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The political economy of senior care in China: theorising with Chinese feminisms 中国养老服务的政治经济学：以中国女性主义为理论基础

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-07-15 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000021

Feng Xu, Kendra Strauss

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Monetary sovereignty and the ‘Invisible Leviathan’: the politics of Marx’s theory of money 货币主权与 "隐形利维坦"：马克思货币理论的政治学意义

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000020

Jack Copley

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Weak progressive politics and resistance without guarantees in the post-pandemic global political economy: a broadly Marxist account 大流行病后全球政治经济中的弱进步政治和无保障抵抗：广义马克思主义的解释

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000015

David Bailey

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Fragmentation of global cybersecurity governance: quasi-public goods and multi-level conflicts 全球网络安全治理的碎片化：准公共产品和多层次冲突

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000016

Cuihong Cai, Ruoyang Zhang

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Feminists for a new Constitution in Chile: forging progressive alliances in times of crisis 智利新宪法女权主义者：在危机时期建立进步联盟

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000018

Melany Cruz

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Be careful what you wish for: why more fragmentation might hurt global cybersecurity 小心驶得万年船：为什么更加分散可能会损害全球网络安全？

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000011

Mischa Hansel, Jantje Silomon, Emilia Neuber

{"title":"Be careful what you wish for: why more fragmentation might hurt global cybersecurity","authors":"Mischa Hansel, Jantje Silomon, Emilia Neuber","doi":"10.1332/26352257y2024d000000011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257y2024d000000011","url":null,"abstract":"Governmental representatives often cite security concerns as a reason when justifying policies that contribute to internet fragmentation. Restrictions, such as on the use of foreign soft- and hardware or data localisation requirements, are meant to lessen cybersecurity risks, including disruptive cyberattacks or state-led surveillance campaigns. Intuitively, it seems self-explanatory that these measures translate into cybersecurity gains – the more control a government has over a system, the more secure it should be. Although critics strongly dispute such measures by making an economic case, they hardly ever question the assumption made regarding cybersecurity benefits.\u0000Our article challenges this view, taking public goods theory as our analytical point of departure to criticise notions of ‘weaponized interdependence’. Furthermore, we challenge the idea of secure national controls, which are key building blocks within justifications of governmental fragmentation policies at the application layer. More specifically, we argue that such justifications ignore negative impacts on the availability of key public goods in global cybersecurity, as well as other externalities. For example, while technological decoupling may well lead to less vulnerability to cyberattacks, it may also eliminate important incentives for self-restraint on the part of attackers due to potential blowback effects. It is with a view to such unintended consequences that we call for a more thorough assessment of the security risks and benefits within public policy debates on digital trade restrictions and data localisation.","PeriodicalId":302702,"journal":{"name":"Global Political Economy","volume":"64 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140693891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The crisis in South America: neoliberalism, neodevelopmentalism and beyond. Insights from Argentina and Brazil 南美洲的危机：新自由主义、新发展主义及其他。阿根廷和巴西的启示

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000014

Dario Clemente

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Queer/Green collaboration as a radical response to climate crises: foregrounding the green stripe 作为对气候危机的激进回应的同性恋/绿色合作：突出绿色条纹

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000013

Emma Foster, Peter Kerr

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What does neo-classic economics get wrong? Social policy, labour market dualisation, and labour reallocation 新古典经济学错在哪里？社会政策、劳动力市场二元化和劳动力重新配置

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000009

Saliha Metinsoy

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Coloniality dressed in green: in its current form, climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule 披着绿衣的殖民主义：以目前的形式，气候融资有可能成为殖民统治的新工具

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000010

Stefan Zylinski

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