This episode was recorded in March 2019. Prof. Randall Germain is a professor in the Institute of International Political Economy at Carleton University, Canada. He is a former convenor of the BISA IPEG group, and co-editor of the Routledge/RIPE series in Global Political Economy and has served on the editorial or advisory boards of a number of journals, including the Review of International Studies and the Review of International Political Economy. His teaching and research interests focus on theoretical debates in IPE, global economic governance and the political economy of global finance. His work on money, credit and historicism is foundational to the discipline. He is author of recent books on Financial Governance and on Susan Strange’s contribution to the discipline.