本书是第一批先行选入几本经典文献选读性质的国外优秀教材，内容主要在国际关系理论方面，也包括国际政治经济学方面的优秀教材。本书的基本取向是实证性研究。本书与其他类似的西方国际政治经济学教科书的一个重要区别，是它对发展中国家的发展问题和南北关系、南南合作给予了极大的关注。在全书的14章中，有6章与其直接相关，包括：世界经济中的富国与穷国、南方国家的贸易和发展战略、对外援助与第三世界的发展、多国公司在第三世界、第三世界的债务与北抽金融关系、饥饿、人员与可持续发展。
本书作者没有将国际贸易、国际投资、国际倾向金融体系、债务等问题列章进行讲座，而是将其与不同国家间相互关系，特别是与第三世界的政治经济发展结合在一起讨论。

1 INTRODUCTION:THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Domestic Political Economy
International Political Economy
Approaches to International Political Economy
Notes
2 THE ECONOMICS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Free Trade
The Balance of Payments
Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Monetary Policy
fiscal Policy
Exchange Rates and Trade Deficits
How Exchange Rates Affect Trade
Exchange Rates ,Trade,and Macroeconomic Policy
Conclusions
Notes
Annotated Biliography
3 THE ORIGNS OF A WORLD ECONOMY
Industrialization and International Trade
British Industrialization
The Turn to Freer Trade
Repeal of the corn Laws
The Expansion of the World Ecconomy
The Perils of Interdependence:1873-1914
Transformation of the World Economy
British Hegemony?
Japan and Late Efconomic Devepopment
The world Economy on the Eve of world War I
World War I and Its Aftermath
The Economic Consequences of World War I
A Failure of Political Vision
collapse of the World Economy
Autarchy and Cooperation
conclusions
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
4 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AMERICAN HEGEMONY,1938-1973
5 GLOBALIZATION AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
6 COOPERATIONA AMONG ADVANCED INDUSTRIALSTATES
7 COMPETITION AND DONFLICT AMONG ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL STATES
8 RICH AND POOR STATES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY
9 STARATEGIES OF SOUTHERN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
10 FOREIGN AID AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT
11 MULITINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN THE THIRD WORLD
12 THIRD WORLD DEBT AND NORTH-SOUTH FINACE
13 HUNGER ,POPULATION ,AND SUSTATNABLE DEVELOPMETN
14 CHARTING THE FUTURE:COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY