All ebooks in the collection "International Political Economy Series" - Palgrave Macmillan

Energy, Capitalism and World Order

Tim Di Muzio

This original, timely and innovative collection is the first to offer critical IPE perspectives on the interconnections between energy, capitalism and the future of world order. The authors discuss the importance of energy for our understanding of the global political...

The Political Economy of Urban Water Security under Climate Change

Corrine Cash , Larry Swatuk

In 2018, the city of Cape Town faced the prospect of reaching ‘day zero’, that is a combination of natural and human-made factors leading to the complete collapse of its municipal water supply. While the rains eventually fell and a major disaster was averted, the fear...

The Political Economy of Intra-BRICS Cooperation

Siphamandla Zondi

This book uses the idea of internal cohesion through intra-BRICS cooperation to make the argument that the next phase in the evolution of BRICS is to strengthen cooperation among BRICS countries in the implementation of decisions taken. There is a risk that what the...

The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes

Sherzod Eraliev , Rustamjon Urinboyev

This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime...

The Political Economy of Sino–South African Trade and Regional Competition

Bhaso Ndzendze

This book comparatively examines the China–South Africa trade relationship over three decades through the prism of four other relationships South Africa has with states that have been China’s most contentious neighbours in the Indo-Pacific (India, Japan, Taiwan and the...

The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity

Sandya Hewamanne , Smytta Yadav

This edited volume highlights cascading effects of the pandemic and lockdown on informal economies of varied countries in the Global South. Uneven development after colonization, imperialism, and externally influenced conflict have caused many countries in the...

South—South Regional Financial Arrangements

Diana Barrowclough , Kevin P. Gallagher , Richard Kozul-Wright , William N. Kring

This book shows how regional cooperation and integration have increased massively in scale and scope in recent years, as developing countries seek new ways to shield themselves from economic turbulence and to kick-start their economies in the face of stagnant global...

Transformative Citizenship in South Korea

Chang Kyung-Sup

South Korea’s postcolonial history has been replete with dramatic societal transformations through which it has emerged with a fully blown modernity, or compressed modernity. There have arisen the transformation-oriented state, society, and citizenry for which each...

The Political Economy of China—US Relations

Mzukisi Qobo

This book offers a rich perspective on Africa’s agency in the changing global order marked by intense geopolitical contestations. It discusses ways in which the African continent has been on the margins of the global economic system because of the actions of major...

The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition'

Agnes Gagyi , Ondrej Slacálek

The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe

Agnes Gagyi

Contrary to dominant narratives which portray East European politics as a pendulum swing between democracy and authoritarianism, conventionally defined in terms of an ahistorical cultural geography of East vs. West, this book analyzes post-socialist transformation as...

The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa

Kenneth Omeje

This book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa. The principal factor that accounts for this failure is the prolific non-productive forms of capitalism that tend...

China and Global Governance

Peng Bo

This book proposes a new concept of “International Leadership with Chinese Characteristics” (ILCC) to interpret China’s role in global governance. The author illustrates how the concept of ILCC is built on the basis of the discussion of Chinese political culture and...

A Political Economy of Free Zones in Gulf Arab States

Robert Mogielnicki

This is the first book-length empirical study of free zones (FZs) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The volume systematically illustrates the development processes behind FZs in Gulf Arab states and assesses the impact of these commercial entities on regional...

India–Africa Partnerships for Food Security and Capacity Building

Renu Modi , Meera Venkatachalam

This compendium showcases the ongoing trends and challenges in South-South cooperation between India and select countries in Africa, for achieving food security and poverty reduction. Scholars and practitioners share diverse perspectives on the role of India’s...

The BRICS Order

David Monyae , Bhaso Ndzendze

This book examines the direction of the BRICS association. Beginning with historical analyses of the broader Global South and the fundamental composition of the BRICS countries and then moving on to present trends, The BRICS Order evaluates the variables that will...

Low Carbon Energy in the Middle East and North Africa

Robin Mills , Li-Chen Sim

This book explores the evolving roles of energy stakeholders and geopolitical considerations, leveraging on the dizzying array of planned and actual projects for solar, wind, hydropower, waste-to-energy, and nuclear power in the region. Over the next few decades,...

Emerging Powers, Development Cooperation and South-South Relations

Chithra Purushothaman

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations. With their growing economic and political...

Precarity and International Relations

Tahseen Kazi , Ritu Vij , Elisa Wynne-Hughes

This book addresses the implications of current thinking on precarity, precariousness and the precariat for the study of International Relations and International Political Economy. Drawing on a broad range of critical theoretical resources including literatures on...

Religions in International Political Economy

Sabine Dreher

This book shows how religions and their internal struggles shape key actors and processes in the international political economy. It highlights how fundamentalist, business-oriented Christians in the United States were instrumental in the neoliberal turn in US hegemony,...