International Political Economy and the Global South: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East [Paperback]

International Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the global South and the global North a textbook that speaks to distinct concepts, categories, and issues of International Political Economy, from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ.

Chapter 1: Introduction  IPE and the Global South: Toward a Locally Informed Inquiry  Chapter 2: Historicizing in IPE: What is this thing called Value?  Chapter 3: The Political Economy of International Food Regimes  Chapter 4: Labor, Unions, and the Transformation of Work  Chapter 5: Sex Work and Globalization  Chapter 6: Borders, Migration, and the Global South  Chapter 7: IPE of Finance: Regulation and Crisis  Chapter 8: Bringing Security Back in IPE  Chapter 9: Rural Social Movements in the Global South and IPE  Chapter 10: Conclusion  Contextualizing IPE and the Futures of IPE

International Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the Global South and the Global North a textbook that speaks to distinct concepts, categories and issues of International Political Economy (IPE) from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ.

The primary goal is to provide an alternative or complementary reading of IPE derived from the experiences of the periphery. The textbook asks: how has the Global South responded to the demands of a global economy? What is the meaning of sovereignty to those who have experienced colonialism and imperialism? How can the Global South claim the international when the Global North sets its norms, institutions and practices? It opens with a standard introduction, offering an intellectual history of key IPE concepts, including state, firm, capital, power, labor, globalization and finance. Each subsequent chapter foll#h