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• Copyright
• Title
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Boxes, Tables, Figures and Maps
• Preface to the Sixth Edition
• Changes to the Sixth Edition
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Plan of the Book
• Globalization
• PART 1 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
• 1. THEORIES OF GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
• Understanding the Global Political Economy
• The Economic Nationalist Perspective
• Key actors
• Key dynamics
• Conflict and cooperation
• Economic nationalism today
• The Liberal Perspective
• Key actors
• Key dynamics
• Conflict and cooperation
• Liberalism today
• The Critical Perspective
• Key actors
• Key dynamics
• Conflict and cooperation
• Critical theory today
• Contending Perspectives: A Summary
• Further Reading
• 2. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ITS METHODS
• Locating the Field
• Economics
• Political science
• Political economy
• International relations
• Methodological Issues
• Case studies and large n studies
• Rational choice
• Institutionalism
• Constructivism
• Methodological debates
• Trends in Contemporary GPE Theory
• Consolidation
• Integration
• Expansion
• Approach of this Book
• Further Reading
• PART 2 EVOLUTION
• 3. FORGING A WORLD ECONOMY: 1400–1800
• Regions of the World Economy
• The Middle East
• China
• India
• Africa
• The Americas
• Europe
• European Expansion
• Into the Americas
• Along Africa: the triangular trade
• On the peripheries of Asia
• Conclusion
• Trade
• Production
• Finance
• Labour
• Gender
• Development
• Environment
• Ideas
• Security
• Governance
• Further Reading
• 4. INDUSTRY, EMPIRE AND WAR: 1800–1945
• The Industrial Revolution
• What was the Industrial Revolution?
• Why Britain? Why then?
• What did the others do?
• Pax Britannica
• The gold standard and capital flows
• Free trade
• Balance of power
• Renewed Imperialism
• War and Economic Disorder
• The world wars
• Interwar economic failure
• Conclusion
• Trade
• Production
• Finance
• Labour
• Gender
• Development
• Environment
• Ideas
• Security
• Governance
• Further Reading
• 5. GROWING A GLOBAL ECONOMY: 1945–2019
• The Cold War Era: 1945–89
• The US-led Western political economy
• The Communist political economy
• The Southern political economy
• The Post-Cold War Era: 1990–2019
• Competing capitalisms and state transformation
• The information revolution
• International organizations and governance
• Conclusion
• Trade
• Production
• Finance
• Labour
• Gender
• Development
• Environment
• Ideas
• Security
• Governance
• Further Reading
• PART 3 DYNAMICS
• 6. INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Free Trade and Protectionism
• Proponents of free trade
• Critics of free trade
• Major Developments
• Growth and protectionism
• Changing institutional arrangements
• Key Issues
• Developing country interests
• Regional trade agreements
• Trade and globalization
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 7. TRANSNATIONAL PRODUCTION
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Explaining the Growth of TNCS
• Major Developments
• The globalization of production
• Changing organizational principles
• Key Issues
• Re-evaluating the benefits of FDI
• State-firm interactions
• Regulating capital
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 8. THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM
• Definitions and Background
• Theoretical Perspectives: The Mundell-Fleming Model
• Major Developments
• IMS: from fixed to floating and regional currencies
• Credit: financial innovation and repeated crises
• Key Issues
• Global credit crisis
• Future of the US dollar
• The European sovereign debt and euro crisis
• Corporate and individual tax abuse
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 9. GLOBAL DIVISION OF LABOUR
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Adam Smith and his Critics
• Major Developments
• Changes in the production process
• From the new international to the global division of labour
• Key Issues
• Global restructuring: the rise of China and India
• The struggle for workers’ rights in a global economy
• Inequality
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 10. GENDER
• Definitions and Background
• Theoretical Perspectives: GPE as if Gender Mattered
• Major Developments
• Women in the world economy: employment trends and prospects
• Gender and global public policy
• Key Issues
• Poverty and gender inequality
• Globalization of reproductive work
• Gender and global restructuring
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 11. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives on Growth and Development
• Major Developments
• Development and national capitalism, 1947–81
• Development, neoliberalism and beyond, 1982–2019
• Key Issues
• The organization of development
• Debt and debt relief
• North–South conflict
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 12. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
• Definitions and Background
• Theoretical Perspectives: IPE and Environmental Studies
• IPE debates
• Environmental studies’ debates
• Major Developments
• Bringing the environment in
• Mainstreaming environmentalism
• Key Issues
• Climate change
• Sustainable development
• Transnational land acquisitions
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 13. KNOWLEDGE
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Ideas about Ideas
• Major Developments
• The information revolution and the information society
• The rise and stall of the Washington Consensus
• Key Issues
• Ideas, interests and the global financial crisis
• Blockchain utopias and AI dystopias
• Property rights and public health (HIV/AIDS)
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 14. SECURITY
• Definitions: Two Views of Security
• The traditional state-centric approach
• Human security
• Theoretical Perspectives: Integrating Security and Political Economy
• Major Developments
• The Cold War security structure
• The post-Cold War security structure
• Key Issues
• Economic statecraft and security
• Transnational crime and corporate espionage
• Disease, pandemics and security
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 15. CONCLUSION: GOVERNING THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Whither the State?
• Major Developments
• Proliferation of governance levels
• Proliferation of actors
• Rise of the BRICS
• Twenty-first-century Challenges
• Future of the liberal economic order
• Sustainability of the global economy
• Inequality and justice
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• Bibliography
• Index