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 and Special Sections

• Lena Rethel and Elizabeth Thurbon (2020) Special Section on Finance, Development and the State in Asia, New Political Economy 25(3).
• Lisa Tilley, Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (2019) Special Issue on Cultivating the “exemplary centre” in Southeast Asia: Internationalist Urbanism and Rebellious Alternatives. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 60(1).
• André Broome, Liam Clegg & Lena Rethel (eds.) (2012) Special Issue on Global Governance in Crisis. Global Society 26(1).
• James Brassett, Lena Rethel & Matthew Watson (eds.) (2010) Special Issue on the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis. New Political Economy 15(1).
• 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.

Journal Articles

• 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.
• Lena Rethel and Elizabeth Thurbon (2020) "Introduction: Finance, Development and the State in Asia", New Political Economy 25(3), pp. 315-319.
• 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.
• Lisa Tilley, Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel (2019) "Introduction: The Production and Contestation of Exemplary Centres in Southeast Asia", Asia Pacific Viewpoint 60(1), pp. 7-13.
• 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.
• Andre Broome, Liam Clegg and 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.
• 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.
• James Brassett, Lena Rethel and 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 and 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.
• 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.