Benjamin J. Cohen, Advanced introduction to international policy economy, Elgar 2014, pp. 151

Abstract

In 1970, on the pages of “International Affairs”, the economist from the think tank Chathman House, Susan Strange, published an article entitled International economics and international relations: A case of mutual neglect. Her reflections concerned the lack of interlinkage of research on the international economic system and the international political system. She criticized the too-low contribution of economists to researching international relations, and even accused them of “political naivety”. Strange used an example from European studies and explained that internationology should draw on theoretical investigations on international economic relations. She stressed the need for interdisciplinary scientific meetings and supported the activities of economists within the Chatham House. When in 2014 Benjamin J. Cohen published Advanced introduction to international policy economy, he announced that Strange’s appeal to construct bridges between international relations and international economic relations met with understanding of researchers. In the twenty-first century, there is a series of interactions between international economic relations and international political relations, and we can observe the interpenetration of both disciplines. $e goal of the last (so far) of many books by Cohen, professor at the University of California, was a “tour d’horizon” by international economic relations to show the state of scientific discipline in various areas of the globe. Cohen reminded that in an earlier monograph, i.e. International political economy: An intellectual history, he undertook research on international economic relations in selected Anglo-Saxon countries, such as the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. $e professor’s ambition was to broad-