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PRE FACE
a significant contribution to our understanding of the political econ-
omy of internationalrelations. Thus, both realworld and theoretical
developments have set the stage for this book’s interpretation of
global political economy.
At one point in my work on this book, I intended it to be a second
edition of my 1987 book. However, I eventually realized that the
political, economic, and theoretical changes mentioned above, as well
as changes in my own thinking about internationalpoliticaleconomy,
warranted a wholly new book on the subject. This book should be
considered a complement to my recent book, The Challenge of
Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century (2000). 5
Whereas the latter book is primarily an analysis and discussion of
the post–Cold War international economy, the present work is more
theoretical and focuses more directly on IPE. The overlap of the two
books is modest and is confined mainly to a few chapters dealing
with policy areas such as trade and money.
In preparing this book, I have benefited greatly from the support
and assistance of many institutions and individuals. My most impor-
tant debt is to the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center of Interna-
tionalStudies of Princeton University for their financialand other
support. The Abe Fellowship Program, funded principally by the Ja-
pan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, also generously sup-
ported my research. I also wish to thank the John Sloan Dickey Cen-
ter for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and its
director, Michael Mastanduno, for providing me with an intellectual
home during the winter term 1998. Specialthanks are due to Joanne
Gowa, Robert Keohane, and Atul Kohli, who gave me excellent com-
ments on an early version of the manuscript. Seminars sponsored by
the Dickey Center, the Department of Political Science of MIT, the
Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont, the
CentralEuropean University (Budapest), and the Department of Polit-
ical Science at Boston College enabled me to receive outstanding criti-
cisms of my ideas. Specialthanks are due to Charles Myers of Princeton
University Press, especially for his patience with missed deadlines and
other trying experiences with the author as he shepherded this book
through the Press and also to Joan Hunter for her expert and conscien-
tious copyediting of this book. Last, but not least, special thanks are
due to my wife, Jean. In search of errors, duplications, and improved
clarity, she and I have read aloud the text more times than I care to
remember. Such a practice is a strain on a marriage, but hopefully it
improves the quality of the book.
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The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
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