International Cooperation in Economic and Security Affairs
Author(s)
Lipson, Charles
Abstract
In international political economy the question remains as to why convergent expectations characterize some issues but not others. Why do some issues admit of extensive regulation where others do not? Put another way, the problem is to go beyond a reassertion of the distinctive subject matter of international political economy and to construct a theoretically principled account of why significantly different institutional arrangements are associated with international economic and security issues. And answer to this fundamental questions could well lie in the different forms of strategic interaction (including expectations) that typify these two broad issues.
