The Political Economy of International Relations

Robert G. Gilpin

Published by Princeton University Press 1987

The Political Economy of International Relations

Robert G. Gilpin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400882779

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures and Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	x
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE. The Nature of Political Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
TWO. Three Ideologies of Political Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
THREE. The Dynamics of the International Political Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
FOUR. International Money Matters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
FIVE. The Politics of International Trade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
SIX. Multinational Corporations and International Production Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
SEVEN. The Issue of Dependency and Economic Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
EIGHT. The Political Economy of International Finance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
NINE. The Transformation of the Global Political Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
TEN. The Emergent International Economic Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
Reference List Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437