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iNterNAtioNAl PoliticAl ecoNomy
The Future of Global
Currency
The Euro Versus the Dollar
Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, Santa
Barbara, USA
Can the euro challenge the
supremacy of the U.S. dollar as
a global currency? From the
time Europe’s joint money was
born, many have predicted that
it would soon achieve parity
with the dollar or possibly even
surpass it. In reality, however,
the euro has remained firmly
planted in the dollar’s shadow.
The essays collected in this
volume explain why. Because of
America’s external deficits and
looming foreign debt, the dollar can never be as
dominant as it once was. But Europe’s money is unable
to mount an effective challenge. The euro suffers from a
number of critical structural deficiencies, including an
anti-growth bias that is built into the institutions of the
monetary union and an ambiguous governance structure
that sows doubts among prospective users. As recent
events have demonstrated, members of the euro zone
remain vulnerable to financial crisis. Moreover, lacking a
single voice, the bloc continues to punch below its
weight in monetary diplomacy. The world seems headed
toward a leaderless monetary order, with several
currencies in contention but none clearly dominant.
This collection distils the views of one of the world’s
leading scholars in global currency, and will be of
considerable interest to students and scholars of
international finance and international political economy.
Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: The Global
Currency System 1. Life at the Top: International
Currencies in the Twenty-First Century 2. The Euro and
Transatlantic Relations Part 2: The Euro Challenge 3. EMU
and the Dollar: Who Threatens Whom? 4. Global Currency
Rivalry: Can The Euro Ever Challenge the Dollar?
5. Enlargement and the International Role of the Euro 6. The
Euro in a Global Context: Challenges and CapacitiesDollar
Dominance, Euro Aspirations: Recipe for Discord? 7. Dollar
Dominance, Euro Aspirations: Recipe for Discord?
Part 3: Glimpses of the Future 8. A One-and-a-Half
Currency System 9. Toward a Leaderless Currency System
10. The International Monetary System: Diffusion and
Ambiguity
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Global Finance in Crisis
The Politics of International Regulatory
Change
Edited by Eric Helleiner and Stefano Pagliari, both
at University of Waterloo, Canada and
Hubert Zimmermann, Heinrich Heine University,
Germany
Series: Warwick Studies in Globalisation
’How did we get to here?
How did finance become so
globalized, while those who
regulate it became so
fragmented? This excellent
set of essays offers both an
overview and a challenge to
those interested in
understanding the different
institutions which regulate
global finance. The
contributors present the
different corners of the
world of financial regulation, including
transnational networks, private sector
arrangements, struggles of national interest,
regional institutions and inter-governmental
forums. The contributors sharply differ in how
global finance will be transformed by the current
crisis. Their differences give us a fascinating map to
use in tracking current shifts in global financial
regulation.’ - Ngaire Woods, University College,
University of Oxford, UK
Selected Contents: Part 1: Issues and Structures
Part 2: Countries and Regions
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Beyond States and Markets
The Challenges of Social Reproduction
Edited by Isabella Bakker, York University, Canada
and Rachel Silvey, University of Toronto, Canada
Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
Exploring difficult and crucial
aspects of the transnational
gender politics of globalization,
this book provides a unique and
valuable introduction to the
history of the concept of social
reproduction from an
inter-disciplinary perspective.
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Global Economy Contested
Power and Conflict across the International
Division of Labour
Edited by Marcus Taylor, Queen’s University,
Canada
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
Emphasizing the social
processes that underpin the
global economy and
demonstrating how the uneven
effects of global economic
integration impact upon actors
this book also underlines the
reciprocal effects that
reconfigure the terrain of global
accumulation.
2008: 234 x 156: 272pp
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ForthcomiNg
Bilderberg People
Elite Power and Consensus in World Politics
Ian Richardson, Andrew Kakabadse, Cranfield
University, UK and Nada Kakabadse
Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of
influence at work in the private world, and personal
interactions, of the transnational power elite. It is not
concerned with conspiracy theories; instead it is about
certain fundamental forces that shape the world in
which we live. These forces, with their power to bring
about transitions in emotion and preference within, and
beyond, the elite community have potentially profound
implications for all of us.
Through exclusive interviews with attendees of the most
prestigious of all informal transnational networks –
Bilderberg – this book provides a unique insight into the
networking habits and motivations of the world’s most
powerful people. Moreover, it demonstrates that elite
consensus is not simply a product of collective common
sense among the elite group; rather, it is a consequence
of subtle power relationships within the elite circle.
These relationships, which are embedded in the very
fabric of elite institutions and interactions, result in a
particular brand of enlightened thinking within the elite
community. For the very first time, and through
observance of strict anonymity, the personal accounts of
transnational elite participants shed light on the critical
question of who runs the world and why they run it the
way they do.
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Transnationalism and
the Transnational Elite 2. Transnational Elite Interactions
3. Elite Collaboration 4. Transnational Networks
5. Consensus Formation 6. The Seductive Lure of Elite
Membership 7. The Future of the Transnational Elite
8. Conclusion
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