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Ronal Palan

Professor Ronen Palan

Professor of International Politics

School of Policy & Global Affairs Department of International Politics

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About

Overview

Professor Ronen Palan (BSc. Econ, LSE, PhD LSE) joined City University London in September 2012. Prior to this he has been a professor of IPE at the University of Birmingham and Sussex University, and a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

He was a visiting professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and York University, Canada. He was also a founding editor of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) and member of the Fellow and Promotion Committee at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton.

Professor's Palan's work lies at the intersection between international relations, political economy, political theory, sociology and human geography. He wrote a number of books and numerous articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries on the subject of Offshore and Tax havens, state theory and international political economic theory. His work has been translated to Chinese, simple and complex characters, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Azeri and Czech.

Media work/appearances

Professor Palan has been interviewed by journals and magazines including the New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, Forbes, The Guardian, The Economist, Le Monde, Alternatives Economiques, Agence France Press, Swiss Business, Dispatches for Channel 4, BBC World Service, National Public radio (NPR).

Watch Professor Palan's interview on Bloomberg Television: Can you blame Starbucks for avoiding UK tax? (November 2012).

Professor Palan's interview about Britain's Second Empire.

Employment

  • Professor, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, September 2007 - September 2015

Teaching

Undergraduate

- International political economy (2nd year)
- Advanced topics in IPE: the offshore world (3rd year)

Postgraduate

- Global political economy
- International financial institutions

Research

Research interests

- International political economy
- Evolutionary political economy
- State theory
- International finance
- Offshore economy
- Globalisation

Areas of PhD supervision and interests

- International political economy
- Finance
- State theory
- Evolutionary theory
- Offshore and tax havens

Publications

Publications by category

Books (15)

  • Palan, R. (2026). Profit and Power. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009605274.
  • Nesvetailova, A. and Palan, R. (2020). Sabotage: The Business of Finance. Penguin UK. ISBN 9780241308158.
  • Palan, R. International Political Economy. ISBN 9789966460042.
  • Halperin, S. and Palan, R. (2015). Legacies of Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107109469.
  • Halperin, S. and Palan, R. (Eds.), (2015). Legacies of Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107109469.
  • Palan, R. (2013). Global political economy: Contemporary theories, second edition.
  • Palan, R., Murphy, R. and Chavagneux, C. (2010). Tax havens: How Globalization Really Works. Cornell Univ Pr. ISBN 9780801476129.
  • Palan, R. (2007). Les Paradis Fiscaux. Le Decouvrte. ISBN 9782748321500.
  • James, P. and Palan, R. (2007). Globalizing Economic Regimes and Institutions.
  • Palan, R. (2006). The Offshore World. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801472954.
  • Palan, R., Abbott, J. and Deans, P. (2005). State Strategies in the Global Political Economy. Continuum Intl Pub Group. ISBN 9780826479167.
  • Palan, R. and Cameron, A. (2003). The Imagined Economies of Globalization. Sage Publications Limited. ISBN 9780761972112.
  • Palan, R. (2000). Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415204897.
  • Palan, R. and Gills, B.K. (1994). Transcending the state-global divide. Lynne Rienner Pub. ISBN 9781555873950.
  • Palan, R. (1986). Book Review: Carolyn M. Vogler, The Nation State: The Neglected Dimension of Class (London: Gower, 1985, 212pp., £17.50). SAGE Publications.

Chapters (25)

  • Palan, R. (2022). Corporate power in the global economy: an evolutionary perspective. Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System (pp. 99-108).
  • Palan, R., Nesvetailova, A., Petersen, W.H. and Phillips, R. (2021). Sophisticated Financial Engineering and Tax Arbitrage. Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators (pp. 35-60). Oxford University PressOxford. ISBN 0198854722.
  • Palan, R. (2019). The Corporation in a Globalized World. The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic Governance and Market Regulation (pp. 629-646). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190900571.
  • Palan, R. (2017). Futurity, Offshore, and the International Political Economy of Crime. In Beckert, J. and Dewey, M. (Eds.), The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy (pp. 108-122). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198794974.
  • Nesvetailova, A. and Palan, R. (2017). Banks as Global Corporations: From Entities to ‘Ecological Habitats’. The Corporation (pp. 268-279). Cambridge University Press.
  • Palan, R. and Mangraviti, G. (2016). Troubling tax havens: tax footprint reduction and jurisdictional arbitrage. In Hay, I. and Beaverstock, J. (Eds.), International Handbook of Wealth and Super-Rich (pp. 422-442). UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781783474035.
  • In Germain, R. (Ed.), (2016). Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy. In Routledge.
  • Palan, R. and Mangraviti, G. (2016). Troubling tax havens: Multijurisdictional arbitrage and corporate tax footprint reduction. Handbook on Wealth and the Super Rich (pp. 422-441).
  • Palan, R. (2015). The second British Empire and the re-emergence of global finance. Legacies of Empire (pp. 46-68). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107109469.
  • Halperin, S. and Palan, R. (2015). Conclusions. Legacies of Empire (pp. 243-249). Cambridge University Press.
  • Halperin, S. and Palan, R. (2015). Introduction: legacies of empire. Legacies of Empire (pp. 1-24). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107109469.
  • Palan, R. (2015). The Second British Empire: The British Empire and the re-emergence of global finance. In Halperin, S. and Palan, R. (Eds.), Legacies of Empire Imperial Roots of the Contemporary Global Order (pp. 40-68). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1107521610.
  • Palan, R. (2015). States and Markets FOREWORD. STATES AND MARKETS (pp. XI-+). ISBN 9781474236928.
  • Palan, R. and Petersen, H. (2015). International political economy Conceptual affinities and substantive differences with security studies. SECURITY: DIALOGUE ACROSS DISCIPLINES (pp. 156-176).
  • Palan, R. (2013). New trends in global political economy. Global Political Economy (pp. 1-18). Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780203097762.
  • Palan, R. (2013). Post-Fordism. Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics (pp. 678-680).
  • Palan, R. (2013). Offshore. Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics (pp. 611-613).
  • Palan, R. (2012). Tax havens. In Toporowski, J. and Michell, J. (Eds.), (pp. 296-300). EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD.
  • In Phillips, N. and Weaver, C. (Eds.), (2010). International Political Economy. In Routledge.
  • Cameron, A. and Palan, R. (2009). Empiricism and objectivity: Reflexive theory construction in a complex world. Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy Ipe Ipe as A Global Conversation (pp. 112-125).
  • Palan, R. (2007). Transnational theories of order and change: heterodoxy in International Relations scholarship. Critical International Relations Theory after 25 Years (pp. 47-70). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521714259.
  • Gammon, E. and Palan, R. (2006). Libidinal International Political Economy. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND POSTSTRUCTURAL POLITICS (pp. 97-114).
  • Cameron, A. and Palan, R. (2005). The imagined economies of globalization. Perspectives on World Politics Third Edition (pp. 333-342).
  • (2005). Technological metaphors and theories of international relations. In Technology, Culture and Competitiveness (pp. 23-36). Routledge.
  • Cameron, A. and Palan, R. (2003). The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State. (pp. 165-184). Wiley. ISBN 9780631230335.

Internet publication

  • Phillips, R., Pyle, J. and Palan, R.(2022).the Amazon method: How to take Advantage of the international State system to avoid paying tax. The Left in European Parliament.

Journal articles (43)

Scholarly edition

Working paper

Professional activities

Media appearances (3)

  • Film Appearance. The UK Gold
  • TV Appearance. Messi Probe Moves Tax Target to Sports Millions
  • The Price we Pay. Film documentary

Radio programme

  • Daniel Berkoff. NPR, New York http://www.wbur.org/npr/198389370/are-things-too-cozy-in-londons-city-within-a-city

Television programmes (2)

  • One Trillion Island. BBC2 Advisor to a documentary on the Cayman Islands.
  • The Daily Dose. Voice TV, Thailand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRBnVw8BEhk