Juliette Schwak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1452744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliette Schwak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliette |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwak |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWAK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin University Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5257-3770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consultocracy and the power of benchmarks in the French “startup nation”
In a post-dirigiste economy, French policymakers have come to rely heavily on private consultants, raising concerns about the privatization and democratic erosion of policymaking. To assess consultants’ influence, this article focuses on the role of benchmarks as key knowledge instruments through which consultants operate in policymaking. It analyzes the political economy of benchmarks in contemporary France, the social relations between producer…
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea's Global Saemaul Undong
This article analyses the globalisation of Saemaul Undong, a South Korean rural development programme. While multiple actors promote contradictory versions of global Saemaul, suggesting strategic incoherence, all these initiatives are tied together by a coherent political economic agenda, namely the export of a will to compete in the developing world. By focusing on the interests of Saemaul's globalisation, this article shows that for converging …
K-drama Narrates the National: Korean Identities in Crash Landing on You
This article considers how a very popular South Korean TV drama, Crash Landing on You, both interprets and produces Korean identity through its imagining of the 'national'. We draw on constructivist literature that explores the biographical parameters of national identity narratives and their significance in global politics to examine changing representations of North Korea on South Korean screens. We analyze Crash Landing as a set of representat…
Foreign aid and discourses of National Social Responsibility: Evidence from South Korea
This article analyses a recent discourse of responsibility that accompanies states’ foreign aid provision. States adopt this discourse of National Social Responsibility (NSR) to show their compliance with globally accepted ethical standards by providing aid. This ethical behavior is underpinned by a political-economic logic, which derives from the promotional literature exhorting states to maintain national competitiveness by mimicking firms’ beh…
Gender Politics and the Pursuit of Competitiveness in Malaysia. Women on Board: Juanita Elias (London: Routledge, 2020)
In this book, Juanita Elias looks at how agendas for gender equality intersect with policy-making towards the pursuit of national economic competitiveness in contemporary Malaysia. The book explore
Materiality, Territory and Sovereignty: Responding to Contradictory Water Security Issues in the Mekong Region
Aspirations for sub-regional, regional and global cooperation at a bi-lateral and multilateral level over water security are strong and yet often a real or perceived gap exists between intentions and the workings of institutions. In the area of water security difficulties are often premised on tensions between national territory and national sovereignty. As a result, emphasis has been placed by decision makers on how to most effectively classify …
Domesticating Competitive Common Sense: Nation Branding Discourses, Policy-makers and Promotional Consultants in Korea
Why has the practice of nation branding and its competitive imaginary become common sense in Korea? This article retraces the domestication, in Korea, of nation branding into an unquestioned policy imperative and of a competitive common sense. It shows how, in Korea, nation branding emerged as a policy solution to four national urgencies in the post-democratisation political economic context. It was adopted in conjunction by the state and the cha…
Film in an IPE classroom: For a critical pedagogy of the everyday
This article discusses the use of film as pedagogical material to teach Everyday International Political Economy (EIPE). Film is an effective tool to bridge IPE research and teaching, and to fully integrate the everyday an as object of IPE scholarship and pedagogy. Film allows students to develop an understanding of IPE that considers often forgotten actors of the global economy, and to see how the global economy shapes and is shaped by what take…
Nothing new under the sun: South Korea’s developmental promises and neoliberal illusions
The Korean government has strategically promoted the country’s development assistance policies as an alternative to traditional donors’ failed development promises and disguised neo-imperialist policies. This article questions the adequacy of fit between this narrative of exceptionalism and the reality of Korea’s developmental policy prescriptions. Based on field interviews and an analysis of policy recommendation reports produced by the Economic…
La fin du libre-échange
Cet article évalue l’effet des réformes de l’impôt sur les successions intervenues depuis 2000 dont l’emblématique Loi en faveur du travail, de l’emploi et du pouvoir d’achat de 2007 (loi TEPA). Il s’appuie pour cela sur le modèle de microsimulation TaxR qui simule, au niveau microéconomique, les droits de succession en l’absence ou en présence des différentes réformes. Les réformes d’avant 2007 ont permis de maintenir le taux d’imposition et le …
Water Security, Riparian Identity and Korean Nation Branding in the Mekong Subregion
Environmental security has traditionally been placed as a low politics issue in a period of increasing interdependence of transborder issues. This is occurring in the context of regional convergences between hegemonic and hydrological cycles. The Mekong subregional space is being constructed and represented by major donor and recipient stakeholders as a potential and proven site of geo‐economic opportunity and risk assessment. With more stakehold…
Dangerous Liaisons? State-Chaebol Co-operation and the Global Privatisation of Development
This article analyses the relationships between private and public sectors in shaping the South Korean development assistance agenda. Since 2008, subsequent Korean administrations have made development assistance a keystone of their foreign policy. Fast growing middle-income countries seem to be favourite development partners for these administrations and the parallel increase in the overseas expansion of Korean chaebol in these developing partne…
All the World’s a Stage: Promotional Politics and Branded Identities in Asia
This article highlights key questions raised by the growing concern for global competitiveness and promotional politics in contemporary Asia. Global politics is increasingly governed by promotional imperatives and in the last two decades it has become a common practice for governments to engage in nation branding. Asian states have been particularly eager to implement such promotional strategies, as their rapid development in the last decades has…
Branding South Korea in a Competitive World Order: Discourses and Dispositives in Neoliberal Governmentality
Since 2008, the South Korean administration has invested significant budgetary and political resources in its nation branding strategy, involving the private sector and Korean citizens in this endeavour. This article takes Korea as an exemplary case study of the way many states have enrolled their citizens, through nation branding, in the construction of a collective competitive identity. This study is based on an empirically deductive methodolog…
Branding South Korea in a Competitive World Order: Discourses and Dispositives in Neoliberal Governmentality
Since 2008, the South Korean administration has invested significant budgetary and political resources in its nation branding strategy, involving the private sector and Korean citizens in this endeavour. This article takes Korea as an exemplary case study of the way many states have enrolled their citizens, through nation branding, in the construction of a collective competitive identity. This study is based on an empirically deductive methodolog…
Nothing new under the sun: South Korea’s developmental promises and neoliberal illusions
The Korean government has strategically promoted the country’s development assistance policies as an alternative to traditional donors’ failed development promises and disguised neo-imperialist policies. This article questions the adequacy of fit between this narrative of exceptionalism and the reality of Korea’s developmental policy prescriptions. Based on field interviews and an analysis of policy recommendation reports produced by the Economic…
Dangerous Liaisons? State-Chaebol Co-operation and the Global Privatisation of Development
This article analyses the relationships between private and public sectors in shaping the South Korean development assistance agenda. Since 2008, subsequent Korean administrations have made development assistance a keystone of their foreign policy. Fast growing middle-income countries seem to be favourite development partners for these administrations and the parallel increase in the overseas expansion of Korean chaebol in these developing partne…
All the World’s a Stage: Promotional Politics and Branded Identities in Asia
This article highlights key questions raised by the growing concern for global competitiveness and promotional politics in contemporary Asia. Global politics is increasingly governed by promotional imperatives and in the last two decades it has become a common practice for governments to engage in nation branding. Asian states have been particularly eager to implement such promotional strategies, as their rapid development in the last decades has…
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea's Global Saemaul Undong
This article analyses the globalisation of Saemaul Undong, a South Korean rural development programme. While multiple actors promote contradictory versions of global Saemaul, suggesting strategic incoherence, all these initiatives are tied together by a coherent political economic agenda, namely the export of a will to compete in the developing world. By focusing on the interests of Saemaul's globalisation, this article shows that for converging …
Foreign aid and discourses of National Social Responsibility: Evidence from South Korea
This article analyses a recent discourse of responsibility that accompanies states’ foreign aid provision. States adopt this discourse of National Social Responsibility (NSR) to show their compliance with globally accepted ethical standards by providing aid. This ethical behavior is underpinned by a political-economic logic, which derives from the promotional literature exhorting states to maintain national competitiveness by mimicking firms’ beh…
Film in an IPE classroom: For a critical pedagogy of the everyday
This article discusses the use of film as pedagogical material to teach Everyday International Political Economy (EIPE). Film is an effective tool to bridge IPE research and teaching, and to fully integrate the everyday an as object of IPE scholarship and pedagogy. Film allows students to develop an understanding of IPE that considers often forgotten actors of the global economy, and to see how the global economy shapes and is shaped by what take…
Water Security, Riparian Identity and Korean Nation Branding in the Mekong Subregion
Environmental security has traditionally been placed as a low politics issue in a period of increasing interdependence of transborder issues. This is occurring in the context of regional convergences between hegemonic and hydrological cycles. The Mekong subregional space is being constructed and represented by major donor and recipient stakeholders as a potential and proven site of geo‐economic opportunity and risk assessment. With more stakehold…
Branding South Korea in a Competitive World Order: Discourses and Dispositives in Neoliberal Governmentality
Since 2008, the South Korean administration has invested significant budgetary and political resources in its nation branding strategy, involving the private sector and Korean citizens in this endeavour. This article takes Korea as an exemplary case study of the way many states have enrolled their citizens, through nation branding, in the construction of a collective competitive identity. This study is based on an empirically deductive methodolog…
All the World’s a Stage: Promotional Politics and Branded Identities in Asia
This article highlights key questions raised by the growing concern for global competitiveness and promotional politics in contemporary Asia. Global politics is increasingly governed by promotional imperatives and in the last two decades it has become a common practice for governments to engage in nation branding. Asian states have been particularly eager to implement such promotional strategies, as their rapid development in the last decades has…
Water Security, Riparian Identity and Korean Nation Branding in the Mekong Subregion
Environmental security has traditionally been placed as a low politics issue in a period of increasing interdependence of transborder issues. This is occurring in the context of regional convergences between hegemonic and hydrological cycles. The Mekong subregional space is being constructed and represented by major donor and recipient stakeholders as a potential and proven site of geo‐economic opportunity and risk assessment. With more stakehold…
Dangerous Liaisons? State-Chaebol Co-operation and the Global Privatisation of Development
This article analyses the relationships between private and public sectors in shaping the South Korean development assistance agenda. Since 2008, subsequent Korean administrations have made development assistance a keystone of their foreign policy. Fast growing middle-income countries seem to be favourite development partners for these administrations and the parallel increase in the overseas expansion of Korean chaebol in these developing partne…
Materiality, Territory and Sovereignty: Responding to Contradictory Water Security Issues in the Mekong Region
Aspirations for sub-regional, regional and global cooperation at a bi-lateral and multilateral level over water security are strong and yet often a real or perceived gap exists between intentions and the workings of institutions. In the area of water security difficulties are often premised on tensions between national territory and national sovereignty. As a result, emphasis has been placed by decision makers on how to most effectively classify …
Domesticating Competitive Common Sense: Nation Branding Discourses, Policy-makers and Promotional Consultants in Korea
Why has the practice of nation branding and its competitive imaginary become common sense in Korea? This article retraces the domestication, in Korea, of nation branding into an unquestioned policy imperative and of a competitive common sense. It shows how, in Korea, nation branding emerged as a policy solution to four national urgencies in the post-democratisation political economic context. It was adopted in conjunction by the state and the cha…
Film in an IPE classroom: For a critical pedagogy of the everyday
This article discusses the use of film as pedagogical material to teach Everyday International Political Economy (EIPE). Film is an effective tool to bridge IPE research and teaching, and to fully integrate the everyday an as object of IPE scholarship and pedagogy. Film allows students to develop an understanding of IPE that considers often forgotten actors of the global economy, and to see how the global economy shapes and is shaped by what take…
Nothing new under the sun: South Korea’s developmental promises and neoliberal illusions
The Korean government has strategically promoted the country’s development assistance policies as an alternative to traditional donors’ failed development promises and disguised neo-imperialist policies. This article questions the adequacy of fit between this narrative of exceptionalism and the reality of Korea’s developmental policy prescriptions. Based on field interviews and an analysis of policy recommendation reports produced by the Economic…
La fin du libre-échange
Cet article évalue l’effet des réformes de l’impôt sur les successions intervenues depuis 2000 dont l’emblématique Loi en faveur du travail, de l’emploi et du pouvoir d’achat de 2007 (loi TEPA). Il s’appuie pour cela sur le modèle de microsimulation TaxR qui simule, au niveau microéconomique, les droits de succession en l’absence ou en présence des différentes réformes. Les réformes d’avant 2007 ont permis de maintenir le taux d’imposition et le …
Foreign aid and discourses of National Social Responsibility: Evidence from South Korea
This article analyses a recent discourse of responsibility that accompanies states’ foreign aid provision. States adopt this discourse of National Social Responsibility (NSR) to show their compliance with globally accepted ethical standards by providing aid. This ethical behavior is underpinned by a political-economic logic, which derives from the promotional literature exhorting states to maintain national competitiveness by mimicking firms’ beh…
Gender Politics and the Pursuit of Competitiveness in Malaysia. Women on Board: Juanita Elias (London: Routledge, 2020)
In this book, Juanita Elias looks at how agendas for gender equality intersect with policy-making towards the pursuit of national economic competitiveness in contemporary Malaysia. The book explore
K-drama Narrates the National: Korean Identities in Crash Landing on You
This article considers how a very popular South Korean TV drama, Crash Landing on You, both interprets and produces Korean identity through its imagining of the 'national'. We draw on constructivist literature that explores the biographical parameters of national identity narratives and their significance in global politics to examine changing representations of North Korea on South Korean screens. We analyze Crash Landing as a set of representat…
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea's Global Saemaul Undong
This article analyses the globalisation of Saemaul Undong, a South Korean rural development programme. While multiple actors promote contradictory versions of global Saemaul, suggesting strategic incoherence, all these initiatives are tied together by a coherent political economic agenda, namely the export of a will to compete in the developing world. By focusing on the interests of Saemaul's globalisation, this article shows that for converging …
Consultocracy and the power of benchmarks in the French “startup nation”
In a post-dirigiste economy, French policymakers have come to rely heavily on private consultants, raising concerns about the privatization and democratic erosion of policymaking. To assess consultants’ influence, this article focuses on the role of benchmarks as key knowledge instruments through which consultants operate in policymaking. It analyzes the political economy of benchmarks in contemporary France, the social relations between producer…
Political science (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works)