of economic relations and that security interests remained a key determinant of state behavior in economic affairs. Non-state actors were still fundamentally dependent on what states did. Gilpin was a strong influence on Stephen D. Krasner. Within IPE, Gilpin proposed an influential framework for organizing schools of political thought on the relationship between politics and economics into three: Mercantilism, Liberalism, and Marxism. In his 1975 book US Power and the Multinational Corporation, Gilpin warned that multinational corporations could facilitate a rapid spread of advanced technologies away from the leading states to rising states, thus facilitating more rapid power transitions. Gilpin has described War and Change In World Politics (1981) as the work of his that he is most pleased with. In the final years of his career, Gilpin focused his research interests in the application of realist thinking to contemporary American policies in the Middle East. Gilpin was openly critical of the politics surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq in his essay "War is Too Important to Be Left to Ideological Amateurs." Bibliography American Scientists and Nuclear Weapons Policy (1962) France in the Age of the Scientific State (1968) US Power and the Multinational Corporation (1975) War and Change In World Politics (1981) Hegemonic War and the Peloponnesian War The Political Economy of International Relations (1987) The Challenge of Global Capitalism (2000) Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (2001) These books have been translated into a number of languages. The Political Economy of International Relations won the 1987 Award for the Best New Professional and Scholarly Book in Business, Management, and Economics, as well as the 1988 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book in political science See also Hegemonic stability theory Neorealism Neoclassical realism Kenneth Waltz References Further reading External links Princeton University profile Gilpinian Realism and International Relations Conversations in International Relations: Interview with Robert Gilpin Articles at JSTOR 1930 births 2018 deaths Cornell University alumni American economists American international relations scholars Political realists American political scientists Princeton University faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Vermont alumni 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers National Bureau of Asian Research People from Burlington, Vermont