ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy provides a comprehensive guide to how Global Political Economy (GPE) is conceptualized and researched around the world. Including contributions that range from traditional International Political Economy (IPE) to GPE approaches, the Handbook gathers the investigations, varying perspectives and innovative research of more than sixty scholars from all over the world.
Providing undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers and researchers with a complete set of traditional, contending and regional perspectives, the book explores current issues, conceptual tools, key research debates and different methodological approaches taken.
Structured in five parts methodologically correlated, the book presents GPE as a field of global, regional and national research:
• historical waves and diverse ontological axes;
• major theoretical perspectives;
• beyond traditional perspectives;
• regional inquiries;
• research arenas.
Carefully selected contributions from both established and upcoming scholars ensure that this is an eclectic, pluralist and multidisciplinary work and an essential resource for all those with an interest in this complex and rapidly evolving field of study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|100 pages
Historical waves and diverse ontological axes
chapter 4|16 pages
The state of development in a globalized world
chapter 5|18 pages
The international political economy of the rise of China and emerging powers
part II|182 pages
Theoretical and methodological perspectives
part III|146 pages
Beyond traditional perspectives
chapter 20|16 pages
The global political economy of regionalism
part IV|180 pages
Regional perspectives and inquiries
chapter 27|15 pages
IPE beyond Western paradigms
chapter 28|16 pages
The political economy of the European Union
chapter 29|23 pages
IPE scholarship about Southeast Asia
chapter 30|17 pages
East Asia’s developmental states in evolution
part V|225 pages
New research arenas