Randall D Germain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall D Germain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall D |
| FAMILY NAME | Germain |
| SIGNATURE | GERMAIN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Globalization and Its Critics: Perspectives from Political Economy
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…
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: Ethics and Politics in a Globalizing Era
Financial Governance and the Public Sphere: Towards a Global Modality of Governance
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: Financial Governance and the Public Sphere
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 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 …
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…
Engaging Gramsci: International relations theory and the new Gramscians
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 International Organization of Credit: States and Global Finance in the World-Economy
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…
Free trade and finance in North America: A Braudelian view
(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: A Braudelian Perspective on IPE
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. …
Engaging Gramsci: International relations theory and the new Gramscians
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…
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…
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…
Globalising Accountability within the International Organisation of Credit: Financial Governance and the Public Sphere
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…
The Worlds of Finance: A Braudelian Perspective on IPE
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. …
Free trade and finance in North America: A Braudelian view
(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: A Braudelian Perspective on IPE
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: States and Global Finance in the World-Economy
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…
Engaging Gramsci: International relations theory and the new Gramscians
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…
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: Ethics and Politics in a Globalizing Era
Financial Governance and the Public Sphere: Towards a Global Modality of Governance
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: Financial Governance and the Public Sphere
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…
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: Perspectives from Political Economy
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…
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