Against the backdrop of China's increasingly influential role in global finance and the debate on the emergence of a "Beijing Consensus", this paper examines whether the ideology that China promotes in the Bretton Woods institutions is conducive to the initiation of financial policy change at...

The paper discusses whether US dollar based financial sanctions will undermine the dollar's dominant international role. Despite long-standing attempts to reduce the role of the dollar, these have had limited success so far. I discuss why this is the case and why alternatives to the dollar are...

This paper challenges the prevailing view in the sovereign debt literature by arguing that sovereign debt markets, in many respects, behave similarly to other credit markets. These markets are hierarchical rather than flat, inherently hybrid in nature, blending elements of public order and...

Introduction -- Financial power and the developmental state -- Financial repression and structural financial power -- Financial repression and currency internationalization -- Financial repression and relational financial power -- Developmental states in the Bretton Woods institutions -- Conclusion