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Principles of International Political Economy Publisher: Livraria Almedina, Coimbra, ISBN 972-40-2609-4, September 2005 |
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Abstract
In the past, International Political Economy emerged as a heterodox approach to International Studies and, to a certain extent, it remained a fuzzy research area up to the present, because it is drawn both in Economy and in International Relations. In Portugal, it became part of the academic curricula of the International Relations only few years ago. However, such a discipline must be regarded of primary relevance to the study of the complex interactions underlyig the economic and the political phenomena and to the full understanding of the relations between wealth and power in the social-international reality. Thus, the first part of Principles of International Political Economy explores different approaches to the field and major theoretical-conceptual instruments of the discipline, deriving from the economic science. In the second part of the book, the main subjects of analysis are the worldwide architecture of the economic, financial and commercial areas, the international economic integration, centred in the experience of the Europe and the globalization of international economic relations. The book also comprises two case-studies with great relevance for the current international political economy: the first one concerns the integration of Turkey in the European Union and the second one is an overview of the emergence of China in the global economy.