An Overview of International Order and Its Impact on International Political Economy

Abstract

In the existing literature on international relations in the country, realism and the theoretical branches associated with this school enjoy high acceptance. Various factors have driven the country's elites towards a specific reading of realism. The author proceeds from the belief that realism encompasses a diverse set of different theories.

The lack of complete knowledge of this set, the efforts and the inability to accurately understand the key concepts in this field, will lead to a superficial and inaccurate perception. The present study aims to address this deficiency with a new perspective and, if possible, provide an answer. With this description, the question that the present study attempts to answer is: What capacity does realism have to respond to today's new issues in the field of changes in the international system? In response to this question, it can be said that Robert Gilpin's reading of realism based on the cycle of hegemony (in international politics) alongside hegemonic stability (in international political economy) provides a suitable window for presenting a more or less narrative account of this issue (the transformation of the international political economy system).

In this regard, the Solow economic model, which is used to strengthen, enrich, and attempt to quantify Gilpin's reading of realism, provides a framework for providing a better explanation of the transitions and changes in the system. The writing strategy of the previous paper is of the comparative type, and its research method is also of the basic, case-based, and static type.

What has been examined in this study is the use of Robert Gilpin's theories in the fields of international politics and international political economy, which have been strengthened and enriched by Robert Solow's economic model to better explain the cycles and changes in the international political economy system.