BA (Honours, First Class) Political Science (Victoria University of Wellington)
MA International Relations (Distinction) (Victoria University of Wellington)
PhD International Relations (the Australian National University)

EMPLOYMENT

2007 - Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Birmingham

RESEARCH INTERESTS

International and comparative political economy, the politics of taxation and monetary reform, constructivist political economy and institutional theory, and international organizations.

PROFILE

Andre's current research concentrates on the changing role of the International Monetary Fund in the global political economy, as well as the comparative political economy of taxation and monetary reform. He is also currently working on several additional research projects, including: (1) the evolution of consumer debt regimes; (2) the reform of the international sovereign debt regime; and (3) the cultural political economy of Islamic banking.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Currency of Power: The IMF and Monetary Reform in Frontier Economies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Journal articles

"Global Monitor: The Joint Vienna Institute", New Political Economy 15/3 (2010), forthcoming.

“The IMF, Crisis Management, and the Credit Crunch”, Australian Journal of International Affairs 64/1 (2010), forthcoming.

"Money for Nothing: Everyday Actors and Monetary Crises", Journal of International Relations and Development 12/1 (2009), pp. 3-30.

"When do NGOs Matter? Activist Organizations as a Source of Change in the International Debt Regime", Global Society 23/1 (2009), pp. 59-78.

"Watching from the Sidelines? The Decline of the IMF's Crisis Management Role" (with Mark Beeson), Contemporary Politics 14/4 (2008), pp. 393-409.

"Neoliberalism and Financial Change: The Evolution of Residential Capitalism in New Zealand", Comparative European Politics 6/3 (2008), pp. 346-64.

"The Importance of Being Earnest: The IMF as a Reputational Intermediary", New Political Economy 13/2 (2008), pp. 125-51.

"The IMF and Experimentalist Governance in Small Western States" (with Leonard Seabrooke), The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 97/395 (2008), pp. 189-210.

"Seeing Like the IMF: Institutional Change in Small Open Economies" (with Leonard Seabrooke), Review of International Political Economy 14/4 (2007), pp. 576-601.

"Setting the Fiscal Policy Agenda: Economic News and Election Year Tax Debates in New Zealand", Law in Context, 24/2 (2006), pp. 60-77.

"The Social Construction of Tax Fairness: Tax Talk in the Media and the New Zealand Labour Party", New Zealand Journal of Media Studies, 9/2 (2006), pp. 53-66.

Book chapters

“Stabilizing Global Monetary Norms: The IMF and Current Account Convertibility”, in Owning Development: Creating Global Policy Norms in the World Bank and the IMF, edited by Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“Governing the World Economy”, in The Europa Directory of International Organizations, 11th edition, edited by Helen Canton and Catriona Appeatu Holman (London: Routledge, 2009), 13-17.

The Politics of Capital Gains: Creating an Asset-based Society in New Zealand, in The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts, edited by H.M. Schwartz and L. Seabrooke (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 76-96.

Civilizing Labor Markets: The World Bank in Central Asia, in Global Standards of Market Civilization, edited by Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke (London: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy, 2006), pp. 119-33.

TEACHING

International Political Economy (POLS 205)
Contemporary International Political Economy (POLS 312)
International Economic Management (G86)

PhD SUPERVISION

Liam Clegg (secondary supervisor), The Politics of Accountability in the IMF and the World Bank.

Shaf Zafeer (co-supervisor), Conflict and Economic Growth in LDCs.

Amin Samman (secondary supervisor), (Re-) imagining the crises of global capital.

OTHER

Andre is involved with a number of research networks, including the BISA International Political Economy Group (IPEG) the PSA Political Economy Specialist Group, and the Research Exchange Network

Since 2007 he has been director of the POLSIS IPE Research Group