The Unwritten Preface: 'International Political Economy' and Epistemology

The standard work here is still Stephen D. Krasncr (ed.), International Regimes (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983), but my later comments do not include the work on regimes by Friedrich Kratochwil and John Ruggie.

One of the best is John S. Odell , US International Monetary System (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press , 1987).

See Robert Gilpin , The Political Economy of International Relations ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987).

Ibid, pp. xi-xvi.

See Richard K. Ashley , The Political Economy of War and Peace (London: Frances Pinter, 1980).

For the notion of two forms of world economy see Charles-Albert Michalet ' From International Trade to World Economy' in H. Makler et al. (eds.), The New International Economy (London: Sage, 1982), and for an analysis of different structures of political economy, see Susan Strange , States and Markets (London: Pinter Publishers, 1998).

See John Maclean , 'Political Theory, International Theory and the Problem of Ideology', Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol. 10. No, 2, Summer 1981), pp. 102-25.

On this point and many others I have found the work of John Gunnell accessible and relevant. See J.G. Gunnell , Philosophy, Science and Political Inquiry (Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press, 1975) and J.G. Gunnell , 'Philosophy and Political Theory'. Government and Opposition (Vol. 14, No. 2, 1979), pp. 198-216.

For a discussion of the common positivist basis of 'historical' and 'scientific' IPE, see Roger Tooze , 'International Political Economy' in Steve Smith (ed.), International Relations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985).

John Gunnell , 'Philosophy and Political Theory', op. cit., p. 208.

Ibid, p. 209.

Stanley Hoffmann , 'An American Social Science: International Relations ', Daedalus (Vol. 106, No. 3, 1977), pp. 41-60.

See also Friedrich Kratochwil , Rules, Norms and Decisions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for BISA, forthcoming).

See R. Tooze , op. cit, p. 114.

Perhaps the most influential of the works using this framework was Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye , Power and Interdependence (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977). See also their 'Power and Interdependence Revisited', International Organization (Vol. 41, No. 4, Autumn 1987 ), pp. 725-53.

Andrew Sayer has provided the clearest discussion on this problem that I have yet to discover; see his Method on Social Science: A Realist Approach (London: Hutchinson, 1984).

See John Maclean 'Belief Systems and Ideology in IR: A Critical Approach' in R. Little and S. Smith (eds.), Belief Systems in International Relations ( Oxford; Blackwell, forthcoming 1988 ).

See Roger Tooze , ' "Economic Belief Systems" and Understanding International Relations ' in R. Little and S. Smith (eds.), op. cit For an extended discussion of this crucial point, see John Maclean , 'Belief Systems and Ideology in IR: A Critical Approach', op. cit.

Stanley Hoffmann , op. cit, p. 48. Emphasis added.

Robert Gilpin , op. cit

I have discussed this in Roger Tooze , 'The Emergence of a New International Political Economy: A Realist View', Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol. 16, No. 3, Winter 1987), pp. 523-8.

See particularly Robert Gilpin , US Power and the Multinational Corporation (London: Macmillan , 1976), pp. 20-43.

See Andrew Sayer , op. cit, p. 37.

For an extended discussion of this see Roger Tooze , 'Liberal International Political Economy' in R.J. Barry Jones (ed.), Perspectives on Political Economy (London : Pinter Publishers, Second Edition, forthcoming 1988).

Or as Perry Anderson calls it, the 'exorbitation of language'. See Perry Anderson. in the Tracks of Historical Materialism (London : Verso, 1983).