This edited volume addresses the 2007/2009 financial crisis as the occasion to engage critically with the corpus of Susan Strange’s work, in order to consider what changes (if any) this crisis portends for the structural organization of the global political economy. The contributors use Strange’s rich conceptual framework to explore the financial crisis and its aftermath, and reflect critically on the broader contributions which her work has made to the discipline of IPE. The volume makes three valuable contributions for scholars and students. First, it raises the profile of Susan Strange, a unique and powerful contributor to the field of IPE whose ideas matter to our current circumstance and can provide deep and enduring insights into important questions and issues. Secondly, each contributor to this volume combines her work and ideas with that of other traditions or individual theorists in ways that extend and/or deepen Strange’s own efforts. Finally, this volume leaves us with a judicious optimism about the future of both IPE and the world as it actually is, on the ground. This book will be of interest to scholars and students who are interested in the dynamics shaping contemporary and future developments in the global political economy, as well as those who are interested in the theoretical debates about how to study IPE.

This up-to-date book provides a balanced, in-depth background to main IPE theoretical approaches, examines IPE issues in historical perspective, and discusses domestic-international linkages.Managing the Global Economy Since World War II: The Institutional Framework; The Realist Perspective; The Liberal Perspective; The Historical Structuralist Perspective; International Monetary Relations; Foreign Debt; Global Trade Relations; Regionalism and Global Trade Regime; Multinational Corporations and Global Production; International Development; Current Trends in the Global Political Economy.Anyone interested in international political economy.

Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: Setting the Scene Studying Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: A Theoretical Framework for Analysis Structures of Business Interest Articulation in the Mercosur: The National and the Regional Dimension The Relationship between Domestic and Regional Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: Conflict and Convergence Two Case Studies of Interest Representation within Organized Business: The Chemical Industry in the Mercosur and the MEBF The Regionalization of Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Organized Business Interests in the Mercosur: Conflict, Convergence, and Influence

In a second volume of essays since Susan Strange's 1998 death seeking to further her work, friends she had worked with at the European University Institute in Fiesole discuss the problems of the global financial system where she had left it. Among the fundamental questions they delve into are who, if anyone, runs the global economy and who benefits and suffers from it. They focus on global finance because it has the capacity--and the propensity--to wreck the orderly functioning of the capitalist system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This collection of essays examines the contending perspectives on how to study political economy and draws together the major strands of thought. The book highlights some recent developments within the subject and its constituent approaches, presenting a concise statement of the nature of the discipline.

Covers the period after India independence.

This text takes up the important human impact questions of the global economy, and deals with new and fast-breaking developments in technology and the global economy. It combines solid scholarship with timely examples, careful explanations with lively format, and theory with policy.