International Political Economy. University of Southampton

International political economy is one of the most important and fastest expanding sub-disciplines in the fields of political science and international relations, due to the increasing recognition among students and researchers across the social sciences that political and economic issues are analytically inseparable.

The increasingly global nature of political relations is typically underscored by equally global economic relations in trade, finance and migration, concern about which is reflected in questions about shifting loci of global authority from 'west' (eg Europe and the USA) to 'east' (eg China and India) and ongoing relationships between the global rich and the global poor.