International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present and Future / Edition 1

by Nicola Phillips, Catherine Weaver

Overview

The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions.

Prompted by recent commentaries on the existence of a ‘transatlantic divide’ in IPE between an ‘American school’ and a ‘British school’, the essays provide a wide-ranging discussion of whether it is useful to think of the field in these terms, what the ‘American’ and ‘British’ schools look like, what their achievements and shortcomings are, and what are the desirable future directions for IPE scholarship. The diverse responses to these questions reflect the ongoing vibrancy and diversity of the field of IPE, and open up an imaginative and engaging discussion about where we need to go from here.

Featuring contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Canada and the UK, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415780575
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/23/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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). Her most recent books are Development (co-authored with Anthony Payne, Polity Press, 2010), The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America (Routledge, 2004) and, as editor, Globalizing International Political Economy (Palgrave, 2005).

Catherine 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). Her most recent book is Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (Princeton University Press, 2008).

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors viii

Introduction: debating the divide - reflections on the past, present and future of international political economy Nicola Phillips Catherine E. Weaver 1

Part I Perspectives on the 'American school' of IPE 9

1 The American school of IPE Daniel Maliniak Michael J. Tierney 11

2 The old IPE and the new Robert O. Keohane 35

3 TRIPs across the Atlantic: theory and epistemology in IPE David A. Lake 45

4 Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy Henry Farrell Martha Finnemore 53

5 Of intellectual monocultures and the study of IPE Kathleen R. McNamara 64

6 The slow death of pluralism Nicola Phillips 74

7 The 'American' school of IPE? A dissenting view Randall D. Germain 83

8 Beware what you wish for: lessons for international political economy from the transformation of economics Robert Wade 92

9 Mid-Atlantic: sitting on the knife's sharp edge Peter J. Katzenstein 105

Part II Perspectives on the 'British school' of IPE 117

10 The'British school' in the global context Robert Cox 119

11 Torn between two lovers? Caught in the middle of British and American IPE Mark Blyth 133

12 IPE's split brain Catherine Weaver 141

13 Political economy, the 'US School', and the manifest destiny of everyone else Geoffrey R.D. Underhill 150

14 Do the Left-Out matter? Craig N. Murphy 160

15 Pluralist IPE: a view from outside the 'schools' Helge Hveem 169

16 Division and dialogue in Anglo-American IPE: a reluctant Canadian view Eric Helleiner 178

17 The proof of the pudding is in the eating: IPE in light of the crisis of 2007/8 Ronen Palan 185

Part III The future of IPE 195

18 Mantras, bridges and benchmarks: assessing the future of IPE J.C. Sharman 197

19 The second crisis in IPE theory Jonathan Kirshner 203

20 The gift of skepticism and the future of IPE Louis W. Pauly 210

21 The richness and diversity of critical IPE perspectives: moving beyond the debate on the 'British school' Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn Ian Bruff Magnus Ryner 215

22 The global financial crisis: lessons and opportunities for international political economy Layna Mosley David A. Singer 223

23 Toward a new consensus: from denial to acceptance Benjamin J. Cohen 231

References 240

Index 257

Editorial Reviews

"This book captures the best contributions to the absorbing conversation that IPE has had with itself over the past few years about its origins, achievements and identity. It is essential reading for everybody interested in this important and growing part of the intellectual landscape of the contemporary social sciences." - Anthony Payne, University of Sheffield, UK

"This is an excellent book, edited by Phillips and Weaver, two of the field's rising stars and increasingly prominent voices of measured, productive debate. Phillips and Weaver have framed the controversy over the transatlantic divide in IPE with a smart, thoughtful introduction and brought together an outstanding collection of essays on the state of IPE. The editors have produced a volume of required reading for the next several generations of students and scholars." - Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School, USA

What is the current state of the study of international political economy? Why are scholars so divided in their views on the appropriate methods to study IPE? With papers from many of the leading scholars in the field, this important volume addresses these questions and suggests how the study of IPE should best be pursued in the future. - John Ravenhill, The Australian National University, Australia

This collection will be an invaluable resource for those scholars and students interested in understanding the recent debates around geographical and theoretical divides in IPE—as well as for those who seek to question them. - Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa, Canada

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