Master class
Social Systems In The International Political Economy
By Leonard Seabrooke
(Copenhagen Business School and NUPI)
Wednesday, November 27th, 2024, 2-4 pm in Leacock 429, McGill
 
The field of International Political Economy is often studied as an arena of competition and cooperation according to given (strongly assumed) incentive structures. In this lecture we’ll explore the social systems that underpin these incentives. This includes the role of social networks, status orders, and affordances protected by professional communities. Examples will be provided from research on transnational financial and legal management, financial regulation, and environmental standard-setting. Placing emphasis on social systems does not displace incentive structures. But it does allow us to locate them where the positionality and practices of those involved hold a lot of explanatory power.
 
Leonard Seabrooke (PhD Sydney, 2003) is Professor of International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Organization at the Copenhagen Business School, and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. His work is known for its interdisciplinarity – drawing on political economy, economic sociology, international relations, and organization studies. His best known monograph is The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy and International Financial Orders, published by Cornell University Press in 2006. He is also the coeditor, among others, of The Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy (2022) and Professional Networks in Transnational Governance (2017).
A master class is a special talk given by a foremost expert in a field and tailored to graduate students that seeks to take stock of key intellectual debates, research problems and professional dynamics.
 
To register for this event, please RSVP email the team’s coordinator at kareem.faraj@mail.mcgill.ca by November 20th, 2024.