After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions - the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund - were threatened by growing economic nationalism in the United States, as demonstrated by increased trade protection and growing budget deficits. In this book, Robert Gilpin argues that American power had been essential for establishing these institutions, and waning American support threatened the basis of postwar cooperation and the great prosperity of the period. For Gilpin, a great power such as the United States is essential to fostering international cooperation. Exploring the relationship between politics and economics first highlighted by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gilpin demonstrated the close ties between politics and economics in international relations, outlining the key role played by the creative use of power in the support of an institutional framework that created a world economy. Gilpin's exposition of the influence of politics on the international economy was a model of clarity, making the book the centerpiece of many courses in international political economy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when American support for international cooperation is once again in question, Gilpin's warnings about the risks of American unilateralism sound ever clearer.

《西方国际政治经济学》（第2版）不只是事实和数据的充实更新，更主要的是对结构体系、观点和内容以及编排等方面大幅度的调整和充实。与原著相比，《西方国际政治经济学》(第2版)具有以下特点：理论体系架构的完整性和鲜明性；理论与事实的结合；多学科的融合。

随着中国不断融入世界体系，中国学术界迫切需要更多的既能反映国际学术界前沿动态，又能体现“中国视角”的国际政治经济学著作和教材。 本书主要有如下四个特点： 第一，构建一个相对完整的知识框架。本书基于定义与研究议题、要素流动与单位层次、规范分析与实证分析以及国际体系与中国经验四种关联性，力图为学生们提供一个相对完整的国际政治经济学知识框架。 第二，追踪国际学术界前沿动态。根据国际政治经济学的研究议题和分析方法，作者将过去40年从事国际政治经济学研究的学者们分为“两代”，系统总结了 20世纪70—80年代“第一代”学者提出的五大理论（相互依存论、霸权稳定论、国家主义理论、依附论和世界体系论），分析了20世纪90年代以来“第二代”学者在核心概念和分析方法上变革的总体趋向。 第三，分析全球政治经济的结构与动力。本书从世界体系与国家兴衰的关系入手，对促使全球政治经济延续 500年的结构和动力进行了总结，并对其在当代的主要表现形式（国际货币、国际贸易、跨国投资、发展与转型以及地区主义）进行了具体的分析。 第四，体现 “中国视角”。国际政治经济学虽然起源于美国和欧洲学术界，但这并不意味着美国和欧洲国家之外的学者只能是知识的消费者。在作者看来，中国学者要成为知识的生产者也许有许多路径，但立足于中国的现实经验，特别是中国过去30年融入世界经济的成功经验进行研究，是成为国际政治经济学领域知识生产者的一个重要途径。

An authoritative introduction to Global Political Economy.The book covers all bases: contemporary theory, introductions to particular issue areas, and an extended debate on globalization that reflects a variety of perspectives. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre. Student resources: Timeline Web links Glossary Instructor resources: Tables and figures from the book to download 2 in-depth case studies

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's development, the contrasting worldviews of its American and British schools, and the different ways scholars have sought to meet the challenges posed by an ever more complex and interdependent world economy. Benjamin Cohen explains the critical role played by the early "intellectual entrepreneurs," a generation of pioneering scholars determined to bridge the gap between international economics and international politics. Among them were brilliant thinkers like Robert Keohane, Susan Strange, and others whose legacies endure to the present day. Cohen shows how their personalities and the historical contexts in which they worked influenced how the field evolved. He examines the distinctly different insights of the American and British schools and addresses issues that have been central to the field's development, including systemic transformation, system governance, and the place of the sovereign state in formal analysis. The definitive intellectual history of international political economy, this book is the ideal volume for IPE scholars and those interested in learning more about the field.

Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.