The Political Economy of International Relations / Robert Gilpin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilpin, Robert, author.

Contributor:

Gilpin, Jean M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International finance.

Commercial policy.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 409-435.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-4008-8277-X

OCLC:

966756956