International investment agreements are foundational instruments in a transnational investment regime that governs how states regulate the foreign-owned assets and the foreign investment activities of private actors. Over 3,000 investment agreements between states govern key governmental powers and form the basis for an emerging transnational investment regime. This transnational regime signifi...

International agreements about transnational issues are difficult to reach, as the examples of the Copenhagen summit or the never-ending discussions of the future of the European Union make clear. In this paper we relate this difficulty to the political process and the conflicts of interest attached to an agreement, both within and between national electorates, related to national income distri...

While technological change is a dominant social force, international political economists have not developed theories of the political foundations of technology adoption. We analyze a gametheoretic model of clean technology adoption and derive the following predictions. First, foreign countries should support clean technology adoption in countries with secure property rights and democratic poli...

Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and labor-s...

The global political economy is organized around the pursuit of economic growth. Yet scholars International Political Economy (IPE) have been surprisingly slow to address its wide-ranging implications and, thus, advance debates about post-growth alternatives. premise article that for IPE deepen grasp escalation contemporary socioecological crises both analytically and normatively, it needs put ...

Developing countries face uncertain trajectories for growth in the twenty-first century, with many finding themselves a ‘middle-income trap’. Extant theories politics of development that focus on domestic institutional strength and weakness represent necessary but not fully sufficient explanations middle-income countries. In order to explain uneven outcomes an era heightened globalisation, this...