INRL 206- Introduction to International Political Economy
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Emre İşeri
Office: O 206
E-mail: emre.iseri@yasar.edu.tr
Website: http://eiseri.yasar.edu.tr/ (regularly check for announcements, slides, updates,
marks)
1) Course Description and Aim
The course provides students both historical accounts and variety of theoretical perspectives
to analyze current political economy developments. At the end of the course, the students are
expected to have a deeper understanding on international political economy and analyze
political economic developments by using analytical/historical tools.
2) Course Requirements
Informed active participation/Attendance: 10%
Pop-Quizzes: 10%
Mid-Terms: 25%
Movie Review: 15 % - Inside Job Documentary Review (guidelines for review will be
provided later)
Final Exam: 40 %
A: Outstanding performance during the course. [Superb performance in assignments, full
attendance, and the indication of the having done all the assigned readings.]
BA : Excellent performance during the course.
BB: Very good performance during the course.
CB: Good performance during the course.
CC: More than adequate performance during the course.
DC: Varying degrees of acceptable performance during the course.
D : These grades imply less than adequate performance but they will enable the student to pass
the course.
F: Less than minimally acceptable performance during the course.
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3) Sources
Required Book:
J. Ravenhill, Global Political Economy, Oxford University Press, 2011. (related chapters are
at Ofisser photocopy)
Recommended:
Jeffry A., Frieden, David A. Lake, and Kenneth A. Schultz. World politics: Interests,
interactions, institutions. New York: WW Norton, 2010. (related chapters are at Ofisser
photocopy)
Recommended Books in Turkish:
Gülten Kazgan, Küreselleşme ve Ulus- Devlet Yeni Ekonomik Düzen, Bilgi Üniversitesi
Yayınevi,2009. ( avaliable at Yaşar Book Store)
Robert Gilpin, Uluslararası İlişkilerin Ekonomi Politiği, Kripto Basın Yayın, 2012.
Fikret Şenses (ed.), Ülke Deneyimleri Işığında Küresel Kriz ve Yeni Ekonomik Düzen, İletişim
Yayınevi, 2013. (available at Yaşar Book Store)
Recommended websites:
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.nber.org/
http://globalfaultlines.org/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
SEMESTER OUTLINE
PART I – Theoretical Approaches to Global Political Economy
Week 1 ( February 27)
Meeting
Introduction
Expectations
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Week 2 - Historical Roots of Theoretical Traditions (March 6)
Required Reading: Ravenhill, pp.1-66.
Recommended: Mingst,pp. 283-324.
Further Reading:
Wyatt-Walter, Andrew ‘Adam Smith and the Liberal Tradition in International
Relations’, Review of International Studies 22(1)1996, pp.5–28.
Helleiner, Eric ‘Economic Nationalism as a Challenge to Neoliberalism? Lessons
from the 19th Century’, International Studies Quarterly 46(3) 2002,pp.307–29.
Week 3 – Continued ( March 13)
Week 4 - No Class (March 20)
Week 5 – Collaboration/Coordination in the Global Political Economy & Domestic
Sources of Foreign Economic Policies (March 27)
Required reading: Ravenhill, pp.67-134 ( skim/skip reading)
Further reading:
Snidal, Duncan. "Coordination versus prisoners' dilemma: Implications for international
cooperation and regimes." The American Political Science Review (1985): 923-942.
Cizre, Ümit, and Erinç Yeldan. "The Turkish encounter with neo-liberalism: economics and
politics in the 2000/2001 crises." Review of International Political Economy 12.3 (2005):
387-408.
Week 6 – Cont. & Review before Mid-Term ( April 3)
Week 7 – MIDTERM (April 10)
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PART 2 – GLOBAL TRADE
Week 8 – The Evolution of the Global Trade Regime (April 17)
Required Reading: Ravenhill, pp.135-172.
Recommended Readings: Frieden,et.al, “ International Trade”,pp.264-287
Further Reading:
Mendoza, Ronald. "The multilateral trade regime: a global public good for all?."Providing
global public goods: managing globalization (2003).
http://web.undp.org/globalpublicgoods/globalization/pdfs/Mendoza.pdf
Week 9 – Cont. & Regional Trade Agreements (April 24)
Required Reading: Ravenhill,pp.173-212.
Recommended Reading: Frieden,et.al,pp.287-311.
Further Readings: Freund, Caroline, and Emanuel Ornelas. "Regional Trade Agreements."
(2010). https://openknowledge.worldbank.com/handle/10986/3799
Part 3 – GLOBAL FINANCE
Week 10 – Movie Display - Inside Job http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/
Movie Theater at 09:30) – No class on March 1
(April 29 –
Week 11 – The Evolution of the International Monetary/Financial System (May 8)
Required: Ravenhill,pp.213-243.
Recommended: Frieden,et.al, pp.312-385.
Further:
Eichengreen, Barry. "Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods." Economie
internationale 4 (2004): 39-50. http://www.cepii.fr/IE/rev100/rev100eichengreen.pdf
Subacchi, Paola. "Who is in control of the international monetary system?."International
Affairs 86.3 (2010): 665-680.
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Week 12 – The Political Economy of Global Financial Crisis (May 15)
Required: Ravenhill,pp.244-272.
Recommended: Frieden,et.al,312-385.
Further Reading:
Gowan, Peter. "Crisis in the Heartland." New Left Review 55.2 (2009): 5-29.
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ea/v23n65/en_a04v2365.pdf
Germain, Randall. "Financial order and world politics: crisis, change and
continuity." International Affairs 85.4 (2009): 669-687.
PART 4 – GLOBALIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Week 13- Globalization, Growth, Poverty, Inequality, Resentment, and Imperialism
Required Reading: Ravenhill, pp.372-414. (May 22)
Recommended Reading: Frieden,et.al, pp.386-419.
Further Reading:
Wade, Robert Hunter. "Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality?." World
Development 32.4 (2004): 567-589.
Harrison, Ann. Globalization and poverty. No. w12347. National Bureau of Economic
Research, 2006. http://www.nber.org/papers/w12347.pdf
Week 14 – Review Before Final (May 29)
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