<strong>The Emergence of the Global Political Economy</strong> challenges the assumption thatthe international political economy is a recent phenomenon. Instead... » 

The Emergence of the Global Political Economy challenges the assumption thatthe international political economy is a recent phenomenon. Instead this volumeasserts that the current global political economy began to take shape around1500 and that some of todays key processes were already perceivable severalhundred years ago.The book explains the interdependence between longterm economic growth globalpolitical leadership and global war and how this interdependence has evolvedover the last 500 years and includes discussion ofthe ascendence of Western Europe and the significance of the 1490sthe military superiority thesissequences of leadership and of challenge to the global political economythe importance of commodities from sugar and cloth to slaves and bullionthe AngloAmerican rivalry until the First World War. «