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'Constituting International Political Economy' edited by Kurt Burch and Robert A. Denemark is reviewed.

'Constituting International Political Economy' edited by Kurt Burch and Robert A. Denemark is reviewed.

This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas. Energy is too important to be neglected by political scientists. Yet, within the mainstream of the discipline energy research still remains a peripheral area of academic enquiry seeking to plug into the discipline's theoretical debates. The purpose of this book is to assess how existing perspectives fit with our understanding of social science energy research by focusing on the oil and gas dimension.

"In this timely book, Benjamin J. Cohen identifies and analyses a range of critical pathologies currently afflicting the field of international political economy (IPE) and offers remedies to restore the field's vitality. The book addresses the purpose of IPE as a field of study, highlighting the key questions posed by scholars since the modern field's inception, and explores how research seeks to engage with politics in practice. Tackling contemporary factionalism in the field, chapters consider IPE's remarkable diversity and fragmentation of research traditions across the globe and draw attention to the lack of clear methods and behavioural assumptions established as 'best practice' internationally. To rejuvenate the field, Cohen argues, reforms are needed that would both encourage more policy engagement by IPE scholars and maximize opportunities to enjoy the benefits of the field's diversity. The book offers a cutting-edge research agenda, emphasising the need for collaboration across scholarly divides and the obligations of leading professional associations and societies to countervail the forces that keep these groups separated. A powerful critique and a rousing call-to-arms, this book is crucial reading for scholars of IPE in search of innovative ways to develop new research and revitalise the field as a whole. It also offers key insights for students who need to understand the challenges facing IPE and its potential research trajectories."

Attitudes of elegant despair on subprime globalization

Drawing on a range of different approaches and perspectives, this book attempts to set and develop a new agenda for IPE research. It lays down the theoretical foundations of a new IPE, provides new perspectives on orthodox IPE concerns and highlights previously neglected issues and approaches

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I FRAMEWORK AND SETTING -- 1 Responsibility -- Children's Conditions -- Children in Civil Society -- Children in Global Civil Society -- Overview -- 2 The Global Economy -- Division of Labor -- Debt and Structural Adjustment -- The Roots of Poverty -- Population and the Economy -- International Obligations -- PART II CHILDREN'S PROBLEMS -- 3 Mortality -- Priorities, Not Poverty -- Denial -- Intentionality -- Hatred? -- Genocide? -- 4 Child Labor -- Remedies -- Business-Like Schooling -- 5 Child Prostitution -- Trafficking -- Traveling Customers -- Economic Pressures -- Domestic Law -- International Control -- 6 Armed Conflict -- Trade Guns for Butter? -- International Humanitarian Law -- Implementation -- Implementing Article 38 -- The Question of Agency -- 7 Malnutrition -- Causes of Malnutrition -- Malnutrition and Mortality -- Growth Measurement -- Numbers of People Malnourished -- PART III THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE -- 8 Nutrition Rights -- History of Nutrition Rights -- Why Children? -- The Principle -- Multi-Layering -- Carrots, Not Sticks -- Funding -- Capping Entitlements -- Using Existing Programs -- Goals as Rights -- Nutrition Rights Advocacy -- 9 Children's Rights -- Soft vs. Hard Rights -- Rights Require Accountability -- Monitoring and Reporting on Rights -- International Nutrition Monitoring -- 10 International Children's Rights -- Rights to Assistance -- The Question of Consent -- Progressive Realization -- Chronic Conditions -- Development Assistance vs. Humanitarian Assistance -- The Principle Internationally -- International Nutrition Rights -- Implementation Internationally -- A Global Action Plan -- Sovereignty and Civilization -- Appendix: Data on Children -- Notes and References -- Select Bibliography -- Index.