Professor Magnus Ryner

Professor in International Relations

Profile

I joined Oxford Brookes in May 2007, having previously worked at the University of Birmingham, Brunel University, University of Amsterdam, European University Institute in Florence and York University in Toronto (where I obtained my Ph.D in 1996). My main research interests are in the field of international political economy. I am particularly interested in power relations that are involved in the formation of the global economy and the social implications of these. In the early stages of my research, I explored these issues in relation to the transformation of welfare capitalism in western Europe (my first book focused on the case of Swedish social democracy, and my second book on the formation of the EMU). However, my research interests are becoming increasingly 'global' and they concern poverty and unprotected work as a social force of world politics.

Publications

• The European Union: A Radical View (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 forthcoming) (with Alan Cafruny)
• Europe at Bay: In the Shadow of US Hegemony (Boulder Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2007) (with Alan Cafruny)
• Poverty and the Production of World Politics: Unprotected Workers in the Global Political Economy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) (co-editor with Matt Davies and contributor)
• A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe (Lanham Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) (co-editor with Alan Cafruny and contributor)
• Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way: Lessons from the Swedish Model (London: Routledge, 2002)

 Journal Articles and Book Chapters (selected)

• 'Renegotiating the Swedish Social Democratic Settlement: From Pension Fund Socialism to Neoliberalization,' Politics & Society 37(2) (2009), pp. 257-88 (with Claes Belfrage).
• 'Social Forces and the Effects of (Post-) Washington Consensus Policy in Africa: Comparing Tunisia and South Africa,' The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 98 (402) (2009), pp. 301-17 (with Stephen Hurt & Karim Knio).
• 'Critical Political Economy,' in Antje Wiener & Thomas Diez (eds.) European Integration Theory 2nd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 221-40 (with Alan Cafruny).
• 'Neoliberal European Governance and the Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Critique of the "New Malthusians",' in Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Jan Drahokoupil & Laura Horn (eds.) Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 44-63.
• ‘US Power and the Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe’s Second Project of Integration,’ Capital & Class 93 (2007), pp. 101-20.
• ‘Monetary Union and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of Europe’s Crisis,’ New Political Economy 12 (2) (2007), pp. 141-65. (with Alan Cafruny)
• ‘The Nordic Model: Does It Exist? Can It Survive?’ New Political Economy 12 (1) (2007), pp. 61-70.
• ‘Workers of the World…: The “Economic-Corporate Moment” of Contemporary World Politics,’ in Matt Davies & Magnus Ryner (eds.) Poverty and the Production of World Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 62-88.
• International Political Economy Beyond the Post-Structuralist-Historical Materialist Dichotomy,’ in Marieke de Goede (ed.) International Political Economy and Post-Structural Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 139-56.
• ‘A Coming Crisis of the Euro? Transatlantic Subordination and Social Contradictions of the EMU,’ in Matthew Evangelista & Vittorio Emanuele Parsi (eds.) Partners or Rivals: European-American Relations after Iraq (Milan & Ithaca NY: Vito e Pensiero/Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 299-334 (with Alan Cafruny).
• ‘Neoliberalization of Social Democracy: The Swedish Case,’ Comparative European Politics 2 (1) (2004), pp. 97-119.
• ‘Theories of European Integration: A Critique,’ in Alan Cafruny & Magnus Ryner (eds.) A Ruined Fortress? (Lanham Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), pp. 17-45 (with Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Henk Overbeek).
• ‘What Is Living and What Is Dead in Swedish Social Democracy?’ Radical Philosophy 117 (2003), pp. 23-32.
  • This article featured in the catalogue of a conceptual art exhibition by Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset titled The Welfare Show (Cologne: Walter KoenigVerlag), which toured in 2005-06 at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; the BAWAG Foundation in Vienna, Austria; The Powerplant in Toronto, Canada; and the Serpentine Gallery, London UK.

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2006/01/elmgreen_dragsetthe_welfare_sh.html

• Transnationaal Historisch Materialisme: De Wederopstanding van Marxisme en Kritische Theorie in de Internationale Politieke Economie,' Vrede en Veiligheid 29 (2) (2000), pp. 228-48. (with Henk Overbeek)
• ‘Neoliberal Globalization and the Crisis of Swedish Social Democracy,’ Economic and Industrial Democracy 20 (1) (1999), pp. 39-80.

• ‘Maastricht Convergence in the Social Democratic Heartland: Germany and Sweden,’ International Journal of Political Economy 28 (2) (1998), pp. 85-123.
• Assessing SAP’s Economic Policy in the 1980s: The “Third Way”, The Swedish Model and the Transition from Fordism to Post-Fordism,’ Economic and Industrial Democracy 15 (3) (1994), pp. 385-428. 

Ph.D Supervision

• Oezmen, Muejgan, Poverty and War: A Comparison of Congo and Cote d'Ivoire (with Christina Steenkamp) (funded by the Hans Boeckler Foundation)
  
• Szarkowski, Shane, Deconstructing Failed State Discourse: Historical Bases, Contemporary Forms and International Security Implications (with Gary Browning & Tina Managhan)
  
• Matthew Donoghue, Citizenship, Welfare and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis of France and the UK (with Mikko Kuisma & Michael Lister)
  
• Miguel Otero, The Euro versus the Dollar: The Politics of Global Monetary Hegemony (with Stephen Hurt & Andy Kilmister, School of Business)
• Agnieszka Balicka, States Practice in Responding to Terrorist Attack: A Case Study of Israel and the US (with Kuniko Ashizawa and Dawn Sedman, Dept. of Law)
• Zoe Pflaeger, A Critical Analysis of the Concept of Empowerment in Development Theory and Practice (with Jill Steans, University of Birmingham) (ESRC-funded)

 Completed

• Claes Belfrage, The Neoliberal Restructuring of the Welfare State: The Critical Case of Pension System Reform in Sweden (with Matthew Watson, University of Birmingham, 2007) (ESRC-funded) 
•  Lee Jarvis, Times of Terror: Discourse and the Politics of Temporality (with Paul Williams, University of Birmingham, 2007) (ESRC-funded) 
•  Sam Ashman, Globalisation as Uneven Development: Marxism and the World Market (with Colin Hay, University of Birmingham, 2006) (ESRC-funded) 
• Aimilia Pia, The European Social Forum and the Politics of European Identity (with Daniel Wincott, University of Birmingham, 2006) 
• Lenka Polackova, Multilevel Governance and the Regulation of European Economic Space: The Case of Capital Adequacy (with James Tomlinson, Brunel University, 2003).

 I am always happy to consider interesting dissertation proposals for prospective supervision, which fall within the broad subject-areas of my research and teaching.

Teaching

• U23228: The Political Economy of the European Union

• P25116: Readings in Social Science
• P23102: Global Political Economy