Governance and the Hegemony of Financial Stability

From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-82298-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Governance and the Hegemony of Financial Stability: From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency explains how the handling of the Global Financial Crisis has redefined the relations of politics and financial markets and how the then established hegemony of financial stability still dominates today’s responses to today’s challenges, particularly climate change.

The book argues that within the years of crisis management a hegemony of financial governance evolved that accepts the financial system as being intrinsically crisis-laden and potentially disastrous for broader notions of welfare and social security. The book traces how this framework redefined state–market relations, expanded technocratic authority, and extended into new domains, including climate policy, where climate risks are reframed as threats to financial stability. By analysing the work of a transnational epistemic community of central bankers, regulators, and financial stability experts, it analyses how post-crisis governance operates through risk management, surveillance, and resilience-building. It captures how political and financial rationalities co-evolved towards a hegemony that seeks to contain crises without addressing their root causes and thus prevents more transformative changes

The book will appeal to scholars of political science, economic sociology, international relations, international political economy, as well as security, finance, and economics.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westermeier, Carola

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: From Crisis to Hegemony: The Rise of Financial Stability in Financial Governance.

Chapter 2 The Hegemony of Financial Stability.

Chapter 3: The Securitization of Finance and the Financialization of Political Security.

Chapter 4. Designed to Fail – Epistemologies of Post-Crisis Financial Governance.

Chapter 5. Between Finance and Security: Experts of Financial Stability.

Chapter 6: Conclusion. From Financial Crisis to Climate Emergency – The Continued Hegemony of Financial Stability.

7: List of Interviews

8. Acknowledgements

9. Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carola Westermeier leads the Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany. Her research is located at the intersections of economic sociology, security studies, and international political economy.Carola Westermeier is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and co-leader of the research project Financial Infrastructures and Geoeconomic Security at the Collaborative Research Centre 138 Dynamics of Security.