International Political Economy

Author: Zhu Wenli
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book was written by the author as a textbook, but I believe it is not an ordinary textbook, but rather an interdisciplinary research-oriented textbook. We often talk about building world-class universities now, and world-class universities should produce high-quality textbooks. Students should not only gain a narrow and unhelpful list of knowledge from high-quality textbooks, but also a spiritual realm where knowledge is synthesized and elevated, a humanistic cultivation that combines grandeur and refinement, and an observation and reflection on worldly affairs and life. This book aims to comprehensively introduce the evolution, development, and main contents of international political economy theory, and then use the theoretical framework of international political economy as a basis to discuss and analyze major international political economic phenomena, tracing the changes in the international system.
Chapter 1 is the main theoretical part, introducing the emergence process, key focus, major schools, and research methods of the discipline of international political economy. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on examining the world market system, analyzing how it continuously expands through the power of economics and technology, and how it is influenced by the international political environment. Chapters 4 and 5 shift the focus to analyzing the behavioral patterns of nation-states. The final chapter, Chapter 6, discusses the relationship between markets and states in the 21st century, how their interactions have driven the wave of globalization, and how they themselves have been impacted and transformed by this wave.