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- Title
The Space of International Political Economy: On Scale and its Limits.
- Authors
Charnock, Greig
- Abstract
This article introduces the contribution made by scholars writing on the ‘new political economy of scale’. It explains how this approach shares with neo-Gramscian approaches a concern with challenging the problematic assumptions of much international political economy theorising. Moreover, if the achievement of scholars such as Robert Cox has been to show how social forces shape and reshape world orders over time, then the new political economy of scale also reveals how social forces do not simply operate within and across national state space, but also politicise space itself. The final part of the article reviews two sets of criticisms of the approach and concludes that, while it has been significant in challenging IPE scholars to reflect upon their spatial assumptions, its status as a critical alternative may well be compromised by its own foundational tenets.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL relations; ECONOMIES of scale; DISECONOMIES of scale; RETURNS to scale; INTERNATIONAL cooperation; COX, Robert W.; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Politics, 2010, Vol 30, Issue 2, p79
- ISSN
0263-3957
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9256.2010.01370.x