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The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy: Conversations and Inquiries

A handbook for teaching, learning and research IPE and GPE I: Historical waves and diverse ontological axes II: Theoretical methodological perspectives III: Beyond traditional perspectives IV: Regional perspectives and inquiries V: New research arenas References Global conversations and inquiries GPE: a growing research field Teaching GPE Research in GPE Note Bibliography I: Historical waves and diverse ontological axes The sick man of IPE: the British School Introduction The special relationship between the British and American schools of IPE Box 2.1 Key points An alternative history of British political economy? Box 2.2 Key points The British School’s preoccupations Box 2.3 Key points Concluding thoughts: (un)doing political economy Box 2.4 Key points Bibliography Globalizing the historical roots of IPE Introduction Localizing Western ideology Local origins of similar ideologies Local origins of different ideologies Influencing Western thought Conclusion Notes Bibliography The state of development in a globalized world: perspectives on advanced and industrializing countries Introduction Removing the state from the development story Downplaying the importance of industrial production in development Why production and the state matter Why the decline of manufacturing is problematic for development?The decline of manufacturing What room for the state?GVCs as problem or solution?Political choice matters: five cases Conclusion Notes Bibliography The international political economy of the rise of China and emerging powers: traditional perspectives and beyond Introduction: the placement of discussion Conceptual/theoretical discussion The rise of China/emerging powers – realism’s perception The rise of China/emerging powers – liberalism’s understanding The rise of China/emerging powers – the constructivism’s interpretation The rise of China/emerging powers – world system theory’s perspectives The rise of China/emerging powers – the Gramscian and the Neo-Gramscian perspective The implication of the IPE of China’s global rise: redividing the divided world?The IPE of the Chinese mode of capital accumulation and expansion Beyond the conventional IPE perspective: “interdependent hegemony”The multifaceted aspects of “interdependent hegemony”Interdependent hegemony between the existing and emerging powers The new IPE relationships shaped by China’s rise "Room for maneuver," "upward mobility," "promotion by invitation," "seeing the chance"Concluding remarks Notes Bibliography The tailoring of IPE in Latin America: lost, misfit, or merely misperceived?Cutting out the cloth: it might have been IPE from birth Reflecting on roots The regional cloth as epistemic foundation And now what?Prospects and options Notes Bibliography The international political economy of Africa in theory and practice Introduction Africa and ‘global IR’ and global governance Prospects for regional development: African human development and security post-2015 African IR in the post-2015 global political economy Emerging economies, states, societies, think tanks and universities Varieties of development New developmental regionalisms as foundations of IR Varieties of transnational governance and developmental regionalism African capitalism and African IR and IPE Notes Bibliography II: Theoretical and methodological perspectives Open economy monetary politics Introduction Interdisciplinarity and bridgebuilding International monetary cooperation from the ground up Individual currency preferences Domestic institutional impacts Global interactions and outcomes A maturing intra-discipline Assessing progress in the IPE of money Bibliography The politics of trade in an open economy: domestic competition over policy Introduction Identifying the array of domestic interests Stolper–Samuelson vs. sector-specificity Sector-specificity vs. intra-industry firm heterogeneity Trade-offs associated with each model Data availability Accuracy in interests vs. observations in political activity How individuals organize for political activity Barriers to collective action Interest groups’ inherent attributes Overcoming barriers to collective action Incorporating other cleavages Preexisting cleavages Are cleavages reinforcing or crosscutting?Expressing preferences in politics Lobbying Resources interests’ groups bring to bear Institutional settings and the value of different resources Political parties Parties as aggregations of interests Parties as channels of influence Competition within institutional settings Lobbying and legislation Elections Implementing the preferred policy Forms of trade policy Legislation International agreements The international structure of preferences Bilateral relations International regimes Recognizing trade policy’s feedback The economic impact of a change in policy Redistributing wealth Redistributing political power Why trade’s impact matters Economic changes Noneconomic outcomes Choosing the right tools for understanding the politics of trade Opportunities and constraints with economic models Modeling the political processes Limitations of the open economy approach Bibliography Global commodity chains, global value chains and global production networks Introduction Commodity and value chains Extensions of the GVC approach Production networks Strategic coupling, the state and industrial policy Conclusion Footnote Notes Bibliography The IPE of regional value chains Introduction The reach of value chains: global or regional?The creation of regional economic spaces RVCs as policy spaces and political spaces RVCs as spaces for re-regulation the role of regional organizations Conclusion Notes Bibliography Constructivist IPE Introduction Comparing material–rationalist and constructivist approaches to IPE Constructivism and the politics of international trade Constructivism and the politics of international money and finance Constructivism’s contributions to the study of IPE Notes Bibliography World order: perspectives on lines of transformation An age of uncertainty On the concept of world order Neglected concerns: shocks, agency and precision Lines of transformation The economic transformations: inequality, technology and globalization Theoretical lines of transformation The realist transformation: security, state power and multipolarity The liberal transformation: complexity and institutionalized compromises The constructivist transformation: uncertainties, visions and values The transformation of the trading order The crisis of the WTO Recalling the social purpose of the WTO Identifying the threats to the WTO order Assessing the threat to the trading order A return to states or agency in IPE?Conclusions Note Bibliography Karl Marx and critical international political economy Introduction From Marx to critical international political economy Method of inquiry and goals Key concepts in critical political economy The capitalist mode of production and international relations Contemporary approaches in critical international political economy Conclusions Bibliography Gramscian IPE Gramsci and IPE: planning a journey Robert W. Cox: from historical structures and world hegemony to the internationalization of the state Globalization processes and the route from internationalization to transnationalization of the state Dealing with the (neo)Gramscian IPE conundrum: past, present and future Notes Bibliography The concept(s) of hegemony in IPE Introduction Two definitions of hegemony US hegemony or neoliberal hegemony?The rise of China or counter-hegemony Box 16.3 Regional hegemony Regional hegemony or variegated neoliberalism?Conclusion Notes Bibliography Ghosts, pluriverse and hopes. From "development" to post-development Introduction: the relevance of post-development Development, an unreachable ghost with a “developmentalist reason”Post-development principles for a hope Building blocks for a post-capitalist pluriverse Notes Bibliography III: Beyond traditional perspectives The BRICS initiative as a challenge to contemporary IPE Introduction Theoretical considerations The BRICS origins and purpose Understanding the BRICS subsumption process Robert Cox’s historical and dialectical model of hegemony Final considerations Bibliography The long battle for global governance continued Introduction The ‘long battle’ in its historical phases The proclaimed new world order Towards global crisis Conclusion Bibliography The global political economy of regionalism: beyond European and North American conceptual cages Introduction: debates and methodological orientations IPE and regionalism North American and British IPE IPE and theories of regionalism Successful ideas at one point in time can turn into “conceptual cages” in another Eurocentric regionalism Liberal economic integration Actor-oriented North American Regional Perspectives Neoliberal institutionalism Conclusions Note Bibliography The IPE of transnational class and contemporary capitalism Transnational capitalism: an introduction Neo-Gramscian perspectives and the global capitalism thesis Class formation in historical perspective: the rise of a transnational capitalist class The rise in transnational production and financial flows Instituting neoliberal discipline Conclusion: discontinuity and the contestation of hegemony Bibliography The IPE of degrowth and sustainable welfare Introduction Capitalism and nature The diversity of real-existing capitalism Degrowth and sustainable welfare Eco-social policies: caps on wealth and income The political economy of a degrowth paradigm shift Conclusion Bibliography Extractivism: the curse of plenty Introduction The curse of alarmist literature A look at what underlies this age-old curse A culture of miracles threatens democracy Understanding the main pathologies of these curses New horizons of freedom for overcoming so many curses Notes Bibliography IPE of borders: between formal and informal regionalisms Introduction Borders in the global order The importance of local level Formal–informal nodes Transnational crime: corruption and kinship Natural resources: institutional vacuum and development Migration and refuge: market demands and conflict Conclusion Bibliography The international political ecomomy of war and liberal peace Introduction Economic transformations, war and peace Regime change wars: costing conflict Civil war economies Greed, grievance and funding Political economy of peace missions Conclusion Bibliography Transnational organized crime and political economy Introduction The concept The contribution of the American schools The Marxist theories IPE and TOC Conclusion Bibliography IV: Regional perspectives and inquiries IPE beyond Western paradigms: China, Africa, and Latin America in comparative perspective Introduction IPE and the limits of the global conversation IPE in Africa Box 27.2 African IPE IPE in China Box 27.3 IPE in China IPE in South America Box 27.4 Until the 1980s, IPE has been marked by …Conclusions Bibliography The political economy of the European Union: between national and supranational politics Introduction Trapped in an international political trilemma The European Monetary Union and the Eurozone crisis The European constraints on national budgets The European social agenda versus national social pacts The challenge of the politicization of the EU Conclusion Notes Bibliography IPE scholarship about Southeast Asia: theories of development and state–market–society relations Introduction Development theory State theory Theories of state–market–society relations Southeast Asia at the turn of the twenty-first century Bibliography East Asia's developmental states in evolution: the challenge of sustaining national competitiveness at the technological frontier Introduction East Asia’s developmental states and economic catch-up Strategizing for competing at the technological frontier Political appetite for higher risk innovation The organization of innovation Growth of global production and innovation networks Conclusion Note Bibliography Building an interdependence framework for the IPE of a rising India Introduction The argument and approach adopted in this chapter Mapping India’s rise with both domestic and international concerns in mind What are the sources of India’s rise?What do theories of policy change tell us about the factors that led to change in India?Technocratic ideas as a driving force Political strategy and state autonomy Interest-driven and institutional arguments for policy change What is the nature of the emerging political economy in India?India’s international political economy An inside out perspective: what strategies does India adopt?Building an interdependence framework: thinking about linkages of actors, ideas, and interests Conclusion Notes Bibliography The international political economy of human security in Africa Introduction International political economy approaches and security Human security International political economy and human security Contemporary issues in international political economy and human security in Africa Conclusion Bibliography Regionalism in the Middle East: Turkish case in perspective Introduction Regionalism: a framework for analysis The rise and fall of the ‘Turkish trading state’Domestic sources of regional powerhood Conclusion Notes Bibliography The IPE of development finance in Latin America Introduction The idea of development: a brief historical analysis Development finance: from the North hegemony to Southern sources From Bretton Woods to Washington consensus The rise of the rest: development finance, an Asian approach China The bilateral movement China goes multilateral Development finance: a short reading list A brave new world, new actors, new challenges, old shortcomings Sustainable development, finance and climate change Conclusions Notes Bibliography The constructivist IPE of regionalism in South America Introduction – a constructivist framework for the study of regionalism The Andean Community Mercosur Conclusion Notes Bibliography The IPE of Caribbean development Introduction Arthur Lewis and Caribbean ‘modernisation’The New World Group and West Indian ‘After the impasse: new directions for Caribbean political economy Conclusion Bibliography V: New research arenas The IPE of global social policy governance Introduction Studying social policy from a global perspective level for social policy Exploring the drivers and mechanisms of social policy regionalism Regional organisations and the practices of social policy regionalism The complexity and challenges of the IPE of global social policy Bibliography Globalization and global production networks Introduction Globalization as an unintended consequence of neo-protectionism De-globalization Conclusion Bibliography The IPE of global tax governance Introduction The nuts and bolts of global tax governance A trilemma of cooperation Two axes of conflict State-centric constructivist and critical perspectives on global tax governance Conclusion Notes Bibliography The political economy of new technology – especially with an eye to the labour market Introduction Delete or expand news jobs?Theoretical understanding of changes in the labour market A short note on welfare states, labour market policy and new technology Choice and options related to new technology Concluding remarks Notes Bibliography Cyberpolitics and IPE: towards a research agenda in the Global South Introduction Socio-technical relations of production, forms of governance and digital world (dis)orders Cyberpolitics in the contours of digital world (dis)orders Conclusions Notes Bibliography The IPE of regional energy integration in South America Introduction Theoretical framework South American energy integration Global energy changes Impacts on regional energy integration Conclusions Notes Bibliography Industrial policy in Latin America: a theoretical discussion Introduction States and markets: the key contours of the debate over industrial policy Links between the lost decade in Latin America and de-industrialization policies Why industrial policy?Industrial policy: specific issues FDI policy Industrial upgrading and international trade Localizing industrial policy Different perspectives on the role of the state in industrialization The rediscovery of industrial policy and the current contours of industrial policy Bibliography The IPE of global corporations Introduction IPE theories and globalisation Three faces of power Instrumental power Structural power Discursive power Conclusion Bibliography The International Political Economy of cities and urbanization: insights from Latin America Introduction Conceptualizing the IPE of cities and urbanization: a theoretical framework The urban process under capitalism World-systems analysis and global city networks Planetary urbanization and global urbanism Research arenas on the IPE of cities and urbanization in Latin America Globalization and global city formation Urban megaprojects Urban financialization Extended urbanization and transnational planning Conclusion Footnote Notes Bibliography Migration and international political economy Introduction Migration dynamics in the global economy Sovereignty and security: migration in mainstream IPE Globalisation and the roots of inequality: critical approaches in IPE Key migration issues within IPE The way forward: how migration reshapes the discipline of IPE Notes Bibliography International political economy and the environment Introduction Mainstream theoretical perspectives on sustainability and their influence on IPE&E Building a common action agenda for coping with climate change and biodiversity and ecosystem services degradation Towards interand transdisciplinary IPE&E knowledge Conclusion: transformations towards sustainability?Bibliography Conceptual hinges between international political economy and Economic Intelligence: some disciplinary challenges Introduction The necessity of a discussion about Economic Intelligence International political economy as a disciplinary spectrum Conceptual hinges: geoeconomy, interdependence, and security Conclusions Bibliography The IPE of money laundering and terrorist finance Introduction Evolution of a global financial regime Anti-money laundering Combating the financing of terrorism AML/CFT in practice Enforcement mechanisms and consequences Conclusions Bibliography

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