Matthew Bishop
I'm Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Sheffield (UK) and a Fellow of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) where I co-lead its research programme on "Development and the Governance of a Globalising Political Economy". I also write regular comment pieces for the SPERI blog: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/
My research interests are generally in the field of IPE, with a particular focus on small states, the Caribbean, global trade politics, and the political economy of development. I also do work on Democratization, climate change, and non-sovereign territories, and have increasingly become interested in rising powers (especially China) and also the turning tide of global narcotics policy (as reflected in emerging patterns of cannabis legalisation).
I worked previously at the University of the West Indies, where I was the founding managing editor of The Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy. I still edit the journal, so please feel free to email me if you are interested in submitting something. The website is: http://journals.sta.uwi.edu/iir/
My research interests are generally in the field of IPE, with a particular focus on small states, the Caribbean, global trade politics, and the political economy of development. I also do work on Democratization, climate change, and non-sovereign territories, and have increasingly become interested in rising powers (especially China) and also the turning tide of global narcotics policy (as reflected in emerging patterns of cannabis legalisation).
I worked previously at the University of the West Indies, where I was the founding managing editor of The Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy. I still edit the journal, so please feel free to email me if you are interested in submitting something. The website is: http://journals.sta.uwi.edu/iir/
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"This… [new edition] is exemplary: it is very extensively updated and revised and the authors have not tried to cut corners by keeping outdated references or bits of text…. [A]n excellent textbook for undergraduate students both for its comprehensive overview of the literature and as a basis for discussion." – Anna Khakee, Democratization
The paper sets out a series of steps by which the region’s leaders can initiate and lead such a debate prior to designing a new set of governance arrangements for CARICOM that would permit the substantive strengthening of sovereignty via its creative pooling. Only when a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of what sovereignty means in the contemporary world order is embedded into the Caribbean political culture will the leadership be able to build the effective institutions of regional governance that remain so badly needed.
"This… [new edition] is exemplary: it is very extensively updated and revised and the authors have not tried to cut corners by keeping outdated references or bits of text…. [A]n excellent textbook for undergraduate students both for its comprehensive overview of the literature and as a basis for discussion." – Anna Khakee, Democratization
The paper sets out a series of steps by which the region’s leaders can initiate and lead such a debate prior to designing a new set of governance arrangements for CARICOM that would permit the substantive strengthening of sovereignty via its creative pooling. Only when a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of what sovereignty means in the contemporary world order is embedded into the Caribbean political culture will the leadership be able to build the effective institutions of regional governance that remain so badly needed.