Ben Thirkell-White

Senior Lecturer

BA, MA Cambridge, PhD Leeds

Profile

Ben Thirkell-White will join the Programme in February 2009. His undergraduate degree was in Social and Political Sciences. He then qualified as a commercial solicitor before leaving to gain his PhD at the University of Leeds in 2002. He has since taught at the Universities of Bristol, Sheffield and St Andrews.

His primary interest is in the politics of global finance, particularly the IMF’s relationship with emerging market countries. He is also more broadly interested in the global governance of development and the comparative political economy of East and Southeast Asia.

Current Research Projects

His current major research is a project on the comparative political economy of pro-poor adjustment, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield. It will explore the political economy of adjustment to the ‘new’ financial crises, with particular reference to 6 case study countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Argentina, Bolivia, Russia and Turkey). It is particularly concerned with the relationship between the distributional consequences of different approaches to financial crises and the political feasibility of reform. The project has received funding of £200,000 as part of the ESRC programme on Finance and the World Economy

He is also pursuing research on theoretical approaches to understanding the relationship between broadening participation in the governance of development and the legitimacy of international institutions.

Selection of Publications

"Indonesia and Malaysia: The Persistence of a Domestic Politico-Business Class"; Power and Politics After Financial Crisis: Rethinking Foreign Opportunism in Emerging markets; Justin Robertson (ed); (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 187-211.

"Globalisation and Development" in Issues in International Relations (2nd Revised Edition), Trevor Salmon, M. F. Imber (ed.), (Taylor and Francis, 2008),

Jean Grugel, Pia Riggirozzi & Ben Thirkell-White, 'After the Washington Consensus? Asia and latin America in search of more autonomous development paradigms', International Affairs Vol. 84, No.3, (2008),

Critical International Relations Theory After 25 Years, edited with Nick Rengger, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

'The International Financial Architecture and the Limits to Neoliberal Hegemony' New Political Economy Vol. 11, No.1, (2007), 19-41.

'Private Authority and Legitimacy in the International System ' International Relations Vol. 20, No. 3, (2006), 335-342.

‘The Wall-Street-Treasury-IMF complex after Asia, neoliberalism in decline?’ in Richard Robison (ed) The Neoliberal Revolution: Forging the Market State, (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006), 135-155.

The IMF and the politics of financial globalisation: from the Asian crisis to a new international financial architecture (Basingstoke, Palgrave: 2005).

Current Teaching

INTP 247 - International Relations: Wealth and World Affairs

INTP 376 – Special Topic: Politics and Development of South East Asia

POLS 441 – International Political Economy

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