Dr William Vlcek

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2913

Email

wbv2@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Joined the School of International Relations in 2009, and previously taught at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London on its MSc in Globalisation and Development.  In April-May 2017, was Visiting Professor of International Relations with the Graduate Program in International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.  Completed a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006.

Research areas

My research explores questions of money and finance in the global political economy, interrogating the conduct of power in global finance.  In addition to offshore finance and international taxation, it considers the intersections of finance and security found with money laundering, terrorist finance and sovereign debt.

PhD supervision

• Kirsten Kelly
• Blake Empey
• Kuebra Dilekoglu

Selected publications

• Terrorist Financing

  Vlcek, W., 13 Oct 2022, Agenda Publishing Ltd. 224 p. (Finance Matters)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  A tale of two currencies: talking about money and (de)securitising moves in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

  Donnelly, F. & Vlcek, W., 2021, In: Critical Studies on Security. 9, 2, p. 98 - 111 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The IPE of Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance

  Vlcek, W., 30 Apr 2020, The Routledge Handbook to International Political Economy: Conversations and Inquiries. Vivares, E. (ed.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 843-859 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Global financial governance and the informal: limits to the regulation of money

  Vlcek, W., Mar 2018, In: Crime, Law and Social Change. 69, 2, p. 249-264 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Drowning the Greek economy: injurious speech and sovereign debt

  Donnelly, F. & Vlcek, W., 30 Oct 2017, In: Finance and Society. 3, 1, p. 51-71

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Offshore finance and global governance: disciplining the tax nomad

  Vlcek, W., 2017, 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 196 p. (International political economy series)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Taking other people’s money: development and the political economy of Asian casinos

  Vlcek, W., Jul 2015, In: The Pacific Review. 28, 3, p. 323 - 345

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• From Road Town to Shanghai: situating the Caribbean in global capital flows to China

  Vlcek, W., Aug 2014, In: British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 16, 3, p. 534-553

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Crafting human rights in a constitution: Gay rights in the Cayman Islands and the limits to global norm diffusion

  Vlcek, W., Nov 2013, In: Global Constitutionalism. 2, 3, p. 345-372

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Power and the practice of security to govern global finance

  Vlcek, W., Oct 2012, In: Review of International Political Economy. 19, 4, p. 639-662 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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