Theoretical and Positivist Studies on International Political Economy

国际政治经济学是一门新兴学科，它试图分析“政治与经济之间的相互作用”。然而，它并不假设政治或经济中没有一个保持主要优先地位。“经济问题政治化”这几天正在推动形成一门学科。因此，方法必须是复杂的、多原则的和多决定因素的。与传统的国际关系理论不同，我们不仅要关注国家，也要关注非国家行为者，如跨国公司和非政府组织，我们应该重视国际机制和规范在无政府状态下的国家间关系中的作用。新现实主义派生于民族主义传统，在国际关系理论方面做出了杰出的贡献。新现实主义国际关系理论的典型代表--海格曼稳定理论并不是基于只有国家才能掌权的假设，而是试图分析政治和经济之间的相互作用。通过修改国家权力的概念，我们可以期待这一理论的巨大发展。另一方面，自由主义对国际政治教育的发展做出了贡献，产生了国际机制理论和相互依存理论。处于现实主义和自由主义对立面的马克思主义也提出了许多理论，如中心-边缘模型、世界体系理论和新格拉米西主义理论。通过对各种理论的考察，我们可以明确研究的方法论议程，并通过对跨国公司、知识产权、日美贸易摩擦、货币一体化、欧洲产业政策、发展中国家发展战略等问题的实证研究，分析政治与经济之间的互动关系。

International Political Economy is an emerging discipline, which tries to analyze "interactions between politics and economics." It does not, however, suppose none of politics or economics maintains principal priority. "Politicization of economic issues" these days are promoting to form the discipline. In consequence, methodology must be complex, multi-principled, and multi-determinant. In contrast to conventional International Relations theory, we must pay attention not only to states but also to non-state actors such as MNCs and NGOs, and we should think much of functions of international regimes and norms in anarchical inter-state relations.Neorealists, derived from nationalist tradition, have produced outstanding works in IPE.Hegemonic stability theory, a typical example of neorealst theory of IPE, is not based on the assumption that only the state holds power, but tries to analyze interactions between politics and economics. We can expect a great development of such a theory by modifying the concept of state power. On the other hand, liberalism has contributed the development of IPE, producing international regime theory and interdependence theory. Marxism, located in the opposite side of realism and liberalism, has also worked out many theories, such as center-periphery model, world-system theory, arid neo-Gramiscian theory. We could make methodological agenda clear by surveying these variety of theories, and analyzed interactions between politics and economics by doing positive researches on MNCs, intellectual property rights, Japan-US trade friction, currency integration, industrial policy in Europe, development strategy of developing countries, and so on.