The joint-major Honours program in International Political Economy (IPE) is offered by the Department of Political Studies and is intended for students with an interest in the interconnected nature of the study of politics and economics at the international and global levels, which they wish to explore while pursuing a joint-major Honours option in another discipline or program. The rise of the global South, the worsening of income and wealth inequalities, the displacement of workers through outsourcing and robotics, the migratory flows of persons, financialization, a resurgence of nationalist social forces have raised the prominence of the study of IPE in recent years among scholars and students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds. IPE merges Political Studies with Economics and Global Development Studies, as well as Anthropology, English Literature, Environmental & Resource Science/Studies, Gender & Social Justice, History, and Indigenous Studies.