Rethinking Global Political Economy - Emerging Issues, Unfolding Odysseys

Rethinking Global Political Economy contains incisive analysis of history, linguistics, class, culture, empirical data and normative concerns.
This important volume presents innovative approaches to fundamental issues in global political economy. Together they provide multiple arguments and avenues for rethinking global political economy in a time of turmoil and system transformation. It will appeal to those interested in seeing new perspectives and healthy heterodoxy in the study of political economy.

List of contents

Introduction 1. New Odysseys in the Global Political Economy: Fundamentalist Contention and Economic Conflict Mary Ann Tétreault 2. Analytical Advances to Address New Dynamics V.Spike Peterson 3. Metageographical Moments: A Geohistorical interpretation of Embedded Statism and Globalization Peter J. Taylor 4. Creating Global Hegemony: Culture and the Market Barbara Jenkins 5. Globalization as Global History: Introducing a Dialectical Analysis Barry K. Gills 6. Mergers, Stagflation, and the Logic of Globalization Jonathan Nitzan 7. Global Dreams and Local Anger: From Structural to Acute Violence in a Globalizing World Peter Uvin 8. Globalization, New Trade Theory, and a Keynesian Reformist project Hartmut Elsenhans 9. Exploitation and Solidarity: Putting the Political Back into IPE Alejandro Colás 10. The Globalization of Human Affairs: A Reconsideration of Science, Political Economy, and World Order Clark Miller 11. Alternative Directions in the Study of the Global Political Economy Robert A. Denemark

About the author

Mary Ann Tétreault is Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Trinity University, USA. Robert A. Denemark is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Delaware, USA. Kenneth P. Thomas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the Center for International Studies at University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. Kurt Burch is Associate Professor in Political Science at St Olaf College, USA.

Summary

This new volume presents innovative approaches to the fundamental issues of the global political economy, in particular post Cold War development, analyses of capital and negative aspects of globalization.

Product details

• Authors: Kurt Denemark Burch
• Assisted by: Kurt Burch (Editor), Burch Kurt (Editor), Robert a Denemark (Editor), Robert A. Denemark (Editor), Denemark Robert A. (Editor), Mary Ann Tétreault (Editor), Kenneth P Thomas (Editor), Kenneth P. Thomas (Editor), Thomas Kenneth P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415859998
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85999-8
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy; Routledge/RIPE Studies in Glob; RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government