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Challenging
the assumptions of 'mainstream' International Political Economy (IPE), this
Handbook demonstrates the considerable value of critical theory to the
discipline through a series of cutting-edge studies. The field of IPE has
always had an inbuilt vocation within Historical Materialism, with an explicit
ambition to make sense, from a critical standpoint, of the capitalist mode of
production as a world system of sometimes paradoxically and sometimes smoothly
overlapping states and markets. Having spearheaded the growth of a vigorous
critical scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Marxism and neo-Gramscian
approaches became increasingly marginalized over the course of the 1980s. The
authors respond to the exposure of limits to mainstream
contemporary scholarship in the wake of the onset of the Global Financial
Crisis, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field of Critical
International Political Economy. Problematizing socioeconomic and political
structures, and considering these as potentially transitory and subject to
change, the contributors aim not simply to understand a world of conflict, but
furthermore to uncover the ways in which purportedly objective analyses reflect
the interests of those in positions of privilege and power.
List of contents
Introduction; Alan Cafruny-. Part I: Theory-. Chapter 1: The Transatlantic Imperium after the Global Financial crisis: Atlanticism fractured or consolidated?; Alan Cafruny-. Chapter 2: Critical Global Political Economy and the Global Organic Crisis; Stephen Gill-. Chapter 3: Marxism Critical IPE Reader; Allex Callinicos-. Chapter 4: (Neo)Gramscians and IPE: A Socio-Economic Understanding of Transnationalism, Hegemony and Civil Society; Leila Simona Talani-. Chapter 5: Feminism and Critical International Political Economy; Anne E. Lacsamana-. Chapter 6: Critical International Political Economy and Method (Johannes Jäger, Laura Horn and Joachim Becker-. Chapter 7: Development and the Outer Periphery: The Logic of Exclusion; Robert Fatton Jr.-. Part II: Issues-. Chapter 8: American foreign policy from a Critical International Political Economy perspective: capitalist empire and the social sources of grand strategy; Bastiaan van Apeldoorn-. Chapter 9: Being Critical About Security: What Critical Political Economy Says About Security and Identity; Evertina Silina-. Chapter 10: Inequality and Poverty in the Neoliberal Era; Roberto Roccu-. Chapter 11: The migration crisis before and after the Arab Spring: A transnationalist perspective; Leila Simona Talani-. Chapter 12: Crises as Driving Forces of Neoliberal 'Trasformismo:' The Contours of the Turkish Political Economy since the 2000s; Galip L. Yalman-. Chapter 13: Energy, Capital as Power and World Order; Tim Di Muzio-. Chapter 14: Coming in from the cold: intellectual property rights as a key international political economy issue; Valbona Muzaka-. Part III: Regional Analysis-. Chapter 15: Globalizing China: A Critical International Political Economy Perspective on China's Rise; Henk Overbeek-. Chapter 16: Antinomies of the Indian State; Waquar Ahmed, Ipsita Chatterjee-. Chapter 17: BRICS within critical international political economy; Patrick Bond-. Chapter 18: East-Central Europe in the European Union; Dorothee Bohle-. Chapter 19: The Political Economy of Russia; Ruslan Dzarasov-. Chapter 20: The EU-MENA relationship before and after the Arab Spring; Christos Kourtelis-. Chapter 21: International Political Economy in Latin America: Redefining the Periphery; Ana Saggioro Garcia, Maria Luisa Mendonça, Miguel Borba de Sá-.
