Chapter 13 Further Resources

International Political Economy

Web Links

  • Bank for International Settlements (www.bis.org); International Monetary Fund (www.imf.org); World Trade Organization (www.wto.org). Websites for the BIS, IMF and WTO, all discussed in detail in this chapter.
  • Canadian International Development Agency (www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index.htm). Home page for the Canadian agency responsible for coordinating development assistance.
  • Multinational Monitor (www.multinationalmonitor.org). Organization that scrutinizes activities of MNCs globally, often with a critical view.

Podcasts

  • “The 2008 Financial Crisis Ten Years Later with Adam Tooze”, Council on Foreign Relations, September 6, 2018. https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/2008-financial-crisis-ten-years-later-adam-tooze

    In this podcast episode Adam Tooze, the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of history at Columbia University and Director of the European Institute, discusses how the 2008 financial crisis affected the world.
  • “Protectionism in the USA”, BBC, October 29, 2018. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p042nqbf

    This episode explores America’s long history of resistance to free trade and how Republicans and Democrats favor Protectionist policies for different reasons.

Further Readings

  • Balaam, David N., & Bradford Dillman (2018). Introduction to International Political Economy (7th ed.) Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  • Cohn, Theodore H. (2016). Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice (7th ed.). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  • Haslam, Paul, Jessica Schafer, & Pierre Beaudet (2017). Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues (3rd ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • Hülsemeyer, Axel (2010). International Political Economy: A Reader. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • Keohane, Robert O., & Joseph Nye (1989). Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition. Cambridge: HarperCollins.
  • Santiso, Javier, & Jeff Dayton-Johnson (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Yergin, Daniel, & Joseph Stainslaw (2002). The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. New York: Simon & Schuster.
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