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The International Political Economy Idea Lab explores topics relevant to international macroeconomics and geopolitics, as well as other themes supported by CPE from a global perspective. The lab supports a monthly seminar series on International Economics and Geopolitics, and in the 2025-2026 academic year will also host the Politics and Economics of International Finance Research Group Meeting.
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Grants
The Faculty Grant opportunity is now closed. The next application cycle will open in December 2025.
The Graduate Student Grant opportunity is now closed. The next application cycle will open in September 2026.
Faculty Leadership
Jeffry Frieden is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of "Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century" (2007; second updated edition 2020); of "Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy" (2015); and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of "Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery" (2012).
Frieden is also the author of "Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985" (1992), of "Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance" (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.