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La desaparicion del campo socialista ha tenido efectos significativos sobre la economia cubana. La estrategia actual para enfrentar el desbalance financiero externo - desarrollo del turismo y fomento de las exportaciones tradicionales y de nuevos renglones - solo podra compensar parcialmente el impacto negativo de las cambiantes relaciones economicas con los paises socialistas. Sin embargo, Cuba tiene la capacidad para resistir la crisis economica actual y para reanimar la economia, siguiendo los acuerdos que fueron adoptados por el IV Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba. (Cuban Studies/DÜI)

The author provides an overview about the field of international political economy (IPE) along metatheoretical lines. The IPE communities in the United States and Western Europe exhibit more differences than commonalities in their ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. While the U.S. perspective is solidly based on a materialist ontology, methodological individualism, and neopositivism as its epistemological foundation, the European IPE community is considerably more heterogeneous in its theoretical, epistemological and methodological approaches. The article ends with a view towards the future introducing three possible scenarios for the IPE sub-discipline.

Education has always been a topic of interest for classical philosophers & thinkers, but now there is a preoccupation with making it a priority in the international agenda. The article emphasizes the importance of education & the teaching-learning process, its forms & difficulties, & its impact on the development of professionals with the capacity for thinking & discerning. The author points out the difficulties in teaching international relations theories & the challenge of explaining & analyzing questions of theoretical articulation. She attempts to respond to the difficulties involved in the teaching of International Relations theories & the challenge faced by the professor to present & analyze the substantial complexity of authentic theoretical articulation. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on a book by Michael & Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World. International Organizations in Global Politics (Ithaca & London: Cornell U Press, 2004).