Amidst the continued debate surrounding the foundations of IPE, coupled with recent methodological and theoretical divides this book argues that an attempt should be made to re-visit the notion of the 'critical'. The challenge posed by contributors to this volume is to assess the development of so-called critical IPE and interrogate whether the theoretical foundations it was built upon have reached their potential. The essays in this volume take up this challenge in a number of different ways but all share a common concern - to re-assess the purpose of critical approaches, reflect on why certain social theorists have been favoured as a point of departure, yet others have largely been ignored. In light of recent debates on the notion of a 'trans-Atlantic divide' within IPE the collection the contributors aim demonstrates how the distinction between the 'critical' and the 'orthodox' (or 'empirical') is only significant if the 'critical' is geared towards a larger, more substantial body of critical social enquiry and engages with what it means to conduct such enquiry.
Introduction: 'Critical' and 'International Political Economy'; S.Shields, I.Bruff & H.Macartney
PART I: DIALOGUE
Missing Voices: Critical IPE, Disciplinary History and H.N. Brailsford's Analysis of the Capitalist International Anarchy; L.M.Ashworth
Space, the latest frontier? A scalar-relational approach to critical IPE; H.Macartney & S.Shields
Poststructuralism in/and IPE; P.Griffin
PART II: DEBATE
New Marxism and the Problem of Subjectivity: Towards a Critical and Historical International Political Economy; R.Germain
Overcoming the State/Market Dichotomy; I.Bruff
Critical Feminist Scholarship and IPE; J.Elias
PART III: DISSENSUS
Reclaiming Critical IPE from the 'British' School; O.Worth
'What's Critical about Critical Theory?' Feminist Materialism, Intersectionality and the Social Totality of the Frankfurt School; A.Fischer & D.Tepe
Knowledge versus Power in the Field of IPE; P.Cammack
Conclusion: IPE and the International Political Economy? IPE or the International Political Economy?; S.Shields, I.Bruff & H.Macartney
