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，它并没有假设政治或经济都不保持首要优先权。“经济问题政治化”目前正在推动形成一门学科。因此，方法论必须是复杂的、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，而且要关注跨国公司和非政府组织等非国家行为体，我们应该重视国际制度和规范在无政府状态下的国家间关系中的作用。衍生于民族主义传统的新现实主义者在国际政治经济学中产生了杰出的作品。霸权稳定理论是国际政治经济学新现实主义理论的典型代表，它不是建立在只有国家掌握权力的假设基础上，而是试图分析政治与经济之间的相互作用。我们可以通过修改国家权力的概念来期待这一理论的大发展。另一方面，自由主义促进了国际政治经济学的发展，产生了国际制度理论和相互依存理论。马克思主义站在现实主义和自由主义的对立面，也提出了许多理论，如中心-边缘模型、世界体系理论、新格拉米西亚理论等。我们可以通过考察这些不同的理论来明确方法论议程，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方面的实证研究来分析政治与经济的相互作用。

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.