State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy

The first text to fully integrate economic principles with political analysis, State Power and World Markets provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the international political economy.

Professors Grieco and Ikenberry focus on the dynamic, reciprocal relationships between states and world markets, articulating the ways in which their interactions shape the world economy today.  Intellectually challenging yet perfectly pitched to the undergraduate student, written by experts in the field, and combining the best of current political and economic theory, State Power and World Markets will enrich and further focus the undergraduate study of international relations.

Joseph M. Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University, where his teaching and research center on theories of international relations, issues of international political economy, and problems of international conflict.  He is the author of Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Between Dependency and Autonomy: India’s Experience with the International Computer Industry.


G. John Ikenberry is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University. A specialist in the areas of international political economy, international relations, and American foreign policy, he is the author most recently of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars and editor of America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power.