ABSTRACT
Susan Strange contributed the first chapter to the first volume of the International Political Economy Yearbook, published in 1985. In it she urged International Political Economy (IPE) toward maturity, toward a separation from the stultifying effects of its erstwhile parents (international relations with its state-centric bias and economics with its narrow view of human motivation). She counseled the need for attention to a wider array of less tainted subdisciplines, to the question of “who benefits?”, to questions of concern to more than just the policy makers of hegemonic states, to cross-ideological fertilization and attention to values. She warned us to take neither the accuracy of existing data for granted, nor the neutrality of the questions they were gathered to answer.
