Includes references and index.

Contents : Part I : Theoretical approaches to global political economy : The study of global political economy -- The nineteenth-century roots of theoretical traditions in global political economy -- Cooperation and conflict in the global political economy -- The domestic sources of foreign economic policies -- Part II : Global trade and production : The evolution of the global trade regime -- Regional trade agreements -- The globalization of production -- Part III : The evolution of the international monetary and financial system -- Financial operations and the challenge of global governance -- Part IV : Globalization and the state : The logics of economic globalization -- Globalization's impact on states -- Part V : Development, equity, and the environment : Global growth, inequality, and poverty : power and evidence in global 'best practice' economic policy -- The political economy of the environment.