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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.