This popular, up-to-date text provides a balanced, in-depth background to main IPE theoretical approaches, examines IPE issues in historical perspective, and discusses domestic-international linkages. Based on the assumption that we can only understand the broader implications of current IPE issues by examining them in a theoretical and historical context, this accessible introduction to IPE has been highly lauded by users and reviewers. It focuses on three major themes or challenges in the post-Cold War era-globalization, North-North relations and North-South relations-to tie concepts together for students. It has been completely updated to provide a contemporary look at global political economy.

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Product Description: This volume discuses the effects of globalization on changing power relationships between transnational corporations (TNCs), transnational capital, the state, and subnational groups. TNCs have expanded their power with the deepening of market relations, but they are not causing the state to wither away...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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