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The field of International Political Economy (IPE) has rapidly developed into a central pillar in the study of International Relations, and its interdisciplinary roots make it a rich and productive area of scholarly interest. This Oxford Handbook analyses and evaluates the state of the art in IPE research. Bringing together leading experts from a wide geographical and theoretical spectrum, the Handbook provides accessible and comprehensive surveys on topics central to the study of International Political Economy. As IPE scholarship evolves to explore global events such as financial crises and trade wars, examining how politics is both a cause and a consequence of economics, it highlights the practical and problem-driven nature of the field. The Handbook considers the purported European-North American divide and the impact of the surrounding debate on the approach taken to the field. The chapters review the scholarly literature, outline future research opportunities, and consider the ways in which world events have contributed to new research in the field. The Handbook covers both the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field as well as substantive topics within it, including regulation, foreign aid, migration, NGOs, capital, political–military relations, and many others. Introduction / Jon C. W. Pevehouse and Leonard Seabrooke PART I. THE FIELD OF IPE Modern IPE: Lessons from a Counter-History / Randall Germain The Welcome Return of Political Economy to International Political Economy Scholarship: States, Markets, and Governance / Geoffrey R. D. Underhill Foreign Economic Policy / David H. Bearce Open Economy Politics Revisited / Stephanie J. Rickard Feminism / Georgina Waylen Racism and Paternalism / J. P. Singh Historical Materialism / Angela Wigger PART II. METHODS Formal Models of International Political Economy: Looking Back and Moving Forward / Leslie Johns Experiments in IPE Research / Gabriele Spilker Networks in International Political Economy / William Kindred Winecoff and Kevin L. Young Content Analysis in International Political Economy / Cornel Ban Process Tracing and International Political Economy / Jeffrey T. Checkel Historical International Political Economy / James Ashley Morrison PART III. PROCESSES Diffusion Processes in International Political Economy / Brian Greenhill Economic Coercion / Elena V. McLean Policy Transfer / Timothy Legrand and Diane Stone Regulation / Cyril Benoît and Matthias Thiemann Accumulation / David Bailey PART IV. FORUMS Intergovernmental Organizations / André Broome Informality in International Political Economy / Felicity Vabulas International Financial Institutions: Forms, Functions, and Controversies / Alexandros E. Kentikelenis and Sarah L. Babb From Silos to Barns? Regional Institutions in International Political Economy / Etel Solingen The Economics and Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements / Leonardo Baccini Corporate Networks / Milan Babic, Jan Fichtner, and Eelke Heemskerk PART V. FLOWS Money / Mark Copelovitch and James Anderson Trade / Elisabeth van Lieshout Foreign Direct Investment / Rachel L. Wellhausen Work and Workers in International Markets / John S. Ahlquist Migration and IPE: A Story of Mutual Neglect? / Georg Menz Foreign Aid / Sarah Blodgett Bermeo PART VI. ACTORS The Evolving State of the State in International Political Economy / Heather Ba The Firm / Glenn Morgan Interest Groups and Order in Global Economic Relations / Iain Osgood Households / Genevieve LeBaron and Liam Stanley Non-Governmental Organizations / Elizabeth Bloodgood PART VII. OUTCOMES Liberalization / Timm Betz and Amy Pond The Investment Treaty Regime / Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen International Trade and Conflict / Edward D. Mansfield Financial Systems / Lucia Quaglia Development Policy / Seung-Uk Huh and Matthew S. Winters Informal Markets / Anja P. Jakobi Climate Crisis / Erin R. Graham Sexual Injustice / Ellie Gore and Nicola J. Smith PART VIII. ASSETS AND RESOURCES Oil and Gas / Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter Knowledge / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn Territory / Jordan Branch and Timothy Turnbull The Many Meanings of Capital in IPE / Dick Bryan, Michael Rafferty, and Duncan Wigan Index