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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Globalisation Debate-From De-Globalisation to the Dark Side of Globalisation -- Coming to Terms with Globalisation -- De-Globalisation or the Dark Side? -- References -- Part I: The Dark Side in the Global Economy -- Chapter 2: Dark Futures: Super-Rich Farmers and Derivatives Markets in an Unstable World -- Redistribution Through Crisis -- Dodd-Frank and Derivatives Reform -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Dark Side of Globalised Production: Economic 'Rebalancing' in Contemporary China -- Introduction -- The Effects of the Crisis of 2008 in China -- The Theory of China's 'Rebalancing' -- Rebalancing Policies -- Hukou Reform -- Welfare Provision -- Pro-labour Policies -- Geographic Reorientation of End Markets -- Rebalancing and the 'Middle-Income Trap' -- Switching Crisis? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Globalisation and Irregular Migration: Does Deterrence Work? -- Migration Control and Globalisation -- The Realist Approach -- The Neoliberal Institutionalist Approach -- The Transnationalist Approach -- The Functioning of Deterrence -- Legal Costs: Certainty and Severity -- Bounded Rationality and Perceptions -- Social Costs: Stigmatisation and Social Control -- The Pitfalls of Deterrence -- Communication and Unconscious Biases -- The Political Dimension -- Do Costs Outweigh Benefits? The Lack of Positive Incentives -- Availability of Alternatives -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Europe and the Dark Side of Globalisation -- Chapter 5: Traditional Organised Crime on the Move: Exploring the Globalisation of the Calabrian 'ndrangheta -- Introduction -- Mafia and 'ndrangheta: The Genus and the Species -- Mafia Mobility -- The European Reach -- Outside of Europe.

Analyses the circumstances and events leading to the demise and reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). This book aims to find a solution to the dilemmas posed by fiscal policy coordination in the context of a single currency area. It is intended for policy-makers and politicians as well as students in political science and economics

Far from enabling France to enhance its power over European monetary policy, the Euro has served to consolidate the Federal Republic of Germany's primacy in Europe. We argue that German policies that have underwritten this primacy are determined not primarily by the ordoliberal ideas of German state managers, but rather because these ideas correspond to the requirements of Germany's neo-mercantilist export model and the interests of its most powerful socio-economic actors. Germany's material/corporate interests—and its particular domestic and regional predicament—create enormous obstacles to the abandonment of ordoliberalism and the adoption of the more expansive fiscal policies that most observers believe are necessary to sustain the Eurozone.

Far from enabling France to enhance its power over European monetary policy, the Euro has served to consolidate the Federal Republic of Germany's primacy in Europe. We argue that German policies that have underwritten this primacy are determined not primarily by the ordoliberal ideas of German state managers, but rather because these ideas correspond to the requirements of Germany's neo-mercantilist export model and the interests of its most powerful socio-economic actors. Germany's material/corporate interests—and its particular domestic and regional predicament—create enormous obstacles to the abandonment of ordoliberalism and the adoption of the more expansive fiscal policies that most observers believe are necessary to sustain the Eurozone.

This book seeks to identify the reasons why some countries were more efficient and effective than others in responding to the COVID 19 pandemic, and why the global community failed to coalesce. What are the political determinants of the different state responses to the pandemic? Why was scientific advice rejected or ignored in many countries? What has been the role, respectively, of neoliberalism, populism, and authoritarianism in the making of Covid-19 policy? What role have each of these factors played in the uneven and clearly inadequate global response to the pandemic? In an effort to understand why some states failed to handle the pandemic properly, some of the literature suggests that populism is at the root of the current failure of international co-operation. The global financial crisis of 2008-10 triggered significant cooperation within the G-20, led by the combined efforts of the United States and China. These forms of cooperation have clearly disappeared in the context of the pandemic, not only with respect to economic policy but also in public health and management. The authors of this volume link the different state responses to the pandemic-- from its inception to the start of the vaccination campaign, and to the political regimes prevailing in each. In particular, the present volume focuses on a distinction between the responses of neo-liberal regimes, populist regimes and authoritarian ones. Leila Simona Talani has been Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of European and International Studies at King's College London since 2014. She is the current editor of the Palgrave series: The Politics of Citizenship and Migration. Alan Cafruny (Ph.D.) Cornell (1983) is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College. He is a former series editor (with Herman Schwartz) of the series: Advances in International Political Economy, sponsored by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.

In recent elections across the European Union, parties adopting an anti-immigration stance and making use of populist rhetoric have been gaining electoral breakthrough. Against this backdrop, and in order to contribute to a deeper understanding of the connections binding migration and populism dynamics in Europe, this volume aims to trigger a discussion on the causes and consequences of the rise of populism in Europe, and deconstruct the rhetorical frames it uses to depict migratory flows as an exceptional phenomenon

Challenging the assumptions of 'mainstream' International Political Economy (IPE), this Handbook demonstrates the considerable value of critical theory to the discipline through a series of cutting-edge studies. The field of IPE has always had an inbuilt vocation within Historical Materialism, with an explicit ambition to make sense, from a critical standpoint, of the capitalist mode of production as a world system of sometimes paradoxically and sometimes smoothly overlapping states and markets. Having spearheaded the growth of a vigorous critical scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Marxism and neo-Gramscian approaches became increasingly marginalized over the course of the 1980s. The authors respond to the exposure of limits to mainstream contemporary scholarship in the wake of the onset of the Global Financial Crisis, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field of Critical International Political Economy. Problematizing socioeconomic and political structures, and considering these as potentially transitory and subject to change, the contributors aim not simply to understand a world of conflict, but furthermore to uncover the ways in which purportedly objective analyses reflect the interests of those in positions of privilege and power.

Did the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession rearrange the basic structures of the global economy? To answer that fundamental question, the authors of Exploring the Global Financial Crisis tackle a number of related questions: What has happened, for example, to global flows of people, goods, and capital? Will the euro and the dollar persist as global currencies? Can governments that bailed out failing banks by vastly expanding public debt manage to regain solvency, and at what political cost? Ranging across regions, and from the factors that gave birth to the crisis to current politico-economic rivalries, the authors present both mainstream and critical views on the central issues involved