Professor Susan K. Sell reflects on a scholarly career at the forefront of shining a light on the use and misuse of global private power.
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Her research has applied this lens to powerful effect, particularly in the area of global health. Although critical IPE is experiencing a resurgence of interest, that was not always the case. In a wide-ranging conversation, Susan reflects on being an often lone critical voice during the triumphalist 1990s liberal moment, navigating a discipline which, until recently, was overwhelmingly male, as well as the potential for COVID-19 to serve as a “horrendous opportunity”, and what the future of global private power might look like.
Susan can be found on the ANU website.
Selection of publications:
- What COVID-19 Reveals About Twenty-first Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity, 2020
- Health under capitalism: a global political economy of structural pathogenesis, 2019 (with Owain D. Williams)
- Who Governs The Globe? 2010 (with Deborah Avant and Martha Finnemore)
- TRIPS was never enough: vertical forum shifting, FTAs, ACTA, and TPP, 2011
- Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights, 2003