Table Of ContentThe Routledge Handbook to
Global Political Economy
The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy provides a comprehensive guide to how
Global Political Economy (GPE) is conceptualized and researched around the world. Including
contributions that range from traditional International Political Economy (IPE) to GPE
approaches, the Handbook gathers the investigations, varying perspectives and innovative research
of more than sixty scholars from all over the world.
Providing undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers and researchers with a complete set of
traditional, contending and regional perspectives, the book explores current issues, conceptual
tools, key research debates and different methodological approaches taken.
Structured in five parts methodologically correlated, the book presents GPE as a field of
global, regional and national research:
• historical waves and diverse ontological axes;
• major theoretical perspectives;
• beyond traditional perspectives;
• regional inquiries;
• research arenas.
Carefully selected contributions from both established and upcoming scholars ensure that this is
an eclectic, pluralist and multidisciplinary work and an essential resource for all those with an
interest in this complex and rapidly evolving field of study.
Ernesto Vivares is a Professor at the Department of International Studies and Communication,
FLACSO Ecuador. His publications include The IPE Puzzle of Regional Inequality, Instability and
the Global Insertion of South America.
The Routledge Handbook
to Global Political Economy
Conversations and Inquiries
Edited by Ernesto Vivares
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Contents
List of figures x
List of tables xi
List of boxes xii
Notes on contributors xvi
Acknowledgements xxii
List of abbreviations xxiii
Introduction 1
Ernesto Vivares
1 Global conversations and inquiries 9
Ernesto Vivares
PaRT I
Historical waves and diverse ontological axes 27
2 The sick man of IPE: the British School 29
Craig Berry
3 Globalizing the historical roots of IPE 43
Eric Helleiner
4 The state of development in a globalized world: perspectives on advanced
and industrializing countries 58
Elizabeth Thurbon and Linda Weiss
5 The international political economy of the rise of China and emerging
powers: traditional perspectives and beyond 74
Li Xing and Zhang Shengjun
6 The tailoring of IPE in Latin America: lost, misfit, or merely misperceived? 92
Diana Tussie
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7 The international political economy of Africa in theory and practice 111
Timothy Shaw
PaRT II
Theoretical and methodological perspectives 127
8 Open economy monetary politics 129
Nicolas Thompson
9 The politics of trade in an open economy: domestic competition over
policy 146
Mark Brawley
10 Global commodity chains, global value chains and global production
networks 174
Sören Scholvin
11 The IPE of regional value chains 194
Philippe De Lombaerde and Liliana Lizarazo Rodríguez
12 Constructivist IPE 211
Stephen Nelson
13 World order: perspectives on lines of transformation 229
Jens Mortensen
14 From Marx to critical international political economy 247
Johannes Jäger
15 Gramscian IPE 262
Leonardo Ramos
16 The concept(s) of hegemony in IPE 278
Owen Worth
17 Ghosts, pluriverse and hopes. From “development” to post-d evelopment 292
Alberto Acosta and John Cajas- Guijarro
PaRT III
Beyond traditional perspectives 309
18 The BRICS initiative as a challenge to contemporary IPE 311
Javier A. Vadell
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19 The long battle for global governance continued 328
Stephen Buzdugan and Anthony Payne
20 The global political economy of regionalism: beyond European and
North American conceptual cages 343
Ernesto Vivares and Cheryl Martens
21 The IPE of transnational class and contemporary capitalism 359
Shawn Nichols
22 The IPE of degrowth and sustainable welfare 375
Max Koch and Hubert Buch- Hansen
23 Extractivism: the curse of plenty 391
Alberto Acosta
24 IPE of borders: between formal and informal regionalisms 408
Gustavo Matiuzzi de Souza
25 The international political ecomomy of war and liberal peace 425
Michael Pugh
26 Transnational organized crime and political economy 439
Daniel Pontón
PaRT IV
Regional perspectives and inquiries 455
27 IPE beyond Western paradigms: China, Africa, and Latin America in
comparative perspective 457
Melisa Deciancio and Cintia Quiliconi
28 The political economy of the European Union: between national and
supranational politics 472
Johannes Karremans and Zoe Lefkofridi
29 IPE scholarship about Southeast Asia: theories of development and
state–market–society relations 488
Bonn Juego
30 East Asia’s developmental states in evolution: the challenge of sustaining
national competitiveness at the technological frontier 511
Sung- Young Kim
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31 Building an interdependence framework for the IPE of a rising India 528
Aseema Sinha
32 The international political economy of human security in Africa 548
Abigail Kabandula
33 Regionalism in the Middle East: Turkish case in perspective 569
Mustafa Kutlay and Emrah Karaoğuz
34 The IPE of development finance in Latin America 581
Leonardo Stanley
35 The constructivist IPE of regionalism in South America 600
Germán C. Prieto
36 The IPE of Caribbean development 621
Matthew Louis Bishop and Merisa S. Thompson
PaRT V
New research arenas 635
37 The IPE of global social policy governance 637
Andrea Bianculli and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffman
38 Globalization and global production networks 655
Syed Javed Maswood
39 The IPE of global tax governance 673
Martin Hearson
40 The political economy of new technology – especially with an eye to the
labour market 691
Bent Greve
41 Cyberpolitics and IPE: towards a research agenda in the Global South 702
Maximiliano Vila Seoane and Marcelo Saguier
42 The IPE of regional energy integration in South America 719
Ignacio Sabbatella and Thauan Santos
43 Industrial policy in Latin America: a theoretical discussion 741
Leticia Araya and Francisco Castañeda
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44 The IPE of global corporations 759
John Mikler
45 The International Political Economy of cities and urbanization: insights
from Latin America 775
Michael Lukas and Gustavo Durán
46 Migration and international political economy 796
Fabiola Mieres
47 International political economy and the environment 813
Gian Delgado Ramos
48 Conceptual hinges between international political economy and
Economic Intelligence: some disciplinary challenges 828
Fredy Rivera and Lester Cabrera
49 The IPE of money laundering and terrorist finance 843
William Vlcek
Index 860
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