INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY focuses on conflicts and collaborations that occur between nations as each pursues power and wealth through international economic exchange. The authors provide a historical overview of the development of the world economy from 1815 to the present, helping students understand how and why major economic powers rise and fall. This balanced blend of history, theory, and policy makes the book suitable as a main text for International Political Economy courses or as a supplemental text for an Introductory International Relations course.

International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth

Politics & Social Sciences

Skidmore, David

Lairson, Thomas D.

Sociology

Wadsworth Publishing

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY focuses on the dynamics of conflict and cooperation among nations as each pursues power and wealth through international economic exchange. The authors provide a historical and topical overview of the development of the world economy from 1815 to the present, helping students understand how and why major economic powers rise and fall. This balanced blend of history, theory, and policy makes the book suitable as a main text for International Political Economy courses or as a supplemental text for an Introductory International Relations course.

History

This work addresses one of the greatest challenges faced by education in recent years - to adapt teaching practices in order to accommodate children with special needs. This book presents an analysis of these challenges, and reports on the ways in which schools are developing innovatory responses to them. It focuses on population, curriculum, role and expertise, and organization and change. It also re-evaluates the Warnock report, and looks at the history of integration of special needs pupils into mainstream schools.

New Directions in Special Needs: Innovations in Mainstream Schools (Special Needs in Ordinary Schools)

Clark, Catherine

Dyson, Alan

Millward, Alan

UNKNO

This work addresses one of the greatest challenges faced by education in recent years - to adapt teaching practices in order to accommodate children with special needs. This book presents an analysis of these challenges, and reports on the ways in which schools are developing innovatory responses to them. It then studies the implications of these for schools, in terms of classroom practice, professional development and the relationship of the school with its environment. It also looks at the history of the integration of special needs pupils into mainstream schools.

New Directions in Special Needs: Innovation in Mainstream Schools (Special Needs in Ordinary Schools)

Inclusion is a buzzword in educational discussion. This book bridges the gap between theoretical discussions and the real attitudes and experiences of teachers and parents. For all teachers, student teachers, and education policy makers.

Inclusion

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Open University Press

Inclusion has been adopted as a policy goal in many countries. It is one of the buzzwords in education and a topic of much theoretical debate, often without allowing for real life in today’s schools. Bridging the gap between theoretical discussions and the real attitudes and experiences of teachers, this book: Features case studies of inclusion initiatives in English secondary schools Illustrates the complex nature of the school development process Describes teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion Challenges the idea that there needs to be consensus among school staff for inclusion to work.  Inclusion: The Dynamic of School Development also examines the dominant influence of the discourse of deviance on the history of education policy in the West during the twentieth century. The book concludes by articulating an alternative vision of the relationship between education and society for education policy, pedagogy and the curriculum.

Inclusion (Inclusive Education)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth in a Globalizing World

This text offers a rethinking of the field of international political economy in an era of growing but uneven globalization. Even as global integration advances, states play central roles as partners with the largest of global firms, as the catalysts of competitiveness and economic growth, as the creators of global institutions, and in promoting and responding to global interdependence. Indeed, the struggle for power and wealth within and among states underscores the primacy of politics in understanding current realities. At the same time, new issues and actors complicate the global agenda as it expands to address the environment, global health, and food security. By offering a clear explanation of basic concepts, contextualizing the presentation of theoretical debates, and placing current events in historical context, International Political Economy ensures students a deep understanding of how the global economy works and the ways in which globalization affects their lives and those of people around the world. Key Content and Features <ul>
<li>Engages debates over the reach and significance of globalization.</li> <li>Examines the sources and consequences of global financial instability.</li> <li>Explores the origins and consequences of global inequality.</li> <li>Compares various strategies of development and state roles in competitiveness.</li> <li>Discusses the role of key international economic institutions.</li> <li>Considers the impact of the rise of China on the global economy and the potential for war and peace.</li> <li>Illustrates collective efforts to fight hunger, disease, and environmental threats.</li> </ul>
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<li>Includes numerous graphs and illustrations throughout and end of chapter discussion questions.</li> <li>Links key concepts for each chapter to a glossary at the end of the book.</li> <li>Provides a list of acronyms at the outset and annotated further readings at the end of each chapter. </li> <li>Offers additional resources on a web site related to the text, including a list of links to IPE-related web pages.</li>
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International Political Economy

Reference

Routledge

The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy (Foreign Policy Analysis)

The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration? What then of the disengagement evident earlier during Clinton’s presidency, or its continuation under Obama? Was the U.S. investment in multilateral institutions following World War II an anomaly? Or is the more recent retreat from international institutions the irregularity? Skidmore traces U.S. unilateralism to the structural effects of the end of the Cold War, both domestically and abroad, to argue that the United States was more hegemonic than multilateralist―a rule-maker, not a rule-taker. An "institutional bargain" existed under the Cold War threat from the Soviets, but absent those imperatives the United States has been less willing to provide collective goods through strong international institutions and other states are less willing to defer to U.S. exemptions. On the home front, the post-Cold War political environment has made it more difficult for presidents to resist the appeals of powerful interests who are threatened by multilateral commitments. This book demonstrates that American unilateralism has deeper roots and more resilience than many expect. The unilateral temptation can only be overcome through new political bargains domestically and internationally that permit multilateral engagement, even the absence of great power rivalry.

Politics & Government

The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration? What then of the disengagement evident earlier during Clinton’s presidency, or its continuation under Obama? Was the U.S. investment in multilateral institutions following World War II an anomaly? Or is the more recent retreat from international institutions the irregularity?  Skidmore traces U.S. unilateralism to the structural effects of the end of the Cold War, both domestically and abroad, to argue that the United States was more hegemonic than multilateralist―a rule-maker, not a rule-taker. An "institutional bargain" existed under the Cold War threat from the Soviets, but absent those imperatives the United States has been less willing to provide collective goods through strong international institutions and other states are less willing to defer to U.S. exemptions. On the home front, the post-Cold War political environment has made it more difficult for presidents to resist the appeals of powerful interests who are threatened by multilateral commitments.   This book demonstrates that American unilateralism has deeper roots and more resilience than many expect. The unilateral temptation can only be overcome through new political bargains domestically and internationally that permit multilateral engagement, even the absence of great power rivalry.

Reversing Course: Carter's Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Failure of Reform

An examination of the several reasons for the failure of foreign policy reform during the controversial administration of President Jimmy Carter. In Reversing Course, David Skidmore argues that President Carter's initial foreign policy agenda required a scaling back of U.S. commitments abroad, reflecting a decline in resources, as well as influence, in a world developing in ways necessarily reducing U.S. hegemony. By probing beneath the obvious and carefully sifting the abundant but poorly understood evidence, Skidmore finds at the root of Carter's failed effort an irresistible pressure to reverse a liberal foreign-policy agenda in order to address the effect at home of well-organized conservative criticism. For Skidmore, Carter's course "reversed" toward a traditional containment strategy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union not because of Soviet intransigence or faulty idealism but because Cold War politics sold better in the polls. While offering significant theoretical arguments, Skidmore carefully anchors his thesis in the day-to-day political give and take among those personalities and events that provoked headlines and commentaries long before they were the stuff of history. Among the telling factors and events analyzed in this book are the Vance/Brzezinski conflict, the support and opposition of Howard Baker, the SALT II Treaty, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, to mention only a few. Although Skidmore draws conclusions that apply to the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations as well, his focus is not on personality but on theory and underlying structures. He provides a demonstration that this structural approach can "be helpful not only in unraveling the mysteries of policy change under Carter but also in specifying the underlying sources of policy vacillation over much of the past two decades." .

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Vanderbilt University Press

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International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth

International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth

New Directions in Special Needs: Innovations in Mainstream Schools (Special Needs in Ordinary Schools)

New Directions in Special Needs: Innovation in Mainstream Schools (Special Needs in Ordinary Schools)

Inclusion

Inclusion (Inclusive Education)

International Political Economy

The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy (Foreign Policy Analysis)

The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy (Foreign Policy Analysis)

Reversing Course: Carter's Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Failure of Reform