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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• Part I Introduction and Overview
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• What is International Political Economy?
• The IPE Theoretical Perspectives
• Purposes and Themes of This Book
• Globalization and Populism
• North–North Relations
• North–South Relations
• South–South Relations
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 2 Managing the Global Economy Since World War II: The Institutional Framework
• Global Economic Relations Before World War II
• The Mercantilist Period
• The Industrial Revolution and British Hegemony
• The Decline of British Hegemony and World War I
• The Interwar Period
• The Institutional Framework Before World War II
• The Functions of the IMF, World Bank, and GATT
• The KIEOs and the United Nations
• The Postwar Economic Institutions and Changing North–South Relations
• The IMF, World Bank, and WTO
• The OECD
• The G5, G7, G8, and G20
• The KIEOs and the Centrally Planned Economies
• The Postwar Economic Institutions and International Development
• China’s Emerging Challenge to the KIEOs
• Nonstate Actors
• The 2008 Global Financial Crisis: A Turning Point?
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Part II Theoretical Perspectives
• Chapter 3 Neomercantilism
• Contrasting International Relations and Political Economy: The Trade-offs between Security and Wealth
• Basic Tenets of Neomercantilism
• The Role of the Individual, the State, and Societal Groups
• The Nature and Purpose of International Economic Relations
• The Relationship Between Politics and Economics
• The Causes and Effects of Globalization
• The Mercantilists
• Neomercantilism and the Industrial Revolution
• Neomercantilism in the Interwar Period
• Neomercantilism After World War II
• The Revival of Neomercantilist IPE
• Hegemonic Stability Theory and U.S. Hegemony
• What Is Hegemony?
• What Are the Strategies and Motives of Hegemonic States?
• Is Hegemony Necessary and/or Sufficient to Produce an Open, Stable Economic System?
• What Is the Status of U.S. Hegemony?
• How Effective are Economic Sanctions?
• Will China be the Next Hegemon?
• Neomercantilism and North–South Relations
• Neomercantilism and South–South Relations
• Critique of the Neomercantilist Perspective
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 4 Liberalism
• Basic Tenets of the Liberal Perspective
• The Role of the Individual, the State, and Societal Groups
• The Nature and Purpose of International Economic Relations
• The Relationship Between Politics and Economics
• The Causes and Effects of Globalization
• The Development of Liberal IPE: Adam Smith and David Ricardo
• The Influence of John Maynard Keynes
• Liberalism in the Postwar Period
• A Return to Orthodox Liberalism
• Liberalism and Institutions
• Interdependence Theory
• The Liberal Approach to Cooperation
• Regime Theory
• Liberalism, Global Governance, and Regimes
• Liberalism and Domestic—International Interactions
• Liberalism’s Approach to North–South and South–South Relations
• Present-Day Liberalism
• Critique of the Liberal Perspective
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 5 Critical Perspectives
• Basic Tenets of Historical Materialism
• The Role of the Individual, the State, and Societal Groups
• The Nature and Purpose of International Economic Relations
• The Relationship Between Politics and Economics
• The Causes and Effects of Globalization
• Early Forms of Historical Materialism
• Karl Marx
• Vladimir Lenin: The Study of Imperialism
• Dependency Theory
• Whither the Marxist Perspective?
• World-Systems Theory
• Neo-Gramscian Analysis
• Fordism and Automation: A Revival of Critical Theory?
• Constructivism
• Feminism
• Environmentalism
• Critique of the Critical Perspectives
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Part III The Issue Areas
• Chapter 6 International Monetary Relations
• The Balance of Payments
• Government Response to a Balance-of-Payments Deficit
• Adjustment Measures
• Financing
• U.S. Twin Deficits and Dollar Dominance
• Is the U.S. Dollar Overvalued?
• Adjustment, Financing, and the Theoretical Perspectives
• The Functions and Valuation of Money
• International Monetary Relations Before Bretton Woods
• The Classical Gold Standard (1870s–1914)
• The Interwar Period (1918–1944)
• The Formation of the Bretton Woods Monetary Regime
• The International Monetary Fund
• The Functioning of the Bretton Woods Monetary Regime
• The Central Role of the U.S. Dollar
• A Shift Toward Multilateralism
• The Demise of the Bretton Woods Monetary Regime
• The Regime of Floating (Or Flexible) Exchange Rates
• The Plaza–Louvre Accords
• Alternatives to the Current Monetary Regime
• European Monetary Relations
• What is the Future of the U.S. Dollar as the Key Currency?
• The Dollar Versus the Euro
• The Dollar Versus the Renminbi
• The Future of the Dollar: Other Possible Scenarios
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 7 Financial Crises
• Some Definitions and Terminology
• Financial Regulation and the 2008 Crash
• The Origins of the 1980s Foreign Debt Crisis
• Unexpected Changes in the Global Economy
• Irresponsible Behavior of Lenders
• Irresponsible Behavior of Borrowers
• The South’s Dependence on the North
• The Foreign Debt Regime
• The IMF, World Bank, and Transition Economies
• The Paris and London Clubs
• Strategies to Deal With the 1980s Debt Crisis
• Emergency Measures and Involuntary Lending: 1982–1985
• The Baker Plan: 1986–1988
• The Brady Plan: 1989–1997
• Initiatives for the Poorest LDCs
• Assessing the Effectiveness of the Debt Strategies
• Transition Economies and Foreign Debt
• The IMF, the World Bank, and the Debt Crisis
• The 1990s Asian Financial Crisis
• Causes of the Asian Financial Crisis and Strategies to Deal with It
• The International Financial Architecture
• The 2008 Global Financial Crisis
• The European Debt Crisis
• Concerns about Chinese Financial Fragility
• Growing Concerns about Offshore Finance and Cryptocurrencies
• Another Global Financial Crisis?
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 8 Global Trade Relations
• Trade Theory
• Global Trade Relations Before World War II
• GATT and the Postwar Global Trade Regime
• Principles of the Global Trade Regime
• Trade Liberalization
• Nondiscrimination
• Reciprocity
• Safeguards
• Development
• Formation of the WTO
• The WTO and the Global Trade Regime
• The Transition Economies and Global Trade Relations
• The South and Global Trade Issues
• 1940s to Early 1960s: Limited LDC Involvement
• 1960s to Early 1970s: Growing Pressures for Special Treatment
• 1970s to 1980: Increased North–South Confrontation
• 1980s to 1995: More LDC Participation in GATT
• 1995 to the Present: LDC Disillusionment with the Uruguay Round and Demands in the Doha Round
• The Emerging Economies: China, India, and Brazil
• Civil Society and Global Trade Relations
• Labor Issues in Trade
• Trade and the Environment
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 9 Preferential Trade Agreements and the Global Trade Regime
• PTAs and the GPE Theoretical Perspectives
• PTAs and Globalization
• A Historical Overview of PTAs
• The First Wave of PTAs
• The Second Wave of PTAs
• Explanations for the Rise of Regional Integration
• Neomercantilist Explanations
• Liberal Explanations
• Marxist Explanations
• The GATT/WTO and PTAs
• Trade Diversion
• Trade Creation
• GATT Article 24 and PTAs
• The Effectiveness of GATT Article 24
• Special Treatment for LDCs
• The European Union
• The Deepening of European Integration
• The Widening of European Integration
• Brexit
• Theoretical Perspectives and EU Integration
• The North American Free Trade Agreement
• The Formation of NAFTA
• Assessing NAFTA as a Free Trade Agreement
• The Renegotiation of NAFTA: The United States–Mexico–Canada (USMCA) Agreement
• Mercosur
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership And Its Successor Agreement
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 10 Multinational Corporations and Global Production
• Definitions and Terminology
• Why do Firms Become MNCs?
• The Historical Development of FDI
• The Pre-World War II Period
• The Postwar Period
• MNC–Host Country Relations: Determinants and Effects of FDI
• Host Country Policies Toward MNCs
• The South
• The North
• MNC–Home Country Relations
• Home Country Policies Toward MNCs
• The Effects of MNCs on Labor Groups in Home Countries
• Competitiveness and Home Country–MNC Relations
• A Regime for FDI: What is to be Regulated?
• Bilateral Investment Treaties
• The United Nations
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Regional Approaches: The EU and NAFTA
• Outward FDI from China and Other Emerging Economies
• The Resource Curse
• The GATT/WTO to the OECD and Back to the WTO
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Chapter 11 International Development
• IPE Perspectives and North–South Relations
• Official Development Assistance
• Assessments of Development Aid and the Sustainable Development Goals
• The World Bank Group
• LDC Development Strategies
• Import Substitution Industrialization
• Socialist Development Strategies
• Export-Led Growth
• IPE Perspectives and the East Asian Experience
• The Asian Financial Crisis
• Neoliberalism
• Structural Adjustment and the Theoretical Perspectives
• Structural Adjustment and Questions About Orthodox Liberalism
• World Bank Strategies
• World Bank Strategies in the Late 1980s to 1994
• World Bank Strategies during the Wolfensohn Period: 1995 to 2005
• World Bank Strategies: 2005 to the Present
• China’s Rise and Challenge to Development
• Questions
• Key Terms
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Part IV Concluding Comments
• Chapter 12 Current Trends in the International Political Economy
• Globalization
• Globalization and Triadization
• Globalization and the State
• Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty
• Globalization vs. Nationalism/Populism
• Globalization and Democracy
• Globalization and Civil Society
• Globalization and Neglected IPE Issues: The Environment and Migration
• North–North Relations
• The Current State of U.S. Hegemony
• Foreign Policy Under President Donald Trump—a Return to Isolationism
• Is There a Candidate to Replace the United States as Global Hegemon?
• China’s Attempt to Vie for Technological Supremacy
• The Role of International Institutions
• North–South Relations
• Changing Concepts of Development
• China’s Role as a Model for Development Strategy and Potential Leader of South–South Relations
• A Final Word on the Study of IPE
• Notes
• Glossary
• Index