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Power in the International Investment Framework

Autor: Maria A. Gwynn

Número de Páginas: 250

This book offers a unique analysis of bilateral investment treaties (BITs). By developing a new, power-focused paradigm for understanding the international investment framework, the author illustrates why there was no paradoxical behaviour when developing countries agreed to the BIT regime, and what has spurred their reaction against it now. She also examines how attempts to regulate investment at a multilateral level have failed, and why the rules of the framework are evolving. Inspired by the work of Susan Strange, Gwynn fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of these issues by demonstrating how power determines the actions of all those involved. This holistic reinterpretation of international investment focuses in particular on Latin America, but has wider implications for the negotiation of new treaties, including such controversial provisions as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It will appeal to lawyers, economists, political scientists and scholars of Latin America.

Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE)

Autor: Mark Blyth

Número de Páginas: 572

The study of the International Political Economy (IPE), like the IPE itself, is plural and unbounded. Despite what partisans sometimes say, rather than there being ‘one way’ of studying the IPE that is the ‘right way’, we find across the world great variation in IPE scholarship in terms of focus, questions, and methods. How then can we make sense of this and understand the field as a whole rather than simply learn one part of it? This Handbook is designed to address precisely this concern. It maps the shifting boundaries and diverse theoretical commitments of IPE around the world. It engages the geographical and theoretical diversity of the different versions of IPE found in North America, the UK, in Asia and Australia; and notes the absences of distinctive versions of IPE in Europe and Latin America. The volume groups together the essential attributes and positions of each school, inviting the reader to engage with and learn about IPE in all of its guises through this evolving ‘global conversation.’ Rather than adjudicate ‘the one true version’ of IPE, it argues that the intellectual diversity we see around the world is an essential, and positive, feature of the...

Réhabiliter le pouvoir et les Nations dans l'analyse du Capitalisme Mondialisé

Autor: Grégory Vanel

Número de Páginas: 204

Dans le capitalisme mondialisé, les nations - menacées - sont de retour ! Cet ouvrage reprend l'ensemble des thématiques et théories en Economie Politique Internationale : commerce, finance, production, ... pour analyser la mondialisation, en réintroduisant le pouvoir et les nations dans l'analyse des processus à l'oeuvre. Il propose également une généalogie des théories en présence, afin de faciliter la compréhension des concepts et des controverses qui traversent cette jeune discipline.

The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy

Autor: Ernesto Vivares

Número de Páginas: 1258

The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy provides a comprehensive guide to how Global Political Economy (GPE) is conceptualized and researched around the world. Including contributions that range from traditional International Political Economy (IPE) to GPE approaches, the Handbook gathers the investigations, varying perspectives and innovative research of more than sixty scholars from all over the world. Providing undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers and researchers with a complete set of traditional, contending and regional perspectives, the book explores current issues, conceptual tools, key research debates and different methodological approaches taken. Structured in five parts methodologically correlated, the book presents GPE as a field of global, regional and national research: • historical waves and diverse ontological axes; • major theoretical perspectives; • beyond traditional perspectives; • regional inquiries; • research arenas. Carefully selected contributions from both established and upcoming scholars ensure that this is an eclectic, pluralist and multidisciplinary work and an essential resource for all those with an interest in this complex...

Widen the Market, Narrow the Competition

Autor: Daniel Mügge

Número de Páginas: 134

EU capital markets have changed radically over the past 20 years. In the 1980s, countries had their own financial industries and rules. Now there is one 'Champions League' of banks, and member states have transferred crucial regulatory powers to Brussels. Drawing on policy documents and more than fifty in-depth interviews, Widen the Market, Narrow the Competition argues that financial industry interests have been key to this power shift. Continental banks initially feared a single European market, and governments followed their protectionist impulses. In the 1990s the mood changed, and the likes of ABN AMRO and Deutsche Bank rushed into international investment banking. They emerged as the crucial lobby for the supranational governance in place today. Linked by the interests of centrally placed firms, EU financial integration and supranational governance have been two sides of the same coin. At the same time, national parliaments and ordinary citizens have been pushed to the sidelines.

Reconfiguring European States in Crisis

Autor: Desmond S. King , Patrick Le Galès

Número de Páginas: 511

Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the European Union state have dealt with two sorts of changes in the last two decades. Firstly, the volume analyses the growth of performance measurement in government, the rise of new sorts of policy delivery agencies, the devolution of power to regions and cities, and the spread of neoliberal ideas in economic policy. The volume demonstrates how the rise of non-state controlled organizations and norms combine with Europeanization to reconfigure European states. Secondly, the volume focuses on how the current crises in fiscal policy, Brexit, security and terrorism, and migration through a borderless European Union have had dramatic effects on European states and will continue to do so.

International Political Economy

Autor: Nicola Phillips , Catherine Weaver

Número de Páginas: 272

Essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy (IPE), this book features contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Canada and the UK who debate the most important issues in IPE.

International Studies Notes

Número de Páginas: 132

Global Political Economy

Autor: John Ravenhill

Número de Páginas: 468

Brings together leading international experts to provide an authoritative introduction to the major subject areas on undergraduate courses in global political economy. Each chapter makes use of learning aids such as summary boxes, chronologies, case studies, web links and further reading.

Between Anarchy and Hierarchy

Autor: R. H. Lieshout

Número de Páginas: 248

Between Anarchy and Hierarchyoffers a stimulating new perspective on conflict and collaboration in international politics. Robert Lieshout's new book shows how decision-making within individual states influences foreign policy and, in turn, international politics. Using a sliding scale between anarchy and hierarchy, he shows how each political system can be defined, including the distinctly anarchic international system itself. By showing the impact which internal decision-making processes have on the structure of the international system, Professor Lieshout integrates a theory of foreign policy making into a theory of international politics. After developing the epistemological foundations of this theory, Professor Lieshout applies his principles to results drawn from the use of game theory in international relations, examines the role of force in both hierarchical and anarchic systems, and shows how the adaptability of collective decision-making processes in states influences their behaviour in the international system. Between Anarchy and Hierarchyis remarkable both for the use of a general empirical behavioural theory to explain international politics, and for integrating...

Arguments and Actions in Social Theory

Autor: P. W. Preston

Número de Páginas: 208

Preface p. vi Acknowledgements p. vii Chapter 1 The Practical Nature of Social Theorizing p. 1 Chapter 2 Arguments from Natural Science p. 9 Chapter 3 Arguments from Language/Understanding p. 44 Chapter 4 Arguments from Political Community p. 78 Chapter 5 Language, Tradition and Practice p. 117 Notes p. 147 Bibliography p. 171 Index p. 183.

Discourses of Development

Autor: Peter Wallace Preston

Número de Páginas: 264

This text offers a hermaneutic-critical discussion of different strategies for the analysis of complex change (in particular peripheral capitalism) and is ordered around development discourses centred on state, market and polity. It is illustrated with empirical material drawn from the Southeast Asian case.

New Technologies at Work

Autor: Christina Garsten , Helena Wulff

Número de Páginas: 296

Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionised our working practices. Drawing on worldwide case studies, this book explores the transformations and looks to what developments are in store for us in the future.

Technology Transfer and International Production

Autor: Jin W. Cyhn

Número de Páginas: 342

"This book analyses the technology development efforts of Korea's electronics industry (the country's largest exporter). It asks how the Korean electronics industry was able to develop, both in terms of production and technology, despite low inflows of licensing and foreign direct investments. The books argues that the key to its spectacular growth has been through its participation and learning from an inter-firm arrangement called original equipment manufacturing arrangement (OEM). A number of firm-level case studies on the Korean electronics industry support this argument. The role of the government, especially related to its technology policy, has also been analysed. The government was effective in providing financial incentives for the firms' technological upgrading efforts, but its supplying of direct technological assistance had limited success. Overall, this book argues that contrary to many previous studies, the role of multinational enterprises has been significant in the development of Korea's electronics industry, and that they have acted as a 'technological tutor' for Korea through OEM"--P. xiv.tributors, world 0̲.

Understanding the Development and Security Discourses in Southern Africa

Autor: Lisa Thompson

Número de Páginas: 38

Bureaucrats and Entrepreneurs

Autor: Yun-t'ae Kim

Número de Páginas: 328

International Relations

Autor: Richard A. Higgott , James L. Richardson

Número de Páginas: 492

Modern European Socialism

Autor: Lawrence Wilde

Número de Páginas: 236

Is there a future for socialism in Europe? The collapse of the communist dictatorships and the electoral reverses suffered by social democratic parties have called into question the whole historical project of challenging the power of capitalism. Modern European Socialism examines social democratic and communist responses to the immense changes which have occurred in the world economy since the collapse of the post-war boom. The power of global capital to dictate the conditions for investment has made it virtually impossible to promote egalitarian policies at the level of the nation state. However, Wilde argues that socialism can renew its relevance at a European level, if the process of economic integration culminates in a fully-fledged European state.