International Political Economy Reading List, Winter 2012-13
Additional readings Overview of discipline: • Frieden, Jeffry A. and Lisa L. Martin (2002) ‘International Political Economy: Global and Domestic Interactions’, in Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner (eds.) Political Science: The State of the Discipline (New York: W. W. Norton for the American Political Science Association): 118-146. • Gilpin, Robert (2001) Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press): 25-45. • Abdelal, Rawi, Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons (2010) ‘Introduction: Constructing the International Economy’, in Abdelal, Blyth, and Parsons (eds.) Constructing the International Economy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press): 1-22. • Cohen, Benjamin J. (2008) International Political Economy: An Intellectual History (Princeton: Princeton University Press). • Lake, David A. (2009) ‘TRIPS Across the Atlantic: Theory and Epistemology in IPE’, Review of International Political Economy 16 (1): 47-57. • Farrell, Henry and Martha Finnemore (2009) ‘Ontology, Methodology, and Causation in the American School of International Political Economy’, Review of International Political Economy 16 (1): 58-71.
Trade: • Davis, Christina L. (2003) Food Fights over Free Trade How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton: Princeton University Press). • D¨ ur, Andreas (2007) ‘Foreign Discrimination, Protection for Exporters and U.S. Trade Liberalization’, International Studies Quarterly 51 (2): 457-80. • D¨ ur, Andreas (2010) Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930-2010 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). • Hiscox, Michael J. (1999) ‘The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization’, International Organization 53 (4): 669-98. • Lusztig, Michael (2004) The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press).
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• Mansfield, Edward D., Helen V. Milner and B. Peter Rosendorff (2002) ‘Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements’, International Organization 56 (3): 477-514. • Milner, Helen V. and Keiko Kubota (2005) ‘Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries’, International Organization 59 (1): 107-143. • Narlikar, Amrita (2006) ‘Fairness in International Trade Negotiations: Developing Countries in the GATT and WTO’, World Economy 29 (8). • Schnietz, Karen E. (2000) ‘The Institutional Foundation of U.S. Trade Policy: Revisiting Explanations for the 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act’, Journal of Policy History 12 (4): 417-44. • Verdier, Daniel (1998) ‘Democratic Convergence and Free Trade?’, International Studies Quarterly 42: 1-24.
Regionalism: • Chase, Kerry A. (2005) Trading Blocs: States, Firms, and Regions in the World Economy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). • Crawford, Jo-Ann and Robert V. Fiorentino (2005) ‘The Changing Landscape of Regional Trading Agreements’, WTO Discussion Paper No. 8. • Duina, Francesco G. (2006) The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR (Princeton: Princeton University Press). • D¨ ur, Andreas (2007) ‘EU Trade Policy as Protection for Exporters: The Agreements with Mexico and Chile’, Journal of Common Market Studies 45 (4): 833?55. • D¨ ur, Andreas, Leonardo Baccini, Manfred Elsig and Karolina Milewicz (2012) ‘The Design of International Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Database’, SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/paper=2141141. • Gruber, Lloyd (2000) Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press). • Mansfield, Edward D. and Helen V. Milner (1999) ‘The New Wave of Regionalism’, International Organization 53 (3): 589-627. • Mattli, Walter (1999) The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). • UNCTAD (2007) Trade and Development Report 2007: Regional Cooperation for Development (Geneva: UNCTAD).
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Development: • Haggard, Stephan (1990) Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). • Krasner, Stephen D. (1985) Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (Berkeley: University of California Press). • Krugman, Paul (1994) ‘The Myth of Asia’s Miracle’, Foreign Affairs 73 (6): 63-79. • Smith, Stephen C. (2006) ‘How to Help the Poor out of Poverty’, The Globalist, 16 May. [available at: http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=5041] • So, Alvin Y. (1990) Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency, and World-System Theories (Newbury Park: Sage). • Stiglitz, Joseph E. and Yusuf Shahid (eds.) (2001) Rethinking the East Asian Miracle (Oxford: Oxford University Press). • Wade, Robert (1990) Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (Princeton: Princeton University Press). • Wade, Robert (1996) ‘Japan, the World Bank, and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective’, New Left Review 217 (May and June). • Wade, Robert (1998) ‘From “Miracle” to “Cronyism”: Explaining the Great Asian Slump’, Cambridge Journal of Economics 22 (6): 693-706. • World Bank (1993) The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Debt: • Eichengreen, Barry (1991) ‘Historical Research in International Lending and Debt’, Journal of Economic Perspectives 5 (2): 149-69. • Easterly, William (2002) ‘How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief’, World Development 30: 1677-96. • International Monetary Fund (2000) ‘The Logic of Debt Relief for the Poorest Countries’ [http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/092300.htm]. • Krueger, Anne O. (1987) ‘Origins of the Developing Countries’ Debt Crisis: 1970 to 1982’, Journal of Development Economics 27: 165-187. • Krugman, Paul (1990) ‘Debt Relief Is Cheap’, Foreign Policy 80 (Fall): 141-52. • Oatley, Thomas (2005) ‘A Political Logic of Foreign Debt Accumulation’, Middlebury College Working Paper Series No. 19.
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• Pettifor, Ann (2003) ‘Resolving International Debt Crises Fairly’, Ethics & International Affairs 17 (2). • Saiegh, Sebastian M. (2005) ‘Do Countries Have a ‘Democratic Advantage’ ? Political Institutions, Multilateral Agencies and Sovereign Borrowing’, Comparative Political Studies 38 (4): 366-387. • Tomz, Michael (2007) Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
Aid: • Alesina, Alberto and David Dollar (2000) ‘Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?’, Journal of Economic Growth 5 (1): 33-63. • Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce and Alastair Smith (2009) ‘A Political Economy of Aid’, International Organization 63 (2): 309-340. • Easterly, William (2009) ‘Can the West Save Africa?’, Journal of Economic Literature 47 (2): 373-44. • Gibson, Clark C. and Anderson (2005) The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid (Oxford: Oxford University Press). • Milner, Helen V. and Dustin H. Tingley (2010) ‘The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Aid: American Legislators and the Domestic Politics of Aid’, Economics & Politics 22 (2): 200-232.
Multinational companies: • Gilpin, Robert (1975) U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (New York: Basic Books). • Jensen, Nathan M. (2006) Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (Princeton: Princeton University Press). • Jensen, Nathan M. (2012) ‘Fiscal Policy and the Firm: Do Low Corporate Tax Rates Attract Multinational Corporations?’, Comparative Political Studies, 45 (8): 10041026. • Desbordes, Rodolphe and Julien Vauday (2007) ‘The Political Influence of Foreign Firms in Developing Countries’, Economics and Politics 19 (3): 421-451. • Pauly, Louis W. and Simon Reich (1997) ‘National Structures and Multinational Corporate Behavior’, International Organization 51 (1). • Stopford, John M. and Susan Strange (1991) Rival States, Rival Firms: Competitition for World Market Shares (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 4
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• Thomas, Kenneth P. (2010) Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital (Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan).
Money and finance: • Abdelal, Rawi (2006) ‘Writing the Rules of Global Finance: France, Europe, and Capital Liberalization’, Review of International Political Economy 13 (1): 1-27. • Bordo, Michael D. and Eichengreen, Barry (eds.) (1993) A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). • Eckes, Alfred E. (1975) A Search for Solvency: Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971 (Austin: University of Texas Press). • Eichengreen, Barry (1992) Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (New York: Oxford University Press). • Eichengreen, Barry (1996) Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Princeton: Princeton University Press). • Eichengreen, Barry (2002) Financial Crises: And What to Do about Them (Oxford: Oxford University Press). • Feldstein, Martin (2002) ‘Argentina’s Fall: Lessons from the Latest Financial Crisis’, Foreign Affairs 81 (2) (March and April). • Gavin, Francis J. (2004) Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). • Haggard, Stephan (2000) The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics). [full text available online] • Helleiner, Eric (1994) States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). • James, Harold (1996) International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods (Oxford: Oxford University Press). • Kindleberger, Charles P. (2005) Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, 5th ed. (New York: John Wiley). • MacIntyre, Andrew (2001) ‘The Politics of the Economic Crisis in South-East Asia’, International Organization 55: 81-122. • Simmons, Beth and Zachary Elkins (2004) ‘The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy’, American Political Science Review 98 (1): 171-189. • Tomz, Michael (2012) ‘International Finance’, in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons (eds) Handbook of International Relations, 2nd edition (London: SAGE). 5
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Exchange rate policy: • Andrews, David M. (ed.) (2008) Orderly Change: International Monetary Relations since Bretton Woods (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). • Broz, J. Lawrence and Jeffry A. Frieden (2006) ‘The Political Economy of Exchange Rates’, in Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 587-97. • Frieden, Jeffry (1997) ‘The Politics of Exchange Rates’, in Sebastian Edwards and Moises Naim (eds.) Mexico 1994: Anatomy of an Emerging Market (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). • Gowa, Joanne (1993) Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). • O’Mahony, Angela (2007) ‘Escaping the Ties That Bind: Exchange Rate Choice Under Central Bank Independence’, Comparative Political Studies 40 (7): 808-31. • Steinberg, David A. and Victor C. Shih (2012) ‘Interest Group Influence in Authoritarian States: The Political Determinants of Chinese Exchange Rate Policy’, Comparative Political Studies.
Globalization • Goldberg, Pinelopi K. and Nina Pavcnik (2007) ‘Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries’, Journal of Economic Literature 45 (1). • International Monetary Fund (2002) ‘Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?’, IMF Issues Brief. [available at: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm] • Jomo, K. S., and Jacques Baudot (eds.) (2007) Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality (Zed Books). • Kim, So Young (2007) ‘Openness, External Risk, and Volatility: Implications for the Compensation Hypothesis’, International Organization 61 (1): 181-216. • Mosley, Layna (2000) ‘Room to Move: International Financial Markets and National Welfare States’, International Organization 54 (4): 737-773. • Rodrik, Dani (1997) Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics). [full text available online, cannot be printed] • Rodrik, Dani (2002) ‘Globalization for Whom?’, Harvard Magazine (July-August). [available at http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070280.html] • Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2002) Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: W. W. Norton).
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• Walter, Stefanie (2010) ‘Globalization and the Welfare State: Testing the Microfoundations of the Compensation Hypothesis’, International Studies Quarterly 54 (2): 403-26. • Wolf, Martin (2004) Why Globalization Works (New Haven: Yale University Press).
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