457 27 IPE beyond Western paradigms China, Africa, and Latin America in comparative perspective Melisa Deciancio and Cintia Quiliconi Introduction Political economy is about the sources of political power and its uses for economic ends. As power distribution varies around the globe, so does economic development and its approach to it. As Benjamin Cohen puts it, “the feld of International Political Economy (IPE) teaches us how to think about the connections between economics and politics beyond the confnes of a single state” (Cohen 2008: 1). However, not all the states look alike. When Cohen proposed a global conversation within the feld of IPE he centered on American and British IPE, and in English spoken authors and approaches he only explored the construction of IPE in the Anglo- Saxon world. In the same line, in the last decades several authors started to refect about aca- demic felds like International Relations (IR) and IPE, in close connection with the growing development that the feld has had around the globe. This development has spurred a number of critical approaches about Western approaches in both IR (Eagleton-Pierce 2009; Schmidt 1998; Tickner 2003) and IPE but in this feld more incipient (Chin, Pearson, and Yong 2013; Tussie 2015) that strive to develop new lines of research that bring other perspectives to the center of the scene, constructing alternative contributions to those imposed or disseminated from the centers of world power. Thus, lately, some relevant studies have emerged on the place that national and regional schools occupy within social sciences and the work of numerous scholars has aimed at making them more “global” (Acharya 2014; Cohen 2008; Helleiner 2014; Phillips and Weaver 2011; Tussie 2015). As ideas and knowledge travel, so do disciplines. The way IPE developed in the Anglo- Saxon world had set the main bases to its study in other regions of the world centering the attention on the way markets and power operate worldwide. However, when approaching the way IPE developed “outside the mainstream” particularities emerge, and a whole set of concep- tualizations and questions arose that difer in a great manner from those in the developed world. Markets and power are both main concerns in the capitalist world we live in but the way we think about that interaction changes if we are on one side of the globe or the other(s). Inquiries, ideas, and analysis in the Global South are proof of that. Thinking capitalism from the core – namely Europe and the US – has a completely diferent approach than thinking it from the South. Problems and approaches vary if you are from developed countries or if you are from