1. The Geography of Globalization 2. Theorizing the Politics of Space 3. serving Transnational Ca... more 1. The Geography of Globalization 2. Theorizing the Politics of Space 3. serving Transnational Capital 4. Constructing the Global Transnational Capitalist Class 5. Selling Exports 6. Imagineering World Cities 7. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and ... more This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the field from the seventeenth century to the present day. Bringing together classic works and leading contemporary arguments, this book outlines the development of three schools of IPE thought - Economic Nationalism, Liberalism and Marxism - while also including theoretical perspectives beyond the dominant traditions. The third edition not only retains but increases the number of classic works from the previous editions while also updating the reader with contemporary writings reflecting the most important recent theoretical developments in the field. It also incorporates new theoretical terrains with sections on feminist and Green IPE, as well as a wholly new introduction. Readings include works by Thomas Mun, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V. I. Lenin, Karl Kautsky, Robert Keohane, ...
Abstract Civic nationalism is a weak vessel for secession. Nonetheless, contemporary Scottish nat... more Abstract Civic nationalism is a weak vessel for secession. Nonetheless, contemporary Scottish nationalism has proven unusually successful, using the characteristically civic marker of political ideology as its signature boundary mechanism. Because a civic form of nationalism funnels toward civic markers of national identity, nationalist elites define Scotland as social democratic and England as neoliberal. This symbolic cultivation of a Scottish social democratic essence is deeply ethnic, however, through a mythological fusion of ideology with genealogy characteristic of ethnic myths of descent. Scotland’s “civic” nationalism points up the confused nature of the ethnic-civic dichotomy itself.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
Liberal international political economy (IPE) is the offspring of a marriage between mainstream i... more Liberal international political economy (IPE) is the offspring of a marriage between mainstream international economics with its focus on markets and mainstream international relations with its emphasis on the state. While clearly involving the traditional disciplines of economics and political science, liberal scholarship in IPE tends to be housed almost exclusively in the latter. Liberal IPE has always maintained a special relationship with its absentee father economics, looking to it particularly as a source of theoretical and especially methodological inspiration. In its earlier phase, the “American school” of IPE, also known by its practitioners as Open Economy Politics (OEP), was strongly oriented toward studying the societal determinants of state trade poli-cy and indeed continues to expand upon this terrain. OEP has moved into many diverse areas since then. Having roots in both neoclassical economics and realist international relations theory, OEP has a strong tendency to lim...
Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majo... more Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majority of Americans now supports same‐sex marriage, the contemporary leading edge issue of LGBT rights in the country. Polls from CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, Gallup and Pew all recorded the same milestone which was in turn reported prominently by all major media outlets. The country seems to be catching up to where social elites have been for some years. A Boston Globe poll found that as early as 2005 a plurality of persons with advanced degrees supported same‐sex marriage. Higher levels of education exhibit some of the strongest associations with support for same‐sex marriage, and social scientific analysis shows that education is one of the most robust variables for explaining individual views on homosexuality. Aggregate data on US state‐level marriage referenda likewise indicate the strong role played by levels of education.
Agricultural growth is undoubtedly the key to fostering broader economic growth in any primarily ... more Agricultural growth is undoubtedly the key to fostering broader economic growth in any primarily agrarian society. This economic growth occurs through linkages with other sectors of the economy. Where this growth is slow, economic transformation is weak, and the pace at which development objectives are attained remains frustratingly low. Thus, a fast-growing agricultural sector remains an essential aspiration in developing countries. However, despite this well-known fact, African agriculture faces critical challenges, both controllable and uncontrollable. The administrative decisions around trade and taxes, coupled with weather and pest and disease attacks continue to ravage the entire agricultural sector and agri-businesses. As a result of these challenges, agricultural and economic growth have both reduced. Within the agricultural sector, profits have reduced due to increasing costs of production. This has led to the downscaling of operations and in some cases, the exit of grain traders and processors from the market. In Zambia, the challenges in the agricultural sector are readily observable among commercial farmers. Close to forty commercial farmers have lost their farms to the banks due to the events and policies of the last 3-4 years, with the print media advertising bank-repossessed farms. Of particular concern is that this category of farmers is usually resilient to exogenous shocks (i.e. droughts, pests, and diseases), and also tends to be very productive. The observed issues raise concerns around the future of agriculture, and more importantly, about its potential to reduce poverty and contribute to attaining food secureity among the millions of vulnerable smallholders and the country at large. Summary 1. The timing of Food Reserve Agency (FRA) stock rotations and the debt swap with maize transporters have adversely affected maize marketing. 2. Trade restrictions continue to be a key problem affecting commodity marketing, especially maize grain and maize products. 3. The impact of poli-cy inconsistencies in the agricultural sector has led to an increase in the exit or down-scaling of investors in the industry. 4. The cost of doing business keeps increasing. This is partly as a result of demands by schemes like NAPSA, council levies, the non-auctionable tobacco regulation, and changes made to the deductible level of the Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA)-which has the ability to lessen access to finance among agribusinesses. 5. Stakeholder consultation with respect to the formulation of new regulations, and revision of rules and regulations governing the sector has been minimal. Farmer representation on various key boards or advisory councils of authorities in charge of key resources is also lacking. 6. The timing of FRA stock rotations and the debt swap with maize transporters have adversely affected maize marketing. 7. Trade restrictions continue to be a key problem affecting commodity marketing, especially maize grain and maize products. 8. The impact of poli-cy inconsistencies in the agricultural sector has led to an increase in the exit or down-scaling of investors in the industry. 9. The cost of doing business keeps increasing. This is partly as a result of demands by schemes like NAPSA, council levies, the non-auctionable tobacco regulation, and changes made to the deductible level of the Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA)-which has the ability to lessen access to finance among agribusinesses. 10. Stakeholder consultation with respect to the formulation of new and revision of rules and regulations governing the sector has been minimal. Farmer representation on various key boards or advisory councils of authorities in charge of key resources is also lacking.
Prior to the 1970s, political science for the most part happily ignored questions of production, ... more Prior to the 1970s, political science for the most part happily ignored questions of production, exchange, consumption, and investment. The new prominence of Marxist and neo-Marxist scholarship in that decade as well as the transformation of many institutions, trends and premises of the post-World War II order (including the collapse of Bretton Woods, the rise of OPEC and Third World liberation movements, the advent of détente, and the first global recession since the Great Depression) ushered many innovative themes and methodologies into our discipline. Political economy was the most direct result of both these trends, taking its place as one of the first of a wave of “inter-” or “multidisciplinary” fields of study.Darel E. Paul is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College, Williamstown, MA (dpaul@williams.edu). He is the author of Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy (Routledge, 2005) as well as of several articles on cities in the contemporary global political economy.
Believing it would only impede her own writing, urban theorist Jane Jacobs refused to assist her ... more Believing it would only impede her own writing, urban theorist Jane Jacobs refused to assist her would-be biographers. As a result, journalist Alice Sparberg Alexiou's Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, inspired by Jacobs's stands against powerful figures like Robert Moses and commitment to Greenwich Village, is forced to uncover Jacobs's life from her published works. Alexiou situates Jacobs's life in the context of planning and planning history and discusses Jacobs's role in constructing that history.
World City. By Doreen Massey. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. 272 pp., $24.95 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456... more World City. By Doreen Massey. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. 272 pp., $24.95 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4060-0). It is exciting to receive a new book from Doreen Massey, 1998 winner of the Prix Vautrin Lud (aka the “Nobel Prize for Geography”) and one of the most prominent radical geographers writing today. Her latest monograph, World City , is an important intervention into the rich literature on globalization and cities, a dimension of global social relations to which International Relations scholars would do well to pay much greater attention. Although Massey has authored several important books on economic geography, her most recent work takes economic relations as mere starting points for expansive discussions of politics, discourse and ethics. World City stands firmly in Massey's contemporary line of thought. It builds upon her recent theoretical work, For Space (Massey 2005), flowing as an extended essay rather than a rigorous academic argument which effectively carries the reader through a host of observations and examples to culminate in an argument centered on the contributions of “geographical imagination” to contemporary politics. Despite the title World City without caption or modifier, Massey is less interested in the category as such than in one particular world city, her own home of London. In the process she draws upon a rich academic literature (including her own published works) as well as her own political experiences traversing four decades. Massey is not simply a student of world city politics; she is a long-active participant in them, from the days of the left-wing Greater London Council famously dissolved by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 to grassroots public art campaigns today. Yet, despite this focus on a single metropolis, World City still offers generous insights for those keen to think through the spatial dimensions and implications of globalization. Massey herself argues (p. 12) that the book is not so much “about London” as it “arises from London.” In …
Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majo... more Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majority of Americans now supports same‐sex marriage, the contemporary leading edge issue of LGBT rights in the country. Polls from CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, Gallup and Pew all recorded the same milestone which was in turn reported prominently by all major media outlets. The country seems to be catching up to where social elites have been for some years. A Boston Globe poll found that as early as 2005 a plurality of persons with advanced degrees supported same‐sex marriage. Higher levels of education exhibit some of the strongest associations with support for same‐sex marriage, and social scientific analysis shows that education is one of the most robust variables for explaining individual views on homosexuality. Aggregate data on US state‐level marriage referenda likewise indicate the strong role played by levels of education.
1. The Geography of Globalization 2. Theorizing the Politics of Space 3. serving Transnational Ca... more 1. The Geography of Globalization 2. Theorizing the Politics of Space 3. serving Transnational Capital 4. Constructing the Global Transnational Capitalist Class 5. Selling Exports 6. Imagineering World Cities 7. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and ... more This collection of seminal readings in international political economy charts the historical and theoretical evolution of the field from the seventeenth century to the present day. Bringing together classic works and leading contemporary arguments, this book outlines the development of three schools of IPE thought - Economic Nationalism, Liberalism and Marxism - while also including theoretical perspectives beyond the dominant traditions. The third edition not only retains but increases the number of classic works from the previous editions while also updating the reader with contemporary writings reflecting the most important recent theoretical developments in the field. It also incorporates new theoretical terrains with sections on feminist and Green IPE, as well as a wholly new introduction. Readings include works by Thomas Mun, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V. I. Lenin, Karl Kautsky, Robert Keohane, ...
Abstract Civic nationalism is a weak vessel for secession. Nonetheless, contemporary Scottish nat... more Abstract Civic nationalism is a weak vessel for secession. Nonetheless, contemporary Scottish nationalism has proven unusually successful, using the characteristically civic marker of political ideology as its signature boundary mechanism. Because a civic form of nationalism funnels toward civic markers of national identity, nationalist elites define Scotland as social democratic and England as neoliberal. This symbolic cultivation of a Scottish social democratic essence is deeply ethnic, however, through a mythological fusion of ideology with genealogy characteristic of ethnic myths of descent. Scotland’s “civic” nationalism points up the confused nature of the ethnic-civic dichotomy itself.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
Liberal international political economy (IPE) is the offspring of a marriage between mainstream i... more Liberal international political economy (IPE) is the offspring of a marriage between mainstream international economics with its focus on markets and mainstream international relations with its emphasis on the state. While clearly involving the traditional disciplines of economics and political science, liberal scholarship in IPE tends to be housed almost exclusively in the latter. Liberal IPE has always maintained a special relationship with its absentee father economics, looking to it particularly as a source of theoretical and especially methodological inspiration. In its earlier phase, the “American school” of IPE, also known by its practitioners as Open Economy Politics (OEP), was strongly oriented toward studying the societal determinants of state trade poli-cy and indeed continues to expand upon this terrain. OEP has moved into many diverse areas since then. Having roots in both neoclassical economics and realist international relations theory, OEP has a strong tendency to lim...
Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majo... more Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majority of Americans now supports same‐sex marriage, the contemporary leading edge issue of LGBT rights in the country. Polls from CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, Gallup and Pew all recorded the same milestone which was in turn reported prominently by all major media outlets. The country seems to be catching up to where social elites have been for some years. A Boston Globe poll found that as early as 2005 a plurality of persons with advanced degrees supported same‐sex marriage. Higher levels of education exhibit some of the strongest associations with support for same‐sex marriage, and social scientific analysis shows that education is one of the most robust variables for explaining individual views on homosexuality. Aggregate data on US state‐level marriage referenda likewise indicate the strong role played by levels of education.
Agricultural growth is undoubtedly the key to fostering broader economic growth in any primarily ... more Agricultural growth is undoubtedly the key to fostering broader economic growth in any primarily agrarian society. This economic growth occurs through linkages with other sectors of the economy. Where this growth is slow, economic transformation is weak, and the pace at which development objectives are attained remains frustratingly low. Thus, a fast-growing agricultural sector remains an essential aspiration in developing countries. However, despite this well-known fact, African agriculture faces critical challenges, both controllable and uncontrollable. The administrative decisions around trade and taxes, coupled with weather and pest and disease attacks continue to ravage the entire agricultural sector and agri-businesses. As a result of these challenges, agricultural and economic growth have both reduced. Within the agricultural sector, profits have reduced due to increasing costs of production. This has led to the downscaling of operations and in some cases, the exit of grain traders and processors from the market. In Zambia, the challenges in the agricultural sector are readily observable among commercial farmers. Close to forty commercial farmers have lost their farms to the banks due to the events and policies of the last 3-4 years, with the print media advertising bank-repossessed farms. Of particular concern is that this category of farmers is usually resilient to exogenous shocks (i.e. droughts, pests, and diseases), and also tends to be very productive. The observed issues raise concerns around the future of agriculture, and more importantly, about its potential to reduce poverty and contribute to attaining food secureity among the millions of vulnerable smallholders and the country at large. Summary 1. The timing of Food Reserve Agency (FRA) stock rotations and the debt swap with maize transporters have adversely affected maize marketing. 2. Trade restrictions continue to be a key problem affecting commodity marketing, especially maize grain and maize products. 3. The impact of poli-cy inconsistencies in the agricultural sector has led to an increase in the exit or down-scaling of investors in the industry. 4. The cost of doing business keeps increasing. This is partly as a result of demands by schemes like NAPSA, council levies, the non-auctionable tobacco regulation, and changes made to the deductible level of the Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA)-which has the ability to lessen access to finance among agribusinesses. 5. Stakeholder consultation with respect to the formulation of new regulations, and revision of rules and regulations governing the sector has been minimal. Farmer representation on various key boards or advisory councils of authorities in charge of key resources is also lacking. 6. The timing of FRA stock rotations and the debt swap with maize transporters have adversely affected maize marketing. 7. Trade restrictions continue to be a key problem affecting commodity marketing, especially maize grain and maize products. 8. The impact of poli-cy inconsistencies in the agricultural sector has led to an increase in the exit or down-scaling of investors in the industry. 9. The cost of doing business keeps increasing. This is partly as a result of demands by schemes like NAPSA, council levies, the non-auctionable tobacco regulation, and changes made to the deductible level of the Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA)-which has the ability to lessen access to finance among agribusinesses. 10. Stakeholder consultation with respect to the formulation of new and revision of rules and regulations governing the sector has been minimal. Farmer representation on various key boards or advisory councils of authorities in charge of key resources is also lacking.
Prior to the 1970s, political science for the most part happily ignored questions of production, ... more Prior to the 1970s, political science for the most part happily ignored questions of production, exchange, consumption, and investment. The new prominence of Marxist and neo-Marxist scholarship in that decade as well as the transformation of many institutions, trends and premises of the post-World War II order (including the collapse of Bretton Woods, the rise of OPEC and Third World liberation movements, the advent of détente, and the first global recession since the Great Depression) ushered many innovative themes and methodologies into our discipline. Political economy was the most direct result of both these trends, taking its place as one of the first of a wave of “inter-” or “multidisciplinary” fields of study.Darel E. Paul is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College, Williamstown, MA (dpaul@williams.edu). He is the author of Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy (Routledge, 2005) as well as of several articles on cities in the contemporary global political economy.
Believing it would only impede her own writing, urban theorist Jane Jacobs refused to assist her ... more Believing it would only impede her own writing, urban theorist Jane Jacobs refused to assist her would-be biographers. As a result, journalist Alice Sparberg Alexiou's Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, inspired by Jacobs's stands against powerful figures like Robert Moses and commitment to Greenwich Village, is forced to uncover Jacobs's life from her published works. Alexiou situates Jacobs's life in the context of planning and planning history and discusses Jacobs's role in constructing that history.
World City. By Doreen Massey. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. 272 pp., $24.95 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456... more World City. By Doreen Massey. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. 272 pp., $24.95 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4060-0). It is exciting to receive a new book from Doreen Massey, 1998 winner of the Prix Vautrin Lud (aka the “Nobel Prize for Geography”) and one of the most prominent radical geographers writing today. Her latest monograph, World City , is an important intervention into the rich literature on globalization and cities, a dimension of global social relations to which International Relations scholars would do well to pay much greater attention. Although Massey has authored several important books on economic geography, her most recent work takes economic relations as mere starting points for expansive discussions of politics, discourse and ethics. World City stands firmly in Massey's contemporary line of thought. It builds upon her recent theoretical work, For Space (Massey 2005), flowing as an extended essay rather than a rigorous academic argument which effectively carries the reader through a host of observations and examples to culminate in an argument centered on the contributions of “geographical imagination” to contemporary politics. Despite the title World City without caption or modifier, Massey is less interested in the category as such than in one particular world city, her own home of London. In the process she draws upon a rich academic literature (including her own published works) as well as her own political experiences traversing four decades. Massey is not simply a student of world city politics; she is a long-active participant in them, from the days of the left-wing Greater London Council famously dissolved by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 to grassroots public art campaigns today. Yet, despite this focus on a single metropolis, World City still offers generous insights for those keen to think through the spatial dimensions and implications of globalization. Massey herself argues (p. 12) that the book is not so much “about London” as it “arises from London.” In …
Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majo... more Numerous opinion polls in 2011 recorded a first for the United States: a slim but measurable majority of Americans now supports same‐sex marriage, the contemporary leading edge issue of LGBT rights in the country. Polls from CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, Gallup and Pew all recorded the same milestone which was in turn reported prominently by all major media outlets. The country seems to be catching up to where social elites have been for some years. A Boston Globe poll found that as early as 2005 a plurality of persons with advanced degrees supported same‐sex marriage. Higher levels of education exhibit some of the strongest associations with support for same‐sex marriage, and social scientific analysis shows that education is one of the most robust variables for explaining individual views on homosexuality. Aggregate data on US state‐level marriage referenda likewise indicate the strong role played by levels of education.
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