RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
About the Book Series
For almost two decades now, the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy published by Routledge has been an essential forum for cutting-edge scholarship in International Political Economy, which we understand to be a broadly defined area of research that may cut across other disciplines. The series brings together new and established scholars working in critical, cultural and constructivist political economy. Books in the RIPE Series typically combine an innovative contribution to theoretical debates with rigorous empirical analysis.
The RIPE Series seeks to cultivate:
- Field-defining theoretical advances in International Political Economy.
- Novel treatments of key issue areas, such as global finance, trade, and production, both historical and contemporary.
- Analyses that explore the political economic dimensions of relatively neglected topics, such as the environment, gender, race, and colonialism from both Western and non-Western perspectives.
- Accessible work that will inspire advanced undergraduates and graduate students in International Political Economy.
Susanne Soederberg – Queen’s University, Canada
Adrienne Roberts – The University of Manchester, UK
Samuel Knafo – University of Sussex, UK
Naná de Graaff – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Please copy in Lydia de Cruz, the Editor at Routledge, on any proposal submissions ([email protected]).
Global Labour Migration in Japan: The Everyday Spaces of Invisible Workers
1st Edition
By Hironori Onuki
December 26, 2026
Global Labour Migration in Japan: The Everyday Spaces of Invisible Workers investigates the shifts in Japan’s immigration regime and their implications for the lived experiences of unskilled migrant workers.Despite Japan’s steadily increasing intake of migrant workers, most studies of global labour...
Raced-Gendered Capitalism in Malaysia: When Empires Meet the Everyday
1st Edition
By Christopher Choong
October 14, 2026
Raced-Gendered Capitalism in Malaysia explores how the international and the everyday interact in constituting and sustaining the developmental state in Malaysia as a specific form of raced-gendered capitalism. Juxtaposed with a methodological nationalist, male-elitist, and “plan rational” ...
Calculative Ethics: The Ambiguous Politics of Impact Finance
1st Edition
By Marco Andreu
March 05, 2026
Calculative Ethics examines social and development impact bonds as a form of ethical finance that adopts a fact-centred approach to addressing social ills. Impact bonds are shown to recast ethical investing through evidence-based governing, tying investor returns to demonstrated social outcomes in ...
Governance and the Hegemony of Financial Stability: From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency
1st Edition
By Carola Westermeier
January 26, 2026
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 ...
War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital
1st Edition
Edited
By Aida A Hozić, Jacqui True
December 19, 2025
War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions. This book challenges the common understanding of war economy as a state‑driven, top‑down project necessitated by a ...
Gender Politics of Monetary Governance in Germany and the Eurozone: Money, Masculinities and Control
1st Edition
By Frederic Heine
November 24, 2025
Gender Politics of Monetary Governance in Germany and the Eurozone provides a nuanced reading of how gender politics matter in monetary governance, contributing to a gendered critique of the political economy of Germany and the Eurozone and to efforts of ‘de-patriarchalising’ monetary and economic ...
The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Innovation District
1st Edition
By Greig Charnock, Jose Mansilla, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
November 20, 2025
The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real estate alongside a chronic housing shortage, gentrification, touristification, and a growth in ...
Residential Capitalism: Rent Extraction and Capitalist Production in Modern Spain (1833–2023)
1st Edition
By Javier Moreno Zacarés
August 29, 2025
Over the last decade, Spain has become an emblem of the contradictory relationship between capitalism and housing. During the house-price boom of the 2000s, Spain built homes on an unprecedented scale, with output levels that overshadowed those of every major European economy. Nevertheless, when ...
Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial
1st Edition
By David L. Blaney
July 30, 2025
Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole. This book revisits the work of key figures in the history of political economy and economic ...
The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia: Empowering Expertise
1st Edition
By Max Nagel
January 30, 2025
The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia analyses how states in these areas have adopted different monetary, financial, and foreign exchange policies to govern financialization, which have induced varying levels of state control over financial markets. The book analyzes the...
Gender and Global Restructurings: Sightings, Sites and Resistances
3rd Edition
Edited
By Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan
December 30, 2024
In the new edition of this bestselling text and scholarly reference, new and revised chapters reflect shifts in the gendered, classed, racialized and sexualized nature of ongoing global restructurings. Through fresh intersectional feminist analyses of widening health, climate, care, inequality, ...
The Politics of the Eurogroup: Governing Crisis and Conflict in the European Union
1st Edition
By Joscha Abels
November 28, 2024
The Politics of the Eurogroup provides an intriguing look inside the euro crisis and the secretive forum of finance ministers that came to dominate it. The history of the European Union is a history of crises and the leaps of integration they triggered. As the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and ...