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978-0133402391 Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY? Overview International political economy or IPE is…? Chapter 1 answers this question in three ways: by examples of important events, situations, and people or leaders in the global political economy today; by comparison, […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 10
CHAPTER 10 THE KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY STRUCTURE Overview: In today’s world, wealth and power often flow from access to and control of knowledge and technology. In this chapter we examine the creation and diffusion of knowledge and technology. Who controls […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 11
CHAPTER 11 THE DEVELOPMENT CONUNDRUM: CHOICES AMIDST CONSTRAINTS Overview: A pervasive problem of the international political economy is the tension between the industrialized countries of the North and the less developed countries (LDCs) of the South. A major source of […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 12
CHAPTER 12 TOWARD A MORE PERFECT (EUROPEAN) UNION Overview: This chapter examines the political economy of integration in the European Union (EU). Increasingly, nations in close proximity to one another are driven to coordinate and sometimes harmonize their political economies […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 13
CHAPTER 13 MOVING INTO POSITION: THE RISING POWERS Overview: This chapter examines the problems of states, markets, and societies in transition from one ideologically based system of political economy to another. The goal of this chapter is to explore the […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 14
CHAPTER 14 THE MIDDLE EAST: THE QUEST FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY Overview This chapter provides a broad overview of political and socio-economic trends in the Middle East, situating the region in the global economy and the global security structure. It […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 15
Part IV: TRANSNATIONAL PROBLEMS AND DILEMMAS 15 The Illicit Global Economy: The Dark Side of Globalization 16 Migration and Tourism: People on the Move 17 Transnational Corporations: The Governance of Foreign Investment 18 Food and Hunger: Market Failure and Injustice […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17 TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS: THE GOVERNANCE OF FOREIGN INVESTMENTS Overview: Transnational corporations (TNCs) are important actors in IPE today. They compete in regional and global markets and provide foreign direct investment (FDI) that is much sought after by national governments […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17 TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS: THE GOVERNANCE OF FOREIGN INVESTMENTS Overview: Transnational corporations (TNCs) are important actors in IPE today. They compete in regional and global markets and provide foreign direct investment (FDI) that is much sought after by national governments […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 18
CHAPTER 18 FOOD AND HUNGER: MARKET FAILURE AND INJUSTICE Overview: Since World War II there have been occasions of massive hunger, primarily in developing nations, but for the most part the world food problem was viewed as a problem of […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 19
CHAPTER 19 THE IPE OF ENERGY RESOURCES: STUCK IN TRANSITION Overview: The year 1973 was a turning point for the international political economy. The international balance of wealth and power began to shift away from the U.S. to its European […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 2
CHAPTER 2 “LAISSEZ–FAIRE”: THE ECONOMIC LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE Overview Liberalism, like many other terms we use in IPE, suffers from something of a personality disorder. The same set of letters means different things in different contexts. In the United States today, […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 20
CHAPTER 20 THE ENVIRONMENT: STEERING AWAY FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL DISASTER Overview: Today’s ecological and environmental problems are increasingly global in nature. Since the beginning of the new millennium, aside from the usual stories about the effects of climate […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3 WEALTH AND POWER: THE MERCANTILIST PERSPECTIVE Overview: Mercantilism is the oldest and perhaps the most important IPE theoretical perspective from an historical standpoint. The central focus of mercantilism is the problem of security and the role of the […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4 ECONOMIC DETERMINISM AND EXPLOITATION: THE STRUCTURALIST PERSPECTIVE Overview: The global financial crisis highlights not only the failures of free market capitalism but also the political clout of the economic elite, who receive bailouts while ordinary taxpayers struggle. Many […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 5
CHAPTER 5 ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Overview: International Political Economy (IPE) is about states and markets, but it is about more than just states and markets, as the analysis of the past four chapters should have made clear. […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 6
CHAPTER 6 THE PRODUCTION AND TRADE STRUCTURE Overview: Since 2009, the Obama administration has imposed high tariffs on imports of Chinese tires and solar panels into the United States and challenged China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over its […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 7
CHAPTER 7 THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AND FINANCE STRUCTURE Overview: The international monetary and financial structure is often embroiled with tensions that make it difficult to manage. Currency exchange rates and transnational financial flows affect the success of many businesses and […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 8
CHAPTER 8 INTERNATIONAL DEBT AND FINANCIAL CRISES Overview: Front page news articles still deal with national debt and the financial crisis that began in the United States in 2007, recovery from which has been very slow. Unemployment remains the long […]
978-0133402391 Chapter 9
CHAPTER 9 THE GLOBAL SECURITY STRUCTURE Overview: In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, people greatly feared the atomic bomb. Realists argue that the bipolar distribution of military power between the United States and Soviet Union deterred each country from launching […]