Introduction: Putting geopolitical economy to work. Part I: The international monetary system: the inherent instability of national monetary power in the 21st Century: The Triffin dilemma revisited / Juan Barredo-Zuriarrain -- The currency hierarchy in center-periphery relationships / Alex W. A....

This work advances geopolitical economy as a new approach to understanding the evolution of the capitalist world order and its 21st century form of multipolarity. Neither can be explained by recently dominant approaches such as U.S. hegemony or globalization: they treat the world economy as a...

This book paves the way, advancing Geopolitical Economy as a new approach to the study of international relations and international political economy. Following on from the theoretical limitations exposed in Part I, in this volume the analytical limitations are explored.