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Author: John Toye Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253004642 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the 1960s, the authors show how the UN both nurtured and inhibited creative and novel intellectual contributions to the trade and development debate. Presenting a stirring account of the main UN actors in this debate, The UN and Global Political Economy focuses on the accomplishments and struggles of UN economists and the role played by such UN agencies as the Department of Economic (and Social) Affairs, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, and the Economic Commission for Latin America (and the Caribbean). It also looks closely at the effects of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the growing strength of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the 1990s, and the lessons to be drawn from these and other recent developments.
Author: John Toye Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253004642 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the 1960s, the authors show how the UN both nurtured and inhibited creative and novel intellectual contributions to the trade and development debate. Presenting a stirring account of the main UN actors in this debate, The UN and Global Political Economy focuses on the accomplishments and struggles of UN economists and the role played by such UN agencies as the Department of Economic (and Social) Affairs, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, and the Economic Commission for Latin America (and the Caribbean). It also looks closely at the effects of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the growing strength of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the 1990s, and the lessons to be drawn from these and other recent developments.
Author: Matias E. Margulis Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1315414600 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: the global political economy of Raúl Prebisch -- Part I Prebisch as architect and theorist of the global political economy -- 1 Development through tighter economic integration: how might Prebisch size up some trends and issues thus far into the twenty-first century? -- 2 Thinking big from the periphery: Raúl Prebisch and the world system -- 3 Raúl Prebisch and the theory of regional economic integration -- 4 The Latin American origins of Bretton Woods -- Part II Power and resistance in the global political economy -- 5 Raúl Prebisch and the historical roots of the current movement against corporate-led globalisation -- 6 From Palais de Nations to Centre William Rappard: Raúl Prebisch and UNCTAD as sources of ideas in the GATT/WTO -- 7 The West remains on top, economically and politically -- Part III Diagnosing structural change in the global political economy -- 8 A changing role for agriculture in global political economy? Brazil's emergence as an agro-power -- 9 Back to the future reloaded: Latin America's development strategy during the commodity boom -- 10 Raúl Prebisch and the terms of trade: how things have changed... -- Index.
Author: John Ravenhill Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199292035 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 562
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An authoritative introduction to Global Political Economy.The book covers all bases: contemporary theory, introductions to particular issue areas, and an extended debate on globalization that reflects a variety of perspectives. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre. Student resources: Timeline Web links Glossary Instructor resources: Tables and figures from the book to download 2 in-depth case studies
Author: David P. Forsythe Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349201960 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 246
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The United Nations is in a time of major crisis in the history of the organization. The product of many leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, this work examines whether out of the crisis of mulitlateralism engulfing the organization in the late 1980s there could arise a renewed and strengthened global body. Pursuing the theme of the dynamics of international cooperation, thirteen authors look at three principal issue-areas: the principal UN organs, leading economic subjects, and leading social subjects. Two distinguished American scholars provide concluding commentaries. Running throughout the book is an emphasis on the economic dimension to international politics.
Author: Anthony Payne Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 0857933485 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 501
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Since the 1990s many of the assumptions that anchored the study of governance in international political economy (IPE) have been shaken loose. Reflecting on the intriguing and important processes of change that have occurred, and are occurring, Profess
Author: James Raymond Vreeland Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139952064 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 313
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Trades of money for political influence persist at every level of government. Not surprisingly, governments themselves trade money for political support on the international stage. Strange, however, is the tale of this book. For, in this study, legitimacy stands as the central political commodity at stake. The book investigates the ways governments trade money for favors at the United Nations Security Council - the body endowed with the international legal authority to legitimize the use of armed force to maintain or restore peace. With a wealth of quantitative data, the book shows that powerful countries, such as the United States, Japan, and Germany, extend financial favors to the elected members of the Security Council through direct foreign aid and through international organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In return, developing countries serving on the Security Council must deliver their political support ... or face the consequences.
Author: Timothy Cadman Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 178347484X Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Languages : en Pages : 288
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Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber certification have become the main mechanisms for financing the sustainable management of the earth’s natural resources. Yet how effective are they – and do they help the planet and developing countries, or merely uphold the economic status quo? This book investigates these important questions. Providing a comprehensive analysis and the latest research on sustainable development, the authors compare the divergent approaches to emissions trading. Included is a detailed investigation into illegal logging and the effectiveness of policy responses, with an evaluation of different forest certification schemes. Biodiversity offsets and environmental payments are also explored. Integral to the book are interviews and opinions of the key stakeholders in the political economy of sustainable development. This uniquely comprehensive analysis of the governance quality of different sustainable development mechanisms, unprecedented in its panorama of comparative case studies, is essential reading for all those in the policy, academic and non-governmental communities.
Author: Mark Rupert Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742529427 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 190
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The politics of globalization include nation-states pursuing power, multinational firms seeking profits for their shareholders, coalitions and networks attempting to promote particular visions of future possible worlds, resistance groups ranging from the nonviolent to the murderous, and ordinary people struggling to feed their families and secure their futures in a rapidly changing world. Globalization and International Political Economy examines processes of globalizing capitalism and the complex politics that are emerging from it--processes and struggles that will determine the shape of our world in the twenty-first century.
Author: David Kennedy Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691180873 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 344
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How today's unjust global order is shaped by uncertain expert knowledge—and how to fix it A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this provocative book, David Kennedy draws on his experience working with international lawyers, human rights advocates, policy professionals, economic development specialists, military lawyers, and humanitarian strategists to provide a unique insider's perspective on the complexities of global governance. He describes the conflicts, unexamined assumptions, and assertions of power and entitlement that lie at the center of expert rule. Kennedy explores the history of intellectual innovation by which experts developed a sophisticated legal vocabulary for global management strangely detached from its distributive consequences. At the center of expert rule is struggle: myriad everyday disputes in which expertise drifts free of its moorings in analytic rigor and observable fact. He proposes tools to model and contest expert work and concludes with an in-depth examination of modern law in warfare as an example of sophisticated expertise in action. Charting a major new direction in global governance at a moment when the international order is ready for change, this critically important book explains how we can harness expert knowledge to remake an unjust world.
Author: John Toye
Author: John Toye
Author: James Raymond Vreeland
Author: Matias E. Margulis
Author: John Ravenhill
Author: David P. Forsythe
Author: Anthony Payne
Author: James Raymond Vreeland
Author: Timothy Cadman
Author: Mark Rupert
Author: David Kennedy