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Baker

Dr Andrew Baker

Reader

(DPhil Ulster)

Contact Details
Room 023.02.010
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3732
email: a.baker@qub.ac.uk

Papers  Austerity in the UK

Teaching Areas

Politics and Power of the Global Economy, International Relations, International Political Economy, Democracy, Ethics and Economics.

Pathway Convenor of BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Research Interests

I work primarily in the field of International Political Economy. I’m interested in how the international management of money and finance relates to politics, power and wealth distribution. My research has examined how global financial orders are created and sustained, and the patterns of politics and political conditions required to change and transform those orders. Much of my research has focused on the political and social dynamics that influence and drive the evolution of the institutions and practices for governing global finance, including the implications of these practices for patterns of power and authority, and issues of legitimacy. A major element of this has been to look at the role, power and functioning of so-called apex policy forums such as the G7 and G20 groups of finance ministry and central officials. Another key theme to my research has been the politics and power associated with US ascendancy in global finance and the sustainability of Anglo-American leadership in the global financial architecture. My current research project looks at the political economy of post-crisis regulation. One strand of this is an examination of the apparent rise of macroprudential regulation, entitled “Financial Booms and Crisis Politics: The Political Economy of Macroprudential Regulation,” with a particular focus on the role, workings and output of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Prior to this I worked on a large ESRC research project: Regulatory Regime Change in World Financial Markets ' where I conducted research into corporate governance reform, the role of International Organizations and the notion of market discipline, involving extensive field research at the OECD and the World Bank. I am currently a member of a Chatham House, Instituto Affari Internazionali (Rome) and CIGI (University of Waterloo, Canada) study group on Global Economic Governance after the crisis. I also contributed a proposal on reform of the Financial Stability Forum to a Chatham House/ Atlantic Council Report that was presented to the G20 leaders ahead of the London Summit. I have acted as an independent adviser to governments and multilateral financing institutions in the Gulf region. I am also one of the deputy editors of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations and a co-editor of the Warwick Studies in Globalization book series, published by Routledge.

I am interested in supervising research students in any area of political economy but especially in the areas of global financial governance, the political economy of the UK, post crisis financial regulation and the political economy of US international financial power and policy.

Recent/Selected Publications
  • (2011) “The ‘Public Interest’ Agency of International Organizations? The case of the OECD’s Corporate Governance Principles,” Review of International Political Economy, forthcoming
  • 2010 “Restraining Regulatory Capture? Anglo-America, Crisis Politics and Trajectories of Change in Global Financial Governance,” International Affairs (May Issue).
  • (2010) “Deliberative International Financial Governance and Apex Policy Forums: Where we are and Where we should be headed” in Underhill, G, Blom, J and Mügge, D (eds), From Reform to Crisis: Financial Integration and the 'New Architecture' of International Financial Governance , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
  • (2009) “Deliberative Equality and the Transgovernmental Politics of the Global Financial Architecture,” Global Governance, 15, pp.195-218.
  • (2008) “The Group of Seven,” New Political Economy, 13:1, pp.103-116.
  • (2008) “Financial Crises and US Treasury Policy:  The Institutional and Ideational Basis of American Capability,” in Robertson, J (ed). Power and Politics After Financial Crisis: Rethinking Foreign Opportunism in Emerging Markets, London: Palgrave
  • (2006) “American Power and the Dollar: The Constraints of Technical Authority and Declaratory Policy in the 1990s,” New Political Economy, Vol.11, No.1, pp.23-46
  •   (2006) The Group of Seven: Finance Ministries, Central Banks and Global Financial Governance, London: Routledge (Warwick Studies in Globalisation Series) 
  • (2005) Governing Financial Globalization: IPE and Multi-Level Governance, with Hudson, D and Woodward, (eds.) London: Routledge (RIPE Series) 2005