Leonard Seabrooke

Leonard Seabrooke
Born	1974 Elizabeth, South Australia
Fields	International Political Economy International Relations Economic Sociology
Institutions	Copenhagen Business School

Leonard Seabrooke is a Copenhagen Business School Professor in International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Business and Politics.^[1] Seabrooke's research primarily concerns the role of professionals and experts in solving long-term social and economic problems, the politics of access to credit, tax, and property within economies, as well as international financial governance. He has also worked on the social sources of how states generate international financial capacity, American structural power in the international financial system, how 'everyday politics' has influence in the world economy, how international policy is created through common standards, and the connection between welfare systems, housing, fertility, and international finance. Seabrooke has published articles in highly ranked international peer review journals in the field of International Political Economy, and served as a co-editor on the journal Review of International Political Economy^[2] between 2007 and 2012. He is a senior editor on the editorial team (2014–18) of International Studies Quarterly,^[3] the flagship journal of the International Studies Association. Seabrooke is also editing the Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy with Jon Pevehouse.

Seabrooke was also the Director of Studies of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform,^[4] which brought together economists, political scientists, and lawyers from both the scholarly and policy worlds to discuss financial reform and re-regulation.

Seabrooke was Principal Investigator of the 'Professions in International Political Economies' (PIPES) project (2011-2014) funded by the European Research Council^[5] and led a research team based at the Copenhagen Business School. He was a Work Package Leader of the 'Global Reordering: Evolution though European Networks' (GR:EEN) large-scale integrating project (2011-2015),^[6] funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research. From 2015 Len is Chief Scientist on a new EC Horizon 2020^[7] project titled ENLIGHTEN ('European Legitimacy in Governing Through Hard Times'), which deals with how political and expert networks operate in 'fast-burning' and 'slow-burning' crises within Europe. He is also leading a new project tracing the careers, networks, and ideas of Anglo-American economists for the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Book Publications

• Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy (edited with Jon Pevehouse, Oxford University Press, 2017)
• Global Tax Battles (co-authored with Duncan Wigan, Oxford University Press, 2017)
• Professional Networks in Transnational Governance (edited with Lasse Folke Henriksen, Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness (edited with Susana Borrás, Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Seeing Like an International Organization (edited with André Broome, Routledge, 2014)
• The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (edited with Herman Schwartz, Palgrave, 2009)
• Everyday Politics of the World Economy (edited with John M. Hobson, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• The Social Sources of Financial Power (Cornell University Press, 2006)
• Global Standards of Market Civilization (edited with Brett Bowden, Routledge, 2006)
• US Power in International Finance (Palgrave, 2001)

Music

Len Seabrooke plays bass guitar and sings in the 'bluegaze' group Me After You^[8] with Federico Festino. Their album, Foughts, was produced by Andy Miller, of Mogwai fame, and released with Custom Made Music in 2013, # WOOO-0063. Seabrooke also plays in the band For Satan. He also occasionally plays bass and/or bouzouki for South African 'loserbilly' musician Jim Neversink, Norwegian singer Håkon Lervåg.,^[9] and provides musical support to the Copenhagen-based rapper Junk Boat.

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