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International political economy is an emerging yet specialized field that combines political analysis with the study of markets, trade, and development. With the global economy having an interdependent effect on politics, environment, and society, and with several major economic events of the last 20 years, the authors perceived a need to provide a guide to the sources in this field. This paper seeks to address this issue.

The authors identified resources using WorldCat and standard reference sources, such as American Library Association's Guide to Reference Books; the annual American Libraries’ “Outstanding Reference Sources” articles; American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) volumes; Booklist's Editor's Choices articles; and Choice's “Outstanding Academic Titles”. Sources were selected from 2000 to the present, concomitant with development of the global economy in the twenty‐first century.

This guide contains reference works and internet resources that include or provide access to primary source documentation and statistical studies and tables, as well as handbooks, guides, encyclopedias and dictionaries that place the field in context.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, focus was placed on sources that emphasize the core focus of international political economy. Related fields of study, including globalization, development, environmentalism and social movements, were largely excluded.

The authors found no other comprehensive bibliographies containing reference, primary and statistical sources that cover the field in its breadth during this time period.

Recruitment and retention strategy is driven by a complement of endogenous constraints and exogenous imperatives. Confronted with population aging and unprecedented and enduring fiscal austerity, staffing priorities among many armed forces of the world's advanced industrialized democracies seem to be driven increasingly by the bottom line instead of a view toward the future security environment. This study takes a demographic approach to the integration of military, political, and economic means in pursuit of states’ ultimate objectives in the international system. Similar to the youthful populations, rapid development, and urbanization that characterized the first half of the 19th century, demographic developments of the 21st century are raising the specter of systemic disorder, civil war, and political instability (Evans, 2009; Goldstone, 1993; Nichiporuk, 2000; Tam & Hoffman, 1994). Indeed, a recent intelligence forecast cautioned that “lagging economies, ethnic affiliations, intense religious convictions, and youth bulges will align to create a ‘perfect storm’ for internal conflict” in the near future (National Intelligence Council, 2004, p. 97). Factoring these developments into recruitment and retention strategy has significant implications for strategic posture.