Synopses & Reviews
The Fifth Edition of International Political Economyprovides a flexible and provocative set of articles and excerpts on a broad range of topics. Edited by three respected scholars in the field, the reader also offers clear introductions and headnotes to help students get the most out of each reading.
Synopsis
The Fifth Edition of provides a flexible and provocative set of articles and excerpts on a broad range of topics. Edited by three respected scholars in the field, the reader also offers clear introductions and headnotes to help students get the most out of each reading.
Synopsis
The leading reader for international political economy courses has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in IPE scholarship and in the global economy.
About the Author
Jeffry A. Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Frieden is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Politics and (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery. His previous books include Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century; Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985; and Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance. He is also the co-author or co-editor of many other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications.David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is, most recently, the author of Hierarchy in International Relations. His other books include Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century and Power, Protection and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939. In addition, he is co-editor of 10 volumes and author of over 80 articles and book chapters on international relations, international political economy, and American foreign policy. He is Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UCSD. In 2013, he received the UCSD's Chancellor's Associates Awards for Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences.