The Palgrave handbook of critical international political economy

Challenging the assumptions of 'mainstream' International Political Economy (IPE), this Handbook demonstrates the considerable value of critical theory to the discipline through a series of cutting-edge studies. The field of IPE has always had an inbuilt vocation within Historical Materialism, with an explicit ambition to make sense, from a critical standpoint, of the capitalist mode of production as a world system of sometimes paradoxically and sometimes smoothly overlapping states and markets. Having spearheaded the growth of a vigorous critical scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Marxism and neo-Gramscian approaches became increasingly marginalized over the course of the 1980s. The authors respond to the exposure of limits to mainstream contemporary scholarship in the wake of the onset of the Global Financial Crisis, and provide a comprehensive overview of the field of Critical International Political Economy. Problematizing socioeconomic and political structures, and considering these as potentially transitory and subject to change, the contributors aim not simply to understand a world of conflict, but furthermore to uncover the ways in which purportedly objective analyses reflect the interests of those in positions of privilege and power.- The Transatlantic Imperium After the Global Financial Crisis: Atlanticism Fractured or Consolidated?, Cafruny, Alan - Critical Global Political Economy and the Global Organic Crisis, Gill, Stephen - Marxism: and the Very Idea of Critical Political Economy, Callinicos, Alex - Neo-Gramscians and IPE: A Socio-Economic Understanding of Transnationalism, Hegemony and Civil Society, Talani, Leila Simona - Feminism and Critical International Political Economy, Lacsamana, Anne E. - Critical International Political Economy and Method, Jäger, Johannes (et al.) - Development and the Outer Periphery: The Logic of Exclusion, Fatton, Robert - US Foreign Policy from a Critical International Political Economy Perspective: Capitalist Empire and the Social Sources of Grand Strategy, Apeldoorn, Bastiaan - Being Critical About Security: What Critical Political Economy Says About Security and Identity, Silina, Everita - Inequality and Poverty in the Neoliberal Era, Roccu, Roberto - The Migration Crisis Before and After the Arab Spring: A Transnationalist Perspective, Talani, Leila Simona - Crises as Driving Forces of Neoliberal “Trasformismo”: The Contours of the Turkish Political Economy since the 2000s, Yalman, Galip L. - Energy, Capital as Power and World Order, Muzio, Tim - Coming in from the Cold: Intellectual Property Rights as a Key International Political Economy Issue, Muzaka, Valbona - Globalizing China: A Critical Political Economy Perspective on China’s Rise, Overbeek, Henk - Antinomies of the Indian State, Ahmed, Waquar (et al.) - BRICS Within Critical International Political Economy, Bond, Patrick - East Central Europe in the European Union, Bohle, Dorothee - The Political Economy of Russia, Dzarasov, Ruslan - The EU-MENA Relationship Before and After the Arab Spring, Kourtelis, Christos - International Political Economy in Latin America: Redefining the Periphery, Garcia, Ana Saggioro (et al.