The power pillars of the word political economy: introduction - looking beyond the confines, Thomas C. Lawton et al; setting the parameters - a strange world system, Jonathan Story; knowledge and structural power in the international political economy, Lynn K. Mystelka; the evolving global production structure -implications for international political economy, Thomas C. Lawton, Kevin P. Michaels. Global finance and state power: money power - shaping the global financial systems, Amy C. Verdum; money and power in world politics, Benjamin J. Cohen; global money and the decline of state power, Geoffrey R.D. Underbill. Critical perspectives on international relations: criticising US method and thought in international relations - why a trans-Atlantic divide narrows IR's research subject, Bertjan Vereek; theorising the no-man-lands between politics and economics, A. Claire Cutler; ideology, knowledge and power in international relations and international political economy, Roger Tooze. State power and global hegemony: the retreat of the state, Robert Gilpin; strange's oscillating realism - opposing the idea - and the apparent, Stefano Guzzini; still an extraordinary power, but for how much longer? the United Sates in world finance, Eric Helliener; international political economy as a development of realism, Stefano Guzzini; the United States and world trade - hegemony by proxy? Judith Goldstein. Partitioning the global economy: European competitiveness and enlargement - is there anyone in charge? Julie Pellegrin; the dynamics of paralysis -Japan in the global era, Jean-Pierre Lehmann; regional blocks and international relations - economic groupings or political hegemons? Alfred Tovias; strange looks on developing countries - a neglected kaleidoscope of questions, Anna Leander. Emerging agendas: the doubtful handshake from international to comparative political economy? G.P.E. Walzenbach; going beyond states and markets to civil societies? Timothy M. Shaw et al. Conclusions: reflections - blurring the boundaries and shaping the agenda, David C. Earnest et al. Addendum: 50 years of international affairs analysis - an annotated bibliography of Susan Strange's academic publications, Christopher May.