Randall Germain
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1121648 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Randall Germain |
| NOMBRES | Randall |
| APELLIDO | Germain |
| FIRMA | GERMAIN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2632-7784 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Strangely inspired
The academic imprint of Susan Strange, long considered a pioneer in the field of IPE, no longer resonates with contemporary debates about the organization and structure of the global political economy. We argue that her analytical framework continues to be a productive way to think about important current developments, most importantly in relation to what can now be called the digital age and its emergent form of capitalism. We therefore modify a…
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE
Ripe 30th anniversary special feature
The field of International Political Economy (IPE) has changed considerably since the inception of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE).This 30th anniversary editorial reflects on how these changes have impacted the journal's publications over the past ten years.Some trends are promising.RIPE has become more gender inclusive, as the share of women authors in submissions and publications has risen.RIPE has also resisted the 'quanti…
Ripe 2022 diversity statement
Ripe 2021 diversity statement
As part of our commitment to diversity in academic publishing, since 2021 the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) publishes annual diversity statements providing information about RIPE’s editorial team and contributors (see Bair et al. 2021a, 2021b). \n \nWe recognise that the information thus presented provides only a very limited characterisation of diversity in our field, given significant restrictions on the data we can collect. …
Ripe 2020 diversity statement
As part of our commitment to diversity in academic publishing, the editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) decided in 2020 to publish annually a diversity statement, providing information about RIPE’s editorial team and contributors. Bair et al. (2021) provide further information on our commitment to strengthening equality, diversity and inclusion in international political economy and in the pages of RIPE. \n \n
Strengthening Ripe’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in our field
As editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), we are committed to expanding intellectual horizons and reflecting diverse perspectives to stimulate eye-opening discussions of global political and economic affairs. In delivering the journal’s mission of encouraging a global, interdisciplinary, and pluralist approach to publishing peer-reviewed excellent and innovative international political economy research, we strive to offe…
Nearly modern IPE? Insights from IPE at mid-century
Disciplinary debates within IPE often leave as an open question how contemporary scholars may build on and incorporate insights from its rich intellectual history. In this article I examine the work of three scholars who are rarely grouped together, but who should be recognised today as engaged in an IPE-inflected debate: Karl Polanyi, E. H. Carr, and David Mitrany. They advanced distinct IPE-centred ways of framing the central problems of the po…
Welfare and world money
E.H. Carr and IPE
Although the work of E.H. Carr has a prominent place in the scholarly history of international relations (IR), it is notably absent from the discipline of international political economy (IPE). This is puzzling, because Carr's analysis of international politics places a strong emphasis on the organic connection between politics and economics on an international scale. On this reading, his principal publications on IR can also be seen to chart a s…
Canada's World
Canada has long been subject to the powerful cross-pressures of geopolitics and global demand for its bountiful natural resources. Looking ahead over the next quarter century, I expect that the most important impact on Canada's relations with the world will stem from geopolitical developments in the United States and Asia. Not only will demand for natural resources and commercial products from these two parts of the world exert an ineluctable inf…
The political economy of currency internationalisation
The rise of China has sparked a debate about the economic and political consequences for the global economy of the internationalisation of the renminbi. We argue that the dominant focus of this literature – primarily the external conditions and requirements for a national currency to become an international currency – misspecifies the connections between the international and domestic requirements for currency internationalisation, as well as the…
Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy
Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History
Within the discipline of international political economy (IPE), the work of Robert Cox is usually associated with the tradition of historical materialism, especially its Gramscian-inspired version. In this paper, however, I explore some of the less visible elements of Cox's thought. In particular, I highlight a variant of historicism which, although not without a connection to Gramsci's conception of the philosophy of praxis and absolute historic…
The political economy of failure
How do international currencies get established and consolidated? What domestic and international political foundations support an international currency? And what kinds of macro-economic flows enable an international currency? In this essay we consider these perennial questions of modern IPE scholarship in reverse order to ask whether the euro could ever have become, or seek to become, a true international currency rivalling the US dollar, used …
Governing global finance and banking
Financial governance and transnational deliberative democracy
Recent concern with the institutional underpinning of the international financial architecture has intersected with broader debates concerning the possibility of achieving an adequate deliberative context for decisions involving transnational economic governance. Scholars working within traditions associated with international political economy, deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism and critical theory have informed this broader debate. This ar…
Globalization and Its Critics
Globalization and Its Critics challenges the claim that globalization is a clearly understood phenomena whose effects are well known and easily accounted for. It explores the categories we use to think about globalization, the dynamics which are driving it, and the effects which globalizing tendencies are having on the key institutional features of the contemporary world. The contributors examine not only how globalization is refashioning politic…
The ‘American’ school of IPE? A dissenting view
This article challenges three aspects of the ‘American’ school of international political economy (IPE) as presented by Benjamin Cohen and further elaborated by Dan Maliniak and Michael Tierney in this special issue. First, I question whether their depiction of the field is accurate. What they describe is not so much the ‘American’ school of IPE, but the ‘Harvard’ school. IPE in America is a rich and varied enterprise; not so the ‘Harvard’ school…
Financial order and world politics
Journal Article Financial order and world politics: crisis, change and continuity Get access RANDALL GERMAIN RANDALL GERMAIN 1Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 4, July 2009, Pages 669–687, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00822.x Published: 01 July 2009
Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contri…
Global Finance, Risk and Governance
This article puts forward three linked sets of claims. First, it argues that Robert W. Cox's framework of historical materialism can be adapted to articulate a suitable conceptual schema for understanding financial governance at the global level. Second, it emphasises how globally oriented financial institutions have increasingly become purveyors of “risk products”, with the effect that modalities of financial governance have been altered towards…
Critical’ Political Economy, Historical Materialism and Adam Morton
In response to Adam Morton's survey of ‘critical’ IPE in the January 2006 issue of this journal, I argue that we should resist the call to privilege the question of class struggle when considering the political economy of world order. This question, although not unimportant, draws upon an overly narrow and austere conception of historical materialism. Instead, I consider a more fulsome – but decidedly non-Marxist – tradition of historical materia…
The Idea of Global Civil Society
Financial Governance and the Public Sphere
Recent efforts to reform the international financial architecture have focused attention on the way in which decision-making occurs within an increasingly globalised structure of financial governance. I explore an important development within this structure: the emergence of what may be identified as a global financial public sphere. This article considers the formation and foundation of the global financial public sphere, and discusses its relat…
Engaging Gramsci
The work of the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci has had a significant impact upon the study of International Relations (IR) over the past fifteen years. Despite the emergence of a distinct 'Italian School' in IR, however, there have been few assessments of the utility of Gramsci's concepts in this area. Our purpose here is to engage with the work of the new Gramscians. We begin by specifying the theoretical attractions of using Gramsci i…
The political economy of failure
How do international currencies get established and consolidated? What domestic and international political foundations support an international currency? And what kinds of macro-economic flows enable an international currency? In this essay we consider these perennial questions of modern IPE scholarship in reverse order to ask whether the euro could ever have become, or seek to become, a true international currency rivalling the US dollar, used …
Paths to a historicized international political economy
As a field of study, international political economy suffers from a significant historical deficit. Where this deficit is recognized, it is most commonly addressed by adding 'historical context' to the inquiry, as in the injunction to place globalization into its proper historical context. While this is a useful and necessary first step, it does not adequately address the problem of 'historicizing' IPE. In order to genuinely historicize IPE, we m…
Critical’ Political Economy, Historical Materialism and Adam Morton
In response to Adam Morton's survey of ‘critical’ IPE in the January 2006 issue of this journal, I argue that we should resist the call to privilege the question of class struggle when considering the political economy of world order. This question, although not unimportant, draws upon an overly narrow and austere conception of historical materialism. Instead, I consider a more fulsome – but decidedly non-Marxist – tradition of historical materia…
Financial governance and transnational deliberative democracy
Recent concern with the institutional underpinning of the international financial architecture has intersected with broader debates concerning the possibility of achieving an adequate deliberative context for decisions involving transnational economic governance. Scholars working within traditions associated with international political economy, deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism and critical theory have informed this broader debate. This ar…
Global Financial Governance and the Problem of Inclusion
The Asian financial crises of 1997-1998 set in motion a long-overdue reform of the formal decisionmaking mechanisms of financial governance. (1) By global financial I mean the broad fabric of rules and procedures by which internationally active financial institutions are governed, while the architectural element of governance I understand to be the public mechanisms by which authoritative decisions about these rules and procedures are made. From …
The ‘American’ school of IPE? A dissenting view
This article challenges three aspects of the ‘American’ school of international political economy (IPE) as presented by Benjamin Cohen and further elaborated by Dan Maliniak and Michael Tierney in this special issue. First, I question whether their depiction of the field is accurate. What they describe is not so much the ‘American’ school of IPE, but the ‘Harvard’ school. IPE in America is a rich and varied enterprise; not so the ‘Harvard’ school…
The way the modern world works
Journal Article The way the modern world works: world hegemony to world impasse Get access The way the modern world works: world hegemony to world impasse. By Peter J. Taylor. Chichester: John Wiley. 1996. 276pp. Index. £18.99. ISBN 0 471 96586 3. Randall Germain Randall Germain 1University of Newcastle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 157–158, …
Governing global finance and banking
Financial order and world politics
Journal Article Financial order and world politics: crisis, change and continuity Get access RANDALL GERMAIN RANDALL GERMAIN 1Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 4, July 2009, Pages 669–687, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00822.x Published: 01 July 2009
Globalising Accountability within the International Organisation of Credit
Recent developments concerning the international financial architecture have drawn attention to what many perceive to be an accountability deficit at the level of global decision making. This problem is explored here within the framework of an increasingly globalised structure of financial governance, drawing attention to the institutional barriers that stand in the way of operationalising traditional forms of accountability. In order to strength…
E.H. Carr and IPE
Although the work of E.H. Carr has a prominent place in the scholarly history of international relations (IR), it is notably absent from the discipline of international political economy (IPE). This is puzzling, because Carr's analysis of international politics places a strong emphasis on the organic connection between politics and economics on an international scale. On this reading, his principal publications on IR can also be seen to chart a s…
The political economy of currency internationalisation
The rise of China has sparked a debate about the economic and political consequences for the global economy of the internationalisation of the renminbi. We argue that the dominant focus of this literature – primarily the external conditions and requirements for a national currency to become an international currency – misspecifies the connections between the international and domestic requirements for currency internationalisation, as well as the…
Strengthening Ripe’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in our field
As editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), we are committed to expanding intellectual horizons and reflecting diverse perspectives to stimulate eye-opening discussions of global political and economic affairs. In delivering the journal’s mission of encouraging a global, interdisciplinary, and pluralist approach to publishing peer-reviewed excellent and innovative international political economy research, we strive to offe…
Welfare and world money
The Worlds of Finance
The professed multidisciplinarity of IPE rarely extends to taking history and the historical mode of thought seriously. This article explores the relevance to IPE of the work of one historian, Fernand Braudel, and asks what insights his approach might provide for the study of finance. It argues that a Braudelian perspective on IPE allows us to apprehend the structural organization of the international economy in an innovative and perceptive way. …
Global Finance, Risk and Governance
This article puts forward three linked sets of claims. First, it argues that Robert W. Cox's framework of historical materialism can be adapted to articulate a suitable conceptual schema for understanding financial governance at the global level. Second, it emphasises how globally oriented financial institutions have increasingly become purveyors of “risk products”, with the effect that modalities of financial governance have been altered towards…
Conversations with Manuel Castells, Robert Cox and Immanuel Wallerstein
(1999). Conversations with Manuel Castells, Robert Cox and Immanuel Wallerstein. New Political Economy: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 379-408
Ripe 30th anniversary special feature
The field of International Political Economy (IPE) has changed considerably since the inception of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE).This 30th anniversary editorial reflects on how these changes have impacted the journal's publications over the past ten years.Some trends are promising.RIPE has become more gender inclusive, as the share of women authors in submissions and publications has risen.RIPE has also resisted the 'quanti…
Ripe 2022 diversity statement
Ripe 2020 diversity statement
As part of our commitment to diversity in academic publishing, the editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) decided in 2020 to publish annually a diversity statement, providing information about RIPE’s editorial team and contributors. Bair et al. (2021) provide further information on our commitment to strengthening equality, diversity and inclusion in international political economy and in the pages of RIPE. \n \n
Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History
Within the discipline of international political economy (IPE), the work of Robert Cox is usually associated with the tradition of historical materialism, especially its Gramscian-inspired version. In this paper, however, I explore some of the less visible elements of Cox's thought. In particular, I highlight a variant of historicism which, although not without a connection to Gramsci's conception of the philosophy of praxis and absolute historic…
Free trade and finance in North America
(1996). Free trade and finance in North America: A Braudelian view. New Political Economy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 185-207
The Worlds of Finance
The professed multidisciplinarity of IPE rarely extends to taking history and the historical mode of thought seriously. This article explores the relevance to IPE of the work of one historian, Fernand Braudel, and asks what insights his approach might provide for the study of finance. It argues that a Braudelian perspective on IPE allows us to apprehend the structural organization of the international economy in an innovative and perceptive way. …
The International Organization of Credit
In this book, Randall Germain explores the international organization of credit in a changing world economy. At the centre of his analysis is the construction of successive international organisations of credit, built around principal financial centres (PFCs) and constituted by overlapping networks of credit institutions, mainly investment, commercial, and central banks. A critical historical approach to international political economy (IPE) allo…
The way the modern world works
Journal Article The way the modern world works: world hegemony to world impasse Get access The way the modern world works: world hegemony to world impasse. By Peter J. Taylor. Chichester: John Wiley. 1996. 276pp. Index. £18.99. ISBN 0 471 96586 3. Randall Germain Randall Germain 1University of Newcastle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 157–158, …
The real price of Japanese money
Journal Article The real price of Japanese money Get access The real price of Japanese money. By R. Taggart Murphy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1996. 282pp. Index. £20.00 ISBN 0 297 81763 9. Randall Germain Randall Germain 1University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 1997, Page 369, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623856 Published: 01 April…
Engaging Gramsci
The work of the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci has had a significant impact upon the study of International Relations (IR) over the past fifteen years. Despite the emergence of a distinct 'Italian School' in IR, however, there have been few assessments of the utility of Gramsci's concepts in this area. Our purpose here is to engage with the work of the new Gramscians. We begin by specifying the theoretical attractions of using Gramsci i…
Conversations with Manuel Castells, Robert Cox and Immanuel Wallerstein
(1999). Conversations with Manuel Castells, Robert Cox and Immanuel Wallerstein. New Political Economy: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 379-408
Globalization and its Critics
Globalization and Its Critics challenges the claim that globalization is a clearly understood phenomena whose effects are well known and easily accounted for. It explores the categories we use to thin
Paths to a historicized international political economy
As a field of study, international political economy suffers from a significant historical deficit. Where this deficit is recognized, it is most commonly addressed by adding 'historical context' to the inquiry, as in the injunction to place globalization into its proper historical context. While this is a useful and necessary first step, it does not adequately address the problem of 'historicizing' IPE. In order to genuinely historicize IPE, we m…
Global Financial Governance and the Problem of Inclusion
The Asian financial crises of 1997-1998 set in motion a long-overdue reform of the formal decisionmaking mechanisms of financial governance. (1) By global financial I mean the broad fabric of rules and procedures by which internationally active financial institutions are governed, while the architectural element of governance I understand to be the public mechanisms by which authoritative decisions about these rules and procedures are made. From …
The Idea of Global Civil Society
Financial Governance and the Public Sphere
Recent efforts to reform the international financial architecture have focused attention on the way in which decision-making occurs within an increasingly globalised structure of financial governance. I explore an important development within this structure: the emergence of what may be identified as a global financial public sphere. This article considers the formation and foundation of the global financial public sphere, and discusses its relat…
Globalising Accountability within the International Organisation of Credit
Recent developments concerning the international financial architecture have drawn attention to what many perceive to be an accountability deficit at the level of global decision making. This problem is explored here within the framework of an increasingly globalised structure of financial governance, drawing attention to the institutional barriers that stand in the way of operationalising traditional forms of accountability. In order to strength…
Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contri…
Global Finance, Risk and Governance
This article puts forward three linked sets of claims. First, it argues that Robert W. Cox's framework of historical materialism can be adapted to articulate a suitable conceptual schema for understanding financial governance at the global level. Second, it emphasises how globally oriented financial institutions have increasingly become purveyors of “risk products”, with the effect that modalities of financial governance have been altered towards…
Critical’ Political Economy, Historical Materialism and Adam Morton
In response to Adam Morton's survey of ‘critical’ IPE in the January 2006 issue of this journal, I argue that we should resist the call to privilege the question of class struggle when considering the political economy of world order. This question, although not unimportant, draws upon an overly narrow and austere conception of historical materialism. Instead, I consider a more fulsome – but decidedly non-Marxist – tradition of historical materia…
Globalization and Its Critics
Globalization and Its Critics challenges the claim that globalization is a clearly understood phenomena whose effects are well known and easily accounted for. It explores the categories we use to think about globalization, the dynamics which are driving it, and the effects which globalizing tendencies are having on the key institutional features of the contemporary world. The contributors examine not only how globalization is refashioning politic…
The ‘American’ school of IPE? A dissenting view
This article challenges three aspects of the ‘American’ school of international political economy (IPE) as presented by Benjamin Cohen and further elaborated by Dan Maliniak and Michael Tierney in this special issue. First, I question whether their depiction of the field is accurate. What they describe is not so much the ‘American’ school of IPE, but the ‘Harvard’ school. IPE in America is a rich and varied enterprise; not so the ‘Harvard’ school…
Financial order and world politics
Journal Article Financial order and world politics: crisis, change and continuity Get access RANDALL GERMAIN RANDALL GERMAIN 1Professor of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 4, July 2009, Pages 669–687, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00822.x Published: 01 July 2009
Financial governance and transnational deliberative democracy
Recent concern with the institutional underpinning of the international financial architecture has intersected with broader debates concerning the possibility of achieving an adequate deliberative context for decisions involving transnational economic governance. Scholars working within traditions associated with international political economy, deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism and critical theory have informed this broader debate. This ar…
Governing global finance and banking
The political economy of failure
How do international currencies get established and consolidated? What domestic and international political foundations support an international currency? And what kinds of macro-economic flows enable an international currency? In this essay we consider these perennial questions of modern IPE scholarship in reverse order to ask whether the euro could ever have become, or seek to become, a true international currency rivalling the US dollar, used …
Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy
Robert W. Cox and the Idea of History
Within the discipline of international political economy (IPE), the work of Robert Cox is usually associated with the tradition of historical materialism, especially its Gramscian-inspired version. In this paper, however, I explore some of the less visible elements of Cox's thought. In particular, I highlight a variant of historicism which, although not without a connection to Gramsci's conception of the philosophy of praxis and absolute historic…
Canada's World
Canada has long been subject to the powerful cross-pressures of geopolitics and global demand for its bountiful natural resources. Looking ahead over the next quarter century, I expect that the most important impact on Canada's relations with the world will stem from geopolitical developments in the United States and Asia. Not only will demand for natural resources and commercial products from these two parts of the world exert an ineluctable inf…
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