11-1, or by appt. Political Science often neglects global finance. Perhaps the seemingly arcane nature and complexity of global finance intimidates political scientists. But ignoring global finance severely constrains our explorations and understanding of the international political economy.
Finance sits at the very heart of trade, growth, development, and political stability.
The Depression, Third World Debt Crisis, South East Asian financial crises, Mexican Peso Crisis, and EMS crisis are as much political as financial shocks. Global finance stagnated for many years following the Great Depression. In the 1960s, it began to reemerge. Over the next thirty years global financial relations, and political arrangements governing those relations, underwent stunning transformations. The changes amount to one of the most stunning and significant transformations in social relations in the twentieth century.