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Global political economy and the separation of academic disciplines / Kees Van Der Pijl -- The Bretton Woods system (1944-1971) / Alex Tackie -- The failure of neo-liberal financialisation (1971-1991) / Vassilis K Fouskas and Bulent Gokay -- Shock therapy and the political economy of the former Soviet space / Sabine Spangenberg -- Revisiting the 1992-93 EMS erisis in the context of international political economy / Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos -- Asia catches cold, Russia sneezes : the political economy of emerging market crises in 1997-98 / Michael F. Keating -- The rise of the qi ye ji tuan and the emergence of Chinese hegemony / Jayantha Jayman -- The global South : from dependency to convergence? / Ray Kiely -- The policy response to the great recession of 2008 : is it the 1930s all over again? / Yiannis Kitromildes -- Understanding the global financial crisis / Bulent Gokay -- The political economy of the Arab uprisings / Shampa Roy-Mukherjee -- The politics and economics of the Greek debt crisis / Constantine Dimoulas and Vassilis K. Fouskas -- A-Z glossary : Key concepts in international political economy.

CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC CAUSES OF ECONOMIC POLICY REFORM, THIS ESSAY CRITICALLY REVIEWS THE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THREE BOOKS, BY JEFF FRIEDEN, D. MICHAEL SHAFER, AND SYLVIA MAXFIELD. THE REVIEW CONCERNS ITSELF EXCLUSIVELY WITH THE THEORETICAL IMPORT OF THESE CONTRIBUTIONS AND LEAVES IT TO AREA SPECIALISTS TO EVALUATE THE EMPIRICAL CONTENT OF THE CASE STUDIES FOR THEMSELVES. THE ESSAY CONCLUDES WITH SOME GENERAL PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE THEORIZING ON THIS CRITICAL TOPIC.

Problems of conceptualization & definition connected with the measurement of att's & values in comparative internat'l res on ED are dealt with. Specifically, the following issues are discussed: (1) 2 diff but related problems re the diff'ial att'al patterns associated with modernity: consistency & sequence; (2) 2 problems re the nature of the relationship between att'al data & structural data: the congruence, which basically defines the adequacy & equivalence of att'al data & structural data, & the nature of the explanatory relationship. Assuming that att'al data could be obtained which cross-culturally would typify the degree of correspondence with the structural data, what could be inferred about the order of causality? (3) 2 problems re the qualitative aspects of the dysjunction between modernization & industr'ization, personal att's & soc structures: the problem of decision-making & planning, & the problem of nat'l goals in an internat'ly fixed environment. Each of these problems is examined in detail. A methodological dilemma is found re econ underdevelopment: 'To argue the case for underdevelopment is to argue a set of value premises related to backwardness. Whereas, to argue the case for the extrinsic causes of stagnation is to argue the case for an interest theory; namely, that it is primarily in the interest of the advanced nations to exploit the less developed nations.' This dilemma creates an enormous ideological chasm between those who believe that the fully developed nations require underdevelopment & those who believe they do not require underdevelopment. The following conclusions are reached: (a) The process of development involves subunits of industr'ization & modernization. (b) These 2 main subunits may or may not be spatially or temporarily parallel. (c) It is best to analyze & generalize about discrete processes entailed in development rather than make a monistic assumption about the nature of changes in society. Decisive choices can be made by conceptualizing att'al data as 1 critical cluster of factors. M. Maxfield.