This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to how Global Political Economy (GPE) is conceptualized and researched around the world. Including contributions that range from traditional International Political Economy to GPE approaches, the book gathers the investigations, perspectives and innovative research from all over the world.

Ernesto Vivares is a Professor at the Department of International Studies and Communication, FLACSO Ecuador. His publications include The IPE Puzzle of Regional Inequality, Instability and the Global Insertion of South America.

Introduction Chapter 1 - Global Conversations and Inquiries Part I - Historical Waves and [opening] Ontological Axes Chapter 2 - The Sick Man of IPE: the British School Chapter 3 - Globalizing the Historical Roots of IPE Chapter 4 - The State of Development in a Globalized World: Perspectives on Advanced and Industrializing Countries Chapter 5 - The International Political Economy of the Rise China and Emerging Powers: Traditional Perspectives and Beyond Chapter 6 - The tailoring of IPE in Latin America: lost, misfit, or misperceived? Chapter 7 - The International Political Economy of Africa in Theory & Practice Part II - Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives Chapter 8 - Open Economy Monetary Politics Chapter 9 - The Politics of Trade in an Open Economy: Domestic Competition over Policy Chapter 10 - Global Commodity Chains, Global Value Chains, and Global Production Networks Chapter 11 - The IPE of Regional Value Chains Chapter 12 - Constructivist IPE Chapter 13 - World Order: Perspective lines on transformation Chapter 14 - From Marx to Critical International Political Economy Chapter 15 - Gramscian IPE Chapter 16 - The Concept(s) of Hegemony in IPE Chapter 17 - Ghosts, pluriverse, and hopes. From "development" to post-development Part III - Beyond Traditional Perspectives Chapter 18 - The BRICS initiative as a challenge to contemporary IPE Chapter 19 - The Long Battle for Global Governance Continued Chapter 20 - The GPE of Regionalism: Beyond European and North American Conceptual Cages Chapter 21 - The IPE of Transnational Class and Contemporary Capitalism Chapter 22 - The IPE and Ecological Economics of degrowth and welfare Chapter 23 - Extractivism: the curse of plenty Chapter 24 - IPE of Borders: Between Formal and Informal Regionalisms Chapter 25 - The IPE of War and Liberal Peace Chapter 26 - Transnational Organized Crime and Political Economy Part IV - Regional Perspectives and Inquiries Chapter 27 - IPE Beyond Western Paradigms: China, Africa, and Latin America in comparative perspective Chapter 28 - The PE of the European Union: The Tension between National and Supranational Politics Chapter 29 - IPE Scholarship About Southeast Asia: Theories of Development and State-Market-Society Relations Chapter 30 - East Asia's Developmental States in Evolution: The challenge of sustaining national competitiveness at the technological frontier Chapter 31 - Building an Interdependence Framework for the IPE of a Rising India Chapter 32 - The International Political Economy of Human Security in Africa Chapter 33 - Regionalism in the Middle East: Turkish case in perspective Chapter 34 - The IPE of Development Finance in Latin America Chapter 35 - The Constructivist IPE of Regionalism in South America Chapter 36 - The IPE of Caribbean Development Part V - New Research Arenas Chapter 37 - The IPE of global social policy governance Chapter 38 - Globalization and Global Production Networks Chapter 39 - The IPE of Global Tax Governance Chapter 40 - The political economy of new technology - especially with an eye to the labor market Chapter 41 - Cyberpolitics and IPE: towards a research agenda in the Global South Chapter 42 - The IPE of Regional Energy Integration in South America Chapter 43 - Industrial Policy in Latin America: A Theoretical Discussion Chapter 44 - The IPE of Global Corporations Chapter 45 - The IPE of Cities and Space Chapter 46 - Migration and International Political Economy Chapter 47 - International Political Economy and the Environment Chapter 48 - Conceptual Hinges between International Political Economy and Economic Intelligence: some disciplinary challenges Chapter 49 - The IPE of Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance