Routledge
Power in a Changing World Economy: Lessons from East Asia
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- Benjamin J Cohen
- Routledge
- Paperback
- 9780415856225
- 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.7 inches
- 0.7 pounds
- Political Science > Political Economy
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This book is about power in a changing world economy. Though power is ubiquitous in the study of International Political Economy, the concept is underdeveloped in formal theoretical terms. This collection of essays analyses recent experience in East Asia to advance our theoretic understanding of state power in IPE. Over the last quarter century, no other region of the world has had a greater impact on the global distribution of economic resources and capabilities. China, with its peaceful rise, now stands as the second largest national economy on the face of the earth; South Korea and Taiwan have become industrial powerhouses; Hong Kong and Singapore are among the world's most important financial centres; and new poles of growth have emerged in several southeast Asian countries - all while Japan, long the region's dominant market, has slipped into seemingly irreversible decline. The volume's nine essays, contributed by leading scholars in the United States, Britain and Taiwan, aim to extract relevant inferences and insights from these developments for the study of state power. All are framed by a core agenda encompassing four key clusters of questions concerning the meaning, sources, uses, and limits of power. These essays ask: What new lessons are offered for power analysis in International Political Economy?
Author Bio
Professor Cohen, a specialist in international political economy, joined the department in 1991. He previously taught at Princeton University from 1964-1971 and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University from 1971-1991. He retired from UCSB in 2021.
His publications have addressed issues of international monetary relations, U.S. foreign economic policy, currency integration, sovereign debt, theories of economic imperialism, and the history of the discipline of international political economy. He is the author of sixteen books. His newest book, Currency Statecraft: Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019.
Research Interests
- International Relations, International Political Economy
- Ph.D., Columbia University, 1963
- Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy (1991-2021)
Source: UC Santa Barbara Department of Political Science
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