Sunday, May 31, 2020

New Issue: Review of International Political Economy

The latest issue of the Review of International Political Economy (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2020) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Milan Babic, Javier Garcia-Bernardo & Eelke M. Heemskerk, The rise of transnational state capital: state-led foreign investment in the 21st century
    • Samuel Knafo & Sahil Jai Dutta, The myth of the shareholder revolution and the financialization of the firm
    • Florence Dafe, Ambiguity in international finance and the spread of financial norms: the localization of financial inclusion in Kenya and Nigeria
    • Jack Seddon, Merchants against the bankers: the financialization of a commodity market
    • Vincent Woyames Dreher, Divergent effects of international regulatory institutions. Regulating global banks and shadow banking after the global financial crisis of 2007–2009
    • Christian Rauh & Michael Zürn, Authority, politicization, and alternative justifications: endogenous legitimation dynamics in global economic governance1
    • Jean-Philippe Thérien & Vincent Pouliot, Global governance as patchwork: the making of the Sustainable Development Goals
    • Shahar Hameiri, Institutionalism beyond methodological nationalism? The new interdependence approach and the limits of historical institutionalism
    • Alice Evans, Overcoming the global despondency trap: strengthening corporate accountability in supply chains
    • Michael E. Odijie, Is traditional industrial policy defunct? Evidence from the Nigerian cement industry
    • Sébastien Rioux, Genevieve LeBaron & Peter J. Verovšek, Capitalism and unfree labor: a review of Marxist perspectives on modern slavery
  • Commentary
    • Adeel Malik & Max Gallien, Border economies of the Middle East: why do they matter for political economy?