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I. Course Description

This course is a seminar for graduate students who seek to understand the history and major theoretical perspectives of international political economy. We will read intensively in the theoretical and issue area literature, develop critical skills in evaluating this literature, examine additional recommended material, and elaborate research agendas in the field of international political economy. Students are expected to read intensively every week, to prepare to discuss the readings critically and to relate them to broader issues in both the recommended material as well as their own research agendas.

II. Course Requirements

We will read widely and address topics ranging from the evolution of the world capitalist system to current problems and issues in international economic relations. Each week students will be expected to complete assigned readings with care. In class, we will concentrate on the themes developed in the readings and each student is expected to participate actively and knowledgeably in the discussion. Students will be graded on the quality of their participation in class, including the development of critical skills and ability to defend and critique positions in discussion. Each student will give one presentation on a weekly discussion topic.

Additional requirements will be weekly short "reaction papers" that not only summarize, but analyze and critique the required and recommended readings. Each of these papers will be no more than three pages in length, and address one of the major themes covered in the readings. Students will include, at the end of each reaction paper, one question for class discussion based upon the readings.

Finally, each student will write a "term paper" that includes both literature review and research design, and will give an oral presentation of the paper during the last class meeting. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate comprehension of the course material and ability to integrate new information into those frameworks; to hone students' skills in writing research designs; to prepare students for the reality of writing grant proposals for research funding, and; to provide experience useful to writing a prospectus. The paper must go beyond a mere summary of the literature we read in the course to the level of synthesizing the material and weaving a theoretical argument, plus applying it to an issue area and laying out a design for a research agenda.

The course grade will be determined using the following guidelines:

III. Course Organization

A. Schedule

Section One: Introduction and The Rise of the Global Economic System

Week One - January 10

Introduction

Week Two - January 17

Gilpin, Polanyi

Week Three - January 24

Polanyi, Packet 1 (Kindleberger, Wallerstein)

Week Four - January 31 Packet 1 cont., Olson

Section Two: Theoretical Perspectives and Levels of Analysis

Week Five - February 7

Levels of Analysis, Liberalism, Marxism, Realism (Packets 2, 3, parts of 5)

Week Six - February 14

Gramscii, Dependency, World Systems, the State (Packet 4, parts of 5)

Week Seven - February 21

Hegemony, Regimes (Packet 6, parts of 5)

Section Three: Contemporary Issues in IPE

Week Eight - February 28

Globalization (Packet 11)

Week Nine - March 7

Trade (Packet 7)

Week Ten - March 14 OUTLINES DUE

Monetary Policy (Packet 8)

Week Eleven - March 21

Finance and Development (Packet 9)

Week Twelve - March 28 SPRING BREAK NO CLASS

Week Thirteen - April 4

MNCs (Packet 10)

Week Fourteen - April 11 MODEL OAS NO CLASS

Week Fifteen - April 18 FIRST DRAFTS DUE

Environment and Feminist Theory, Conclusions (Packet 12)

Week Sixteen - April 25 CLASS PRESENTATIONS
 
 

B. Readings

History and Evolution of the World Market/Formation of the World Capitalist System

Required

Gilpin - The Political Economy of International Relations 1987, Intro, Ch 1

Karl Polanyi The Great Transformation 1944

Kindleberger "The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe" in Frieden and Lake xerox

Cox Robert 1981 "Social Forces, States, and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory" Millenium V10 rec

Wallerstein, Immanuel "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis" Comparative Studies in Society and History 1974

Olson, Mancur The Rise and Decline of Nations

Recommended

Barrington Moore Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World 1966

Cox, Robert Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (1987)

Lindblom, Charles Politics and Markets 1977

Wallerstein The Capitalist World Economy

Theoretical Perspectives and Levels of Analysis

Required

Levels of Analysis

Singer, J. David "The Levels of Analysis Problem in International Relations: WP 14 (1961) xerox

Gourevitch, P. "The Second Image Reversed" IO 1978 xerox

Wendt, Alexander "The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory" IO 41 1987 xerox

Stern Steve "Feudalism, Capitalism and the World-System in the Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean" in Cooper et al Confronting Historical Paradigms recommended

Liberalism

Smith, Adam "Of Restraints Upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as Can be Produced at Home" and "Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System" Crane and Amawi xerox

Ricardo, David "On Foreign Trade" Crane and Amawi xerox

Hobson John "The Economic Taproots of Imperialism" in Williams 1999 xerox

Dunn, John ed. The Economic Limits to International Politics 1990 (Keohane - International Liberalism Reconsidered)

Krasner, S "Two Alternative Perspectives: Marxism and Liberalism" in Williams 1999 xerox

Marx

Lenin "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism" and "The Export of Capital" Frieden and Lake or Williams et all or Crane and Amawi xerox

Marx, Karl excerpted in Crane and Amawi xerox

Realism

Keohane and Nye "Complex Interdependence, Transnational Relations and Realism: Alternative Perspectives on World Politics: in Kegley and Wittkopf eds. The Global Agenda

Nye, Joseph S. Jr 1988 "Neorealism and Neoliberalism" WP 40

Keohane, Robert "International Institutions: Two Approaches" ISQ 1988 xerox

Gramscii

Gill and Law Ch 10, 12 xerox

Dependency

Gilpin 1987 Ch 7

Evans, Peter "Predatory, Developmental and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State" Sociological Forum 1989 xerox

Grieco, Joseph "Between Dependency and autonomy: India's experience with the international computer industry" IO 1982 xerox

Theotonio dos Santos "Structure of Dependence" in Seligson xerox

Muller, Ned "Financial Dependence in the Capitalist World Economy" Seligson xerox

World Systems

Wallerstein "Present State of the Debate on World Inequality" in Seligson xerox

Skocpol, Theda "Wallerstein’s World Capitalist System: A Theroetical and Historical Critique" Seligson xerox

Wallerstein, Immanuel The Modern World System I pp3-11, 347-357 xerox

The State

Skocpol, Theda "Bringing the State Back In" in Evans etc al Bringing the State Back In 1985 xerox

Gibbs, David N. "Taking the State Back out" and responses Contention 3 1994 xerox

Gilpin, Robert (1996) "Economic Evolution of National Systems" ISQ v40 xerox

Hegemony

Keohane R "The Theory of Hegemonic Stability and Changes in International Economic Regimes 1967-1977" in O. Holsti Change in the International System xerox

Snidal, Duncan "The Limits of Hegemonic Stability Theory" IO 39 1985 xerox

Keohane, R. After Hegemony

Gowa Joanne "Rational Hegemons, Excludable Goods, and Small Groups: An Epitaph for Hegemonic Stability Theory?" WP 41 xerox

Russett, Bruce "The Mysterious Case of Vanishing Hegemony: or is Mark Twain Really Dead?" IO 1985 xerox

Regimes

Krasner, Stephen "Structural Causes and regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables" in Krasner ed International Regimes 1983 xerox

Levy, Marc et al "The Study of International Regimes" Euro Journal of IR 1995 xerox

Haggard, Stephen and B. Simmons "Theories of International Regimes" IO v41 1987 xerox

Keohane and Nye "Complex Interdependence, Transnational Relations and Realism: Alternative Perspectives on World Politics: in Kegley and Wittkopf eds. The Global Agenda xerox

Young Oran 1986 International Regimes: Toward a New Theory of Institutions" WP 39 xerox

Strange, Susan 1986 "Cave Hic Dragones! A Critique of Regime Analysis" IO 36 also in Krasner xerox

Wendt A 1992 "Anarchy is What States Make of It" IO 46 xerox

Caporaso, James 1992 "International Relations Theory and Multilateralism: The Search for Foundations" IO 46 xerox

Recommended

Smith Adam An inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Griffiths, Martin 1992 Realism Idealism and International Politics a Reinterpretation

Cardoso Fernando Henrique 1979 Dependency and Development in Latin America

Frank, Andre Gunder On Capitalist Underdevelopment 1975

Packenham The Dependency Movement 1992

Strange Retreat of the State

Goldstein, J. and R. Keohane 1993 Ideas and Foreign Policy

Sikkink 1993 "Human Rights, Principled Issue Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America" IO 47

Gill Stephen Gramsci Historical Materialism and International Relations 1993

Frank, Andre Gunder 1993 The World System

Katzenstein, Peter J. (1978) Between Power and Plenty: Foreign Economic Policies of Advanced Industrial States

Haas Peter ed. 1992 "Power Knowledge and International Policy

Globalization and the Domestic/International Conflict

Gilpin 9

Pempel, T. J. "Japanese Foreign Economic Policy: The Domestic Bases for International Behavior" in Katzenstein xerox

Katzenstein Peter 1976 "International Relations and Domestic Structures: Foreign Economic Policies of Advanced Industrial States" IO xerox

Risse-Kappen Thomas "Public Opinion Domestic Structures and Foreign Policy in Liberal Democracies" WP 43 xerox

Wade, Robert "Globalization and its limits" in Berger and Dore National Diversity and Global Capitalism pp 60-88 not at wv xerox

Ruggie, John "Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations " IO v47 1993 xerox

Rodrik, Dani "Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate" Foreign Policy 1997 xerox

Modelski, George "Is World Politics Evolutionary Learning?" IO 1990 xerox

Goodman John and Louis Paul 1993 "The Obsolescence of Capital Control? Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets" WP 46 xerox

Keohane and Milner 1996 Internationalization and Domestic Politics (recommended)

Gourevitch, P. Politics in Hard Times (recommended)

Trade

Gilpin - Ch5

Krugman, Paul 1993 "The Uncomfortable Truth about NAFTA" Foreign Affairs v72

Mastanduno (Ikenberry, G. John et al eds. (1988) The State and American Foreign Economic Policy) "Trade as a Strategic Weapon" xerox

Krasner "State Power and the Structure of International Trade" in Friedan and Lake

Krauss and Reich "Ideology Interests and the American Executive: toward a theory of foreign competetion and manufacturing trade policy" IO 46 xerox

Mercusor, remappng Latin America The Economist Oct 12 1996 xerox

*Hoekman, Bernard and Michel Kostecki "The Political Economy of the World Trading System, from GATT to WHO" pp 1-55 not at WV xerox

Sanderson, Steven The Politics of Trade in Latin American Development 1992 (recommended)

Monetary Policy

Gilpin - Ch4

Strange, Susan "The Politics of International Currencies" WP 1971 xerox

Krasner "United States Commercial and Monetary Policy: Unraveling the Paradox of External Strength and Internal Weakness" in Katzenstein Between Power and Plenty xerox

Gowa in Ikenberry xerox

Goodman John and Louis Paul 1993 "The Obsolescence of Capital Control? Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets" WP 46 xerox

Helleiner Eric "The World of Money: The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility" Policy Sciences 27 1994 xerox

Andrews David 1994 "Capital Mobility and State Autonomy: Toward A Structural Theory of International Monetary Relations" ISQ 38 xerox

Finance

Gilpin Ch8

Bird, Graham "The IMF and Developing Countries" IO v50 1996 xerox

Minton-Beddoes, Zanny "Why the IMF needs Reform" Foreign Affairs v74 1995 xerox

Lipson "The International Organization of Third World Debt" in Friedan and Lake xerox

Dornbush, Rudiger "The Latin American Debt Problem: Anatomy and Solutions" in Stallings and Kaufman eds Debt and Democracy in Latin America xerox

Feldstein, Martin "Refocusing the IMF" Foreign Affairs 1998

Strange, Susan Casino Capitalism (recommended)

Development

W.W. Rostow The Stages of Econonmic Growth: A Non-communist Manifesto 1960

Kuznets in Seligson ed Development and Underdevelopment xerox

Haggard, Stephen "The Newly Industrializing Countries in the International System" WP v38 xerox

Haggard, Stephen Pathways from the Periphery: The politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries 1990 (recommended)
 
 

MNCs

Gilpin Ch6

Robert Gilpin U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment 1975

Pauly, Louis and Simon Reich "Enduring MNC Differences Despite Globalization: IO v51 1997 xerox

Penrose in Friedan and Lake "The State and Multinational Enterprises in Less Developed Countries" xerox

Gereffi "Big Business and the State: Latin America and East Asia Compared" in Seligson xerox

Feminism

Keohane R 1989 "International Relations Theory: Contributions of a Feminist Standpoint" Millennium 18 xerox

Grant, Rebecca and Kathleen Newland eds. Gender and International Relations 1991

Beckman Peter and Francine D'Amico eds. 1994 Women Gender and World Politics

V. Spike Peterson and Anne Runyon Global Gender Issues

Enloe Cynthia Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics 1990 ch 3, 6-8

Mohanty Chandra "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" 1995 Post-Colonial Studies Reader B. Ashcroft ed

Environment

Meyer et al Towards an International Environmental Regime IO 1997 xerox

Young Oran 1989 The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources: IO 43 xerox

Ostrom, Elinor Governing the Commons 1990

Bartlett Robert et al International Organizations and Environmental Policy 1995

Conclusions

Gilpin Ch10
 
 
 
 

01/15/2001 RECESS - Martin Luther King's Birthday

03/16/2001 Last Day to Drop a Class

03/24/2001-04/01/2001 Spring Break

04/08/2001 Day of Special Concern (Passover)

04/13/2001 RECESS - Easter

04/26/2001 Last Day to Withdraw

04/27/2001 Last Day of Classes
 

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