Figures, Tables, and Maps
Preface
I. BUILDING BLOCKS TO EXAMINE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND
CONFLICT
1. Introduction: Political Economy, Rationality, and Social Science
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2. Structure, Nation-States, Power, and Order in an International
Context
3. Economic Liberalism and Market Exchange in the Global Arena
II. MICRO TOOLS
4. The Micro Approach to Political and Economic Markets in Theory
and Practice
5. The Dilemma of Collective Action: Who Organizes, Who Does Not,
and Why
6. The Role of Hegemonic Leadership and Its Micro Foundations
7. Interest Groups and International Economic Foundations of
Political Cleavage
8. The Role of Institutions in Political and Economic Market
Failures
III. CONTEXT
9. Around the World in Eighty Days: A Stage of Modern
Globalization
10. The World between the Wars: A Breakdown in Globalization
11. The Bretton Woods System: The Rebuilding of Globalization
12. The World Post–Bretton Woods: Globalization Advances
13.Détente and the End of the Cold War: Globalization during
Transition
14. Into the Future: Political and Economic Market Failures and
Threats to Globalization
Index
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About the Author
Andrew C. Sobel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is associate professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also resident fellow in the Center in Political Economy at Washington University and serves on the board of the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences. He specializes in the politics of international finance with a focus on domestic explanations of international behavior. His books include Domestic Choices, International Markets (1994) and State Institutions, Private Incentives, Global Capital (1999). Sobel′s current research is comparing globalization in the late 1800s and late 1900s and its relationship to the modern social welfare state, and investigating the linkages between democracy and growth.
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