Leonard Seabrooke

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

Leonard Seabrooke is a Copenhagen Business School Professor in International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Business and Politics and also a Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.^[1] Seabrooke's research primarily concerns the politics of access to credit, tax, and property within economies, as well as international financial governance. He works on the social sources of how states generate international financial capacity, American structural power in the international financial system, the role of professions in solving long-term social and economic problems, 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 new team (2014–18) of International Studies Quarterly,^[3] the flagship journal of the International Studies Association.

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 also Work Package 1 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.

Book Publications

• The Social Sources of Financial Power (Cornell University Press, 2006)
• US Power in International Finance (Palgrave, 2001)
• Everyday Politics of the World Economy (edited with John M. Hobson, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• Global Standards of Market Civilization (edited with Brett Bowden, Routledge, 2006)
• The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (edited with Herman Schwartz, Palgrave, 2009)
• Seeing Like an International Organization (edited with André Broome, Routledge, 2014)
• Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness (edited with Susana Borrás, Oxford University Press, 2015)

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 Greek bouzouki and Irish bouzouki in the band For Satan, with Jens Ladefoged Mortensen and Tim Whittley. He also occasionally plays bass and/or bouzouki for South African 'loserbilly' musician Jim Neversink and Norwegian singer Håkon Lervåg.^[9]

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