The Shifting Global Economic Architecture

This book analyzes the shifting global economic architecture, indicating the decentralizing authority in global economic governance since the Cold War and, especially, following the 2008-09 global financial crisis. The author examines recent adjustments to the organizational framework, contestation of policy principles, norms, and practices, and destabilizing actor hierarchies, particularly in global macroeconomic, trade, and development governance. The study's 'analytical eclecticism' includes a core constructivist IR approach, but also incorporates insights from several international relations theories as well as political and economic theory. The book develops a unique 'analytical matrix', which analyzes effects of strategic, political, and cognitive authority in the organizational, policy, and actor contexts of the global economic architecture. It concludes that, despite concerns about potential fragmentation, decentralizing authority has increased the integration of leading developing states and new actors in contemporary global economic governance.

Analyzes the international effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on economic policy and governance Considers how global economic governance can be more adaptable and better suited to the policy challenges of the twenty-first century Draws upon various social-scientific research fields and methods to present the reader with a thorough exploration of the topic

Autorentext
Jonathan Luckhurst is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Center for North American Studies of the Pacific Studies Department, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The Shifting Global Economic Architecture .- 2. Global Economic Governance Since the Twentieth Century .- 3. Global Economic Governance Since the Global Financial Crisis .- 4. From Deregulation and Market Efficiency to Sustainable and Inclusive Growth .- 5. Globalization, Inequality, and Challenges to Free Trade .- 6. The Growing Sustainable Development Consensus .- 7. Shifting Authority of Actors in Global Economic Governance .- 8. Fragmentation or Integration of Global Economic Governance .- 9. Conclusion: Decentralizing Global Economic Governance.