Global Political Economy in the Information Age

The study of Global Political Economy has been radically transformed over recent years by the effects of globalization in the information age. Previous models such as the classic states/markets conceptualization of international political economy are no longer adequate to explain the complex dynamics of the twenty-first century. This book draws on the latest critical thinking within GPE, international relations and communications to examine the following issues: how the development of information and communication technologies and the Internet are challenging our established understanding of the boundaries of the nation state the importance of critical perspectives such as feminism, and the work of Gramsci and Foucault to our understanding of the information age how existing notions of time/space and nations states/borders have been profoundly altered the continuing problems of inequality within the global economy and how best to address this. Global Political Economy in the Information Age is an essential text for scholars and students of international political economy, feminism, critical theory and international relations.