Timothy J Sinclair
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 353863 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Timothy J Sinclair |
| PRENOMES | Timothy J |
| SOBRENOME | Sinclair |
| ASSINATURA | SINCLAIR T J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3590-5905 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 202 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The New Masters of Capital
In The New Masters of Capital , Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy—the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging from private corporations to local and national governments. Their judgments affect unimaginably large sums, approximately $30 trillion in outstan…
Social norms strike back
Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the major American credit rating agencies, were expected to outcompete and overwhelm the local agencies in Japan during the 1990s. The local Japanese rating agencies were widely understood to be compromised by their links to government and banks. Why have the influences of the American agencies in Japan diminished, while the local Japanese agencies survived? We emphasise the concept of ‘systemic support’ as a soluti…
Robert W. Cox's Method of Historical Structures Redux
This article argues that Cox's Method of Historical Structures (MHS), although a highly useful tool for understanding the world, should be adapted to make it more effective as a framework for understanding world order in the twenty-first century. The advent of the method helped rejuvenate critical scholarship in international relations and international political economy during the 1980s. It offered a way out of the excessively structural approac…
Innovation and the Entrepreneurial State in Asia
Bond markets have expanded rapidly in emerging East Asian economies in recent years. Asian policymakers have played a pivotal role in this development. This process presents an interesting challenge to the developmental state literature associated with bank-based financial systems. We argue that it is best to understand the role of the state as an entrepreneurial state in the construction of these markets, focusing on institutional innovation in …
How you stand depends on how we see
A rich literature has emerged on the causes and consequences of international capital mobility (ICM). Yet much of this literature typically depicts ICM as a brute fact - one which possesses an unproblematic logic to which actors respond automatically across time and space. We challenge this depiction and argue that in large part, how you stand on ICM depends on how it is collectively seen as a consequence of empirically and contextually variable …
Stay on target! Implications of the global financial crisis for Asian capital markets
The global financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 is one of the most significant events to have affected the world order since the end of the Cold War. It has stimulated debate in developed countries about how global finance should be regulated to ensure the fairness of individual transactions and the stability of the financial system, and in some places, about the proper place of finance in society. Things have been different in Eas…
Round Up the Usual Suspects
One of the remarkable things about financial crises is that they often give rise to a political process with uncanny similarities to the hunt for a dangerous felon, or the showdown with the bad guy in an old-time Hollywood movie. In the Asian crisis of the late 1990s the culprit was ‘crony capitalism’, and rich country politicians pursued this target zealously, deflecting any blame they might have taken for the financial catastrophe that afflicte…
Letâs Get It Right This Time! Why Regulation Will Not Solve or Prevent Global Financial Crises
Journal Article Let's Get It Right This Time! Why Regulation Will Not Solve or Prevent Global Financial Crises Get access Timothy J. Sinclair Timothy J. Sinclair University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 450–453, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00086_2.x Published: 03 December 2009
Repoliticizing Development Studies
After two decades of marginalization and despair, the field of development studies has experienced a revival in recent years. In Global Institutions and Development, editors Morten Bøås and Desmond McNeill and their collaborators seek to contribute to the political understanding of “development,” making use of conceptual innovations along with more established frameworks and middle range tools. The book is an example of what Michael Schechter (19…
Moving Money
Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrialized World. By Daniel Verdier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 326p. $65.00 cloth, $23.99 paper. Although it may seem arcane or prosaic to some, the literature on the political economy of money and finance has burgeoned within political science since the mid-1980s. The two decades after the end of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s was a time of considerable macroeconomic vol…
Global Transformations
The Infrastructure of Global Governance
In this article, I evaluate specialized forms of intelligence gathering and judgment determination at the heart of contemporary global governance and their connection to the debate about the of the international financial architecture (IFA). What I have called embedded knowledge networks (EKNs) are exemplified by the major U.S. debt rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) and Standard and Poor's (SP and second, as a possible solution…
Deficit Discourse
Budget deficits are bad, very bad indeed. Creating them was indulgent; tolerating their continued existence, insufferable; reigning them in, imperative. Or so we are led to believe. The 1990s has been a decade of budget-cutting austerity and restructuring in most advanced industrialized countries. Great attention is directed to competitiveness as the liberalization of trade rules is extended further, and as governments seek to attract scarce fina…
Anarchy, Order, and Integration
Gramsci, hegemony, and international relations
Some time ago I began reading Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. In these fragments, written in a fascist prison between 1929 and 1935, the former leader of the Italian Communist Party was concerned with the problem of understanding capitalist societies in the 1920s and 1930s, and particularly with the meaning of fascism and the possibilities of building an alternative form of state and society based on the working class. What he had to say centered upo…
Towards a posthegemonic conceptualization of world order
When there is a general change of conditions, it is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered, as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought into existence anew.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
Beyond international relations theory
Robert W. Cox's work stands outside the usual parameters of international relations theory. Strongly historical in perspective, Cox's method of understanding global change represents a challenge to conventional ontological assumptions about international relations. These assumptions, the central of which is that states are the major actors whose interaction is to be explained, are qualified by Cox based on his observation that the major driving f…
Approaches to World Order
Robert Cox's writings have had a profound influence on recent developments in thinking in world politics and political economy in many countries. This book brings together for the first time his most important essays, grouped around the theme of world order. The volume is divided into sections dealing respectively with theory; with the application of Cox's approach to recent changes in world political economy; and with multilateralism and the pro…
Middlepowermanship, Japan, and future world order (1989)
"Middle power" and "functionalism" were key terms in John Holmes' work. His was perhaps the most articulate expression of the thought behind Canadian diplomacy in the reconstruction of international organization after World War II. Although the great powers, and in the first place the United States, were, in Dean Acheson's words, "present at the creation," Canada and other middle and smaller powers were, as Holmes underscored, "also present."
Passing judgement
This article argues that certain knowledge‐producing institutions located in the American financial industry‐ debt security or bond rating agencies ‐are significant forces in the creation and extension of the new, open global political economy and therefore deserve the attention of international political economists as mechanisms of ‘governance without government’. Rating agencies are hypothesized to possess leverage, based on their unique gate‐k…
Between state and market
The New Masters of Capital
In The New Masters of Capital , Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy—the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging from private corporations to local and national governments. Their judgments affect unimaginably large sums, approximately $30 trillion in outstan…
Passing judgement
This article argues that certain knowledge‐producing institutions located in the American financial industry‐ debt security or bond rating agencies ‐are significant forces in the creation and extension of the new, open global political economy and therefore deserve the attention of international political economists as mechanisms of ‘governance without government’. Rating agencies are hypothesized to possess leverage, based on their unique gate‐k…
Between state and market
Round Up the Usual Suspects
One of the remarkable things about financial crises is that they often give rise to a political process with uncanny similarities to the hunt for a dangerous felon, or the showdown with the bad guy in an old-time Hollywood movie. In the Asian crisis of the late 1990s the culprit was ‘crony capitalism’, and rich country politicians pursued this target zealously, deflecting any blame they might have taken for the financial catastrophe that afflicte…
Innovation and the Entrepreneurial State in Asia
Bond markets have expanded rapidly in emerging East Asian economies in recent years. Asian policymakers have played a pivotal role in this development. This process presents an interesting challenge to the developmental state literature associated with bank-based financial systems. We argue that it is best to understand the role of the state as an entrepreneurial state in the construction of these markets, focusing on institutional innovation in …
The Infrastructure of Global Governance
In this article, I evaluate specialized forms of intelligence gathering and judgment determination at the heart of contemporary global governance and their connection to the debate about the of the international financial architecture (IFA). What I have called embedded knowledge networks (EKNs) are exemplified by the major U.S. debt rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) and Standard and Poor's (SP and second, as a possible solution…
How you stand depends on how we see
A rich literature has emerged on the causes and consequences of international capital mobility (ICM). Yet much of this literature typically depicts ICM as a brute fact - one which possesses an unproblematic logic to which actors respond automatically across time and space. We challenge this depiction and argue that in large part, how you stand on ICM depends on how it is collectively seen as a consequence of empirically and contextually variable …
Robert W. Cox's Method of Historical Structures Redux
This article argues that Cox's Method of Historical Structures (MHS), although a highly useful tool for understanding the world, should be adapted to make it more effective as a framework for understanding world order in the twenty-first century. The advent of the method helped rejuvenate critical scholarship in international relations and international political economy during the 1980s. It offered a way out of the excessively structural approac…
Letâs Get It Right This Time! Why Regulation Will Not Solve or Prevent Global Financial Crises
Journal Article Let's Get It Right This Time! Why Regulation Will Not Solve or Prevent Global Financial Crises Get access Timothy J. Sinclair Timothy J. Sinclair University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 450–453, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00086_2.x Published: 03 December 2009
Social norms strike back
Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the major American credit rating agencies, were expected to outcompete and overwhelm the local agencies in Japan during the 1990s. The local Japanese rating agencies were widely understood to be compromised by their links to government and banks. Why have the influences of the American agencies in Japan diminished, while the local Japanese agencies survived? We emphasise the concept of ‘systemic support’ as a soluti…
Stay on target! Implications of the global financial crisis for Asian capital markets
The global financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 is one of the most significant events to have affected the world order since the end of the Cold War. It has stimulated debate in developed countries about how global finance should be regulated to ensure the fairness of individual transactions and the stability of the financial system, and in some places, about the proper place of finance in society. Things have been different in Eas…
Repoliticizing Development Studies
After two decades of marginalization and despair, the field of development studies has experienced a revival in recent years. In Global Institutions and Development, editors Morten Bøås and Desmond McNeill and their collaborators seek to contribute to the political understanding of “development,” making use of conceptual innovations along with more established frameworks and middle range tools. The book is an example of what Michael Schechter (19…
Passing judgement
This article argues that certain knowledge‐producing institutions located in the American financial industry‐ debt security or bond rating agencies ‐are significant forces in the creation and extension of the new, open global political economy and therefore deserve the attention of international political economists as mechanisms of ‘governance without government’. Rating agencies are hypothesized to possess leverage, based on their unique gate‐k…
Between state and market
Gramsci, hegemony, and international relations
Some time ago I began reading Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. In these fragments, written in a fascist prison between 1929 and 1935, the former leader of the Italian Communist Party was concerned with the problem of understanding capitalist societies in the 1920s and 1930s, and particularly with the meaning of fascism and the possibilities of building an alternative form of state and society based on the working class. What he had to say centered upo…
Towards a posthegemonic conceptualization of world order
When there is a general change of conditions, it is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered, as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought into existence anew.Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
Beyond international relations theory
Robert W. Cox's work stands outside the usual parameters of international relations theory. Strongly historical in perspective, Cox's method of understanding global change represents a challenge to conventional ontological assumptions about international relations. These assumptions, the central of which is that states are the major actors whose interaction is to be explained, are qualified by Cox based on his observation that the major driving f…
Approaches to World Order
Robert Cox's writings have had a profound influence on recent developments in thinking in world politics and political economy in many countries. This book brings together for the first time his most important essays, grouped around the theme of world order. The volume is divided into sections dealing respectively with theory; with the application of Cox's approach to recent changes in world political economy; and with multilateralism and the pro…
Middlepowermanship, Japan, and future world order (1989)
"Middle power" and "functionalism" were key terms in John Holmes' work. His was perhaps the most articulate expression of the thought behind Canadian diplomacy in the reconstruction of international organization after World War II. Although the great powers, and in the first place the United States, were, in Dean Acheson's words, "present at the creation," Canada and other middle and smaller powers were, as Holmes underscored, "also present."
Anarchy, Order, and Integration
Deficit Discourse
Budget deficits are bad, very bad indeed. Creating them was indulgent; tolerating their continued existence, insufferable; reigning them in, imperative. Or so we are led to believe. The 1990s has been a decade of budget-cutting austerity and restructuring in most advanced industrialized countries. Great attention is directed to competitiveness as the liberalization of trade rules is extended further, and as governments seek to attract scarce fina…
Global Transformations
The Infrastructure of Global Governance
In this article, I evaluate specialized forms of intelligence gathering and judgment determination at the heart of contemporary global governance and their connection to the debate about the of the international financial architecture (IFA). What I have called embedded knowledge networks (EKNs) are exemplified by the major U.S. debt rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) and Standard and Poor's (SP and second, as a possible solution…
Moving Money
Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrialized World. By Daniel Verdier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 326p. $65.00 cloth, $23.99 paper. Although it may seem arcane or prosaic to some, the literature on the political economy of money and finance has burgeoned within political science since the mid-1980s. The two decades after the end of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s was a time of considerable macroeconomic vol…
Repoliticizing Development Studies
After two decades of marginalization and despair, the field of development studies has experienced a revival in recent years. In Global Institutions and Development, editors Morten Bøås and Desmond McNeill and their collaborators seek to contribute to the political understanding of “development,” making use of conceptual innovations along with more established frameworks and middle range tools. The book is an example of what Michael Schechter (19…
Letâs Get It Right This Time! Why Regulation Will Not Solve or Prevent Global Financial Crises
Journal Article Let's Get It Right This Time! Why Regulation Will Not Solve or Prevent Global Financial Crises Get access Timothy J. Sinclair Timothy J. Sinclair University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 450–453, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00086_2.x Published: 03 December 2009
Round Up the Usual Suspects
One of the remarkable things about financial crises is that they often give rise to a political process with uncanny similarities to the hunt for a dangerous felon, or the showdown with the bad guy in an old-time Hollywood movie. In the Asian crisis of the late 1990s the culprit was ‘crony capitalism’, and rich country politicians pursued this target zealously, deflecting any blame they might have taken for the financial catastrophe that afflicte…
Stay on target! Implications of the global financial crisis for Asian capital markets
The global financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 is one of the most significant events to have affected the world order since the end of the Cold War. It has stimulated debate in developed countries about how global finance should be regulated to ensure the fairness of individual transactions and the stability of the financial system, and in some places, about the proper place of finance in society. Things have been different in Eas…
How you stand depends on how we see
A rich literature has emerged on the causes and consequences of international capital mobility (ICM). Yet much of this literature typically depicts ICM as a brute fact - one which possesses an unproblematic logic to which actors respond automatically across time and space. We challenge this depiction and argue that in large part, how you stand on ICM depends on how it is collectively seen as a consequence of empirically and contextually variable …
Innovation and the Entrepreneurial State in Asia
Bond markets have expanded rapidly in emerging East Asian economies in recent years. Asian policymakers have played a pivotal role in this development. This process presents an interesting challenge to the developmental state literature associated with bank-based financial systems. We argue that it is best to understand the role of the state as an entrepreneurial state in the construction of these markets, focusing on institutional innovation in …
Robert W. Cox's Method of Historical Structures Redux
This article argues that Cox's Method of Historical Structures (MHS), although a highly useful tool for understanding the world, should be adapted to make it more effective as a framework for understanding world order in the twenty-first century. The advent of the method helped rejuvenate critical scholarship in international relations and international political economy during the 1980s. It offered a way out of the excessively structural approac…
Social norms strike back
Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the major American credit rating agencies, were expected to outcompete and overwhelm the local agencies in Japan during the 1990s. The local Japanese rating agencies were widely understood to be compromised by their links to government and banks. Why have the influences of the American agencies in Japan diminished, while the local Japanese agencies survived? We emphasise the concept of ‘systemic support’ as a soluti…
The New Masters of Capital
In The New Masters of Capital , Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy—the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging from private corporations to local and national governments. Their judgments affect unimaginably large sums, approximately $30 trillion in outstan…
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