Knowledge

Abstract

This chapter identifies a gap in International Political Economy (IPE) research broadly scrutinizing knowledge from positivist and post-positivist epistemologies. It concurs with the claim advanced by the handbook editors that this gap is not necessarily bad in elaborating deep knowledge on a range of empirical issues. Nevertheless, it finds that better communication and interaction between positivist and post-positivist research can enhance the wisdom of IPE. Three avenues of research—on knowledge governance, historicity, and technology—are identified as useful pathways for communicating IPE insights into the production, dissemination, and control of knowledge across the epistemological divide, as well as more widely with students, policymakers, and the broader public.