Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World

Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of States and the Reemergence of Global Finance and The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective (both from Cornell), and coeditor of Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present, and Future of National Currencies. Andreas Pickel is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, Trent University. He is the author of Radical Transitions: The Survival and Revival of Entrepreneurship in the GDR, coauthor of The Grand Experiment: Debating Shock Therapy, Transition Theory and the East German Case, and coeditor of Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences.

"Studies of foreign economic policy abound, but few bother to recognize that 'foreign' only makes sense in relation to the 'national' other. Eric Helleiner, Andreas Pickel, and their colleagues have put the 'national other' front and center in their analysis of Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World. In doing so, they usefully demonstrate how economic nationalism takes a variety of policy forms and is quite distinct from the economic statist/realist positions so often caricatured in the literature. Contributions on topics as diverse as how nationalism affects post communist states, choice of economic integration strategy, how conceptions of security inform nationalism as an accumulation strategy in East Asia, and how nationalism and liberal policies can in fact work 'hand in hand' in a variety of contexts, together produce a volume of great theoretical insight. For years scholars have been calling for a constructivist voice in International Political Economy, one that takes identities and interests as codetermining. Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World answers that call."