The course covers key themes and issues in international political economy (IPE) by zooming into the complex interactions between the state, the market, domestic actors, and global players at multiple layers. The goals of the course are to highlight and demonstrate the importance of IPE, equip students with relevant theoretical perspectives and analytic frameworks in the study of IPE, elaborate main scholarly discussions in the field -both in theory and empirics, and help students to undertake their own research in IPE by encouraging them to raise puzzling and timely research questions.

The course introduces the theoretical background that is necessary to understand and investigate international political economy (IPE). Each thematic session turns a keen eye on one major issue in IPE including international production and trade structure, global financial system, state-market interaction and development, foreign direct investment, 2018 global economic crisis, international aid, rising powers, and everyday IPE