International political economy : debating the past, present, and future / edited by Nicola Phillips and Catherine E. Weaver.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The American school of IPE / Daniel Maliniak and Michael J. Tierney -- The old IPE and the new / Robert O. Keohane -- Trips across the Atlantic : theory and epistemology in IPE / David A. Lake -- Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy / Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore -- Of intellectual monocultures and the study of IPE / Kathleen R. McNamara -- The slow death of pluralism / Nicola Phillips -- The "American school" of IPE? : a dissenting view / Randall Germain -- Beware what you wish for : lessons for international political economy from the transformation of economics / Robert Wade -- Mid-Atlantic : sitting on the knife's sharp edge / Peter J. Katzenstein -- The "British school" in the global context / Robert Cox -- Torn between two lovers? : caught in the middle of British and American IPE / Mark Blyth -- IPE's split brain / Catherine Weaver -- Political economy, the "US school", and the manifest destiny of everyone else / Geoffrey R.D. Underhill -- Do the left-out matter? / Craig N. Murphy -- Pluralist IPE : a view from outside the "schools" / Helge Hveem -- Division and dialogue in Anglo-American IPE : a reluctant Canadian view / Eric Helleiner -- The proof of the pudding is in the eating : IPE in light of the current crisis of 2007/8 / Ronen Palan -- Mantras, bridges, and benchmarks : assessing the future of IPE / Jason Sharman -- The second crisis in IPE theory / Jonathan Kirshner -- The gift of skepticism and the hopeful future of IPE / Louis Pauly -- The richness and diversity of critical IPE perspectives : moving beyond the debate on the "British school" / Ian Bruff, Magnus Ryner, and Bastiaan van Appeldoorn -- The global financial crisis : lessons and opportunities for international political economy / Layna Mosley and David Singer -- Toward a new consensus : from denial to acceptance / Benjamin J. Cohen.

The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions. Prompted by recent commentaries on the existence of a {u2018}transatlantic divide{u2019} in IPE between an {u2018}American school{u2019} and a {u2018}British school{u2019}, the essays provide a wide-ranging discussion of whether it is useful to think of the field in these terms, what the {u2018}American{u2019} and {u2018}British{u2019} schools look like, what their achievements and shortcomings are, and what are the desirable future directions for IPE scholarship. The diverse responses to these questions reflect the ongoing vibrancy and diversity of the field of IPE, and open up an imaginative and engaging discussion about where we need to go from here. Featuring contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Canada and the UK, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy.