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Governance and the Hegemony of Financial Stability: From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency book cover

1st Edition

Governance and the Hegemony of Financial Stability From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency

By Carola Westermeier Copyright 2026
162 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Governance and the Hegemony of Financial Stability: From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency explains how the handling of the global financial crisis has redefined the relations of politics and financial markets and how the then established hegemony of financial stability still dominates responses to current challenges, particularly climate change. The book argues that within the years of... Read more

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: From Crisis to Hegemony: The Rise of Financial Stability in Financial Governance. 

Chapter 2 The Hegemony of Financial Stability. 

Chapter 3: The Securitization of Finance and the Financialization of Political Security. 

Chapter 4. Designed to Fail – Epistemologies of Post-Crisis Financial Governance. 

Chapter 5. Between Finance and Security: Experts of Financial Stability. 

Chapter 6: Conclusion. From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency – The Continued Hegemony of Financial Stability. 

List of Interviews

Index

Biography

Carola Westermeier leads the Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany. Her research is located at the intersections of economic sociology, security studies, and international political economy.

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