title: Contending Perspectives in International Political Economy
author: Nikolaos Zahariadis
description: Zahariadis is professor and director of the political science program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a Ron B. Casey Fellow, and former president of the International Studies Association-South.
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  L.N. Rangarajan graduated from the University of Madras with an M.Sc in
  experimental physics. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1956 and has
  been Ambassador to Greece, Sudan, Tunisia, Norway and Iceland.
  
  A political economist with a special interest in conflict limitation and
  negotiation, he has contributed articles on political economy to several
  journals. His previous publications include: Commodity Conflict: The Political
  Economy of International Commodity Negotiaiions and The Limitation of
  Conflict: A Theory of Bargaining and Negotiation.
  
  L.N. Rangarajan is married to a musician and has two sons.
  
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