Rawi Abdelal
Biographic Data
| ID | 750330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rawi Abdelal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rawi |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdelal |
| SIGNATURE | ABDELAL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Reflection
Every organization of the world economy has been unstable. Each system is necessarily composed of trade-offs. Opportunities emerge, and disappointments abound. Nothing lasts; nothing is finished; and nothing is perfect
Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash
The greatest challenge to the sustainability of our current era of globalization comes from within the United States. Most Americans have come to reject globalization. We must discern the lessons from the parts of the developed world where the backlash is also profound – France, for example – and where it has been more muted – such as Germany. In both the United States and France, gross Gini coefficients have increased sharply during the past thi…
National Purpose in the World Economy
How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link betwe…
Nation, State, and Economy
A Protest Letter in Support of the Central European University
Constructing the International Economy
The profits of power
Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries’ relations with Russia, Europe has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a handful of French, German, and Italian corporations somehow taken responsibility for for…
The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence
Journal Article The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests by Anne L. Clunan Get access The Social Construction of Russiaʼs Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interestsby Anne L. Clunan. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 336pp. $60.00. Rawi Abdelal Rawi Abdelal Harvard Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Politica…
Managed globalization
Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of economic globalization have been in competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American vision prevailed in the past decade, the current worldwide crisis gives a new life and legitimacy to the Europ…
Identity as a Variable
For the past two decades, the attention given to the concept of “identity” – both in the social sciences and in the world at large – has continued to rise. Multiple disciplines and subfields are producing an expanding literature on the definition, meaning, and development of ethnic, national, linguistic, religious, gender, class, and other identities and their roles in political, social, and economic outcomes. The ubiquity of identity-based schol…
Measuring Identity
The concept of identity has become increasingly prominent in the social sciences and humanities. Analysis of the development of social identities is an important focus of scholarly research, and scholars using social identities as the building blocks of social, political, and economic life have attempted to account for a number of discrete outcomes by treating identities as causal factors. The dominant implication of the vast literature on identi…
Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi
By the turn of the century, oil had already made the tiny emirate of Abu Dhabi rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. A sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), has invested extra oil revenues abroad for more than thirty years and amassed a still-growing portfolio worth approximately $750–900 billion. ADIA is widely believed to be the world's largest sovereign wealth fund – indeed the world's largest institutional investor.…
Playing the Market
Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985–2005. By Nicolas Jabko. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 206 p. $39.95. This is an excellent book that deserves a wide audience of political scientists, economists, and policymakers. It is ambitious, insightful, novel, and persuasive and should stand the test of time
Identity as a Variable
As scholarly interest in the concept of identity continues to grow, social identities are proving to be crucially important for understanding contemporary life. Despite—or perhaps because of—the sprawl of different treatments of identity in the social sciences, the concept has remained too analytically loose to be as useful a tool as the literature's early promise had suggested. We propose to solve this longstanding problem by developing the anal…
Le consensus de Paris
The Paris Consensus: France and the Rules of Global Finance This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union (EU), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – condoned and …
State buildinget sécurité internationale
The Paris Consensus: France and the Rules of Global Finance This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union (EU), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – condoned and …
Writing the rules of global finance
Why were capital controls orthodox in 1944, but heretical in 1997? The scholarly literature, following the conventional wisdom, focuses on the role of the United States in promoting capital liberalization. Although the United States encouraged capital liberalization bilaterally, US policy makers never embraced multilateral rules that codified the norm of capital mobility. Rather, European policy makers wrote the most important rules in favour of …
To Judge Leviathan
Recent decades have witnessed the remarkable rise of a kind of market authority almost as centralized as the state itself – two credit rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's. These agencies derive their influence from two sources. The first is the information content of their ratings. The second is both more profound and vastly more problematic: Ratings are incorporated into financial regulations in the United States and around the world.…
Contested currency
The 1990s were a difficult decade for the rouble, the Soviet currency that in 1991 became the common currency for all 15 post-Soviet states, and by 1995 had become Russia’s currency alone. Within Russia the rouble was systematically rejected by firms and citizens in favour of complicated barter arrangements, leaving many important sectors of the Russian economy essentially demonetized. Several of Russia’s provinces issued their own currencies, an…
Purpose and Privation
The rise and fall of multinational empires have indelibly transformed the political-economic history of Eastern Europe—redrawing its borders, recasting its economic institutions, and rede ning the identities of its nations. Just as the political economy of interwar Eastern Europe was shaped by the economic relations among the successor states of the Habsburg Empire, post-cold war Eastern Europe and Eurasia have been de ned by relations among succ…
Purpose and Privation
The rise and fall of multinational empires have indelibly transformed the political-economic history of Eastern Europe - redrawing its borders, recasting its economic institutions, and redefining the identities of its nations. Just as the political economy of interwar Eastern Europe was shaped by the economic relations among the successor states of the Habsburg Empire, post-cold war Eastern Europe and Eurasia have been defined by relations among …
Memories of Nations and States
The national identities of post-Soviet societies profoundly influenced the politics and economics of Eurasia during the 1990s. These identities varied along two distinct but related dimensions: their content and contestation. Nationalist movements throughout post-Soviet Eurasia invoked their nations in support of specific purposes, which frequently cast Russia as the nation's most important “other” and the state from which autonomy and security m…
Strategy, economic relations, and the definition of national interests
(1999). Strategy, economic relations, and the definition of national interests. Security Studies: Vol. 9, Power and the Purse: Economic Statecraft, Interdependence, and National Security, pp. 119-156
Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership
Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), thus altering substantially the official commitment of member governments to coordinate monetary policies and exchange rates, the values of currencies in the hardcore of …
Constructing the International Economy
Playing the Market
Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985–2005. By Nicolas Jabko. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 206 p. $39.95. This is an excellent book that deserves a wide audience of political scientists, economists, and policymakers. It is ambitious, insightful, novel, and persuasive and should stand the test of time
National Purpose in the World Economy
How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link betwe…
Managed globalization
Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of economic globalization have been in competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American vision prevailed in the past decade, the current worldwide crisis gives a new life and legitimacy to the Europ…
The profits of power
Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries’ relations with Russia, Europe has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a handful of French, German, and Italian corporations somehow taken responsibility for for…
Writing the rules of global finance
Why were capital controls orthodox in 1944, but heretical in 1997? The scholarly literature, following the conventional wisdom, focuses on the role of the United States in promoting capital liberalization. Although the United States encouraged capital liberalization bilaterally, US policy makers never embraced multilateral rules that codified the norm of capital mobility. Rather, European policy makers wrote the most important rules in favour of …
Strategy, economic relations, and the definition of national interests
(1999). Strategy, economic relations, and the definition of national interests. Security Studies: Vol. 9, Power and the Purse: Economic Statecraft, Interdependence, and National Security, pp. 119-156
To Judge Leviathan
Recent decades have witnessed the remarkable rise of a kind of market authority almost as centralized as the state itself – two credit rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's. These agencies derive their influence from two sources. The first is the information content of their ratings. The second is both more profound and vastly more problematic: Ratings are incorporated into financial regulations in the United States and around the world.…
Purpose and Privation
The rise and fall of multinational empires have indelibly transformed the political-economic history of Eastern Europe—redrawing its borders, recasting its economic institutions, and rede ning the identities of its nations. Just as the political economy of interwar Eastern Europe was shaped by the economic relations among the successor states of the Habsburg Empire, post-cold war Eastern Europe and Eurasia have been de ned by relations among succ…
Le consensus de Paris
The Paris Consensus: France and the Rules of Global Finance This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union (EU), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – condoned and …
The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership
Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), thus altering substantially the official commitment of member governments to coordinate monetary policies and exchange rates, the values of currencies in the hardcore of …
Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi
By the turn of the century, oil had already made the tiny emirate of Abu Dhabi rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. A sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), has invested extra oil revenues abroad for more than thirty years and amassed a still-growing portfolio worth approximately $750–900 billion. ADIA is widely believed to be the world's largest sovereign wealth fund – indeed the world's largest institutional investor.…
Memories of Nations and States
The national identities of post-Soviet societies profoundly influenced the politics and economics of Eurasia during the 1990s. These identities varied along two distinct but related dimensions: their content and contestation. Nationalist movements throughout post-Soviet Eurasia invoked their nations in support of specific purposes, which frequently cast Russia as the nation's most important “other” and the state from which autonomy and security m…
Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership
Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), thus altering substantially the official commitment of member governments to coordinate monetary policies and exchange rates, the values of currencies in the hardcore of …
Strategy, economic relations, and the definition of national interests
(1999). Strategy, economic relations, and the definition of national interests. Security Studies: Vol. 9, Power and the Purse: Economic Statecraft, Interdependence, and National Security, pp. 119-156
Purpose and Privation
The rise and fall of multinational empires have indelibly transformed the political-economic history of Eastern Europe—redrawing its borders, recasting its economic institutions, and rede ning the identities of its nations. Just as the political economy of interwar Eastern Europe was shaped by the economic relations among the successor states of the Habsburg Empire, post-cold war Eastern Europe and Eurasia have been de ned by relations among succ…
Purpose and Privation
The rise and fall of multinational empires have indelibly transformed the political-economic history of Eastern Europe - redrawing its borders, recasting its economic institutions, and redefining the identities of its nations. Just as the political economy of interwar Eastern Europe was shaped by the economic relations among the successor states of the Habsburg Empire, post-cold war Eastern Europe and Eurasia have been defined by relations among …
Memories of Nations and States
The national identities of post-Soviet societies profoundly influenced the politics and economics of Eurasia during the 1990s. These identities varied along two distinct but related dimensions: their content and contestation. Nationalist movements throughout post-Soviet Eurasia invoked their nations in support of specific purposes, which frequently cast Russia as the nation's most important “other” and the state from which autonomy and security m…
Contested currency
The 1990s were a difficult decade for the rouble, the Soviet currency that in 1991 became the common currency for all 15 post-Soviet states, and by 1995 had become Russia’s currency alone. Within Russia the rouble was systematically rejected by firms and citizens in favour of complicated barter arrangements, leaving many important sectors of the Russian economy essentially demonetized. Several of Russia’s provinces issued their own currencies, an…
Le consensus de Paris
The Paris Consensus: France and the Rules of Global Finance This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union (EU), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – condoned and …
State buildinget sécurité internationale
The Paris Consensus: France and the Rules of Global Finance This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union (EU), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – condoned and …
Writing the rules of global finance
Why were capital controls orthodox in 1944, but heretical in 1997? The scholarly literature, following the conventional wisdom, focuses on the role of the United States in promoting capital liberalization. Although the United States encouraged capital liberalization bilaterally, US policy makers never embraced multilateral rules that codified the norm of capital mobility. Rather, European policy makers wrote the most important rules in favour of …
To Judge Leviathan
Recent decades have witnessed the remarkable rise of a kind of market authority almost as centralized as the state itself – two credit rating agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poor's. These agencies derive their influence from two sources. The first is the information content of their ratings. The second is both more profound and vastly more problematic: Ratings are incorporated into financial regulations in the United States and around the world.…
Identity as a Variable
As scholarly interest in the concept of identity continues to grow, social identities are proving to be crucially important for understanding contemporary life. Despite—or perhaps because of—the sprawl of different treatments of identity in the social sciences, the concept has remained too analytically loose to be as useful a tool as the literature's early promise had suggested. We propose to solve this longstanding problem by developing the anal…
Playing the Market
Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985–2005. By Nicolas Jabko. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 206 p. $39.95. This is an excellent book that deserves a wide audience of political scientists, economists, and policymakers. It is ambitious, insightful, novel, and persuasive and should stand the test of time
Identity as a Variable
For the past two decades, the attention given to the concept of “identity” – both in the social sciences and in the world at large – has continued to rise. Multiple disciplines and subfields are producing an expanding literature on the definition, meaning, and development of ethnic, national, linguistic, religious, gender, class, and other identities and their roles in political, social, and economic outcomes. The ubiquity of identity-based schol…
Measuring Identity
The concept of identity has become increasingly prominent in the social sciences and humanities. Analysis of the development of social identities is an important focus of scholarly research, and scholars using social identities as the building blocks of social, political, and economic life have attempted to account for a number of discrete outcomes by treating identities as causal factors. The dominant implication of the vast literature on identi…
Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi
By the turn of the century, oil had already made the tiny emirate of Abu Dhabi rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. A sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), has invested extra oil revenues abroad for more than thirty years and amassed a still-growing portfolio worth approximately $750–900 billion. ADIA is widely believed to be the world's largest sovereign wealth fund – indeed the world's largest institutional investor.…
The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence
Journal Article The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests by Anne L. Clunan Get access The Social Construction of Russiaʼs Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interestsby Anne L. Clunan. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 336pp. $60.00. Rawi Abdelal Rawi Abdelal Harvard Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Politica…
Managed globalization
Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of economic globalization have been in competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American vision prevailed in the past decade, the current worldwide crisis gives a new life and legitimacy to the Europ…
The profits of power
Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries’ relations with Russia, Europe has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a handful of French, German, and Italian corporations somehow taken responsibility for for…
Constructing the International Economy
A Protest Letter in Support of the Central European University
National Purpose in the World Economy
How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link betwe…
Nation, State, and Economy
Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash
The greatest challenge to the sustainability of our current era of globalization comes from within the United States. Most Americans have come to reject globalization. We must discern the lessons from the parts of the developed world where the backlash is also profound – France, for example – and where it has been more muted – such as Germany. In both the United States and France, gross Gini coefficients have increased sharply during the past thi…
Reflection
Every organization of the world economy has been unstable. Each system is necessarily composed of trade-offs. Opportunities emerge, and disappointments abound. Nothing lasts; nothing is finished; and nothing is perfect
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