International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present and Future

by Nicola Phillips;

• ISBN13: 9780415780575
• ISBN10: 0415780578
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-10-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What is International Political Economy (IPE)? Is there a divide between IPE in the United States and IPE in Britain, Canada and the rest of the world? Can the divisions between traditions informed by quantitative political science and political theory be bridged?This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy. It features contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Canada and the UK who debate the most important issues in the field including:The transatlantic divide in IPEThe methodological debatesTensions between political and economic interpretationsThe challenges of pluralismWhat IPE can say about the financial crisis

Author Biography

Nicola Phillips is Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Political Economy Institute at the University of Manchester, and editor-in-chief of the journal New Political Economy (Routledge). Catherine E. Weaver is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Scholar and Research Coordinator at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-editor of the journal Review of International Political Economy (Routledge).

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. viii
Introduction: debating the divide - reflections on the past, present and future of international political economy	p. 1
Perspectives on the 'American school' of IPE	p. 9
The American school of IPE	p. 11
The old IPE and the new	p. 35
TRIPs across the Atlantic: theory and epistemology in IPE	p. 45
Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy	p. 53
Of intellectual monocultures and the study of IPE	p. 64
The slow death of pluralism	p. 74
The 'American' school of IPE? A dissenting view	p. 83
Beware what you wish for: lessons for international political economy from the transformation of economics	p. 92
Mid-Atlantic: sitting on the knife's sharp edge	p. 105
Perspectives on the 'British school' of IPE	p. 117
The'British school' in the global context	p. 119
Torn between two lovers? Caught in the middle of British and American IPE	p. 133
IPE's split brain	p. 141
Political economy, the 'US School', and the manifest destiny of everyone else	p. 150
Do the Left-Out matter?	p. 160
Pluralist IPE: a view from outside the 'schools'	p. 169
Division and dialogue in Anglo-American IPE: a reluctant Canadian view	p. 178
The proof of the pudding is in the eating: IPE in light of the crisis of 2007/8	p. 185
The future of IPE	p. 195
Mantras, bridges and benchmarks: assessing the future of IPE	p. 197
The second crisis in IPE theory	p. 203
The gift of skepticism and the future of IPE	p. 210
The richness and diversity of critical IPE perspectives: moving beyond the debate on the 'British school'	p. 215
The global financial crisis: lessons and opportunities for international political economy	p. 223
Toward a new consensus: from denial to acceptance	p. 231
References	p. 240
Index	p. 257
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