In this session we will introduce the subject of International (or Global) Political Economy. We will discuss the key themes of the course – globalization and crises – and the historical/event-based approach of most of the sessions.
Required Readings
Introduction of O’Brien and Williams
Chapter 1 of Ravenhill
Geoffrey Underhill, “State, market, and Global Political Economy: Genealogy of an (inter-?) discipline” International Affairs 76/4(2000), pp. 805-824.
Barry Gills, “Globalization, crisis and transformation: World systemic crisis and the historical dialectics of capital”, Globalizations, 7(1-2): 275-288.
Recommended Readings
Chapters 1, 6 & 11 of Chang
Robert Gilpin, Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001), Chapters 1 & 4
Stephen Gill and David Law, The Global Political Economy: Perspectives, Problems and Policies (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf), Chapter 1.
Susan Strange, “International economics and international politics: A case of mutual neglect”, International Affairs, Vol. 46, No. 2 (April 1970), pp.304-315.
Stephen Gill, “Introduction: global crises and the crisis of global leadership”, in S. Gill (ed) Global Crisis and the Crisis of Global Leadership (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp.1-20.
Philip G. Cerny, “Paradoxes of the competition state: The dynamics of political globalization”, Government and Opposition 32, no. 2 (1997): 251-274.
Podcasts & Videos
Globalisation and the effect on economies (Ngaire Woods, Oxford)