Recent IPE scholarship locates the key dynamics of financial globalization in two areas: public money flows between US and Asia, or private banking Europe. This dichotomy presents finance as firmly anchored within transatlantic, neoliberal norms. We argue that this creates a blind spot regarding growing role East Asian global system. Combining CPE insights on institutional characteristics syste...

Over the last two decades, European border regime has become subject of a growing body scholarship in critical security studies. In this article, I draw on Stuart Hall’s work racialized policing, authoritarian populism and conjunctural analysis to argue that literature paid insufficient attention close relationship between racism, capitalism state violence. Writing at dawn Thatcherism neolibera...

This paper examines the effects that changes in the Chinese government’s methods of labor control have had on rural migrant workers in the Guangdong province. The situation of rural migrant workers in China resembles that of foreign migrant workers in other countries, because institutional barriers such as the hukou (household registration) system prevent rural migrants from becoming permanent ...

Neoliberal strategy, which was adopted and implemented after 1987, lies behind the success of South Korean conglomerates ( chaebols ), it strengthened during Asian financial crisis in 1997. Faced with new spatio-temporal conditions massive struggle workers, started a project to restore capitalist power. To this end, actively supported political powers who represented them American Japanese stra...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 121 I. NATIONAL SECURITY REVIEWS OF FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS OF U.S. TELECOM BUSINESSES............................................................ 126 II. FCC CONDITIONS ON A MERGER OF DOMESTIC TELECOM CARRIERS ....................................................................................... 14...

The paper is based on the premise that neoliberalism is a political rationality that is not only anti-social but also requires an anti-democratic and violent form of statehood. However, neoliberalism is not solely based on coercion and force, but paradoxically also on consensus. This consensus is not least organized through its flexibilized and pluralized sexual politics. By focussing on sexual...

Algorithms for solving agreement problems can be classified in two categories: (1) those relying on failure detectors that we call FD-based, and (2) those that rely on a Group Membership Service that we call GMS-based. The paper discusses the advantages and limitations of these two approaches, and proposes an extension to the GMS-approach that combines the advantages of both approaches, without...

This case study explores how neoliberal policies shape the impacts of a natural disaster. We investigate the reactions to major damages to the electric power system and the restoration of power in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which devastated the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area in September 2008. We argue that the neoliberal policy agenda insured a minimalist approach to the crisis and generate...