In this book, John O'Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread
of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the …

The international economic system that emerged after the 1944 Bretton Woods conference
became the most durable international arrangement devoted to economic openness …

In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly
unseated him. The speed of the regime's collapse confounded many observers, and the …

In the formal deliberations of the Bretton Woods conference, little was said about gender
inequality, racial discrimination, or environmental degradation. At the time, however, the …

Drawing on the methodological insights of Global Historical Sociology, this article argues for
a relational reconceptualization of the origins of the international development project as …

In many new histories of global ideas, norms, and institutions—including in recent scholarly
treatments of the New International Economic Order—a striking" decolonization divide" has …

In 2017, scholar Joseph Nye postulated that a rising China that failed to deliver global public
goods could result in a 'Kindleberger Trap', failing, like the then rising United States about a …

We assess the importance of individual and institutional experience in shaping
macroeconomic policy by studying the persistence of gold standard monetary practices in …

Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing
innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world. The Fear and the …

Common knowledge, also called intersubjectivity, is a core theme in the study of
international cooperation and diplomacy. Yet International Relations (IR) lacks a method to …