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Capital rules: the construction of global finance
The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the case. Transactions routinely executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s – trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies – had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier.
The rules of globalization: case book
In: World Scientific studies in international economics Vol. 4
National purpose in the world economy: post-Soviet states in comparative perspective
In: Cornell studies in political economy
How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link between national identity and the economic policies of the new states formed by the breakup of the Soviet Union. All these states, from the Baltic coast to central Asia, were economically dependent on Russia during the 1990s. However, they reacted very differently to that dependence, and their reactions can be traced, Abdelal contends, to their individual societies. Some, such as Belarus, found dependence inevitable and sought economic reintegration with Russia. Others, like Lithuania, interpreted dependence as a large-scale security threat and reoriented their economies away from Russia. A third group, typified by Ukraine, demonstrated no coherent economic policy at all regarding dependence. Abdelal distinguishes the Nationalist tradition in international political economy from the Realist tradition, and shows that economic nationalism is different than mercantilism. He demonstrates the ways that national identity affects economic policy and explains why some governments seek economic autonomy while others prefer regional reintegration. He then applies his approach to other cases of economic reorganization after the end of empire--eastern Europe in the 1920s after the Habsburgs, 1950s Indonesia, and French West Africa in the 1960s
Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash: Lessons from America and Europe for a Sustainable Globalization
In: Global policy: gp, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 492-500
ISSN: 1758-5899
AbstractThe greatest challenge to the sustainability of our current era of globalization comes from within the United States. Most Americans have come to reject globalization. We must discern the lessons from the parts of the developed world where the backlash is also profound – France, for example – and where it has been more muted – such as Germany. In both the United States and France, gross Gini coefficients have increased sharply during the past thirty or so years. The French state has, however, delivered a net, after‐tax, after‐transfer distribution of income that is more equal than it was thirty years ago. And yet: France is still in the midst of an anti‐systemic populist revolt. There is only one inescapable conclusion: it is not just about the money. Those who feel left behind in both countries feel that they have lost respect and dignity. We cannot redistribute our way out of the crisis of global capitalism. The German experience holds lessons. We must value and valorize the many ways in which people contribute. We must also pursue policies that create patterns of employment that confer dignity, meaning, and purpose. I argue for dignity as a tool of policy, beyond its normative desirability as a goal.
The multinational firm and geopolitics: Europe, Russian energy, and power
In: Business and politics: B&P, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 553-576
ISSN: 1469-3569
Multinational firms unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the reciprocal relationship between multinational firms and geopolitical systems. The links between multinational firms form a distinct type of international system for the private sector – one that is simultaneously enmeshed in geopolitics and international markets even as it is also autonomous from them. The scholarly literature on the power of business in politics has demonstrated how influence derives from instrumental agency as well as structural influence, but it has taken an unnecessarily restrictive view of politics and an overly materialist theory of power. Politics are about much more than government policies. In this paper I propose an analytical framework for understanding the multinational firm as a set of relationships. I then apply one key element of that approach – the relationships among firms as a direct source of geopolitical outcomes – to the natural gas trade of Eurasia in three eras that span nearly 40 years. I conclude that the influence of business on a broader understanding of politics – and not just policies – should be central to the study of international and comparative political economy.
The profits of power: Commerce andrealpolitikin Eurasia
In: Review of international political economy, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 421-456
ISSN: 1466-4526
The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests by Anne L. Clunan
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 125, Heft 2, S. 322-324
ISSN: 1538-165X
The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 125, Heft 2, S. 322-325
ISSN: 0032-3195
Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade. By Cornelia Woll. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. 186p. $39.95 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 451-453
ISSN: 1541-0986
Europe's Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union. Ed. Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 255 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95, hard bound
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 68, Heft 3, S. 684-685
ISSN: 2325-7784
Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi
In: Geopolitics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 317-327
ISSN: 1557-3028
Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985–2005
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 5, Heft 4
ISSN: 1541-0986
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Nicolas Jabko, 'Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985-2005'
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 864
ISSN: 1537-5927
Writing the rules of global finance: France, Europe, and capital liberalization
In: Review of international political economy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 1-27
ISSN: 1466-4526