SPERI Blog

In this post-election blog, Owen Parker argues that whatever the future holds- Labour should beware both the ‘New’ and the ‘Blue’.

For all its disappointments and flaws, the G20 still has the best chance of delivering the comprehensive global oversight of global governance that we need

There is ample evidence that we need to reform the governance of migration, but we are a long way from agreeing upon how this should be done

A new animated video by Jacqueline Best examines the role of economic exceptionalism – and asks what it means for political life today.

Pakistan’s dependence on IMF support has a long legacy. How might the country make this latest IMF package its final one?

Holding leaders to account for their lack of ecological integrity requires greater local and global democratic engagement

Whilst GVC analysis can be used to map dynamics of global production, it neglects the wider structural context in which industrial development takes place.

A truly progressive agenda has to recognise the centrality of gendered and other social hierarchies to the deeper workings of the global political economy

While a single market in European banking was promoted by elites to peripheral countries in the Eurozone, this project actually drove the financial crisis.

Given that global trade integration has produced great wealth and great inequality, its governance needs to be reformed in ways that preserve the former and ameliorate the latter