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

by Zaynab El Bernoussi, Adriana María Garriga-López, Giuliano Martiniello, Bashir Saade

Overview

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 follows a similar structure: exploration of the problem; discussion of what may be missing from dominant understandings of the problem and/or how orthodox IPE may tell us something different about the problem compared to what is experienced in the Global South; and identification of alternative frameworks and perspectives.

Aiming to de-Westernize and decentralize the production of knowledge, the textbook introduces students to the discipline and phenomenon of IPE with a genuinely global perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032205748
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/13/2025
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Zaynab El Bernoussi is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Africa Institute, Global Studies University, UAE. She is the author of Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution, Demands and Protests (2021).

Adriana María Garriga-López is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. She was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Giuliano Martiniello is Associate Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at Sciences Po Rabat, Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco. He is the co-editor of Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation (2018).

Bashir Saade is Interdisciplinary Lecturer in Politics and Religion at the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author of Hizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance (2016).

Table of Contents

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