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230.150 ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Instructor: Hatice Deniz Yükseker
M, T, W: 11:00-11:50 am, 234 Ames Hall
Office Hours: Wed. 3:30-5:30 pm at 532 Mergenthaler Hall, and by appointment
e-mail: deniz@jhu.edu
office phone: 516-7098
Office: 203 Greenhouse
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to problems of inequality in wealth and welfare
from a global, comparative, and historical perspective. The causes and consequences of inequalities among
countries, as well as gender, class, ethnic and regional stratification, are examined. Major theoretical
perspectives on international development and global social change are studied and applied to an analysis of
contemporary social issues.
REQUIREMENTS: Regular attendance and active participation in discussions are essential for your
performance in this course. You should read the weekly assignments before each class. There will be one
take-home midterm exam, one research assignment and a take-home final paper. You’ll also write short
reviews of two of the five films that will be shown in class. The dates of exams and assignments are indicated
on the course schedule.
Grade breakdown:
Take-home Midterm Exam: 25 percent
Assignment (5 double-spaced pages): 30 percent
Two film reviews (1-2 double-spaced pages): 10 percent
Take-home final (10-12 double-spaced pages): 35 percent
ETHICS: The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this course, you must
be honest and truthful. Ethical violations include cheating on exams, plagiarism, reuse of assignments,
improper use of the Internet and electronic devices, unauthorized collaboration, alteration of graded
assignments, forgery and falsification, lying, facilitating academic dishonesty, and unfair competition. For
more information, visit the Ethics Board Web site at http://ethics.jhu.edu.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES: The following books are for sale at the University Book Center and also
available through the Eisenhover Library Reserves. The other readings are also available on the Reserves
(marked with * below), either in photocopied form (folder), or accessible through the Library Web pages
(electronic journal). Several books from which we’ll read excerpts are also on reserve (book).
Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change, 2nd ed., 2000.
John Isbister, Promises not Kept, 5th ed., 2001.
Alan Thomas, Third World Atlas, 2nd ed., 1994.
WEEK I: What is Development?
January 27: Introduction
January 28: Promises not Kept: Chapters 1, 2
January 29: Third World Atlas, pp. 4-23 and 58-61
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*World Development Report 2001/2, pp. 3-5 (handout)
WEEK II: Colonization and the Colonial Division of Labor
February 3: Promises not Kept: Chapter 4
Development and Social Change: pp. 3-24
Third World Atlas: pp. 43-45.
February 4: Discussion
February 5: *Stuart Hall: “The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power,” in Modernity. An Introduction to
Modern Societies, pp. 184-227 (folder).
WEEK III: Developmentalism
February 10: Promises not Kept, Chapter 5
February 11: Film: “From the Barrel of a Gun”
February 12: Development and Social Change, pp. 25-76
Promises not Kept, pp. 145-163
*Arturo Escobar: “The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development” in
Encountering Development, pp. 21-54 (folder).
WEEK IV: Approaches to Development
February 17: *W.W. Rostow: “The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto,” in T.
Roberts and A. Hite, eds. From Modernization to Globalization, pp. 100-109 (folder).
*Andre Gunder Frank: “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in T. Roberts and A. Hite, eds. From
Modernization to Globalization, pp. 159-168 (folder).
February 18: Film: “Profit and Nothing But”
February 19: *Immanuel Wallerstein: “Development: Lodestar or Illusion,” in Unthinking Social Science, pp.
104-124 (folder).
*Gary Gereffi: “Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America,” in T. Roberts
and A. Hite, eds. From Modernization to Globalization, pp. 229-254 (folder).
WEEK V: The Unraveling of Developmentalism and the Debt Crisis
February 24: Development and Social Change: pp. 79-112.
February 25: Discussion
February 26: Development and Social Change: pp. 113-146.
Promises not Kept: pp. 174-187.
Third World Atlas: pp. 68-69.
***TAKE-HOME EXAMS DUE ON MARCH 5***
WEEK VI: Review and Exam
March 3: Review
March 4: No Class
March 5: Film: “Who’s Counting?”
SPRING BREAK
WEEK VII: Gender and Development
March 17: *Naila Kabeer: selections from Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought,
TBA (book).
March 18: Discussion
March 19: *selections from The Women, Gender, and Development Reader, TBA (book).
*Barbara Duden: “Population,” in The Development Dictionary, pp. 146-157 (folder).
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WEEK VIII: Development and the Environment
March 24: *Vandana Shiva: “Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity,” in
Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader, pp. 193-213 (folder).
Third World Atlas: pp. 62-63.
*Wolfgang Sachs: “Environment,” in The Development Dictionary, pp. 26-37 (folder).
March 25: Film: “Learning from Ladakh”
March 26: *Alex de Waal: “Introduction,” and “Retreat from Accountability: Neoliberalism and
Adjustment,” in Famine Crimes, pp. 1-6 and 49-64 (folder).
WEEK IX: The Rise of the “Washington Consensus”
March 31: *Lance Taylor: “The Revival of the Liberal Creed – the IMF and the World Bank in a Globalized
Economy,” World Development, vol. 25, no.2, 1997, pp. 145-52 (electronic journal).
Development and Social Change: pp. 149-237.
April 1: Film: “Our Friends at the Bank”
April 2: *Francis Fukuyama: “Social Capital, Civil Society and Development,” Third World Quarterly,
vol.22, no.1, 2001, pp. 7-20 (electronic journal).
*Ben Fine: “The Developmental State is Dead—Long Live Social Capital?” Development and Change, vol.
30, no.1, 1999, pp. 1-19 (folder and electronic journal).
WEEK X: Debates around the Washington Consensus
April 7: *Ravi Kanbur: “Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements,” World
Development, vol. 29, no. 6, 2001, pp. 1083-1093 (electronic journal).
*Robert Wade: “Making the World Development Report 2000: Attacking Poverty,” World Development, vol.
29, no. 8, 2001, pp. 1435-1441 (electronic journal).
April 8: Discussion
April 9: *Paul Cammack: “Attacking the Poor,” New Left Review, no. 13, 2002, pp. 125-134 (folder).
More readings TBA
***ASSIGNMENTS DUE ON APRIL 16***
WEEK XI: Challenges to “Globalization”
April 14 : *Michael Hardt: “Porto Alegre: Today’s Bandung?” New Left Review, no. 14, 2002, pp. 112-118
(folder and electronic journal).
*Immanuel Wallerstein: “New Revolts against the System,” New Left Review, no. 18, 2002, pp. 29-39 (folder
and electronic journal).
April 15: Discussion
April 16: readings TBA on the World Social Forum and the Anti-Globalization Movement
WEEK XII: New Directions in Policy
April 21: *Alan Fowler: “NGDOs as a moment in history: beyond aid to social entrepreneurship or civic
innovation?” Third World Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 2000, pp. 637-654 (electronic journal).
* Aldaba, Antezana, Valderrama and Fowler: “NGO strategies beyond aid: perspectives from Central and
South America and the Philippines,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 2000, pp. 669-683 (electronic
journal).
April 22: Discussion: handouts to be distributed
April 23: *Govindan Parayil: “The ‘Kerala Model’ of Development: Development and Sustainability in the
Third World,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 17, no.5, 1996, pp. 941-957 (electronic journal).
*Muhammed Yunus: “Poverty Alleviation: Is Economics Any Help? Lessons from the Grameen Bank
Experience,” Journal of International Affairs, vol.52, no.1, 1998, pp. 47-65 (folder).
WEEK XIII: Pressing Issues: Wars and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
April 27: *Fantu Cheru: “Debt, Adjustment and the Politics of Effective Response to HIV/AIDS in Africa,”
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Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no.2, 2002, pp.299-312 (electronic journal).
*Caroline Thomas: “Trade Policy and the Politics of Access to Drugs” Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2,
2002, pp. 251-264 (electronic journal).
Third World Atlas: pp. 56-57.
April 28: *Sultan Barakat and Gareth Wardell: “Exploited by whom? An Alternative Perspective on
Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 5, 2002, pp. 909-930
(electronic journal).
*Jonathan Goodhand: “Aiding Violence or Building Peace: The Role of International Aid in Afghanistan,”
Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 5, 2002, 837-859 (electronic journal).
Third World Atlas: pp. 64-65.
April 29: Review and Evaluation
Monday, May 12: Final Exams Due
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