RIP IPE

Papers in the Politics of Global Competitiveness, No. 7, May 2007

22 Pages Posted: 22 Dec 2009

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Paul Cammack

City University of Hong Kong

Date Written: May 1, 2007

Abstract

The paper reviews the origins of critical IPE, arguing that the contrast it introduced between problem-solving and critical theory was flawed. Critical IPE has since been drawn into a subordinate relationship to hegemonic 'American' IPE, and failed to realise the potential of the research agenda set out by Cox in 1981. On the basis of the analysis of Nicola Phillips, Globalizing International Political Economy (2005) and Tony Payne, The Global Politics of Unequal Development (2005), and a brief discussion of their relationship with mainstream IPE, it is argued that both mainstream and critical IPE are so deeply flawed that they should be abandoned.

Keywords: IPE

Suggested Citation

Cammack, Paul, RIP IPE (May 1, 2007). Papers in the Politics of Global Competitiveness, No. 7, May 2007 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1526759

Paul Cammack (Contact Author)

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