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An Intellectual History
Princeton University Press
March 2008
On Sale: March 16, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 069113569X
EAN: 9780691135694
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Non-Fiction Political
The field of international political economy gained
prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo
and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually
unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--
and today is an essential part of both political science
and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive
examination of this important field's development, the
contrasting worldviews of its American and British schools,
and the different ways scholars have sought to meet the
challenges posed by an ever more complex and interdependent
world economy. Benjamin Cohen explains the critical role played by the
early "intellectual entrepreneurs," a generation of
pioneering scholars determined to bridge the gap between
international economics and international politics. Among
them were brilliant thinkers like Robert Keohane, Susan
Strange, and others whose legacies endure to the present
day. Cohen shows how their personalities and the historical
contexts in which they worked influenced how the field
evolved. He examines the distinctly different insights of
the American and British schools and addresses issues that
have been central to the field's development, including
systemic transformation, system governance, and the place
of the sovereign state in formal analysis. The definitive
intellectual history of international political economy,
this book is the ideal volume for IPE scholars and those
interested in learning more about the field.
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