Globalisation and interdependence in the international political economy: rhetoric and reality

Abstract

Part 1 Interdependence and globalization in the contemporary international system - dispositions and definitions: central problems contrasting implications of interdependence and globalization competing definitions of interdependence methodological and theoretical questions the construction of interdependence and globalization. Part 2 International interdependence and globalization - the political-economic interface: economic liberalism, the politico-economic relationship, interdependence Marxist perspectives on politics, economics, interdependence and globalization economic realist and structuralist approaches to international interdependence and globalization economic realism structuralist perspectives institutionalist perspectives methodological considerations. Part 3 Interdependence and globalization in a world of states: statism, capitalism and the emergence of the modern international system politico-military interdependence in a system of conflicting states strategic interdependence and the security dilemma rationalist perspectives. Part 4 Interdependence, globalization and challenges to the international order: global interdependence and the moral transcendence of the States' system the unity of man, world society and a world state common fate a world without states interdependence and globalization rhetoric and reason interdependence and a new world order. Part 5 Patterns of economic interdependence: mutual dependence dependence or interdependence? sensitivities and international interdependence connections, vulnerabilities and dependencies. Part 6 Patterns of interconnectedness, interdependence and globalization - the empirical picture: interconnections in the contemporary international economy trade and dependence the import dependence of the advanced industrial countries the import dependence of the less developed countries the export dependence of the advanced industrial countries the export dependence of the less developed countries regional interdependence financial dependencies. Part 7 The sources of international economic interdependence and globalization: differential resource endowments and contemporary international economic interdependence development and dependence economic interdependence and globalization - cause or consequence of international trade? imperialism transnational corporations technology, TNCs, international finance and globalization financial integration. Part 8 Globalization and levels of interdependence: the claims of atomistic modes of analysis the holistic critique of atomistic approaches to international phenomena holistic theories of the contemporary international political economy complex interdependence and the radical critiques. Part 9 The consequences of international interdependence and globalization. Part 10 The future of international interdependence and globalization.