Ronen Palan (born 21 March 1957) is an Israeli-born economist and Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of International Politics at the

City University London City, University of London, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City Univ ...

. He has many books and articles on the political economy of the state, globalisation and state strategies, and evolutionary approaches to the study of international relations. Ronen Palan was of the founding editors of the Review of International Political Economy. Palan's major empirical work is the area of

offshore financial centres An offshore financial centre (OFC) is defined as a "country or jurisdiction that provides financial services to nonresidents on a scale that is incommensurate with the size and the financing of its domestic economy." "Offshore" does not refer ...

and

tax havens A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, or ...

. Palan has argued that

offshore finance An offshore financial centre (OFC) is defined as a "country or jurisdiction that provides financial services to nonresidents on a scale that is incommensurate with the size and the financing of its domestic economy." "Offshore" does not refer ...

"is certainly not the sole cause for the decline of the nation-state, but it must be seen as an important contributing factor to the decline". In January 2016, Palan acted as an advisor to the BBC's documentary, ''Britain’s Trillion Pound Paradise – Inside Cayman''. In May 2017, Palan also featured in the documentary, "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire" on the U.K.'s relationships with tax havens. As a student, Palan attended the

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, where he produced his PhD thesi
Patterns of non-governmental interactions as a bridge between the structuralist theory of the state and the study of international relations
He subsequently worked at Newcastle University and the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

before joining

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

in 2007. Palan has authored and edited a number of books, including ''Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories'' (edited, Routledge, 2000), ''The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires'' (

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, 2003), ''The Imagined Economies of Globalisation'' (with Angus Cameron, Sage, 2004) and ''Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works'' (with Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux, Cornell University Press, 2010). Palan is married and has two sons.

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