Subject: Ripe announcement, 2nd try ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE, LONDON, DUE OUT APRIL 1994! REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (RIPE) The editors have made available their editorial to specific groups. RIPE's raison d'etre is to bring together current new attempts to understand contemporary social change by facilitating dialogue and debate across existing academic divides. the editorial is on the World-Systems Archive (wsystems) at csf.colorado.edu Its location in the archive is specified as \journals\review of international political economy\editors:heterdox IPE It may also be accessed by either ftp or gopher The Nature of International Political Economy - A series of essays running through the first issues. The first issue essays by : the editorial team 'Forum for Heterodox International Political Economy' ; Stephen Krasner, 'International Political Economy: Abiding Discord'; Geoffrey Hodgson, 'Some Remarks on Economic Imperialism and International Political Economy' . Papers: 'Is the Japanese Economy in Crisis?'. Makoto Itoh; 'The Territorial Trap...', John Agnew; 'Exchange Rate Politics', Jeffry Frieden; 'IPE in the Age of Open Marxism', Andre Drainville; 'Passing Judgement: Credit Rating Processes.., Timothy J. Sinclair; 'Multinational Enterprises...', Razeen Sally. Finally there is a review section with contributions from Craig Murphy and Ronen Palan Forthcoming: Definitional piece on IPE by Susan Strange, Peter Burnham Debate around paper by Andre Gunder Frank 'Soviet and East European " Socialism": a Review of IPE on What Went Wrong' . Responses by Alex Nove, Christoper Chase-Dunn, Robert Denemark and Jerzy Hausner. Papers: 'Europe, the Third World and Evolving North-South Trade Relations', Vincent Mahler; 'Going Lean or Going Native?', Ankie Hoogvelt & Masae Yuasa; 'The Evolution of Socio-Economic Order in the Move to a Market Economy', Geoff Hodgson; 'A Global Industrial Policy. US Hegemony and Gatt. The Liberalisation of Telecommunications', Jill Hills; 'Europe & the Dollar', David Wightman We welcome new submissions: please send them to RIPE, University of Newcastle, Room 458, claremont Bridge, Newcastle on Tyne, NE1 7RU, England If you have not had a Routledge flyer offering a complimentary copy of the 1st issue, send me your full address and I will post one off to you. We look forward to hearing from you! Lynn Craig, Editorial Assistant