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This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations , the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end of the Cold War has unleashed new economic and political forces, and new regionalisms have emerged. Computing power is increasingly an impetus to the world economy, and technological developments have changed and are changing almost every aspect of contemporary economic affairs. Gilpin's Global Political Economy considers each of these developments. Reflecting a lifetime of scholarship, it offers a masterful survey of the approaches that have been used to understand international economic relations and the problems faced in the new economy.


Gilpin focuses on the powerful economic, political, and technological forces that have transformed the world. He gives particular attention to economic globalization, its real and alleged implications for economic affairs, and the degree to which its nature, extent, and significance have been exaggerated and misunderstood. Moreover, he demonstrates that national policies and domestic economies remain the most critical determinants of economic affairs. The book also stresses the importance of economic regionalism, multinational corporations, and financial upheavals.


Gilpin integrates economic and political analysis in his discussion of "global political economy." He employs the conventional theory of international trade, insights from the theory of industrial organization, and endogenous growth theory. In addition, ideas from political science, history, and other disciplines are employed to enrich understanding of the new international economic order. This wide-ranging book is destined to become a landmark in the field.

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CHOICE Review

This is the long-awaited sequel to Gilpin's 1987 classic The Political Economy of International Relations (CH, Nov'87) and a more scholarly companion to his recent The Challenge of Global Capitalism (CH, Oct'00). The core of the book, which will make it a valued reference volume, is a knowingly detailed survey of the classic international political economy (IPE) problematique, including problems of trade, finance, economic development, multinational corporations, regional integration, and the decline of the state. While there is considerable apparent overlap of subject matter between Global Political Economy and The Challenge of Global Capitalism, they are distinctly different books. Challenge is a policy book that reasserts Gilpin's 1987 theme of the need for US leadership to expand economic governance to match the growing global economy. Global Political Economy, on the other hand, is ultimately about the battle to define the intellectual geography of IPE and the policy map that derives from it. Will neoliberal orthodoxy triumph? Gilpin devotes several chapters to a review of recent innovations in economic theory and argues that they tend to undermine oversimplified neoliberal analysis of global problems. Global Political Economy promises to be another classic and a much-consulted addition to academic library bookshelves. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. M. Veseth University of Puget Sound

Booklist Review

Robert Gilpin is a Princeton University professor emeritus and author of The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), a landmark in the field of international political economy. The world has changed much in the 14 years since that work appeared. The cold war has ended; few vestiges of communism remain. Advances in technology have increased the interdependence of national economies, and regional economic cooperation has blossomed. Meanwhile, the information economy has risen. Originally Gilpin intended to issue a second edition of his classic treatise, but he found world changes too dramatic and his own ideas so different that a "wholly new book" on the subject was warranted, which he has prepared with the assistance of a coauthor. Two years ago, he wrote The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century (2000) to describe the current state of the world economy. Global Political Economy complements that work and replaces Gilpin's earlier text by providing the scholarly, theoretical framework for examining how markets and the policies of nation-states determine the way the world economy functions. --David Rouse

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Robert Gilpin is the Eisenhower Professor of Public and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, including The Political Economy of International Relations and The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century (both Princeton).