The study of the International Political Economy (IPE), like the IPE itself, is plural and unbounded. Despite what partisans sometimes say, rather than there being ‘one way’ of studying the IPE that is the ‘right way’, we find across the world great variation in IPE scholarship in terms of focus, questions, and methods. How then can we make sense of this and understand the field as a whole rather than simply learn one part of it?

This Handbook is designed to address precisely this concern. It maps the shifting boundaries and diverse theoretical commitments of IPE around the world. It engages the geographical and theoretical diversity of the different versions of IPE found in North America, the UK, in Asia and Australia; and notes the absences of distinctive versions of IPE in Europe and Latin America. The volume groups together the essential attributes and positions of each school, inviting the reader to engage with and learn about IPE in all of its guises through this evolving ‘global conversation.’ Rather than adjudicate ‘the one true version’ of IPE, it argues that the intellectual diversity we see around the world is an essential, and positive, feature of the field.

With over twenty contributors from a wide range of countries Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy is an essential resource for all those with an interest in this complex and rapidly evolving field of study.

Providing an overview of the range and scope of International Political Economy scholarship, this important work maps the different regional schools of IPE and notes the distinctive way IPE is practiced and conceptualized around the world.

Introduction: IPE as a Global ConversationMark Blyth Section 1: North American IPE 1. The Multiple Traditions of American IPEBenjamin J. Cohen 2. Realist Political Economy: Traditional Themes and Contemporary ChallengesJonathan Kirshner 3.Thinking Rationallyabout Hierarchy and Global GovernanceAlexander Cooley 4. Constructivism as an Approach toInternational Political EconomyRawi Abdelal 5. Of Margins, Traditions and Engagements: A BriefDisciplinary History of IPE in CanadaRandall Germain Section 2: British IPE 6. Lineages of a British International Political Economy Ben Rosamond and Ben Clift 7.Empiricism and Objectivity: Reflexive Theory Construction in a Complex WorldRonen Palan and Angus Cameron 8.Power-Knowledge Estranged: From Susan Strange to Post-structuralism in British IPEPaul Langley 9.Bridging the Transatlantic Divide? Toward a Structurational Approach to International Political EconomyPhilip G.Cerny Section 3:IPE in Asia 10. ReadingHobbes in Beijing: Great Power Politics and the Challenge of the Peaceful AscentGiovanni Arrighi 11. States and Markets, States Versus Markets: The Developmental State Debate as the Distinctive East Asian Contribution to International Political EconomyWalden Bello 12. The Rise of East-Asia: An Emerging Challenge to the Study of International Political EconomyHenry Yeung 13. Neither Asia nor America: IPE in Australia Jason Sharman Section 4: IPE Elswhere - Exemptions, Exclusions, and Extensions 14.Why IPE is UNderdeveloped in Europe: A Case Study of FranceNicolas Jabko 15. Why Did the Latin American Critical Tradition in the Social Sciences Become Practically Extinct?Gabriel Palma 16. What Do Sociologists Bring toInternational Political EconomyJohn Campbell 17. Economic History and the International Political EconomyMichael J.Oliver 18. Everyday International Political EconomyLeonard Seabrooke and John Hobson