Bridging Multiple Divides in the IPE Journals
Panel Type: Roundtable • Panel Number: FB03
International Studies Association (ISA) Convention • San Francisco, Calif.
Friday, March 28, 2008 • 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

PANEL ABSTRACT

The theme of the 2008 International Studies Association annual convention is "Bridging Multiple Divides". Research in international political economy is diverse; IPE scholars tackle their research questions from a wide variety of ontological, epistemological and methodological perspectives. IPE journals - the core places where IPE research appears - reflect these multiple divides.

Some journals encourage quantitative work that searches for general patterns across large groups of similar phenomena; others foster rich, detailed case-based analysis. Some journals encourage activist approaches to scholarship; others are purely academic. Disciplinary boundaries artificially separate scholars, despite their overlapping substantive interests; for example, IPE scholars studying MNC-state relations seldom submit their research to international business journals. How can we bridge these artificial barriers between scholarly communities?

In this panel, editors of several major journals in international political economy come together to discuss the multiple divides that separate their journals. By highlighting the differing aims and scopes of these journals, we hope to clarify and bridge the divides between them, exploring ways that scholarly journals can facilitate synergies between disciplines, subfields, theories and methods. The session provides an opportunity for IPE (and all IR) scholars to meet the editors of the leading IPE journals and discuss future directions in IPE scholarship.

Seven IPE journal editors will participate in this session, representing the major locations where IPE scholars publish their work: Global Governance, International Organization, International Political Economy Yearbook, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of International Business Studies, New Political Economy and Review of International Political Economy.

CHAIR

Robert Denemark (University of Delaware) – General Editor - International Studies Compendium (ISA Compendium)

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANTS

Global Governance (GG) – Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick)

International Organization (IO) - Louis W. Pauly (University of Toronto)

International Political Economy Yearbook (IPE-YRBK) – Robert Denemark (University of Delaware)
 
International Studies Quarterly (ISQ) - Steven Poe (University of North Texas)

Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) - Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M University)

New Political Economy (NPE) - Tom J. Payne (University of Sheffield)
 
Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) – Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School)

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