Since the global financial crisis, for IPE scholars a core intellectual puzzle is to explain the rise of financial nationalist governments into power and their sustained capacity to pursue financial nationalism in an era when the interconnectedness of global financial markets surpasses any...

"This short book makes a connection between recent 'tectonic shifts' in the world economy and the political problems currently confronted by western democracies. The shift of manufacturing away from the West allied to the pressure to keep costs down in an increasingly competitive global economy,...