Robert Gilpin (1930–2018)

A solid textbook introduction to the three major schools of IPE thought. A decent introduction the issues in IPE in few decades up to the time of writing. A wonderful demonstration of how a smart person can be so wrong. The predictions in the book are wildly off. The economic analysis has all the insight of a NYT article, from which most of it comes. Reading it now is a useful antidote to the silly armchair predictions that come out of establishment thinkers, who all read the NYT and The show more Economist and then just parrot what other establishment-types are saying. show less

The nature of international political change, Stability and change, Growth and expansion