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NASCITA ED ISTITUZIONALIZZAZIONE DI UNA NUOVA DISCIPLINA. IL CASO DELL'INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (IPE)1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2018
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Questo articolo si propone tre finalità. La prima e la più importante è presentare l'«evoluzione teorica» dell'Ipe, per usare un'espressione di Crane e Amawi (1997) che non implica un processo lineare e continuo. Inizialmente ispirato a Realismo, Liberalismo e Marxismo nelle Relazioni Internazionali, il dibattito ha via via acquistato caratteristiche proprie e si è collegato alle discussioni contemporanee sulle scienze sociali.
Summary
This article traces the formation of a new discipline – International Political Economy (Ipe) – both in terms of concepts and theoretical debates, and of the social process of its institutionalisation, as shown by journals, textbooks, course offerings, and Internet websites. The article is divided into three parts. In the first, some well- known definitions of Ipe are presented, and different types of theory are illustrated. Special attention is given to the definition of Robert Gilpin because of the importance of his work and the evolution of his thinking about Ipe. In the second, the thirty-year life of IPE is analysed to identify the most important events leading to the creation of a new field of social research: the organization of conferences in the early seventies; the publication of important books written by unorthodox economists like Kindleberger and Hirschman, and theoretical debates. The work of R.W. Cox, which is related to the «Gramscian turn» in International Relations, is a particular focus of attention. Finally, the consequences of the «Fourth Debate» on Positivism in International Relations are considered in terms of the connection of Ipe with Constructivism, historical sociology and the «cultural turn» in the social sciences. The third part shows how the debate on Ipe has moved from being fully internal to (American) Political Science, to include general concerns about the social sciences at the beginning of the XXI century. An extensive bibliography follows.
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- Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , December 2002 , pp. 493 - 551
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- Copyright © 2002 by Società editrice il Mulino, Bologna