The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy

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Challenging the assumptions of ‘mainstream’ International Political Economy (IPE), this Handbook demonstrates the considerable value of critical theory to the discipline through a series of cutting-edge studies. The field of IPE has always had an inbuilt vocation within Historical Materialism, with an explicit ambition to make sense, from a critical standpoint, of the capitalist mode of production as a world system of sometimes paradoxically and sometimes smoothly overlapping states and markets. Having spearheaded the growth of a vigorous critical scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Marxism and neo-Gramscian approaches became increasingly marginalized over the course of the 1980s. The authors respond to the exposure of limits to mainstream contemporary scholarship in the wake of the onset of the Global Financial Crisis, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field of Critical International Political Economy. Problematizing socioeconomic and political structures, and considering these as potentially transitory and subject to change, the contributors aim not simply to understand a world of conflict, but furthermore to uncover the ways in which purportedly objective analyses reflect the interests of those in positions of privilege and power.

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Introduction: International Political Theory as a European Theoretical Tradition

Conclusion: Towards a Critical, Global Comparative Political Economy

Introduction: The Globalisation Debate—From De-Globalisation to the Dark Side of Globalisation

Keywords

• Global Financial Crisis
• Atlanticism
• Global Organic Crisis
• Marxism
• Neo-Gramscianism
• Transnationalism
• Hegemony
• Feminism
• Capitalism
• Security
• Inequality
• Neoliberalism
• Migration
• Arab Spring
• Trasformismo
• Intellectual Property rights
• Globalization
• BRICs
• European Union
• EU-MENA relationship

Table of contents (22 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

• Alan W. Cafruny

Theory

Front Matter

The Transatlantic Imperium After the Global Financial Crisis: Atlanticism Fractured or Consolidated?

• Alan Cafruny

Critical Global Political Economy and the Global Organic Crisis

• Stephen Gill

Marxism: and the Very Idea of Critical Political Economy

• Alex Callinicos

Neo-Gramscians and IPE: A Socio-Economic Understanding of Transnationalism, Hegemony and Civil Society

• Leila Simona Talani

Feminism and Critical International Political Economy

• Anne E. Lacsamana

Critical International Political Economy and Method

• Johannes Jäger, Laura Horn, Joachim Becker

Development and the Outer Periphery: The Logic of Exclusion

• Robert Fatton Jr.

Issues

Front Matter

US Foreign Policy from a Critical International Political Economy Perspective: Capitalist Empire and the Social Sources of Grand Strategy

• Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

Being Critical About Security: What Critical Political Economy Says About Security and Identity

• Everita Silina

Inequality and Poverty in the Neoliberal Era

• Roberto Roccu

The Migration Crisis Before and After the Arab Spring: A Transnationalist Perspective

• Leila Simona Talani

Crises as Driving Forces of Neoliberal “Trasformismo”: The Contours of the Turkish Political Economy since the 2000s

• Galip L. Yalman

Energy, Capital as Power and World Order

• Tim Di Muzio

Coming in from the Cold: Intellectual Property Rights as a Key International Political Economy Issue

• Valbona Muzaka

Regional Analysis

Front Matter

Globalizing China: A Critical Political Economy Perspective on China’s Rise

• Henk Overbeek

Editors and Affiliations

Hamilton College , New York, USA

King's College London , London, United Kingdom

University of Stockholm, Grojecc, Sweden

About the editors

Alan Cafruny is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College, USA, and former Visiting (1993-4) and External (1994-2000) Professor at the European University Institute, Italy. In 2013-14 he was Fulbright Scholar at the Higher School of Economics National Research University in Moscow, Russia. Alan has written numerous books and articles in the areas of international political economy, the political economy of the European Union and U.S. foreign policy.

Leila Simona Talani is Professor of International Political Economy at the Department of European and International Studies, Kings College London, UK, where she was appointed Jean Monnet Chair of European Political Economy in 2012. She has previously held posts at the London School of Economics and the University of Bath, UK, and was Associate Expert for the United Nations Regional Office for Drug control and Crime Prevention in Cairo, Egypt. Simona has written extensively on European political economy, the political economy of international migration, and on the Economic and Monetary Union.

Gonzalo Pozo Martin is an independent researcher associated with the ‘Vision of Eurasia’ project, based at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. He was previously Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London, and Lecturer in International Relations at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has also held University of London posts at SOAS and Birkbeck College. His work has concentrated on the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, geopolitics, and Russian foreign policy and political economy.

Bibliographic Information

• Book Title : The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy
• Editors : Alan Cafruny, Leila Simona Talani, Gonzalo Pozo Martin
• Series Title : Palgrave Handbooks in IPE
• DOI : https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50018-2
• Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan London
• eBook Packages : Political Science and International Studies , Political Science and International Studies (R0)
• Copyright Information : The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
• Hardcover ISBN : 978-1-137-50017-5 Published: 01 September 2016
• eBook ISBN : 978-1-137-50018-2 Published: 05 July 2016
• Series ISSN : 2946-403X
• Series E-ISSN : 2946-4048
• Edition Number : 1
• Number of Pages : XVII, 469
• Number of Illustrations : 7 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
• Topics : International Political Economy , Political Theory , Critical Theory , International Organization , Political Philosophy , Foreign Policy