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Randall D. Germain B.A. (Victoria), M.A., Ph.D. (York) Full Professor and Chair (Political Science) Office: C-663 Loeb, 613-520-2600 x 2771 E-mail: randall_germain [at] carleton [dot] ca |
Research fields: international relations, global finance
Expertise:
• financial crises
• global financial regulation
• international financial institutions
• politics of the global economy
Selected publications:
Global Politics and Financial Governance, Palgrave MacMillan, November 2010 (240 pages).
“Financial Governance and Transnational Deliberative Democracy,” Review of International Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (April 2010), pp. 493–509.
“Global Finance, Risk and Governance,” Global Society, Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2007), pp. 71–93.
“Globalising Accountability within the International Organisation of Credit: Financial Governance and the Public Sphere,” Global Society, Vol. 18, No. 3 (July 2004), pp. 217–242.
“Global Financial Governance and the Problem of Inclusion,” Global Governance, Vol. 7, No. 4 (October-December 2001), pp. 411–426.
Globalization and Its Critics: Perspectives from Political Economy, ed., Macmillan / St. Martin’s Press, 2000 (314 pages).
The International Organization of Credit: States and Global Finance in the World-Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (222 pages).
Short biography:
Randall Germain joined Carleton University in 2003 as an Associate Professor of Political Science, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2008. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Political Science and History from the University of Victoria (Canada), and his doctorate in Political Science from York University (Canada). He has also taught in Canada at McMaster University, York University, and Queen’s University, and in the U.K. he has previously taught at the University of Sheffield and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His teaching and research falls within the area of international political economy, with a primary focus on the political economy of global finance. He is an Honourary Fellow of the Political Economy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield, and was a co-editor of the Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy from 2000-2007. He is a past Convenor of the International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association, and is currently on the international editorial board of the IPE Yearbook and the Journal of International Relations and Development. His current research focuses on the regulatory apparatus of global financial governance and on the use of historical reasoning in IPE theory.