All at sea in a barbed wire canoe: Professor Cohen's transatlantic voyage in IPE

The following article is written as a sympathetic critique of Benjamin Cohen's recent identification in RIPE of incommensurable traditions of American and British IPE. It is also designed to engender further debate within the subject field on this most central of issues. Our argument is that sc...

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Published in:Review of international political economy : RIPE 2008-02, Vol.15 (1), p.1-17
Main Authors: Higgott, Richard, Watson, Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Disciplines
Canoes
Cohen, Benjamin (professor)
Criticism
Economic competition
Epistemology
Globalization
Great Britain
International political economy
International relations
IPE as hosting metaphor
methodological competition
Neoclassical economics
New political economy
phenomenal world
Political debate
Political Economy
Political philosophy
Traditions of IPE Revisited
Transatlantic divide
United States of America
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Summary:The following article is written as a sympathetic critique of Benjamin Cohen's recent identification in RIPE of incommensurable traditions of American and British IPE. It is also designed to engender further debate within the subject field on this most central of issues. Our argument is that scholars should beware the rigid terms in which Cohen identifies IPE's transatlantic divide, because simply by naming his two camps as polar opposites the invitation is open to others to entrench such an opposition in their own work. This would be regrettable enough had IPE already lapsed into the geographical division that Cohen describes. It is made more regrettable still by the fact that this is in any case an inaccurate account of the field which serves to marginalise much of the work that is currently at its cutting edge.
ISSN:0969-2290
1466-4526
DOI:10.1080/09692290701751241