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| List of Boxes, Tables, Figures and Maps | |
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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| Theories of Global Political Economy | |
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| Understanding the Global Political Economy | |
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| The Economic Nationalist Perspective | |
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| Key actors | |
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| Key dynamics | |
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| Conflict and cooperation | |
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| Economic nationalism today | |
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| The Liberal Perspective | |
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| Key actors | |
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| Key dynamics | |
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| Conflict and cooperation | |
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| Liberalism today | |
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| The Critical Perspective | |
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| Key actors | |
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| Key dynamics | |
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| Conflict and cooperation | |
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| Critical theory today | |
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| Contending Perspectives: A Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| International Political Economy and its Methods | |
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| Locating the Field | |
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| Economics | |
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| Political science | |
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| Political economy | |
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| International relations | |
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| Methodological Issues | |
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| Case studies and large n studies | |
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| Rational choice | |
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| Institutionalism | |
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| Constructivism | |
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| Trends in Contemporary GPE Theory | |
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| Consolidation | |
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| Integration | |
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| Expansion | |
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| Approach of the Book | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Forging a World Economy: 1400-1800 | |
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| Regions of the World Economy | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| China | |
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| India | |
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| Africa | |
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| The Americas | |
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| Europe | |
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| European Expansion | |
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| Into the Americas | |
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| Along Africa: the triangular trade | |
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| On the peripheries of Asia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Industry, Empire and War: 1800-1945 | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| What was the Industrial Revolution? | |
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| Why Britain? Why then? | |
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| What did the others do? | |
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| Pax Britannica | |
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| The gold standard and capital flows | |
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| Free trade | |
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| Balance of power | |
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| Renewed Imperialism | |
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| War and Economic Disorder | |
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| The world wars | |
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| Interwar economic failure | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Growing a Global Economy: 1945-2010 | |
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| The Cold War Era: 1945-89 | |
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| The US-led Western political economy | |
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| The communist political economy | |
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| The southern political economy | |
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| The Post-Cold War Era: 1990-2010 | |
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| Competing capitalisms and state transformation | |
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| The information revolution | |
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| International organizations and governance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Dynamics | |
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| International Trade | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: Free Trade and Protectionism | |
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| Proponents of free trade | |
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| Critics of free trade | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| Growth and protectionism | |
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| Changing institutional arrangements | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Developing country interests | |
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| Regional trade agreements | |
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| Legitimacy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Transnational Production | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: Explaining the Growth of TNCs | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| The globalization of production | |
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| Changing organizational principles | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Re-evaluating the benefits of FDI | |
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| State-firm interactions | |
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| Regulating capital | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Global Financial System | |
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| Definitions and Background | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: The Mundell-Fleming Model | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| IMS: from fixed to floating and regional currencies | |
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| Credit: financial innovation and repeated crises | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Global credit crisis | |
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| Future of the US dollar | |
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| The European sovereign debt and euro crisis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Global Division of Labour | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: Adam Smith and his Critics | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| Changes in the production process | |
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| From the new international to the global division of labour | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Global restructuring: the rise of China and India | |
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| The struggle for workers' rights in a global economy | |
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| The division of labour and global stability | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Gender | |
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| Definitions and Background | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: GPE as if Gender Mattered | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| Women in the world economy: employment trends and prospects | |
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| Gender and global public policy | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| The feminization of poverty | |
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| Globalization of reproductive work | |
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| Gender and global restructuring | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Economic Development | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives on Growth and Development | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| Development and national capitalism, 1947-81 | |
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| Development, neoliberalism and beyond, 1982-2009 | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| The organization of development | |
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| Debt and debt relief | |
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| North-South conflict | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Global Environmental Change | |
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| Definitions and Background | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: IPE and Environmental Studies | |
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| IPE debates | |
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| �Environmental studies' debates | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| Bringing the environment in | |
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| Mainstreaming environmentalism | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Sustainable development | |
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| Trade and environmental degradation | |
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| Climate change negotiations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Ideas | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: Ideas about Ideas | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| The information revolution and the information society | |
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| The rise and stall of the Washington Consensus | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Technological diffusion | |
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| Property rights and life (HTV/AIDS) | |
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| Ideas, interests and the global financial crisis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Security | |
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| Definitions: Three Views of Security | |
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| The traditional state-centric approach | |
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| New security studies | |
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| Human security | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: Integrating Security and Political Economy | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| The Cold War security structure | |
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| The post-Cold War security structure | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Economic statecraft and security | |
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| Transnational crime | |
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| Disease, pandemics and1 security | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Governing the Global Political Economy | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives: Whither the State? | |
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| Major Developments | |
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| Proliferation of governance levels | |
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| Proliferation of actors | |
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| The Global Compact | |
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| Twenty-first-century Challenges | |
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| Development and growth | |
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| Equality and justice | |
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| Democracy and regulation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |