This course is intended as a capstone seminar in IPE for advanced second year students. The central aim is to bridge the gap between your knowledge of international economics and international relations. The course has been structured in a classic IPE “thematic” format. Part I (class sessions 1-4) deals with the various theoretical approaches to IPE. Part II (class sessions 5-7) deals with the political economy of international trade and investment relations and Part III (class sessions 8-10) covers the political economy of international monetary and financial relations. The last part, Part IV (class sessions 11-12), deals with the political economy of migration and the recent rise of populist sentiment. It is important to note that this is not an international economics course, even though it assumes all students have strong knowledge of the main international economic concepts from SAIS' international trade and international monetary theory courses (such as comparative advantage, factor endowments, impact of tariffs, real vs. nominal exchange rates, the balance of payments, etc.) and are more than comfortable with basic statistics and econometrics. But keep in mind that, for this course, most of the time, it’s NOT just the economics, stupid! – BUT it’s the politics, stupid! – that will matter for explaining actual outcomes.