Constituting International Political Economy

International political economy is both a discipline and a set of global practices and conditions. This volume explores how the two are related, illustrating the changing character of the global political economy, as well as changing perspectives on that character.

The authors first consider how social issues, policy concerns, and philosophical judgments help constitute IPE both as a worldview and as a discipline. A central theme here is the reciprocal creation of the discipline and the social practices said to comprise it.

Subsequent chapters illustrate the incongruence between the nature of the social world as alleged in IPE's premises—which often distortedly frame issues—and the alternative characterizations available from other social groups, behaviors, and approaches. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the tensions between "conventional" and "alternative" framings of the international political economy, raising questions about the nature, consequences, and insights of diverse approaches to IPE.

• Introduction—K. Burch.
• CONSTRUCTIVISM.
• A Constructivist Manifesto—N. Onuf
• CONSTRUCTING IPE AS A WORLDVIEW.
• Constituting IPE and Modernity—K. Burch.
• Echoes of Commercial Society: Liberal Political Theory in Mainstream IPE—S.J. Rosow.
• CONSTRUCTING IPE AS A DISCIPLINE.
• Economic Anxiety: Reification, De-Reification, and the Politics of IPE—N. Inayatullah and D.L. Blaney.
• Of Markets and Men: The (Re)Makings(s) of IPE—A.S. Runyan.
• Hegemony's Hegemony in IPE—N. Onuf.
• CONSTRUCTING PRACTICES.
• Contesting Hegemony: Americanism and Far-Right Ideologies of Globalization—M. Rupert.
• The Global Village and the Global Ghetto: Realism, Structural Materialism, and Agency in Globalization—W.S. Cox and C.T. Sjolander.
• CONSTRUCTING ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES.
• The Rational Constitution of Agents and Structures—J.C. Roberts.
• The Limits to a Rationalist Understanding of IPE—R. Pettman.
• COMMENTARIES.
• Taking Off the Gender Blinders in IPE—J.S. Goldstein.
• Constituting, Deconstructing, and Reconstituting IPE—J.K. Oliver.
• Commenting on Constituting IPE—V.S. Peterson.
• Constructive Criticism: Threats, Imperatives, and Opportunities of a Constitutive IPE—R. Tooze.