ABSTRACT
Susan Strange's scholarship crossed numerous academic boundaries and disturbed generally conservative disciplinary cultures. She eschewed what she considered simplistic borderlines between academic disciplines and she disparaged cliquish research. As a leading advocate of the interdisciplinary study of International Political Economy (IPE), Strange was profoundly critical of economics as a discipline, of economists in particular but also of business schools, for not reaching beyond their disciplinary confines. Strange's advocacy of IPE reflected her conviction that the disciplinary boundary between economics and politics was stultifying. Strange's imagined alternatives to an order that could be conceived either as a reconstructed quasi-imperialism or as a market-led transition to a new kind of globalism were still obscured when she left us. But she was probing for them right until the end as she mused about the transformation of political authority that seemed to be taking place before her eyes.
