Dr Ali Burak Güven — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Biography

Ali Burak Güven joined Birkbeck in 2012. His work lies at the intersection of comparative and international political economy, focusing primarily on development policy and practice. Much of his recent research examines how an increasingly multipolar global economy impacts the parameters of development cooperation, with particular reference to international organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank. Policy and institutional trajectories in emerging countries constitute another substantive research interest. Ali has published in journals including Development and Change, Development Policy Review, Global Governance, International Affairs, New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, and Studies in Comparative International Development. He co-edited a collection on globalisation and has been working on a monograph on the evolution of agricultural and financial institutions of market governance in neoliberal Turkey. He was awarded the 2017 Ronald Tress Prize in Research Excellence in the Social Sciences category and held a British Academy research grant in 2017-18.

Ali is programme director for MSc Global Political Economy, MSc Global Governance and Emerging Powers and Cert HE Politics and International Studies. He served as the departmental Director of Education in 2016-2020.

Qualifications

PhD Political Science, University of Toronto
MSc, BSc Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University

Administrative responsibilities

Programme Director, MSc Global Political Economy
Programme Director, MSc Global Governance and Emerging Powers
Programme Director, Cert HE Politics and International Studies

Research

Research interests

International and comparative political economy
International organisations and global governance
Politics of development
Emerging powers
Turkish politics and political economy

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:: 2

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Current doctoral researchers

BASTIAAN HARBERS

Nature of supervision:
Principal Supervisor

Title of thesis:
The international response to the food price spikes of 2007-8 and 2010/11: what role for the state and the market?

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

SIMON HAYES

Nature of supervision:
Principal Supervisor, Oct 2017

Title of thesis:
The Impact of the ILO: Fragmented Policy Networks and the Battle for Labour Standards in Czechia and Slovakia

Awarded:
2021

Teaching

Teaching modules

Perspectives on Political Economy (LALW064S7)
Global Political Economy: Structures and Policies (SC05001S7)
Introduction to Global Politics (SSPO118S4)
Emerging Powers in World Politics (SSPO120S7)

Publications

Article

Güven, Ali Burak (2023) Towards a new political economy of Turkish Capitalism: three worlds. Turkish Studies 24 (1), pp. 177-196. ISSN 1468-3849.
Güven, Ali Burak (2018) Whither the Post-Washington consensus? international financial institutions and development policy before and after the crisis. Review of International Political Economy 25 (3), pp. 392-417. ISSN 0969-2290.
Güven, Ali Burak (2017) The World Bank and emerging powers: beyond the multipolarity-multilateralism conundrum. New Political Economy 22 (5), pp. 496-520. ISSN 1356-3467.
Güven, Ali Burak (2017) Defending supremacy: how the IMF and the World Bank navigate the challenge of rising powers. International Affairs 93 (5), pp. 1149-1166. ISSN 0020-5850.
Güven, Ali Burak (2016) Rethinking development space in emerging countries: Turkey's conservative countermovement. Development and Change 47 (5), pp. 995-1024. ISSN 0012-155X.
Güven, Ali Burak (2012) The IMF, the World Bank, and the Global Economic Crisis: exploring paradigm continuity. Development and Change 43 (4), pp. 869-898. ISSN 1467-7660.
Güven, Ali Burak (2012) The feasibility of IFI-led institutional reform: four Turkish experiments compared. Development Policy Review 30 (4), pp. 425-449. ISSN 1467-7679.
Öniş, Z. and Güven, Ali Burak (2011) The global economic crisis and the future of neoliberal globalization: rupture vs. continuity. Global Governance 17 (4), pp. 469-488. ISSN 1075-2846.
Öniş, Z. and Güven, Ali Burak (2011) Global crisis, national responses: the political economy of Turkish exceptionalism. New Political Economy 16 (5), pp. 585-608. ISSN 1356-3467.
Güven, Ali Burak (2009) Reforming sticky institutions: persistence and change in Turkish agriculture. Studies in Comparative International Development 44 (2), pp. 162-187. ISSN 0039-3606.

Book

Sandbrook, R. and Güven, Ali Burak, eds. (2014) Civilizing globalization: a survival guide, revised and expanded edition. SUNY series in Radical Social and Political Theory. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 9781438452098.

Book Review

Güven, Ali Burak (2018) The world bank and transferring development: policy movement through technical assistance by Adrian Robert Bazbauers.
Güven, Ali Burak (2016) Book Review: Richard Sandbrook, 'Reinventing the Left in the Global South: The Politics of the Possible'.
Güven, Ali Burak (2016) Reinventing the left in the global south: the politics of the possible (Richard Sandbrook).

Book Section

Güven, Ali Burak (2019) Political economy. In: Ozerdem, A. and Whiting, M. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138500556.
Güven, Ali Burak (2016) The political economy of Turkish democracy. In: Erisen, C. and Kubicek, P. (eds.) Democratic Consolidation in Turkey: Micro and Macro Challenges. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 184-203. ISBN 9781138914957.
Güven, Ali Burak (2014) The IMF and the World Bank: meeting new challenges. In: Sandbrook, R. and Güven, Ali Burak (eds.) Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition. Albany, U.S.: SUNY Press. pp. 203-216. ISBN 9781438452104.
Güven, Ali Burak and Sandbrook, R. (2014) Introduction: Envisioning a civilized globalization. In: Sandbrook, R. and Güven, Ali Burak (eds.) Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition. SUNY series in Radical Social and Political Theory. Albany, U.S.: SUNY Press. pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781438452104.
Güven, Ali Burak (2013) IMF, Dünya Bankası ve Küresel Kriz: Yeni Dengeler, Eski Yönelimler. In: Şenses, F. and Öniş, Z. and Bakır, C. (eds.) Küresel Kriz ve Yeni Ekonomik Düzen. Istanbul, Turkey: İletişim. pp. 41-64. ISBN 9789750513626.