The Un And Global Political Economy

Author : John Toye
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253004642
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The UN and Global Political Economy written by John Toye and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Raymond Vreeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518415
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council written by James Raymond Vreeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ways governments trade money for favors at the United Nations Security Council.

Author : David P. Forsythe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349201960
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United Nations in the World Political Economy written by David P. Forsythe and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-09-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Matias E. Margulis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315414600
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch written by Matias E. Margulis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert G. Gilpin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083127X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Political Economy written by Robert G. Gilpin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end of the Cold War has unleashed new economic and political forces, and new regionalisms have emerged. Computing power is increasingly an impetus to the world economy, and technological developments have changed and are changing almost every aspect of contemporary economic affairs. Gilpin's Global Political Economy considers each of these developments. Reflecting a lifetime of scholarship, it offers a masterful survey of the approaches that have been used to understand international economic relations and the problems faced in the new economy. Gilpin focuses on the powerful economic, political, and technological forces that have transformed the world. He gives particular attention to economic globalization, its real and alleged implications for economic affairs, and the degree to which its nature, extent, and significance have been exaggerated and misunderstood. Moreover, he demonstrates that national policies and domestic economies remain the most critical determinants of economic affairs. The book also stresses the importance of economic regionalism, multinational corporations, and financial upheavals. Gilpin integrates economic and political analysis in his discussion of "global political economy." He employs the conventional theory of international trade, insights from the theory of industrial organization, and endogenous growth theory. In addition, ideas from political science, history, and other disciplines are employed to enrich understanding of the new international economic order. This wide-ranging book is destined to become a landmark in the field.

Author : S. Guzzini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283556
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance written by S. Guzzini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies. Guzzini and Neumann combine these to look at an increasingly global politics with a growing number of agents, recognising the emergence of a global polity.

Author : V. Rittberger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230584292
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authority in the Global Political Economy written by V. Rittberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes changing patterns of authority in the global political economy with an in-depth look at the new roles played by state and non-state actors, and addresses key themes including the provision of global public goods, new modes of regulation and the potential of new institutions for global governance.

Author : Stephen Buzdugan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317276884
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Battle for Global Governance written by Stephen Buzdugan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Battle for Global Governance charts the manner in which largely excluded countries, variously described as ‘ex-colonial’, ‘underdeveloped’, ‘developing’, ‘Third World’ and lately ‘emerging’, have challenged their relationship with the dominant centres of power and major institutions of global governance across each decade from the 1940s to the present. The book offers a fresh perspective on global governance by focusing in particular on the ways in which these countries have organised themselves politically, the demands they have articulated and the responses that have been offered to them through all the key periods in the history of modern global governance. It re-tells this story in a different way and, in so doing, describes and analyses the current rise to a new prominence within several key global institutions, notably the G20, of countries such as Brazil, China, India and South Africa. It sets this important political shift against the wider history of longstanding tensions in global politics and political economy between so-called ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ countries. Providing a comprehensive account of the key moments of change and contestation within leading international organisations and in global governance generally since the end of the Second World War, this book will be of great interest to scholars, students and policymakers interested in politics and international relations, international political economy, development and international organisations.

Author : Timothy Cadman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178347484X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Sustainable Development written by Timothy Cadman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180873
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World of Struggle written by David Kennedy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.