ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out the major themes in the Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy. It starts by defining the contributions, orientations, differences and complementarity between mainstream IPE and the growing field of GPE. It also explores some core issues in the teaching of IPE as well as major themes in the research of GPE. The central argument of the chapter is that even though mainstream IPE and GPE feature for different ontological and epistemological orientations, they share the common factor. That is the query about who gets what and how in the pursuit of power and wealth in development and conflict as the result of the complex interactions between international–domestic, state–market, global–regional, formal and informal realities in world orders.
