ECO646 International Political Economy Syllabus

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On the Scope of International Political Economy: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

• Robert Gilpin (2001) Global political economy : understanding the international economic order / Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press., ch 1-4
• Robert Cox (1983) Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations : An Essay in Method, Millennium – Journal of International Studies, 12: 162-175,
• Robert O. Keohane (2009) The old IPE and the new, Review of International Political Economy, 16:1, 34-46.
• Christopher Farrands & Owen Worth (2005) Critical theory in Global Political Economy: Critique? Knowledge? Emancipation?, Capital and Class, 84

The Rise of International Economy in the 19th Century  

• Robert Brenner (1977) ‘The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism’, NLR I/104.
• Karl Polanyi (2001) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, Boston, Mass:Beacon Pres
• Giovanni Arrighi (1994) The long twentieth century : money, power, and the origins of our times, London ; New York : Verso
• Woodruff (1976) “The Emergence of An International Economy”, Cipolla, C. M. (ed.) The Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vol. 4:2, New York: Harvester Press/Barnes &Noble, 656-737.
• Eric Hobsbawm (1989) The Age of Empire, 1875-1914, New York, Vintage Books.
• Eric Hobsbawm (1999) Industry and Empire, New York: Penguin
• Galagher, J. ve R. Robinson (1953) “The Imperialism of Free Trade”, The Economic History Review, 6 (1), 1-15.
• Gourevitch, P. (1977) “Trade, Domestic Coalitions, and Liberty: Comparative Responses to the Crisis of 1873–1896’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 8 (2), 281-313.

International Political Economy of Post-War World

• Robert Gilpin (2001) Global political economy : understanding the international economic order / Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press., ch 8-9
• Felder, R. (2008) From Bretton Woods to Neoliberal Reforms: The International Financial Institutions and American Power, in Panitch, L. and Konings, M. (eds.) American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance, pp. 175-197.

International Political Economy in the Age of “Globalization”

• John Weeks (2001) The Expansion of Capital and Uneven Development on a World Scale, Capital & Class, 25: 9-30,
• Cornel Ban, Mark Blyth (2013) The BRICs and the Washington Consensus: An introduction, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 20, Iss. 2,
• Beverly J. Silver& Giovanni Arrighi (2003) Polanyi’s “Double Movement”: The Belle Époques of British and U.S. Hegemony Compared. Mimeo.
• Robert Hunter Wade (2002) US hegemony and the World Bank: the fight over people and ideas, Review of International Political Economy, 9:2, 215-243,
• Sarah Babb (2013) “The Washington Consensus as transnational policy paradigm: Its origins, trajectory and likely successor”, Review of International Political Economy, 20:2, 268-297.
• Riccardo Petrella (1998), “Globalization and Internationalization- The Dynamics of the Emerging World Order”, States Against Markets-The Limits of Globalization-,Ed. R. Boyer, D.Drache, Routledge.
• Felder, R. (2008) From Bretton Woods to Neoliberal Reforms: The International Financial Institutions and American Power, in Panitch, L. and Konings, M. (eds.) American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance, pp. 175-197.
• Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (2008) Finance and American Empire, in Panitch, L. and Konings, M. (eds.) American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance,
• Shaikh, A. (2007) Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade Shaikh, A. (eds.) Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade,  New York: Routledge, pp. 50-68.
• Chang, H. J. (2007) “Kicking away the Ladder: The ‘Real’ History of Free Trade,” Shaikh, A. (eds.) Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade, pp. 23-49
• Ben Fine (2004) Examining the Ideas of Globalisation and Development Critically: What Role for Political Economy?, New Political Economy, Vol. 9, No. 2,
• Sripad Motiram (2013) The transformation of agri-food systems: globalization, supply chains and smallholder farmers, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 40:1, 303-307,
• Cornel Ban, Mark Blyth (2013) The BRICs and the Washington Consensus: An introduction, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 20, Iss. 2,
• Howard, M. C. and King, J. E. (2004) “The Rise of Neoliberalism in Advanced Capitalist Economies: Towards a Materialist Explanation,” in Arestis, P. and Sawyer, M. (eds.) The Rise of the Market, pp. 38-73.
• Robert Brenner, ‘The Boom and the Bubble’, New Left Review, No. 6 (Second Series) (2000), pp. 5–44.
• Peter Gowan (2001) Explaining the American Boom: The Roles of ‘Globalisation’ and United States Global Power, New Political Economy, 6:3, 359-374
• Ben Fine (2009) Neoliberalism as financialisation in Saad Filho, Alfredo and Yalman, Galip L., eds. (2009) Economic Transitions to Neoliberalism in Middle-Income Countries: Policy Dilemmas, Economic Crises, Forms of Resistance. London: Routledge, 11-23.

“Globalization” and the State

• William K. Tabb (2005) Capital, Class and the State in the Global Political Economy, Globalizations, May 2005, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 47–60.
• Bonefeld, W. (2012a), ‘Freedom and the Strong State: On German Ordo-liberalism’, New Political Economy, 17 (5), pp. 633–56.
• Michael Mann (1997) Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state?, Review of International Political Economy, 4:3, 472-496
• Linda Weiss (1997), “Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State”, New Left Review, 225.
• Ellen Meiksins Wood (2003), “Globalization and the State: Where is the Power of Capital?” in Saad-Filho A. (ed.) Anti-Capitalism, A Marxist Introduction, London; Pluto Press, pp. 127-142.
• Hugo Radice (2000) Responses to Globalisation: A Critique of Progressive Nationalism, New Political Economy, 5:1, 5-19,

Political Economy of European Integration

• Werner Bonefeld (1998) Politics of European Monetary Union: Class, Ideology and Critique,  Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33, No. 35 (Aug. 29 – Sep. 4, 1998), pp. PE55-PE69
• Werner Bonefeld (2002) European integration: the market, the political and class, Capital & Class, 26: 117
• Bruno Carchedi and Guglielmo Carchedi (1999) Contradictions of European Integration, Capital, Capital & Class, 23:119

Old and New theories of  Imperialism

• Roger Owen and Bob Sutcliffe (1972) Studies in the Theory of Imperialism Longman.
• John, Bellemy Foster (2007) The Imperialist World System: Paul Baran’s Political Economy of Growth After Fifty Years, Monthly Review
• David Harvey (2004) “The ‘New’ Imperialism: Accumulation by By Dispossession”, Socialist Register
• Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (2004) “Global Capitalism and American Empire”, Socialist Register.
• Robert Went (2002-2003) Globalization in the Perspective of Imperialism, Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 4,  473–497

International Political Economy of the  21th Century

• Giovanni Arrighi (2007) Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century London ; New York : Verso.
• Robert Gilpin (2001) The Challenge of Global Capitalism, The Word Economy in 21th Century, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.
• Ming Li (2005) The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy: Exploring Historical Possibilities in the 21st Century, Science & Society, Vol. 69, No. 3, July, 420–448
• Japhy Wilson (2011) Colonising Space: The New Economic Geography in Theory and Practice, New Political Economy, 16:3, 373-397,

Political Economy of Current Crisis

• Anwar Shaikh (2011) The First Great Depression of the 21st Century, Socialist Register, 2011
• Costas Lapavitsas (2013) The financialization of capitalism: ‘Profiting without producing’, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 17:6, 792-805,
• David Harvey (2010) The Enigma of Capital: and The Crises of Capitalism, Oxford:Oxford University Press.