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.
Author(s): Alan Cafruny, Leila Simona Talani, Gonzalo Pozo Martin
Series: Palgrave Handbooks in IPE
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: xviii+470
Tags: Political Economy;Political Theory;Critical Theory;International Organization;Political Philosophy;Foreign Policy
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The Transatlantic Imperium After the Global Financial Crisis: Atlanticism Fractured or Consolidated?....Pages 9-27
Critical Global Political Economy and the Global Organic Crisis....Pages 29-48
Marxism: and the Very Idea of Critical Political Economy....Pages 49-65
Neo-Gramscians and IPE: A Socio-Economic Understanding of Transnationalism, Hegemony and Civil Society....Pages 67-83
Feminism and Critical International Political Economy....Pages 85-100
Critical International Political Economy and Method....Pages 101-118
Development and the Outer Periphery: The Logic of Exclusion....Pages 119-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
US Foreign Policy from a Critical International Political Economy Perspective: Capitalist Empire and the Social Sources of Grand Strategy....Pages 141-162
Being Critical About Security: What Critical Political Economy Says About Security and Identity....Pages 163-180
Inequality and Poverty in the Neoliberal Era....Pages 181-207
The Migration Crisis Before and After the Arab Spring: A Transnationalist Perspective....Pages 209-237
Crises as Driving Forces of Neoliberal “Trasformismo”: The Contours of the Turkish Political Economy since the 2000s....Pages 239-266
Energy, Capital as Power and World Order....Pages 267-287
Coming in from the Cold: Intellectual Property Rights as a Key International Political Economy Issue....Pages 289-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Globalizing China: A Critical Political Economy Perspective on China’s Rise....Pages 309-329
Antinomies of the Indian State....Pages 331-349
BRICS Within Critical International Political Economy....Pages 351-368
East Central Europe in the European Union....Pages 369-389
The Political Economy of Russia....Pages 391-411
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
The EU-MENA Relationship Before and After the Arab Spring....Pages 413-430
International Political Economy in Latin America: Redefining the Periphery....Pages 431-452
Back Matter....Pages 453-469
