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This book gives provocative responses to recent debates in International Political Economy. It provides a much needed and timely intervention to the current anodyne discussions about the evolution of the discipline and prompts wider reflection on the nature of enquiry itself.
List of contents
Introduction: 'Critical' and 'International Political Economy'; S.Shields , I.Bruff & H.Macartney PART I: DIALOGUE Missing Voices: Critical IPE, Disciplinary History and H.N. Brailsford's Analysis of the Capitalist International Anarchy; L.M.Ashworth Space, the latest frontier? A scalar-relational approach to critical IPE; H.Macartney & S.Shields Poststructuralism in/and IPE; P.Griffin PART II: DEBATE New Marxism and the Problem of Subjectivity: Towards a Critical and Historical International Political Economy; R.Germain Overcoming the State/Market Dichotomy; I.Bruff Critical Feminist Scholarship and IPE; J.Elias PART III: DISSENSUS Reclaiming Critical IPE from the 'British' School; O.Worth 'What's Critical about Critical Theory?' Feminist Materialism, Intersectionality and the Social Totality of the Frankfurt School; A.Fischer & D.Tepe Knowledge versus Power in the Field of IPE; P.Cammack Conclusion: IPE and the International Political Economy? IPE or the International Political Economy?; S.Shields, I.Bruff & H.Macartney
About the author
Stuart Shields is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester, UK. His book The International Political Economy of Transition (2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 BISA IPEG book prize.
Ian Bruff is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on European political economy(ies), debates on comparing capitalisms, neoliberalism, and social theory, and is currently researching the political economy of neoliberalism in Europe.
Huw Macartney is Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of European Democratic Legitimacy and the Debt Crisis (2013) and Variegated Neoliberalism: European Varieties of Capitalism and International Political Economy (2010).
Report
"Cause for celebration: a 'critical' volume on IPE that is worthy of the name. This innovative text is not only a good read but a crucial contribution at a critical moment. It breaks out of stale boxes and sterile debates, asks silenced questions, takes us in new directions, and gets real about being critical." V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona, USA
"A key strength of this volume is its reflexive and broadly approached understanding of what is critical, which extends to questioning the term itself, and that it poses important questions for further research. I recommend it to scholars in IR and IPE plus those working on social theory and the history of ideas, as well as to postgraduate and PhD students." Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna, Austria
"'Critical IPE' is commonly criticised as an umbrella term for a head-nodding, self-referential ensemble of Post-Marxists and Post-Structuralists moaning into the void of late capitalism. Shields, Bruff and Macartney correct this depiction and have assembled a range of thoughtful essays, commentaries and polemics to challenge not only the orthodoxy in the field of IPE but also Critical IPE scholars." Leonard Seabrooke, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
"A pathbreaking survey of the state of IPE drawing lessons from the past and confronting the challenges of the 21st century." Anastasia Nesvetailova, City University London, UK
"The authors certainly succeed in their aim of providing an overview of critical IPE and, what I appreciate just as much, they are not afraid to 'stress that critical IPE remains contested' trhoughout the book. The book thus serves its task very well to bring critical IPE closer to scholars. One may only hope that empirical research will bbuild on its theoretical rigor." - Tom Profant, International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs
