This title was first published in 2000: Focusing on the contribution of Susan Strange to the study of international political economy, this collection forms a unique perspective on the global economy whilst providing tools for the reader to better understand that economic system. The book examines Susan Strange's structural power theories, whilst adding the perspective of the contributor. The combination of approaches and experience provides a multifaceted analysis of international relations and international political economy.
I: The Power Pillars of the World Political Economy; 1: Introduction:
Looking Beyond the Confines; 2: Setting the Parameters: A Strange World
System; 3: Knowledge and Structural Power in the International Political
Economy; 4: The Evolving Global Production Structure: Implications for
International Political Economy; II: Global Finance and State Power; 5: Money
Power: Shaping the Global Financial System; 6: Money and Power in World
Politics; 7: Global Money and the Decline of State Power; III: Critical
Perspectives on International Relations; 8: Criticizing US Method and Thought
in International Relations: Why a Trans-Atlantic Divide Narrows IRs Research
Subject; 9: Theorizing the No-Mans-Land Between Politics and Economics;
10: Ideology, Knowledge and Power in International Relations and
International Political Economy; IV: State Power and Global Hegemony; 11: The
Retreat of the State?; 12: Stranges Oscillating Realism: Opposing the Ideal
and the Apparent; 13: Still an Extraordinary Power, but for how much
Longer? The United States in World Finance; 14: United States and World
Trade: Hegemony by Proxy?; V: Partitioning the Global Economy; 15: European
Competitiveness and Enlargement: Is There Anyone in Charge?; 16: The Dynamics
of Paralysis: Japan in the Global Era; 17: Regional Blocks and International
Relations: Economic Groupings or Political Hegemons?; 18: Strange Looks on
Developing Countries: A Neglected Kaleidoscope of Questions; VI: Emerging
Agendas; 19: The Doubtful Handshake: From International to Comparative
Political Economy?; 20: Going Beyond States and Markets to Civil Societies?;
VII: Conclusions; 21: Reflections: Blurring the Boundaries and Shaping the
Agenda; Addendum: Fifty Years of International Affairs Analysis: An Annotated
Bibliography of Susan Stranges Academic Publications
Thomas Lawton, James Rosenau, Amy Verdun
