Reading Information

The key textbook for this module is:
  • Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R. D. Underhill (eds.), Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2005) and John Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2008). The books have been ordered in the university library.

The following books may also be useful:

  • Jeffrey Frieden and David Lake (eds.), International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth (New York: St. Martin, 2000);
  • Robert Gilpin, Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001);
  • Joan E. Spero and Jeffrey A. Hart, The Politics of International Economic Relations (New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2003);
  • Thomas Lairson and David Skidmore, International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth (New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2002);
  • Charles Lipson and Benjamin J. Cohen (eds.), Theory and Structure in International Political Economy (Massachusetts; MIT Press, 1999);
  • Ronen Palan (ed.), Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories (London: Routledge, 2000). These books may be kept in the short loan section of the main library.

Professional journals that provide in-depth analyses of the global political economy include:

  • International Organisation,
  • Review of International Political Economy,
  • New Political Economy, International Affairs,
  • International Studies Quarterly,
  • Review of International Studies,
  • World Politics,
  • Global Governance,
  • Millennium: Journal of International Studies,
  • Journal of World Trade,
  • The World Economy, and World Development.
(Most of these journals are now available on line.)