ABSTRACT
This chapter presents that Susan Strange offers certain integrated perspective. Susan Strange has been one of few International Relations scholars who have constructed such an integrated perspective, yet her approach still requires us to think through and apply its theoretical and methodological consequences. The chapter focuses on the nature of power in international politics and the international economy. Knowledge is an important source of power. If knowledge is a source of structural power, intellectual hegemony in the field of international relations should be found in the United States until at least the end of the 1980s. The description of structural changes is founded on a wholly different conception of politics and, in consequence, the relation between politics and economics. Strange's contribution to a new international political economy does not only lie in her long-term concept of structural power and refusal to focus instantly on the state.
