Lena RethelLena Rethel is Associate Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Her research interests are concentrated in the broad areas of the political economy of finance and Sutheast Asian politics. Conceptually, this includes the relationship between finance and development, financialisation and the politics of debt, alternative globalisations and the disciplinary parameters and spatial location of contemporary international political economy scholarship. In her research, she has focused on developments in the Southeast Asia region, mainly Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Her most recent books are Global Governance in Crisis (co-edited with Andre Broome and Liam Clegg, 2015) and The Problem with Banks (with Timothy J. Sinclair, 2012). Currently, she is working on a range of projects that explore the relationship between financial system change and development, trajectories of emerging market debt and the emergence of Islamic finance. Read More Read Less