Knowledge

This chapter identifies a gap in IPE research broadly scrutinizing knowledge from positivist and post-positivist epistemologies. It concurs with the claim advanced by the handbook editors that this gap is not necessarily bad in elaborating deep knowledge on a range of empirical issues. Nevertheless, it finds that better communication and interaction between positivist and post-positivist research can enhance the wisdom of IPE. Three avenues of research- on knowledge governance, historicity and technology- are identified as useful pathways for communicating IPE insights into the production, dissemination and of knowledge across the epistemological divide, as well as more widely with students, policy-makers and the broader public