Foundations & Frontiers in International Political Economy

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Welcome to the home page of the Foundations of International Political Economy project. 

We publish blogs and podcast (audio and video) interviews with foundational thinkers in International Political Economy to maintain a record of the construction of the discipline and provide insights on the foundation and early debates that go beyond those accessible through existing published literature.

The project started as a British Academy/Leverhulme funded project focussing on the construction of International Political Economy as an academic discipline. The website is the main repository for our digital talking histories archive.

The discipline of International Political Economy is usually thought to have originated in the early 1970s as a departure from International Relations and Economics as neither discipline was able to fully comprehend key changes in the global economy, such as the break from Dollar-Gold convertibility and the end of the Bretton Woods system. Scholars who were part of in the vanguard of the new discipline in the 1970s and 80s are now reaching the end of their careers, are in retirement or in some cases have already passed away.

We hope that it will be of use to both academic researchers in International Political Economy and as an open educational resource.