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Universal values, foreign money: funding local human rights organizations in the global south.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Feb2016, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p29-64. 36p.
Abstract: Local human rights organizations (LHROs) are key domestic and transnational actors, modifying, diffusing, and promoting liberal norms; mobilizing citizens; networking with the media and activists; and pressuring governments to implement international c...
The World Bank and core labour standards: Between flexibility and regulation.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Mar2014, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p399-431. 33p.
Abstract: Over the past decade, the World Bank has moved closer to accepting the International Labour Organization's (ILO's) core labour standards (CLS) and, in the process, sought to balance its promotion of labour market flexibility with a new focus on labour ...
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...