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International political economy

About: International political economy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10764 publications have been published within this topic receiving 259308 citations. The topic is also known as: global political economy & IPE.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between political regimes and economic growth in the United States and discuss the dynamics of political regimes, economic growth, political instability, and population.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Democracies and dictatorships 2. Dynamic of political regimes 3. Political regimes and economic growth 4. Political instability and economic growth 5. Political regimes and population Conclusion.

3,391 citations

Posted Content
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the following sections are included: Of Co-operation, or The Combination of Labor of Production on a Large, and production on a Small Scale, and of Cooperation and Cooperation of Labor
Abstract: The following sections are included:Of Co-operation, or The Combination of LaborOf Production on a Large, and Production on a Small Scale

3,050 citations

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TL;DR: The Retreat of the State as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the field of international political economy, where the authors argue that there is no effective conclave of big corporations with United States government power, though these forces do seem to be the predominate actors.
Abstract: In April 1970, Susan Strange published an article in the Chatham House review which challenged the mutual exclusivity of international economics and international politics.(f.1) The consequence was a rebirth of the concept of political economy in international studies. She has continued consistently her liberation struggle from academic self-enclosure, disciplinary defensiveness, and turf wars. She insisted that the new international political economy be a broad church open to historians, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and the whole range of humanistic studies, as well as economists and political scientists. In this, she echoed Fernand Braudel's appeal in 1958 for the integration of the human sciences in his famous essay on the longue duree. Her work never stood still. She moves forward in responding to her critics and, above all, by her acute perceptions of change in reality. She is not alone in perceiving that the field of international relations study (IR) is beset by an identity crisis.(f.2) The problem now is not just the need for a more ecumenical use of methods and approaches but also for a new ontology -- an updated view of the basic entities and relationships that constitute reality. This is what The Retreat of the State is all about. Susan Strange is a realist in the literal sense that she asks: Where does the power lie? What is the nature of the power? Who benefits? Who suffers? Conventional IR has said a priori that power lies with states. Susan Strange challenges the exclusivity of that assumption. Her enquiry into power and its workings contributes to a 'new realism' quite different from the 'neorealism' of established IR. It has, she writes, led her to a 'final parting of the ways from the discipline of international relations' (p xv). As a realist, Strange cuts through such currently fashionable euphemisms as 'regimes,'(f.3) 'interdependence,' 'globalization,' and 'global governance,' to demonstrate that these terms can act as ideological screens to obscure relations of dominance and subordination. Although she has been associated with the proposition that power is shifting from political authorities to markets,(f.4) in this book the classical notion of 'market' is also implicitly questioned. A market is no longer that abstractly defined infinity of buyers and sellers whose interactions are guided to a beneficent outcome by a providential unseen hand. There are many different markets, and they all need to be analysed as power systems. She illustrates with a few cases: telecoms, insurance, the big accountancy firms, and cartels. In all of these cases, the power systems work to strengthen big corporate translational business. On cartels, she asks why the subject of private protectionism seems to be taboo among liberal economists and concludes that 'while the rhetoric of free enterprise and open competition is necessary to a full integration of a world economy operating on a market principle, the rhetoric is often, in reality, empty of meaning' (p 60). The ontology of Strange's new realism includes a decline in the authority of states, an increase in the authority of big translational firms, a parcelling of authority downwards from states to smaller territorial entities, along with a general erosion of power based on territory and a rise in non-territorial power in economy, technology, and communications. Others have noted these tendencies; they give substance to Hedley Bull's vision of a new medievalism of overlapping authorities and loyalties.(f.5) While accepting this vision as foreshadowing present reality, Strange takes the next step and asks who governs in such circumstances. This must be the first question in reflecting upon the condition of the world and its future; and, of course, there is no clear answer to it. A conspiracy theory will not do. There is no effective conclave of big corporations with United States government power, though these forces do seem to be the predominate actors. A key word in this book is 'symbiosis. …

2,498 citations

Book
01 Jan 1859
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the State, foreign trade, world market, and examine the economic conditions of existence of the three great classes into which modern bourgeois society is divided.
Abstract: I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the State, foreign trade, world market. The economic conditions of existence of the three great classes into which modern bourgeois society is divided are analysed under the first three headings; the interconnection of the other three headings is self-evident. The first part of the first book, dealing with Capital, comprises the following chapters: (1) The commodity; (2) Money or simple circulation; (3) Capital in general. The present part consists of the first two chapters. The entire material lies before me in the form of monographs, which were written not for publication but for self-clarification at widely separated periods; their remoulding into an integrated whole according to the plan I have indicated will depend upon circumstances.

2,456 citations

01 Jan 1975
TL;DR: Rubin this paper used geology as an analogy to situate the essays as "artifacts of very particular circumstances" or "different matrices" which "manifest a consistent lineage of theoretically interconnected interests".
Abstract: Gayle S. Rubin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, made her first impact on feminist and gender theory in 1975 with the publication of her groundbreaking essay ‘The traffic in women: Notes on the “political economy” of sex’, in which she introduced the term ‘sex/gender system’ as a corrective to what she saw as the conceptual limitations of the word ‘patriarchy’ for theorising gender and sexuality. When ‘Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality’ (a ‘protoqueer’ text that became foundational to queer studies) was published in 1984, she had already established her reputation as a fearless and often controversial pioneering theorist of the politics of sexuality and an activist on behalf of sexual minorities, which brought her into open conflict with some sister feminists – notably those spearheading the anti-pornography lobby. As the title of this timely reader of Rubin’s work suggests, her essays are deviations from norm and doctrine in their sustained and reasoned refusal of convention, including those givens of feminism, and in their centring of the idea and practice of sexual deviance as intellectual concerns that are always, inextricably, both personal and political. (Rubin’s explicit appropriation of the terminology of 19th-century sexology is significant and the lineage of the term ‘deviant’ is comprehensively engaged in her essay ‘Studying sexual subcultures’). Her stated objective in ‘Thinking sex’ to ‘contribute to the pressing task of creating an accurate, humane, and genuinely liberatory body of thought about sexuality’ (p. 145) underpins the trajectory of the career mapped in her key essays and subsequent reflections on them in afterwords, postscripts and an interview conducted by Judith Butler included in this reader, which, in its entirety, stands as a necessary reminder of the role feminism should play ‘as a progressive, visionary force in the domain of sexuality’ (p. 275), especially when confronted by the cooption of its discourse by right-wing agendas. Reflecting on the retrospective imperatives of writing the introduction to Deviations, Rubin uses geology – a ‘recreational obsession’ of hers (p. 2) – as an analogy to situate the essays as ‘artifacts of very particular circumstances’ or ‘different matrices’ which ‘manifest a consistent lineage of theoretically interconnected interests’. The aptness of the analogy is increasingly evident as one reads through the sequence of essays – each ‘something like a piece of amber that preserves’ a particular cultural moment and place, to use Rubin’s description of ‘The traffic in women’ (p. 12) – and her later reviews of them in which additional contextualisation deepens one’s understanding of their significance, both then and now. She returns to this analogy in her final essay in the collection,

2,131 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202346
2022113
2021225
2020174
2019195
2018225