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The tools of globalization: ways of regulating and the structure of the international regime for pharmaceuticals.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2015, Vol. 22 Issue 6, p1249-1275. 27p.
Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between regulatory globalization and neoliberal standard-setting arrangements building on industry capacities and responsibilities. Focusing on international pharmacovigilance, it recounts the history of the W...
Smoke screen? The globalization of production, transnational lobbying and the international political economy of plain tobacco packaging.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Feb2017, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p87-118. 32p.
Abstract: In 2012, Australia became the first country in the world to introduce plain tobacco packaging in an effort to reduce tobacco consumption. This move was vehemently opposed by the tobacco industry, which challenged it on several levels: nationally, bilat...
How business challenges climate transformation: an exploration of just transition and industry associations in Australia.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2022, Vol. 29 Issue 6, p2112-2134. 23p.
Abstract: As the consequences of a warming world intensify and actions to mitigate climate change remain persistently slow, demands for a more radical political economic transition focused on climate and justice have grown. 'Just transition' is one such counter-...
Regionalism from without: External involvement of the EU in regionalism in southern Africa.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2013, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p917-946. 30p.
Abstract: Theories and analyses of regionalism, from both ‘orthodox' and ‘critical' strands of international political economy (IPE), have tended to conceptualise regional integration as a process led byintra-regionalactors typically in reaction to external forc...
Prospects for deepening Mercosur integration: Economic asymmetry and institutional deficits.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Jun2013, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p515-540. 26p.
Abstract: Mercosur faces a number of challenges in furthering its regional integration. This article considers whether theories developed for European regionalism, such as neo-functionalism and liberal inter-governmentalism, provide a suitable framework for anal...
The political economy of family policy expansion: Fostering neoliberal capitalism or promoting gender equality supporting social reproduction?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2019, Vol. 26 Issue 6, p1238-1265. 28p.
Abstract: This article presents a new theoretical and empirical approach to understand family policy expansion in relation to the political economy of welfare state retrenchment and social reproduction in 23 OECD countries. From a Polanyian perspective, this exp...
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Jan2023, p1-27. 27p. 3 Illustrations, 1 Chart.
Abstract: Abstract The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was created in the early 1990s to promote the transition to a market economy and advance democracy in the post-communist countries of East Central Europe. How and why did this interna...
Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields: Performing the global market economy.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2010, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p507-536. 30p. 1 Graph.
Abstract: This paper explores the construction of what the authors term a 'tripartite standards regime' (TSR) by looking at the pragmatic emergence of standards development organizations (SDOs) and national accreditation bodies (NABs). The authors explain how, t...
Multilateral trade governance as social field: Global civil society and the WTO.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2015, Vol. 22 Issue 6, p1128-1158. 31p.
Abstract: The 1999 Seattle protests, which brought thirty thousand people to the streets in opposition to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and set off a series of other protests against the multilateral economic institutions, helped spark significant academic ...
Crossing the river by feeling the stones: where the WTO is going after Seattle, Doha and Cancun.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2004, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p574-596. 23p.
Abstract: When we ask where the WTO is going after its debacle in Seattle its success in Doha, and the failure in Cancun, we find neither imminent collapse nor a new grand design. My analysis of the difference between these ministerial meetings separates the int...