Schedule
Course Schedule
Below you will find a rough course schedule. The assigned readings vary considerably in length. Students should therefore plan accordingly. Students should come prepared for each day having carefully digested all of the assigned readings. You are responsible for all readings, both in class and for exams and papers.
In addition to the assigned readings, everyone expected to keep up with IPE news around the world. One should therefore read a major daily newspaper regularly.
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| August 29 | Introduction: No Reading |
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| August 31 | What is IPE? |
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| Susan Strange, “Prologue: Some Desert Island Stories,” States and Markets (Pinter, 2nd ed., 1994) B&V, ch. 1 Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, prologue |
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Theoretical Approaches |
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| September 5 | Liberalism | |
| B&V, ch. 3 | ||
| David Dollar and Aart Kraay, "Spreading the Wealth" | ||
| September 7 | Mercantalism | |
| B&V, ch. 2 | ||
| Alexander Hamilton, Excerpts from Report on Manufactures | ||
| September 12 | Marxism/Structuralism | |
| B&V, ch. 4 | ||
| Theotonio Dos Santos, "The Structure of Dependence" | ||
| September 14 | Critical Perspectives | |
| B&V, ch. 5 |
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History, Money and Trade |
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| September 19 | Origins of the World Economy | |
| Lairson and Skidmore, International Political Economy, ch. 3 Pietra Rivoli, Travels of a T-Shirt in the World Economy, chs. 1-3 |
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| September 21 | High and Low Politics | |
| B&V, ch. 9 Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, pp. 3-33 |
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| September 26 | Money: The Basics | |
| B&V, ch. 7 | ||
| September 28 | International Monetary Relations | |
| B&V, pp. 166-70 Country Study due |
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| October 3 | The Asian Financial Crisis | |
| B&V, pp. 175-85 Frontline Video: "The Crash" |
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| October 5 | Global Investors: TNCs | |
| B&V, ch. 17 | ||
| October 10 | Midterm Exam | |
| October 12 | Case Study: Oil TNCs | |
| Case #1: Manby, "Shell in Nigeria: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ogoni Crisis" | ||
| October 17 | The Political Economy of Oil | |
| B&V, ch. 18 Perkins, chs. 14-16 |
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| October 19 | Trade | |
| B&V, pp. 113-28 Case Study #2: Elms, "Intellectual Property Rights, Drug Access, and the Doha Round" |
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| October 24 | The Politics of World Trade | |
| Rivoli, part 3 B&V, pp. 128-140 Walden Bello, "Why Monday's Collapse of the Doha Round Negotiations is the Best Outcome for Developing Countries" Focus on the Global South |
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| October 26 | Regional Integration: The EU | |
| B&V, ch. 11 |
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Development and Globalization |
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| October 31 | Development | |
| B&V, pp. 331-40 Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, pp. 1-50 |
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| November 2 | The Rise of Development States | |
| B&V, pp. 340-5 Rivoli, part 2 |
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| November 7 | Debt and Development | |
| William Easterly, "Think Again: Debt Relief" | ||
| November 9 | International Financial Institutions | |
| Charles Gore, "The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus" Bretton Woods Project, "One Hand Gives While the Other Takes: Nicaragua Under IMF Conditions" |
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| November 14 | Globalization 1: Production and the Throw Away Economy | |
| Frontline: Is Wal-Mart Good For America? Rivoli, part 4 |
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| November 16 | Globalization 2: Offshore | |
| William Brittain-Catlin, Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy, chs. 1-2 | ||
| November 21 | Catch-up Day | |
| No Reading Paper Due |
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| November 23 | Thanksgiving Break
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| November 28 | Development, Security, Empire and Resistance | |
| Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, 141-225 |
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The Underside of the Global Economy |
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| November 30 | Illicit Narcotics | |
| M. Wilson and S. Zambrano, "Cocaine, Commodity Chains and Drug Policies: A Transnational Approach," in Gereffi and Korzeinewiecz, eds., Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism. Greenwood Press, 1994, ch. 15 | ||
| December 5 | Slavery and Human Trafficking | |
| Readings TBA | ||
| December 7 | Course Wrap-up | |
| B&V, ch. 21 | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| TBA | ||