Global Political Economy
Global Political Economy
Order Description
Global Political Economy
Research Paper (35%): The final assignment is a research essay on any topic in Global Political Economy. It should be 10-12 (double-spaced), excluding the title page
and list of reference of cited work. It will be evaluated based on grasp of the topic and literature, quality of argument, depth of analysis and originality of
approach, as well as structure, organization, grammar, referencing and formatting.
Topic: Any topic related to Global Political Economy. Make sure to make a clear and concise analysis. I will provide the course schedule of what topics were discussed
throughout the course. Please pick from one of these and narrow a specific topic.
Course Schedule
Week 1 (Jan 11): Introduction to the Course
• Introductions: aims and objectives of the course; discussion of grading and
allocation of presentations
Week 2 (Jan. 18): The Study of Global Political Economy
Required Readings
John Ravenhill, ‘The Study of Global Political Economy’ Chapter 1 in Ravenhill (ed.) Global
Political Economy 4e. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. 3-24
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1987), pp. 1-64
Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political
Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), Part II, pp. 49-109
Robert Cox, ‘Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations
Theory’ Millennium: Journal of International Studies vol. 10, no. 2 (1981):126-155
[Note: Remember Friday, 20 January, 2017 is the final date of registration]
Week 3 (Jan 25): Historical Roots I: ‘Classical’ Political Economy
Required Readings
Mathew Watson, ‘The Historical Roots of Theoretical Traditions in Global Political
Economy’ Chapter 2 in Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political Economy; pp 25-49
Adam Smith, Excerpts from An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of
Nations (Book I: Chapters 1, 2 & 3)
David Ricardo, Excerpts from The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Chapter
VII)
Friedrich List, Excerpts from The National System of Political Economy (Chapters 12 & 26)
Week 4: (Feb 1): Historical Roots II: Marxism as a Critique of Classical Political
Economy
Required Readings
Karl Marx, Part 8 of Capital, vol. 1: ‘Primitive Accumulation’
Frederick Engels, ‘Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy’ In Marx and Engels Reader
Vol. 3
Vladimir I. Lenin, ‘Imperialism, as a Special Stage of Capitalism,’ Chapter VII of
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Sydney: Resistance Books)
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Week 5 (Feb 8): What is Left Out? Race, Gender and Coloniality
Required Readings
Frantz Fanon, ‘Concerning Violence’ in The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove,
1963), pp. 35-106
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (New
York: Autonomedia, 2004), pp. 61-132
Aníbal Quijano, ‘Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality’, Cultural Studies, vol. 21 nos. 2-3
(2007), pp. 168-178
Chandra Mohanty, ‘Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination,
Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity’ in M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures
(New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 3-29
Week 6 (Feb 15): The Rise of the Global Economic System
Required Readings
Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
(London: Verso), Chapter 1, pp. 28-75
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1944), Chapters 4, 5, 6).
Enrique Dussel, ‘The “World-System”: Europe As “Centre” and Its “Periphery” Beyond
Eurocentrism,’ in Eduardo Mendieta and Pedro Lange-Churión (eds.) Latin America and
Postmodernity: A Contemporary Reader, (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press,
2001), 93–112
Mike Davis, ‘The Origins of the Third World’, in Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines
and the Making of the Third World (London: Verso, 2001), pp. 279-310
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1944), pp. 51-84
Week 7 (Feb 22): No Class [Study Break 16 - 20 February]
Week 8 (March 1): The Bretton Woods System
Required Readings
John M. Keynes, Selections from The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in
Alex Hulsemeyer, International Political Economy: A Reader; pp. 35-46
Stephen McBride and John Shields, ‘The Post-War Canadian State’ Chapter 2 in Dismantling
a Nation: The Transition to Corporate Rule in Canada (Halifax: Fernwood, 1997),
pp. 35-51
John G. Ruggie, ‘International Regimes, Transactions and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the
Post-war Economic Order,’ International Organization, Vol. 36, no. 2 (1982), pp. 379-
415
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Philip McMichael, ‘The Development Project’ Chapter 3 in Development and Social Change:
A Global Perspective 4e (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2008), pp. 55-84
Panitch, Leo and Sam Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of
American Empire (London: Verso2012); Introduction, pp. 1-21
Week 9 (March 8): Neoliberalism
Required Readings
Friedrich von Hayek, ‘The Principles of a Liberal Social Order’ in Studies in Philosophy,
Politics and Economics (New York: Touchstone: 1969), pp. 160-177
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005);
Introduction, chapters 1, 2, &3, pp. 1-86
Eric Helleiner, ‘From Bretton Woods to Global Finance: A World Turned Upside Down’ in
Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing
Global Order (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994), pp. 163-75
Peter Gowan, ‘The Evolution of the DWSR from the 1970s to the 1990s’ Chapter 5 in
Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance (London: Verso,
1999), pp. 30-59
[Note: Remember, Friday 10 March, 2017 is the final date for withdrawal without
academic penalty]
Week 10 (March 15): The Globalisation Project
Required Readings
Philip McMichael, ‘Instituting the Globalisation Project’ Chapter 6 in Development and
Social Change: A Global Perspective 4e (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press,
2008), pp. 149-189
Anthony McGrew, ‘The Logic of Economic Globalization’, Chapter 9 in Ravenhill (ed.)
Global Political Economy; pp. 225-254
Goran Therborn ‘Globalizations: Dimensions, Historical Waves, Regional Effects, Normative
Governance,’ International Sociology Vol. 15, no. 2 (2000): 151–179.
Giovanni Arrighi, ‘Globalisation and Historical Macrosociology’ In Janet Abu-Lughod, ed.,
Sociology for the Twenty-First Century: Continuities and Cutting Edges. (Chicago:
Chicago University Press 2000), pp. 117-133.
Stephen Gill, ‘Globalisation, Market Civilisation and Disciplinary Neoliberalism’,
Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 24, no. 3 (1995); 399-423
Week 11 (March 22): Global Integration of Production, Finance and Trade
Required Readings
Eric Thun, ‘The Globalization of Production’, Chapter 11 in Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political
Economy; pp. 283-302
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Gilbert R. Winham, ‘The Evolution of the Global Trade Regime’, Chapter 5 in Ravenhill
(ed.) Global Political Economy; pp.109-138
Eric Helleiner, ‘The Evolution of the International Monetary and Financial System’, Chapter
7 in Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political Economy; pp. 173-197
John Ravenhill, ‘Regional Trade Agreements’ Chapter 6 in Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political
Economy; pp. 139-170
Raimo Vayrynen, ‘Regionalism: Old and New’ International Studies Review Vol. 5, no. 1
(2003), pp. 25-52
Week 12 (March 29): Global Inequality and the Politics of Aid and Development
Required Readings
Robert Hunter Wade, ‘Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence, Arguments, and
Economists’ in Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political Economy; pp. 305-343
Nicola Phillips, ‘Globalization and Development’ in Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political
Economy; pp. 344-371
Mike Davies, ‘SAPing the Third World,’ Chapter 7 in Planet of the Slums (London: Verso,
2006), pp. 151 –173
Stephen Gill, ‘Constitutionalizing Inequality and the Clash of Globalizations,’ International
Studies Review, Vol. 4, no. 2 (2002), pp. 47-65
Fahimul Quadir, ‘Rising Donors and the New Narrative of ‘South–South’ Cooperation: what
prospects for changing the landscape of development assistance programmes?’ Third
World Quarterly, Vol. 34, no.2 (2013), pp. 321-338
Week 13 (April 5): World Ecology and the GPE of the Environment
Required Readings
Peter Dauvergne, ‘Globalization and the Environment’, Chapter 14 in Ravenhill (ed.) Global
Political Economy; pp. 372-397
Farshad Araghi, ‘Accumulation by Displacement: Global Enclosures, Food Crisis, and the
Ecological Contradictions of Capitalism’ Review (Fernand Braudel Centre), Vol. 32,
no. 1, (2009), pp. 113-146
Bikrum Gill, ‘A Decolonial World-Ecological Reading of the Global Land Grab: Gambella,
the River and the Fall of Karuturi’ In Zubairu Wai and Marta Iniguez de Heredia
(eds.) International Relations and Discourses of Africa’s Nonfulfilment (London &
New York: Routledge, 2017 forthcoming)
Jason W. Moore, ‘The Capitalocene Part I: On the Nature & Origins of Our Ecological
Crisis’ Fernand Braudel Center June 2014)
https://www.jasonwmoore.com/uploads/The_Capitalocene__Part_I__June_2014.pdf