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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
With contributions from an international range of experts, this cutting-edge Research Agenda collates the most important and emerging research in the field to map out the new directions and promising paths ahead for the international political economy (IPE).
Probing the most promising lines of research on the crucial inter-connections of globalization and socioeconomic inequality, the book opens with an investigation into our understanding of how externally generated financial, health, and migration crises affect political economic systems worldwide. Chapters explore fundamental changes in the nature of IPE, including those driven by technology, power transitions, the geography of trade, new foreign aid channels, and economic espionage. Rethinking the future research agenda for IPE, the book concludes by challenging the underlying ideas and perspectives that shape the thinking and scholarship of the field.
Countering the deep-rooted western, white-male orientation of traditional IPE research with the alternative perspectives of decolonial and feminist ecological thinkers, this innovative Research Agenda will prove invaluable to students, scholars and policymakers concerned with the future of the international political economy.
Trade Review‘How can international political economy scholarship contribute to solving the existential challenges confronting humanity? This critically important question is the focus of the contributions in this ambitious volume. Pursuing the proposed research agenda will do much to revitalize and redirect IPE research to provide pertinent answers.’ -- Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute, Italy
‘The timing of this book could not be better. There has been much debate recently about “gaps” in the agenda of international political economy. Deese and his colleagues deliver an excellent survey of key emerging areas of research that can be expected to help shape IPE scholarship in coming years.’ -- Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Table of ContentsContents: Preface ix PART I INTRODUCTION Introduction to A Research Agenda for International Political Economy: New Directions & Promising Paths 3 David A. Deese PART II HOW AND WHY GLOBALIZATION INTERCONNECTS WITH SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITY WITHIN STATES 1 Globalization and income inequality 21 Eunyoung Ha 2 Away from the Global North: new directions in the politics of trade 39 Ida Bastiaens and Evgeny Postnikov 3 Turning out or turning away: international political economy effects on political participation 53 Celeste Beesley and Ida Bastiaens PART III IPE IN A CRISIS-DRIVEN WORLD: MITIGATING AND MANAGING EXTERNALLY INDUCED CRISES 4 International political economy and the study of financial crises 71 Puspa D. Amri 5 The political economy of One Health: implications for crisis governance research 89 John Connolly 6 Migration management and international political economy 103 Nicholas R. Micinski PART IV IPE IN TRANSITION 7 Geotech: converging technology, markets, and politics in international political economy 119 Mark Abdollahian and Zining Yang 8 From Chimerica to decoupling: US-China trade war and failed neoliberalism 141 Wei Liang 9 Cyber economic espionage: a framework for future research 159 William Akoto 10 Technology and the new geography of trade politics 171 Gary Winslett 11 The political economy of local aid: a new research agenda 183 Emily Scott PART V RESETTING THE IPE RESEARCH AGENDA 12 Feminist theory in international political economy 201 Corinna Dengler and Hanna Völkle 13 Decolonizing labor, land, and the Global South 215 Aaron Schneider Index
