Understanding GPE

Question 1

What are the primary characteristics of our current stage of capitalism?

Answer 1

Transnational mode of production, transnational mobility of capital and the emergence of a transnational capitalist class.

Question 2

How is GPE generally differentiated from IPE?

Answer 2

GPA = intersection of history, philosophy, economy and politics (the object of study)

IPE = the theoretical tools of inquiry.

Question 3

How did GPE emerge?

Answer 3

One view is the socio-political and economic changes in the 1970s. Hettne’s view - the transnationalisation of pol economy compelled a reframing of theoretical frameworks to accommodate to the globalised structure.

Question 4

In GPE, is either the state or economics the primary lens of inquiry?

Answer 4

No, as Hettne states, they continuously interact with each other thereby rendering it counterproductive to emphasising one without analysing the other.

Question 5

According to Hettne, what sparks methological rethinking?

Answer 5

Turbulence and disability.

Question 6

What will a post-Westphalian and post-hegemonic world order look like?

Answer 6

Interdependence due to multilateralism, the consolidation of international regimes, megamarkets, regionalisation or economic nationalism/mercantilism?
Who the fuck knows