ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two ways to narrow questions about the topics by focusing on what international actors do or how they behave in the international economy, and how international economic policies or decisions affect people. It focuses on the relationship between international politics and economics is a growing and important area of study, but it is difficult for students to develop a research paper in this area without a substantial academic base in economic. Issues in International Political Economy (IPE) include trade and money, North-South relations, economic parameters of power, and the role of international actors in the IPE. Political leaders are important to IPE because economic policies are linked to political processes. Robertson argues that economic interests were not independent variables involved in promoting the protest. As Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen writes, 'Nothing, arguably, is as important today in the political economy of development as an adequate recognition of political, economic and social participation and leadership of women'.
