States and Markets

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue: Some Desert Island Stories -- PART I - The Study of International Political Economy -- Chapter 1 The Conflict of Values and Theories -- Theory in social science -- The nature of international relations -- Chapter 2 Power in The World Economy -- Structural and relational power -- Four sources of structural power -- Some examples -- Limits of social science -- A network of bargains -- PART II - Structures of Power in the World Economy -- Chapter 3 The Security Structure -- Defining security -- Security in a system of states -- Are some states more peaceful? -- Industrialization and war -- Patterns of balance and security maps -- Prospects -- Chapter 4 The Production Structure -- Why Western Europe? -- Numbers matter -- The Asian experience -- The American century -- The 'multinational' and its theorists9 -- Assessing production -- Tax issues -- Chapter 5 The Financial Structure -- Credit creation -- Primitive and developed financial structures -- The puzzle of the nineteenth century -- The golden years? -- The paper dollar standard -- Current problems -- Chapter 6 The Knowledge Structure -- Defining a knowledge structure -- Medieval Christendom -- The scientific state -- Belief systems -- Indications of change -- Interactions of structures -- Some political implications -- Conclusions -- PART III - The Secondary Power Structures -- Chapter 7 - Transport Systems: Sea and Air -- Sea transport: The nature of the market -- Authorities -- Risk -- Pollution problems -- Air transport -- Authority and the market -- Transport and trade -- Chapter 8 - Trade -- Facts -- Fast growth -- Uneven growth -- Changing content -- Unequal participation -- No standard rules -- Terms of trade -- Theories of trade -- International organizations

"[States and Markets] should be read by every student of international political economy."--International Relations Theory. Susan Strange was one of the most influential international relations scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century. She is regarded by many as the creator of the discipline of international political economy (IPE) and leaves behind an impressive body of work. States and Markets is one of Strange's seminal texts. Strange Introduces the reader to a unique critical model for understanding the relationship between politics and economics centred on her four-facet

"An Introduction to International Political Economy Susan Strange, formerly University of Warwick. Professor Strange was well known for her unorthodox and stimulating views on the international political economy. Here she provides the student and scholar with a new model synthesising politics and economics by means of a four-faceted structural analysis of the effects of any kind of political authority (including states) on markets, and, conversely, of market forces on states. This refreshingly new framework of analysis is an ideal introductory text."--Bloomsbury Publishing