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The Political Economy of International Relations / Robert Gilpin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691022628
  • 9781400882779
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 337 22
LOC classification:
  • HF1411 .G55 1987eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE. The Nature of Political Economy -- TWO. Three Ideologies of Political Economy -- THREE. The Dynamics of the International Political Economy -- FOUR. International Money Matters -- FIVE. The Politics of International Trade -- SIX. Multinational Corporations and International Production -- SEVEN. The Issue of Dependency and Economic Development -- EIGHT. The Political Economy of International Finance -- NINE. The Transformation of the Global Political Economy -- TEN. The Emergent International Economic Order -- Reference List -- Index
Summary: After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions--the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund--were threatened by growing economic nationalism in the United States, as demonstrated by increased trade protection and growing budget deficits. In this book, Robert Gilpin argues that American power had been essential for establishing these institutions, and waning American support threatened the basis of postwar cooperation and the great prosperity of the period. For Gilpin, a great power such as the United States is essential to fostering international cooperation. Exploring the relationship between politics and economics first highlighted by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gilpin demonstrated the close ties between politics and economics in international relations, outlining the key role played by the creative use of power in the support of an institutional framework that created a world economy. Gilpin's exposition of the in.uence of politics on the international economy was a model of clarity, making the book the centerpiece of many courses in international political economy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when American support for international cooperation is once again in question, Gilpin's warnings about the risks of American unilateralism sound ever clearer.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE. The Nature of Political Economy -- TWO. Three Ideologies of Political Economy -- THREE. The Dynamics of the International Political Economy -- FOUR. International Money Matters -- FIVE. The Politics of International Trade -- SIX. Multinational Corporations and International Production -- SEVEN. The Issue of Dependency and Economic Development -- EIGHT. The Political Economy of International Finance -- NINE. The Transformation of the Global Political Economy -- TEN. The Emergent International Economic Order -- Reference List -- Index

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After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions--the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund--were threatened by growing economic nationalism in the United States, as demonstrated by increased trade protection and growing budget deficits. In this book, Robert Gilpin argues that American power had been essential for establishing these institutions, and waning American support threatened the basis of postwar cooperation and the great prosperity of the period. For Gilpin, a great power such as the United States is essential to fostering international cooperation. Exploring the relationship between politics and economics first highlighted by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gilpin demonstrated the close ties between politics and economics in international relations, outlining the key role played by the creative use of power in the support of an institutional framework that created a world economy. Gilpin's exposition of the in.uence of politics on the international economy was a model of clarity, making the book the centerpiece of many courses in international political economy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when American support for international cooperation is once again in question, Gilpin's warnings about the risks of American unilateralism sound ever clearer.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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