Books

• James Brassett, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel & Ben Richardson (2022) I-PEEL: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lena Rethel (2021) The Political Economy of Financial Development in Malaysia, Abingdon: Routledge. Paperback in 2022.
• Juanita Elias & Lena Rethel (eds.) (2016) The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Paperback in 2018.
• André Broome, Liam Clegg & Lena Rethel (eds.) (2015) Global Governance in Crisis, Abingdon: Routledge. Paperback in 2017. [Reprint of 2012 SI]
• Lena Rethel & Timothy J. Sinclair (2012) The Problem with Banks, London: Zed Books. Hardback/paperback. Shortlisted for the 2013 IPEG Book Prize.

Journal Special Issues/Sections

• Fabian Pape, Johannes Petry & Lena Rethel (2025) Special Issue on The Rise of Asia in International Financial Affairs, International Affairs, forthcoming in September.
• Lena Rethel & Elizabeth Thurbon (2020) Special Section on Finance, Development and the State in Asia, New Political Economy 25(3). Includes Lena Rethel & Elizabeth Thurbon (2020) "Introduction: Finance, Development and the State in Asia", New Political Economy 25(3), pp. 315-319.
• Lisa Tilley, Juanita Elias & Lena Rethel (2019) Special Issue on Cultivating the “exemplary centre” in Southeast Asia: Internationalist Urbanism and Rebellious Alternatives. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 60(1). Includes Lisa Tilley, Juanita Elias & Lena Rethel (2019) "Introduction: The Production and Contestation of Exemplary Centres in Southeast Asia", Asia Pacific Viewpoint 60(1), pp. 7-13.
• André Broome, Liam Clegg & Lena Rethel (eds.) (2012) Special Issue on Global Governance in Crisis. Global Society 26(1). Includes Andre Broome, Liam Clegg & Lena Rethel (2012) “Global Governance and the Politics of Crisis”, Global Society 26(1), pp. 3-17. Reprinted in: Andre Broome et al. (2015) (eds.) Global Governance in Crisis, Abingdon: Routledge.
• James Brassett, Lena Rethel & Matthew Watson (eds.) (2010) Special Issue on the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis. New Political Economy 15(1). Includes James Brassett, Lena Rethel & Matthew Watson (2010) “The Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis: The Economics, Politics and Ethics of Response”.Link opens in a new window New Political Economy 15(1), pp. 1-7.
• James Brassett, Lena Rethel & Matthew Watson (eds.) (2009) Special Section on the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 11(3), pp. 377-478. Includes James Brassett, Lena Rethel & Matthew Watson (2009) “Introduction to the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis in Britain: Constructing and Contesting Competence”. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 11(3), pp. 377-381.

Journal Articles

• Batrisyia Najwa Azalan, James Brassett, Tom Chodor, Juanita Elias, Samanthi Gunawardana, Ruben Kremers, Helen Nesadurai, George Nikolaidis, Lena Rethel, Ben Richardson, and Marek Rutkowski, "Teaching the International Political Economy of Everyday Life Through Global Groupwork", Review of International Political Economy, conditionally accepted.

• Apolline Simons and Lena Rethel (2025) "Subordinated Agency and the Grafting of Sustainable Finance Regulations in Southeast Asia", International Affairs, accepted, fc in September.

• Marco Andreu, Ruben Kremers and Lena Rethel (2024) "Curating reflexivity: industry events and the performative politics of alternative finance", New Political Economy, online first
• Ruben Kremers and Lena Rethel (2024) "Curated power: the performative politics of (industry) events", International Political Sociology 18(1).
• Silvio Hermawan, Moch Faisal Karim and Lena Rethel (2023) "Institutional Layering in Climate Policy: Insights from REDD+ Governance in Indonesia", Forest Policy and Economics 154.
• Louis O’Sullivan and Lena Rethel (2023) "Financial Globalisation, Local Debt Markets and New State Financial Activism in Middle Income Countries", Development and Change, 54(2), pp. 304-330.
• Florence Dafe and Lena Rethel (2022) "Domestic Bank Reform and the Contingent Nature of the Structural Power of Finance in Emerging Markets", Politics and Society 50(4), pp. 571-598.
• Lena Rethel (2020) "Governed Interdependence, Communities of Practice and the Production of Capital Market Knowledge in Southeast Asia", New Political Economy 25(3), pp. 354-369.
• Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel and Lisa Tilley (2019) "IPE and IPS meet in Jakarta: Feminist Research Agendas Seen Through Everyday Life", International Relations 33(4), pp. 599-604.
• Lisa Tilley, Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (2019) "Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta", Asia Pacific Viewpoint 60(1), pp. 80-93.
• Iain Hardie and Lena Rethel (2019) "Financial Structure and the Development of Domestic Bond Markets in Emerging Economies", Business and Politics 21(1), pp. 86-112.
• Lena Rethel (2019) "Corporate Islam, Global Capitalism and the Performance of Economic Moralities", New Political Economy 24(3), pp. 350-364.
• Lena Rethel (2018) "Capital market development in Southeast Asia: from speculative crisis to spectacles of financialization", Economic Anthropology 5(2), pp. 185-197.
• Lena Rethel (2018) "Economic Governance Beyond State and Market: Islamic Capital Markets in Southeast Asia", Journal of Contemporary Asia 48(2), pp. 301-321. Reprinted in: Helen Nesadurai and Shaun Breslin (eds.) (2019) Non-State Actors and Transnational Governance in Southeast Asia, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Jikon Lai, Lena Rethel and Kerstin Steiner (2017) "Conceptualizing Dynamic Challenges to Global Financial Diffusion: Islamic Finance and the Grafting of Sukuk", Review of International Political Economy 24(6), pp. 958-979.
• Lisa Tilley, Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (2017) "Undoing ruination in Jakarta: the gendered remaking of life on a wasted landscape", International Feminist Journal of Politics 19(4), pp. 522-529.
• James Brassett and Lena Rethel (2015) "Sexy Money: The Hetero-Normative Politics of Global Finance", Review of International Studies 41(3), pp. 429-449.
• Malcolm MacDonald, Rachelle Vessey, Alexandra Homolar, Lena Rethel and Stephanie Schnurr (2015) "Manufacturing dissent: the discursive formation of nuclear proliferation (2006-2012)", Discourse and Communication 9(2), pp. 173-197.
• Stephanie Schnurr, Alexandra Homolar, Malcolm MacDonald and Lena Rethel (2015) "Legitimising claims for 'crisis' leadership in global governance: The discourse of nuclear non-proliferation", Critical Discourse Studies 12(2), pp. 187-205.
• Lena Rethel and Timothy J. Sinclair (2014) "Innovation and the Entrepreneurial State in Asia: Mechanisms of Bond Market Development", Asian Studies Review 38(4), pp. 564-581. Reprinted in: Toby Carroll and Darryl Jarvis (eds.) (2015) Financialisation and Development in Asia, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Michael Fini and Lena Rethel (2013) "Enacting the Rules of Global Finance. Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Promotion of Corporate Governance Reform", Asia Europe Journal 11(2), pp. 163-178.
• Lena Rethel (2012) “Each Time Is Different! The Shifting Boundaries of Emerging Market Debt”, Global Society 26(1), pp. 123-143. Reprinted in: Andre Broome et al. (2015) (eds.) Global Governance in Crisis, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Lena Rethel (2011) “Whose Legitimacy? Islamic Finance and the Global Financial Order”Link opens in a new window. Review of International Political Economy 18(1), pp. 75-98.
• Lena Rethel (2010) “Financialisation and the Malaysian Political Economy”Link opens in a new window. Globalizations 7(4), pp. 489-506.
• Lena Rethel (2010) “The New Financial Development Paradigm and Asian Bond Markets”.Link opens in a new window New Political Economy 15(4), pp. 493-517.
• Guido Palazzo and Lena Rethel (2008) “Conflicts of Interest in Financial Intermediation”.Link opens in a new window Journal of Business Ethics 81(1), pp. 193-207.
• Catharina Rebecca Bening and Lena Rethel (2007) “Interdisciplinarity and Diversity. The Human Image in Social Sciences”. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 1(4), pp. 99-108.  

Book Chapters

• Lena Rethel (2023) "Finance", in Nicola Phillips (ed.) Global Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• James Brassett, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel, and Ben Richardson (2021) "International Political Economy", in: Amy Atchison (ed.) Political Science is for Everybody, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
• Lena Rethel, Juanita Elias and Lisa Tilley (2019) "Tales from Two Cities: financialisation, consumerism and affordable housing in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta", in: Johan Fischer and Jeremy Jammes (eds.) Muslim Piety as Economy. Markets, Meaning and Morality in Southeast Asia, Abingdon: Routledge.
• Lena Rethel and Iain Hardie (2017) "Bond Markets", in: Ken Reinert (eds.) Handbook of Globalisation and Development, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Lena Rethel (2017) "The Imaginary Landscapes of Islamic Finance and the Global Financial Crisis", in: Ron Martin and Jane Pollard (eds.) Handbook of the Geographies of Money and Finance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Lena Rethel (2016) "Global Ambitions, Local Realities. The Everyday Political Economy of Islamic Finance in Malaysia", in: Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (eds.) The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (2016) "Southeast Asia and Everyday Political Economy", in: Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (eds.) The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Juanita Elias, John Hobson, Lena Rethel and Leonard Seabrooke (2016) "Everyday International Political Economy Meets the Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia", in: Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (eds.) The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Lena Rethel and Irwan Abdalloh (2015) “Inculcating Ethical Behaviour in Market Transactions? The Case of the Sharia Online Trading System in Indonesia”, in: Geert Lovink, Nathaniel Tkacz and Patricia de Vries (eds.) MoneyLab Reader. An Intervention in Digital Economy, Amsterdam: Institute for Network Cultures. Unfortunately, there was a formatting issue with the images, a more legible version can be found here.

• Lena Rethel (2014) “Regionalising Financial Development in East Asia”, in: Yong-soo Eun and Toni Haastrup (eds.) Regionalising Global Crises. The Financial Crisis and New Frontiers in Regional Governance, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

• Lena Rethel (2014) “Bank Regulation after the Global Financial Crisis. The Case of Regulatory Arbitrage”, in: Tony Porter (ed.) Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis, London: Routledge.