This title was first published in 2000: Focusing on the contribution of Susan Strange to the study of international political economy, this collection forms a unique perspective on the global economy whilst providing tools for the reader to better understand that economic system.

I: The Power Pillars of the World Political Economy; 1: Introduction: Looking Beyond the Confines; 2: Setting the Parameters: A Strange World System; 3: Knowledge and Structural Power in the International Political Economy; 4: The Evolving Global Production Structure: Implications for International Political Economy; II: Global Finance and State Power; 5: Money Power: Shaping the Global Financial System; 6: Money and Power in World Politics; 7: Global Money and the Decline of State Power; III: Critical Perspectives on International Relations; 8: Criticizing US Method and Thought in International Relations: Why a Trans-Atlantic Divide Narrows IR’s Research Subject; 9: Theorizing the ‘No-Man’s-Land’ Between Politics and Economics; 10: Ideology, Knowledge and Power in International Relations and International Political Economy; IV: State Power and Global Hegemony; 11: The Retreat of the State?; 12: Strange’s Oscillating Realism: Opposing the Ideal – and the Apparent; 13: Still an Extraordinary Power, but for how much Longer? The United States in World Finance; 14: United States and World Trade: Hegemony by Proxy?; V: Partitioning the Global Economy; 15: European Competitiveness and Enlargement: Is There Anyone in Charge?; 16: The Dynamics of Paralysis: Japan in the Global Era; 17: Regional Blocks and International Relations: Economic Groupings or Political Hegemons?; 18: Strange Looks on Developing Countries: A Neglected Kaleidoscope of Questions; VI: Emerging Agendas; 19: The Doubtful Handshake: From International to Comparative Political Economy?; 20: Going Beyond States and Markets to Civil Societies?; VII: Conclusions; 21: Reflections: Blurring the Boundaries and Shaping the Agenda; Addendum: Fifty Years of International Affairs Analysis: An Annotated Bibliography of Susan Strange’s Academic Publications