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International political economy: perspectives and prospects—Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

R. J. Barry Jones
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The study of international political economy is beset with complexity: the complexity of the empirical referent and the variety of intellectual perspectives. The complexity of contemporary international economic relations was discussed in the first of these two papers. This paper is devoted to a critical review of the major established perspectives on the global political economy and a discussion of some of the bases upon which it might be possible to construct a synthetic, and hopefully more satisfactory, approach.

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Research Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 39 - 52
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1982

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