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Based on recent IPE contributions on three key themes in international politics (the relation between trade-technology & interstate conflicts, the link between multinationalization in production & world stability, & the political economy of democracy promotion in post-conflict countries), this essay calls the attention on the potential that IPE studies have for the analysis of complex processes (political & economic, with domestic, international & trans-national reach) across long time-spans. Empirical research on these topics has provided new ground to test & refine hypotheses from the three IPE orthodox Schools (Realism-Mercantilism, Liberalism & Marxism), pointing to the advantages of multivariate setups that treat both political & economic determinants of international outcomes as endogenous. Studies on the trade-war links have opened the way to analyses of how growth-inducing mechanisms in war economies may combine with the lasting effects of war-borne protectionist coalitions in producing differential outcomes, according to countries' resource endowments & level of development. Hypotheses on the peace-inducing features of multinationalized production appear in need of revision, especially when applied to the context of North-South relations, in which traditional dynamics identified in the FDI literature do not seem to obtain. Last, scholars interested in the political economy of post-war reconstruction could fruitfully borrow from the comparative literature on transitions, the economic contributions on development & the IR research on conflict, to provide new theoretical tools for the analysis of democracy promotion in post-conflict states. References. Adapted from the source document.

This research examines the current institutional structures of the executive-legislative relationship in the EU from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. That is not just examining how the institutions are linked theoretically or even in the formal structural sense, but also their functional political and policy relationship in terms of what they actually do. The character and performance of the EU executive-legislative relationship is analyzed from a comparative perspective in light of the current reforms introduced both in the Lisbon Treaty and in the academic realm among scholars lobbying for institutional reform. The goal of the research is to achieve not just an empirically founded understanding of the current executive-legislative relationship in the EU, but also to obtain an empirical grounding for the current dialog regarding the need for institutional reform in the EU. The goal of this research is to build a bridge between the two parallel empirical and theoretical literatures regarding EU institutions that currently exist. Adapted from the source document.