International Political Economy - Theoretical Paradigms and Real-World Experience Research

Author: Wang Zhengyi and Zhang Yan gui
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Features: This book systematically introduces classical and contemporary theories of international political economy, as well as relevant research methods. It also applies corresponding theories and research methods to analyze six major real-world issues affecting the contemporary international system, combining political and economic perspectives.
About the Author: Wang Zhengyi is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of International Relations, Peking University. He is primarily engaged in teaching and research on international political economy theory, geopolitical economy and political economy of brotherhood, geopolitical economy and politics, political economy of development and transformation, political economy of transnational investment, regionalization in Asia-Pacific and China's political economy, as well as the East Asian international system and the reconstruction of Chinese society. His representative works include: Modern Political Geography (Nankai University Press, 1993), Development in the Periphery: World-Systems and Southeast Asian Development (Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1997), and World-Systems Theory and China (Commercial Press, 2000). His representative papers include: "National Interest as a Mutually Constraining Interest" (1997), "Why the East Asian International System Became Possible" (1997), "Inheritor Transfer: A Dilemma in Reconstructing Chinese Social Reality" (1998), "Industrial Distribution Channels in the People's Republic of China Market" (1999), and "Contending Regional Identity in East Asia: Market-Led, Institutions, or Social Reconstruction" (2002).