictory and ineffective responses to them. They draw on a wide range of disciplines to uncover the critical political economy dynamics in the contemporary governance of global health.
July 2009 Hardback £60.00
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Competitive Regionalism
Edited by Mireya Solís, Barbara Stallings and Saori N. Katada
Despite abundant scepticism about their economic benefits, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated at a rapid pace. Policy diffusion models explain how different sets of preferential trade agreements are interconnected and establish under what conditions FTAs can work for or against the emergence of coherent regional blocs.
July 2009 Hardback £60.00
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The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts
Edited by Herman M. Schwartz and Leonard Seabrooke
This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis.
June 2009 Hardback £60.00
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Contentious Politics in North America
Edited by Jeffrey Ayres and Laura Macdonald
This is the only book of its kind devoted to exploring contentious politics from a North American perspective, including protests, social movements, transnational contention, and emergent regional governance processes, between Canadian, U.S. and Mexican state and civil society actors.
April 2009 Hardback £63.00
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Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas
Edited by Laura Macdonald and Arne Ruckert
This collection brings together a diverse range of analyses to interrogate the dramatic changes occurring in the Americas, from Canada to Venezuela to Chile. The book offers an essential overview of recent changes in the hemisphere, highlighting both the continuities and discontinuities in neoliberal practice.
March 2009 Hardback £55.00
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The Diplomacies of Small States
Edited by Andrew F. Cooper; Timothy M. Shaw
Since the end of the Cold War, the previously cooperative nature of small state diplomacy has been eroded by heated competition in an increasingly globalised world. Bringing together experts in the field of small state international political economy, this book shows that many options exist for small states in the 21st century, proving they can be resilient in the face of their vulnerabilities.
March 2009 Hardback £55.00
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China and the Global Political Economy
Shaun Breslin
In a relatively short period, the growth of investment to China and the resulting increase in Chinese trade has lead to a reconfiguration of the East Asian regional economy, and is now altering financial and resource flows across the globe. This book explains and analyses how this transformation has come about.
January 2009 Paperback £19.99
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Multinational Companies from Emerging Economies
Andrea Goldstein
Understanding the increasing importance of multinational corporations (MNCs) from developing economies and the implications of this trend is a priority for academics, policy-makers and business professionals alike and, as this book shows, emerging MNCs must be analyzed in the wider context of the global political economy.
January 2009 Paperback £19.99
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