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Print Price: $229.99

Format:
Paperback
492 pp.
20 tables and 10 diagrams, 7" x 9"

ISBN-13:
9780195419894

Copyright Year:
2006

Imprint: OUP Canada


Political Economy and the Changing Global Order

Third Edition

Edited by Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill

Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, Third Edition introduces undergraduate students to the rapid changes taking place in the global economy. This edited collection from top scholars in political economy examine how the economic global order is unfolding and how it will evolve over the next decade.

Readership : Second and third year undergraduate international political economy courses in political science departments.

Section I: Understanding the Changing Global Order
Geoffrey R.D. Underhill: Introduction: Conceptualizing the Changing Global Order
1. Michael Kratke, University of Amsterdam and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill: The Emergence of IPE
2. Robert W. Cox, York University: Problems of Power and Knowledge in a Changing Global World Order
3. Herman M. Schwartz, University of Virginia: Globalization: The Long View
4. James H. Mittelman, American University: Globalization and Its Critics
5. Eric Helleiner, Trent University: Alternatives to Neoliberalism? Towards a More Heterogeneous Global Political Economy
6. Sandra Whitworth, York University: Theory and Exclusion: Gender, Masculinity, and International Political Economy
Section II: Global Issues
Geoffrey R.D. Underhill: Introduction: Global Issues in Historical Perspective
7. Brian Burgoon, University of Amsterdam: The Political Economy of Post-September 11th Security
8. Louis W. Pauly, University of Toronto: Global Finance and Political Order
9. Jonathan Story, INSEAD: Emerging World Financial Order and Different Forms of Capitalisms
10. Michael C. Webb, University of Victoria: The Group of Seven and Global Macroeconomic Governance
11. Jens Ladefefoged Mortensen, University of Copenhagen: WTO and the Governance of Globalization: Dismantling the Compromise of Embedded Liberalism
12. Susan K. Sell, The George Washington University: Big Business, the WTO and Development: Uruguay and Beyond
13. Winfried Ruigrok, University of St. Gallen: Transnational Production and Corporate Strategies
14. Henry Farrell, George Washington University: The Political Economy of the Internet and E-Commerce
15. Robert O'Brien, McMaster University: The Agency of Labour in a Changing Global Order
16. Geeta Chowdhry, Northern Arizona University: Postcolonial Readings of Child Labour in a Globalized Economy
17. Steven Bernstein, University of Toronto: Environment, Economy, and Global Environmental Governance
18. Marianne Marchand, Universidad de las Americas: Gendered Representation of the 'Global': Reading/Writing Globalization
19. H. Richard Friman, Marquette University: Crime in the Global Economy
Section III: Regional Dynamics
Richard Stubbs and Austina J. Reed, McMaster University: Introduction: Regionalism and Globalization
20. Helge Hveem, University of Oslo: Explaining the Regional Phenomenon in an Era of Globalization
21. Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Free University, Amsterdam: The Transnational Political Economy of Europen Integration: The Future Socio-Economic Governance in the Enlarged Union
22. Tony Porter, McMaster University: The North American Free Trade Agreement
23. Nicola Phillips, University of Manchester: Latin America in the Global Political Economy
24. Richard Higgott, University of Warwick: Economic Regionalism in East Asia: Consolidation with Centrifugal Tendencies
25. Tim Shaw, University of London and Pamela K. Mbabazi, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda: Political Economies of Africa(s) at the Start of the 21st Century
Section IV: Responses to Globalization
Richard Stubbs and Sarah Eaton, University of Toronto: Introduction: Responses to Globalization
26. Philip G. Cerny, Rutgers University: Political Globalization and the Competition State
27. Mike Smith, Loughborough University: Negotiating Globalization: The Foreign Economic Policy of the European Union
28. Sigurt Vitols, Social Science Research Center Berlin: Globalization and the Transformation of the Germany Model
29. Andrew Baker, University of Belfast: The Political Economy of the UK Compeitition State: Committed Globalism, Selected Europeanism
30. Annette Freyberg-Inan, University of Amsterdam: Transition Economies
31. Bruce E. Moon, Lehigh University, USA: The United States and Globalization: Struggles with Hegemony
32. Mark Beeson, University of Queensland: Politics and Markets in East Asia: Is the Developmental State Compatible with Globalization
33. Christopher W. Hughes, University of Warwick: Japan, East Asian Regionalism and Selective Resistance to Globalization: Regional Divisions of Labour and Financial Cooperation
34. Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick: China and the Political Economy of Global Engagement

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Richard Stubbs is in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University. Geoffrey R.D. Underhill is Chair of International Governance in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Education at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Special Features

  • Carefully edited so that all chapters are written in a clear and accessible form, with the needs of students in mind
  • Each contribution is written specifically for this volume ensuring that students get the latest information
  • Covers developments at global, national, and regional levels
  • Examines the key issues and trends as well as the changing policies of major state actors
  • Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings and a short list of key websites
New to this Edition
  • Nearly two-thirds of the chapters are new while the remaining chapters have been revised and updated
  • Section introductions have been increased to provide greater student understanding of the topics covered
  • The order of some chapters have been reorganized for a better flow of subject material
  • Now includes a glossary of key terms