The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy: (Palgrave Handbooks in IPE)

Challenging the assumptions of ‘mainstream’ International Political Economy (IPE), this Handbook demonstrates the considerable value of critical theory to the discipline through a series of cutting-edge studies. The field of IPE has always had an inbuilt vocation within Historical Materialism, with an explicit ambition to make sense, from a critical standpoint, of the capitalist mode of production as a world system of sometimes paradoxically and sometimes smoothly overlapping states and markets. Having spearheaded the growth of a vigorous critical scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Marxism and neo-Gramscian approaches became increasingly marginalized over the course of the 1980s. The authors respond to the exposure of limits to mainstream contemporary scholarship in the wake of the onset of the Global Financial Crisis, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field of Critical International Political Economy. Problematizing socioeconomic and political structures, and considering these as potentially transitory and subject to change, the contributors aim not simply to understand a world of conflict, but furthermore to uncover the ways in which purportedly objective analyses reflect the interests of those in positions of privilege and power.  

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Alan Cafruny.-  Part I: Theory.-  Chapter 1: The Transatlantic Imperium after the Global Financial crisis: Atlanticism fractured or consolidated?; Alan Cafruny.-  Chapter 2: Critical Global Political Economy and the Global Organic Crisis; Stephen Gill.-  Chapter 3: Marxism Critical IPE Reader; Allex Callinicos.-  Chapter 4: (Neo)Gramscians and IPE: A Socio-Economic Understanding of Transnationalism, Hegemony and Civil Society; Leila Simona Talani.-  Chapter 5: Feminism and Critical International Political Economy; Anne E. Lacsamana.-  Chapter 6: Critical International Political Economy and Method (Johannes Jäger, Laura Horn and Joachim Becker.-  Chapter 7: Development and the Outer Periphery: The Logic of Exclusion; Robert Fatton Jr..-  Part II: Issues.-  Chapter 8: American foreign policy from a Critical International Political Economy perspective: capitalist empire and the social sources of grand strategy; Bastiaan van Apeldoorn.-  Chapter 9: Being Critical About Security: What Critical Political Economy Says About Security and Identity; Evertina Silina.-  Chapter 10: Inequality and Poverty in the Neoliberal Era; Roberto Roccu.-  Chapter 11: The migration crisis before and after the Arab Spring: A transnationalist perspective; Leila Simona Talani.-  Chapter 12: Crises as Driving Forces of Neoliberal 'Trasformismo:' The Contours of the Turkish Political Economy since the 2000s; Galip L. Yalman.-  Chapter 13: Energy, Capital as Power and World Order; Tim Di Muzio.-  Chapter 14: Coming in from the cold: intellectual property rights as a key international political economy issue; Valbona Muzaka.-  Part III: Regional Analysis.-  Chapter 15: Globalizing China: A Critical International Political Economy Perspective on China's Rise; Henk Overbeek.-  Chapter 16: Antinomies of the Indian State; Waquar Ahmed, Ipsita Chatterjee.-  Chapter 17: BRICS within criticalinternational political economy; Patrick Bond.-  Chapter 18: East-Central Europe in the European Union; Dorothee Bohle.-  Chapter 19: The Political Economy of Russia; Ruslan Dzarasov.-  Chapter 20: The EU-MENA relationship before and after the Arab Spring; Christos Kourtelis.-  Chapter 21: International Political Economy in Latin America: Redefining the Periphery; Ana Saggioro Garcia, Maria Luisa Mendonça,  Miguel Borba de Sá.-

About the Author :
Alan Cafruny is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College, USA, and former Visiting (1993-4) and External (1994-2000) Professor at the European University Institute, Italy. In 2013-14 he was Fulbright Scholar at the Higher School of Economics National Research University in Moscow, Russia. Alan has written numerous books and articles in the areas of international political economy, the political economy of the European Union and U.S. foreign policy. Leila Simona Talani is Professor of International Political Economy at the Department of European and International Studies, Kings College London, UK, where she was appointed Jean Monnet Chair of European Political Economy in 2012. She has previously held posts at the London School of Economics and the University of Bath, UK, and was Associate Expert for the United Nations Regional Office for Drug control and Crime Prevention in Cairo, Egypt. Simona has written extensively on European political economy, the political economy of international migration, and on the Economic and Monetary Union. Gonzalo Pozo Martin is an independent researcher associated with the ‘Vision of Eurasia’ project, based at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. He was previously Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London, and Lecturer in International Relations at Goldsmiths College, University of London.  He has also held University of London posts at SOAS and Birkbeck College. His work has concentrated on the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, geopolitics, and Russian foreign policy and political economy.