International political economy (IPE) is concerned with the mutual interactions of political decisions and economic transactions, the so-called market place, in the modern world. This course provides an overview of how political, social, and economic actors and events, domestic and international, public as well as private, shape policies and economic developments. It also covers research methods and theories of international political economy, and asks participants to assess current developments using these theories and methods. We probe why certain policies are adopted and how they affect the economies of major industrialized and developing nation-states.