The Politics of International Political Economy

Vassilis K. Fouskas is a Professor of International Politics and Economics at the Royal Docks Business School and Director of STAMP (Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People), University of East London, United Kingdom. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge, quarterly) and the co-author of Greece, Financialization and the EU. The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction (London and New York, 2013)

Foreword. Acknowledgments. The Contributors. Abbreviations. Chapter 1. Global Political Economy and the Separation of Academic Disciplines Kees Van der Pijl Chapter 2. The Bretton Woods System (1944-1971) Alex Tackie Chapter 3. The Failure of Neo-liberal Financialisation (1971-1991) Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bulent Gokay Chapter 4. Shock Therapy and the Political Economy of the Former Soviet Space Sabine Spangenberg Chapter 5. Revisiting the 1992-93 EMS Crisis in the Context of International Political Economy Dimitris P. Sotiropoulous Chapter 6. Asia Catches Cold, Russia Sneezes: The Political Economy of Emerging Market Crises in 1997-98 Michael F. Keating Chapter 7. The Rise of the qi ye ji tuan and the Emergence of Chinese Hegemony Jayantha Jayman Chapter 8. The Global South: From Dependency to Convergence? Ray Kiely Chapter 9. The Policy Response to the Great Recession of 2008: Is it the 1930s all over again? Yiannis Kitromilides Chapter 10. Understanding the Global Financial Crisis Bulent Gokay Chapter 11. The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings Shampa Roy-Mukherjee Chapter 12. The Politics and Economics of the Greek Debt Crisis Constantine Dimoulas and Vassilis K. Fouskas A - Z Glossary: Key Concepts in International Political Economy