Abstract
The paper explores a puzzling anomaly in the interaction between two major analytic foci in the study of world politics. In the real world there is considerable overlap between problems of international political economy and the conduct of foreign policy; but this overlap is not manifest in the conceptual equipment employed by those engaged in the comparative study of foreign policy (CFP) and those who specialize in international political economy (IPE). Instead of drawing upon each other's work, both fields appear bored by the other. The paper seeks to explain this boredom and offers suggestions for overcoming it.

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