PLEASE NOTE this is a 2013 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Term 1, Week 1
Welcome and Introduction
Introductions. Objectives. Reading. Discussion of class format. Allocation of seminar presentation
duties for Weeks 17-19.
Required Reading
No required reading this week.
Background Reading
Students with no background in global finance will benefit greatly from reading S. Valdez and P.
Molyneux, An Introduction to Global Financial Markets, 7th edition. You might also consult R.
Germain, Global Politics & Financial Governance, Chapter 1.
Recommended Reading
B. J. Cohen, “Phoenix Risen: The Resurrection of Global Finance,” World Politics, Volume 48, Number
2, 1996, pp. 268-296.
S. Strange, “International Economics and International Relations: A Case of Mutual Neglect”
International Affairs, Volume 46, Number 2, 1970, pp. 304-315.
T. Porter, Globalization and Finance, Chapters 1 and 2.
J. Kirshner. “The Study of Money.” World Politics. Volume 52, April 2000, pp. 407-436.
P. Dombrowski, “Haute Finance and High Theory: Recent Scholarship on Global Financial Relations,”
Mershon International Studies Review, Volume 42, Number 1, 1998, pp. 1-28. [this journal was
renamed International Studies Review – look for the article under this title]
M. de Goede, Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance.
B.J. Cohen, “International Finance,” in W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse and B.A. Simmons, Handbook of
International Relations (2002).
V. A. Zelizer, The Social Meaning of Money.
E. Helleiner, The Making of National Money.
D. Andrews and Thomas Willett, “Financial Interdependence and the State: International Monetary
Relations at Century’s End,” International Organization, Volume 51, Number 3, 1997, pp. 479-511.
J. Santiso, ”Analysts Analyzed: A Socio-economic Approach to Financial and Emerging Markets,”
International Political Science Review, Volume 20, Number 3, July 1999, pp. 307-330.
D.M. Andrews, C. Randall Henning and Louis W. Pauly (eds.) Governing the World’s Money.
L.A. Keister, “Financial Markets, Money, and Banking,” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 28, 2002,
pp. 39-61.
A. Lukauskas, “Managing Mobile Capital: Recent Scholarship on the Political Economy of
International Finance,” Review of International Political Economy, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer
1999, pp. 262-287.
R. Germain, “The Worlds of Finance: A Braudelian Perspective on IPE,” European Journal of
International Relations, Volume 2, Number 2, 1996, pp. 201-230.
J.S. Barkin, Social Construction and the Logic of Money: Financial Predominance and International
Economic Leadership.
A. Walter, World Power and World Money, chapters 1-3.
P.G. Cerny (ed.), Finance and World Politics.
R. Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations, chapters 2 and 4.
A. Leyshon and N. Thrift, Money/Space, Introduction.
S. Gill and D. Law, The Global Political Economy, chapters 1-6.
T.J. Sinclair and K.P. Thomas (eds.) Structure and Agency in International Capital Mobility,
Introduction.
S. Strange, States and Markets, 2nd edition chapter 5.
R.W. Cox, “’Take six eggs’: Theory, Finance and the Real Economy in the Work of Susan Strange
(1992)” in Robert W. Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order.
W. Bagehot, Lombard Street, chapter 1.
R. Roberts, Wall Street: A Guide to the Mechanisms, Institutions and Players.
P.G. Cerny, “Globalization and the Changing Logic of Collective Action,” International Organization,
Volume 49, Number 4, Autumn 1995, pp. 595-625.
E. Helleiner, “Braudelian Reflections on Economic Globalization: the Historian as Pioneer,” in S. Gill
and J.H. Mittelman (eds.) Innovation and Transformation in International Studies.
P.G. Cerny, The Changing Architecture of Politics.
F. Braudel, Civilization & Capitalism 15th – 18th Century, Volume I-III.
C.R. Geisst, Wall Street: A History.
P.F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society.
S. Lash & J. Urry, The End of Organized Capitalism.
T. Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities.
T. Dreiser, The Financier
M. Mayer, The Bankers.