From multilateralism to microcosms in the world economy: the sociological turn in Australian international political economy scholarship

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Notes

1. We thank the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide for providing funds to host the ‘Sociological Turn in Australian IPE’ workshop in October 2007. We apologise in advance to any Australian IPE scholars who feel they have not been adequately represented in our brief review. Our aim is to highlight key trends rather than provide a comprehensive account of Australian IPE, and no harm is intended. We realise that there are a number of scholars who do excellent work who we have not squeezed into our brief review. Finally, we thank Tracey Arklay and Andrew O'Neill from the Australian Journal of International Affairs for their patience.

2. Furthermore, this scholarship also emerged from the deployment of comparative case studies. Thus, whilst Phillips (2005: 252) has raised important concerns about tendencies within conventional IPE scholarship to sideline a comparative political economy perspective (in particular one that focuses on the comparative political economy of development), this was not the case within much Australian IPE scholarship.

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Leonard Seabrooke

Leonard Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of US Power in International Finance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) and The Social Sources of Financial Power (Cornell University Press, 2006), as well as co-editor on a number of political economy collections

Juanita Elias

Juanita Elias is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Adelaide. She is the author of Fashioning Inequality: The Multinational Corporation and Gendered Employment in a Globalising World (Ashgate, 2004) and co-author of the textbook International Relations: The Basics (Routledge, 2007). Recent journal publications have appeared in the Review of International Studies Economy and Society and Third World Quarterly