Nova economia política
Abstract In this paper, we aim to review the core ideas and premises in a multitude of research programs in International Political Economy, evaluating their “hard core” in the lakatosian sense. We expect to contribute to the better onthological, epistemological end historical-evolutive compreention of these research programs, assuming that the IPE embody enough attributes to constitute an independent discipline, not subordinated to Political Sciences, Economcs nor International Relations. Despite their recurrent intersection, those disciplines depart from diferent research questions and assumptions. (Gilpin, 1987). Therefore, it is not our