; International political economy
; The critical theory of Robert Cox: historical structure
; Historical structure and stage theory
; The History of Capitalist Expansion
; The political nature of the capitalist world economy
; The dialectical development of capitalism as a world system
; A periodisation of capitalist development and expansion
; The mercantile phase of European expansion
; The colonial phase of European expansion
; Marxist theories of capitalist imperialism
; Critiques of Marxist theories of imperialism
; Neo-colonialism, Modernisation and Dependency
; Global economic pressures
; Geo-political relations
; Crisis and Restructuring: The New International Division of Labour
; Material capabilities: global Fordism
; Neo-colonial economic relations
; Economic nationalism in the Third World
; Changing geo-political relations
; Critical theory: diversity and micro-studies
; 'Dependency associated' development theory
; Postimperialism and world system theories
; From Expansion to Implosion
; World trade: long-term trends
; Foreign direct investment (FDI) and the growth of multinational enterprises
; World capital flows: long-term indirect investments
; Global financial deepending and the structural position of the Third World
; Core periphery: from structural exploitation to structural irrelevance
; From Fordist to Flexible Production
