This course will examine the politics of international economics, and to a lesser extent, the economic determinants of international politics. We will survey both the history of international political economy and theories that seek to explain it. Our goal will not only be one of explaining the world around us, but as well, to explore the ways that scholars of international politics and economics formulate and think about questions of importance. In this class we will explore the discourse on globalization that has emerged in several disciplines, including political science, economics, geography, womenUs studies, sociology, and anthropology. The readings focus first on the description of the phenomenon of globalization.
Globalization is defined differently by various authors.
Also, it's temporal and spatial boundaries differ from author to author. Yet the rich discourse on globalization does reflect the reactions by capital, the state, and labor to change in the world political economy. Globalization as a concept is part of the political discourse on such change. We will focus on the reactions to globalization by capital, the state and labor while we keep in mind the definitional problems and normative dimension of the term. Corporations have resorted to the formation of strategic alliances and the exportation of production from develop to developing areas of the world.