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Blind spots in IPE: marginalized perspectives and neglected trends in contemporary capitalism.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Apr2021, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p283-294. 12p.
Abstract: Which blind spots shape scholarship in International Political Economy (IPE)? That question animates the contributions to a double special issue—one in the Review of International Political Economy, and a companion one in New Political Economy. The glo...
In the Shadow of Basel: How Competitive Politics Bred the Crisis.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2014, Vol. 21 Issue 6, p1203-1239. 37p.
Abstract: What if global governance mechanisms undermine the capacity of national banking regulators to deal with the deviant activities of their banks? Such was the case, this paper argues with respect to the Basel Accords and the regulation of the bank-based s...
Why parties politicise international institutions: On globalisation backlash and authority contestation.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2014, Vol. 21 Issue 6, p1275-1312. 38p.
Abstract: Why do political parties increasingly address international institutions? This paper analyses the politicisation of international governance, that is, a process in which institutions' policies and procedures become salient and controversial on the leve...
Piecemeal regional integration in the post-neoliberal era: Negotiating migration policies within Mercosur.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Jun2013, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p541-575. 35p.
Abstract: The negotiation of migration issues within the Latin American Southern Cone Market (Mercosur) has gained momentum lately and has followed a specific (relatively autonomous and fast) dynamic that is unprecedented and contrasts with the slow and conflict...
Transnational actors and the politics of pension reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. May2012, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p267-291. 25p.
Abstract: Drawing on recent scholarship on transnational actors and on the role of ideas in policy change, this paper analyzes the regional context of the pension reform debate in Sub-Saharan Africa, and shows that, at least since the 1980s, there was significan...
Defining the boundaries of legitimate state practice: norms, transnational actors and the OECD's project on harmful tax competition.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Oct2004, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p787-827. 41p.
Abstract: International cooperation could help governments regulate mobile transnational corporations (TNCs), but cooperation is itself embedded in transnational political processes in which TNCs and other private actors exercise influence. This study of the OEC...
Low-income developing countries and WTO litigation: Why wake up the sleeping dog?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. May2012, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p292-316. 25p.
Abstract: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most judicialized dispute settlement systems in international politics. While a general appreciation has developed that the system has worked quite well, research has not paid sufficient attention to the...
The OECD civil servant: Caught between Scylla and Charybdis.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2011, Vol. 18 Issue 5, p592-621. 30p. 2 Diagrams, 5 Charts.
Abstract: Civil servants in international secretariats are exposed to numerous, cross-cutting and, at times, conflicting pressures and expectations. The secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is no different. This study r...
Understanding developing country resistance to the Doha Round.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Feb2008, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p62-85. 24p. 6 Charts, 1 Graph.
Abstract: The Doha Round negotiations at the World Trade Organization have come to a halt. The vast majority of analyses of the (at least temporary) demise of the Doha Round have focused on the lack of the United States and the European Union to reach consensus ...
Transnational mercantilism and the emergent global trading order.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2004, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p597-617. 21p.
Abstract: It is often argued that the problems currently facing the World Trade Organization stem from an important shift in the trade agenda from tariff reduction to the harmonisation of domestic regulations considered as non tariff barriers. From this perspect...