1 Approaches to International Relations
2 The Historical Context of Contemporary International Relations
3 Contending Perspectives: How to Think about International Relations Theoretically
4 The International System
5 The State
6 The Individual
7 Intergovernmental Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and International Law
8 War and Strife
9 International Political Economy
10 Globalizing Issues

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Chapter 9: International Political Economy

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Economic Liberalism

  • Key Concepts in Liberal Economic Theory
  • Roles of the International Economic Institutions

Contending Approaches to the International Political Economy

  • Mercantilism or Statism
  • Radicalism: Marxist and Dependency Alternatives

Global Inequalities: The Development Gap

  • A New International Economic Order?
  • New Thinking about Economic Development
  • Is Development Occurring? A Progress Report

Economic Globalization and Regionalism

  • European Economic Integration
  • The North American Free Trade Agreement

Energy Interdependence

  • The Economics of Petroleum
  • The Role of OPEC and the Politics of Oil

Emerging Challenges to Economic Globalization