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Y 376
International Political Economy
IUPUI
Fall 2006
Instructor: John Clark
Tuesdays and Thursday, 9:00-10:15 AM
CA 227
Contacting the Instructor:
Phone
E-mail
Fax
Office
Office hours
(317) 472-9666
john@sipr.org
(317) 472-2057
436 Indiana Ave.
Indianapolis IN 46202
By appointment
This course provides an introduction to some important aspects of the global political
economy, the way it is organized, the way that international economic developments
create problems for local communities, and the ways local communities are responding.
The course will have three main assignments. A short paper about globalization worth
20% of the course grade; a more in-depth paper about the effects of globalization on a
local business, government office, or nonprofit organization worth 40% of the course
grade; a final exam worth 20% of the course grade; and various smaller assignments to be
given over the source of the semester.
Assigned texts:
Manfred Steger, Globalization: A very short introduction or
Globalism: Market Ideology Meets Terrorism (2nd edition) or
Globalism: The New Market Ideology (1st edition)
Frank Lechner and John Boli, ed. The Globalization Reader
George Crane and Abla Amawi, ed. The Theoretical Evolution of International Political
Economy: A Reader (2nd ed.)
Stephen Smith, Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works
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Trajectory of the Class
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Introduction to the class
8-29
Introduction to globalization
Assigned reading: The first half of your Steger book
8-31
Sifting through Steger
Assigned reading: The second half of your Steger book
9-5
What every well-informed newspaper reader should know:
A smattering of perspectives on globalization
Assigned reading: From The Globalization Reader (part 1) —
Micklethwait and Wooldridge, “The Hidden Promise”
Amartya Sen, “How to judge globalism”
Gray, “From the Great Transformation to the global free market”
Barber, “Jihad vs. Mcworld”
Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”
Küng, “A global ethic as a foundation for global society”
Extra reading:
Micklethwait and Wooldridge, A Future Perfect: The Essentials of
Globalization
Amartya Sen, “Does globalization equal Westernization?”
_____, “Sharing the world: Interdependence and global justice”
John Gray, “A violent episode in the virtual world”
_____, “The global delusion”
Benjamin Barber, Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy in an
Age of Interdependence
Salmagundi issue on “Jihad. McWorld. Modernity: Public intellectuals
discuss the clash of civilization”
John Dunning, Making Globalization Good
“Hopeful realist Hans Kung points pathway to global ethic”
Joseph Nye, “Fragility of a flat world”
9-7
What does globalization feel like?
Assigned reading: From The Globalization Reader (part 3) —
Watson, “McDonald’s in Hong Kong”
Extra reading:
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “A Mickey Mouse approach to globalization”
Peter Berger, “The Cultural Dynamics of Globalization”
Heilbrunn, “Globalization’s boosters and critics”
Wired interview with Tom Friedman, “Why the world is flat”
Yale Global Online interview with Tom Friedman, “Wake up and face the
flat earth”
Critical reviews of Friedman’s The World is Flat
Stanley Fish, “Boutique multiculturalism, or why liberals are incapable of
thinking about hate speech” [available through JSTOR]
From The Globalization Reader (part 3)
Albrow, “Traveling beyond cultures”
Feller, “Strong states, strong teachers?”
Taylor, “Strategic inauthenticity”
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Globalization and cultural discontents
Assigned reading:
Thaddeus Russell, “Beyoncé Knowles, freedom fighter”
Ralph Peters, “Return of the tribes”
United Nations Environmental Program press release: “Globalization
Threat to World’s Cultural, Linguistic and Biological
Diversity”
David Rothkop, “In praise of cultural imperialism? Effects of globalization
on culture”
Extra reading:
Uche Nworah, “Igbo worldview in the global context”
9-14
Fundamentalism as a consequence of globalization?
Assigned reading: Globalization Reader, Part VIII — Cultural
Globalization II: Fundamentalist Responses
Frank Lechner, “Global fundamentalism”
Pasha, “Globalization, Islam, and resistance”
Tibi, “The challenge of fundamentalism”
Mayer, “The fundamentalist impact on law, politics, and the constitution in
Iran”
Haeri, “Oberdience vs. autonomy: Women and fundamentalism in Iran
and Pakistan”
Rushdie, “Yes, this is about Islam”
Extra reading:
Gregory Melleuish, “Globalized religions for a globalized world”
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/fund.html
Assignment:
9-19
Global poverty and the international economy
Guest: Fran Quigley, IU Medical School – Moi University
partnership
Assigned reading: Smith, Ending global poverty, pp. 1-31
Quigley:
Eyewitness to the pandemic
Nothing less than life and death
Hoosier heroes
Extra reading:
Susan Rice, “Global poverty, weak states, and
insecurity”
“Ranking the Rich”
Kansas City Federal Reserve conference on “The New
Economic Geography”
The Economist ”On the hiking trail”
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/article.print?id=7670
http://www.digitalnpq.org/articles/global/96/07-102006/paul_wolfowitz
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7611
9-21
Introduction to glocalization
Assigned reading:
E.J. Dionne, “The ‘Glocalization’ Problem”
Saskia Sassen, “Globalization or denationalization?”
The Glocalization Manifesto
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200607/kt2006071818021854070.htm
Extra reading:
Glocalization bibliography
Glocalization ideas
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Dana Boyd, "G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction
Collide"
Assignment:
9-26
Do ideas matter to the international political economy?
Assigned reading: Theoretical Evolution, pp. 3-34
Extra reading:
Assignment:
9-28
Beyond cartoons: Classic perspectives on IPE
Assigned reading: Theoretical Evolution, parts 1, 2, and 3
Extra reading:
Assignment:
10-3
How is the world economy organized, part 1: Complex
interdependence
Assigned reading: Theoretical Evolution, part 4
Extra reading:
Assignment:
10-5
How is the world economy organized, part 2: World System
Theory
Assigned reading: Theoretical Evolution, part 5
Extra reading:
Erwin Marquit, “What’s wrong with globalization?”
Journal of World Systems Research v. 12 n. 1
Assignment:
10-10
How is the world economy organized, part 3: Neomercantilism
Assigned reading: Theoretical Evolution, part 6
Extra reading:
Assignment:
10-12
A thought experiment: integrating a newcomer into the
international political economy
Assigned reading:
Wallerstein, “The rise and future demise of the World
Capitalist System”
Leslie Sklar, “Sociology of the Global System”
Meyer, et al. “World society and the nation-state”
Roland Robertson, “Globalism as a problem”
Appadurai, “Disjuncture and difference in the global
cultural economy”
Hannerz, “The global ecumene”
Extra reading:
Assignment:
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Economic dimensions of globalization
Assigned reading: Sunitra Narain, “Globalization for the rich”
Extra reading:
Assignment:
10-19
Deeper thinking about economic aspects of globalization
Assigned reading: Globalization Reader, part IV
Extra reading:
Assignment:
10-24
Communicating the news around the world, about the world
Assigned reading: Globalization Reader, part VII
Extra reading:
Assignment:
10-26
New News for a New World?
Assigned reading:
Extra reading:
Assignment:
10-31
The hollowing out of the nation-state
Assigned reading: Globalization Reader, part V
Extra reading:
Risto Karajkov, “NGOs: Who else will do the work?”
Assignment:
11-2
Some nation-states strike back: Reassertions of sovereignty
Assigned reading: Territoriality and conflict in an age of globalization
Extra reading:
Assignment:
11-7
Possible reorganizations of the world economy
Assigned reading: Globalization Reader, part VI
Extra reading:
Rawi Abdelal, “How Europe wrote the rules of global
finance”
Clay Risen, “The awful effects of American
protectionism”
Assignment:
11-9
Contending visions of a new world order
Assigned reading: Globalization Reader, part X
Extra reading:
Timothy Garton Ash, “Multipolar disorder”
http://www.radicalmiddle.com/x_korten.htm
http://bostonreview.net/BR31.4/banerjee.html
Assignment:
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Hegemonic instability
Assigned reading: Theoretical Evolution, part 8
Extra reading:
Assignment:
11-16
Implications for the “American Empire”
Assigned reading:
Extra reading:
http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendlyview.ww?id=11722
Assignment:
11-21
Planet and environment
Assigned reading: Globalization Reader, part IX
Extra reading:
Assignment:
11-28
Case studies of globalization and glocalization
Assigned reading: To be announced
Extra reading:
To be announced
Assignment:
Discuss research projects
11-30
Case studies of globalization and glocalization
Assigned reading: To be announced
Extra reading:
To be announced
Assignment:
Discuss research projects
12-5
Case studies of globalization and glocalization
Assigned reading: To be announced
Extra reading:
To be announced
Assignment:
Discuss research projects
12-7
Case studies of globalization and glocalization
Assigned reading: To be announced
Extra reading:
To be announced
Assignment:
Discuss research projects
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