POLITICAL ECONOMY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

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1 POLITICAL ECONOMY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Dr. Valentine M. Moghadam Director, International Affairs Program Professor of Sociology and International Affairs 210H RP Office hours: Wed. 2 4 pm or by appointment Fall 2015 Wednesdays pm 201 RP Course description and objectives Political Economy is concerned with relations among political institutions, the social environment, and the economy and thus is a field that spans a number of disciplines. This course draws on perspectives from sociology, political science, law, economics, and classical social theory to gain an understanding of how states, institutions, policy choices, and social forces shape and are influenced by the global economy and the world polity. Changes in relations among and between the countries of the Global North and the Global South are also examined. In the process, we draw on concepts, propositions and theories from Marxian, world systems, and feminist theories as well as various disciplinary approaches to (international) political economy. The course has been designed for students in the MA IAF but is also suitable for other graduate students and upper level undergraduates. Learning outcomes Deepening the student s knowledge base in cross disciplinary approaches to the study of political economy, including development and globalization Enabling the student to discern the implications of various policy approaches to development, growth, human rights, social justice, and well being Understanding the relationship between civil society/social movement responses and forms of governance, including global governance Ability to critically assess past and existing policy initiatives, governance structures, and development outcomes transnationally or in specific cases Ability to apply different theoretical perspectives on political economy, development, and globalization to a range of contemporary issues for international public policy Course Requirements This course entails extensive readings and discussions, with considerable student participation. Each week, students lead discussion of the readings/supplemental material; other students will be called on to elaborate on the issues. This means that any absence without justification counts against your grade. (See below for grading.) By the second half of the semester, you will be able to prepare an 8 10 page proposal for your research paper that integrates a research question, a literature review, theory, concepts, methods, and a preliminary bibliography on a topic related to global political economy; please clear the topic with me in advance. 1

2 By the end of the semester you will have completed a page (6,000 8,000 words) research paper; the final sessions of class will be devoted to oral presentations, power points, and classroom discussions of the draft papers. Grading Participation and class discussion: 20% of grade Proposal: 30% Research paper: 50% Books: J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite (eds.), The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, [Parts I and II] This may be purchased through the NU bookstore, Amazon, or directly from the publisher (Wiley). You may purchase the 2014 edition if you prefer, but I will be using the older one. O Brien, Robert, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte, and Marc Williams Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This is available as an e book through Snell (you may read the book on line, download the whole book for 14 days at a time, or download the book by chapter. Available on Blackboard: Christopher Chase Dunn et al, Latin America in the World System: World Revolutions, Semiperipheral Development and the Evolution of Global Governance David Smith, Trade, Unequal Exchange, Global Commodity Chains: World system structure and economic development, pp in Salvatore Babones and Christopher Chase Dunn (eds.), Routledge Handbook of World Systems Analysis, Abingdon and NY: Routledge, Sarah Babb, The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory, and Likely Successor. Review of International Political Economy, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2013, Special Issue: Dreaming with the BRICS? The Washington Consensus and the New Political Economy of Development. Robert Wade, Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? World Development, vol. 32, no. 4 (2004): Oxfam, Even It Up: Time to End Extreme Inequality (London: Oxfam, 2014) V. M. Moghadam, Engendering Development Sociology: The Evolution of a Field of Research, in Gregory Hooks (ed.), Handbook of the Sociology of Development (Univ. of Calif. Press, 2015). Transnational Feminism and Movement building. Ch. 2 in Rawwida Baksh and Wendy Harcourt (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements (Oxford University Press, 2015). Jasmine Kerrissey, Collective Labor Rights and Income Inequality, American Sociological Review, vol. 80, no. 3 (2015):

3 From Tonia Novitz and David Mangan (ed.), The Role of Labour Standards in Development: From Theory to Sustainable Practice? Oxford and New York: The British Academy and Oxford University Press, o Novitz and Mangan, An Introduction to the Role of Labour Standards in Development (pp. 1 15) o Bob Hepple, Comparative Institutional Advantage in the Context of Development (pp ) o Brian Langille, Human Freedom and Human Capital: Re imagining Labour Law for Development (pp ) o Judy Fudge, Gender, Equality and Capabilities: Care work and sustainable development (pp ) o Jacqui True, The Political Economy of Women s Human Rights: Problems of gender, violence, development, and labour (pp ) o Tonia Novitz, Big Unions and Big Business: Can international framework agreements promote sustainable development at a local level? (pp ). Useful websites and on line data sets: Millennium Development Goals: pdf [2008 Report] [2014 Report] United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report: United Nations University WIDER Institute, Helsinki UN Department of Economic and Social Analysis (DESA) see Report and policy briefs UNICEF, State of the World s Children (various years) UNFPA, State of World Population and UN Women, Progress of the World s Women library/publicaions/2015/4/progress of the worlds women 2015 World Bank, World Development Indicators ~piPK: ~theSitePK:239419,00.html GenderStats: World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report gender gap report 2013/#= World Food Programme resources International Fund for Agricultural Development 3

4 ATTAC [Assoc. for the Taxation of Financial Transactions]: capital/ Gapminder world stats International Labour Organization en/index.htm [be patient!] International Trade Union Confederation csi.org/ Institute for Research on World Systems: Journal of World Systems Research: Oxfam International: Public Services International psi.org/ World Development Movement: Policy Research Centers (Think Tanks) Organization Chatham House: The Royal Institute of International Affairs New Global History Pew Research Center Web Address

5 Schedule Week Readings Assignment 9 Sept. Introduction to the course and readings Read syllabus; examine websites 16 Sept. Roberts & Hite, Part I: Marx, Weber, Rostow, Huntington Discussion leaders, weekly response sheets 23 Sept. Roberts & Hite, Part II: Dependency and Beyond (Frank, Cardoso, Wallerstein, Gereffi, Moghadam); David Smith Same 30 Sept. O Brien et al, ch. 1; Babb, «The Washington Consensus» ; Wade; Oxfam Report 2014 Executive Summary 7 Oct. O Brien et al, ch. 2; Judy Fudge, Gender, Equality and Capabilities ; Jacqui True, The Political Economy of Women s Human Rights ; Moghadam, Gender and Development and Transnational Feminism Same Same 14 Oct. O Brien et al, ch. 3; Novitz and Mangan, An Introduction to the Role Same of Labour Standards in Development ; Bob Hepple, Comparative Institutional Advantage in the Context of Development ; Brian Langille, Human Freedom and Human Capital 21 Oct. O Brien et al, chapters 4 and 5 Same 28 Oct. O Brien et al, ch. 6; Tonia Novitz, «Big Unions and Big Business»; Same Kerrisey, Collective Labor Rights and Income Inequality 4 Nov. Chase Dunn, Latin America in the World System (and other IROWS papers) 11 Nov. Veterans Day No class Student research proposals due send via and submit hard copy on Tues. 10 th 18 Nov. Presentation and discussion of proposals and draft papers 25 Nov. Thanksgiving No class Draft papers due Tues., 24 Nov: submit via and hard copy 2 Dec. Draft papers presentations 9 Dec. Same 11 Dec. Final papers due Weekly Readings Response Sheet no more than two pages 1. What are the three main points or arguments? (in bullet points, for each reading) 2. Choose a contemporary policy or political issue citing a press account, a research article, a policy brief, or a technical report and discuss how the week s readings help you understand/explain that issue, or how they fall short. (If so inclined, you might also choose the topic of your final research paper.) 5

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7 Bibliography of Relevant Readings Arrighi, Giovanni, Terence K. Hopkins, and Immanuel Wallerstein Anti Systemic Movements. London: Verso. Chase Dunn, Christopher Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy. 2nd ed. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. Chase Dunn, Christopher, and Salvatore Babones, eds Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Cornia, Giovanni Andrea, Richard Jolly and Frances Stewart Adjustment with a Human Face: Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth. Oxford and NY: Clarendon Press and UNICEF. Cox, Robert W Global Perestroika. Pp in Socialist Register 1992, edited by Ralph Miliband and Leo Panitch. London: Merlin Press. Eckstein, Susan E., and Timothy Wickham Crowley (eds.) Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America. London: Routledge. Elson, Diane, and Ruth Pearson Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers: An Analysis of Women s Employment in Third World Export Manufacturing. Feminist Review (Spring): Frobel, Folker, Jurgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye The New International Division of Labor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Haslam, Paul A., Jessica Schafer, and Pierre Beaudet (eds.) Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues. Oxford and NY: Oxford University Press. Harvey, David A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. Cambridge: Polity Press. Leatherman, Janie, and Julie A. Webber (eds.) Charting Transnational Democracy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Lycklama à Nijeholt, Geertje, Virginia Vargas, and Saskia Wieringa, eds Women s Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. New York: Garland Publishing. Marchand, Marianne, and Anne Sisson Runyan, eds Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances. London: Routledge. Marglin, Stephen, and Juliet Schor (eds.) The Golden Age of Capitalism. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Marx, Karl Capital. Vol. I. Moscow: Progress Publishers. Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [1848]. The Communist Manifesto. NY: Monthly Review Press. 7

8 Mathews, Jessica Power Shift. Foreign Affairs 76, no. 1 (January February): Meyer, John, John Boli, George Thomas, Francisco Ramirez World Society and the Nation State. American Journal of Sociology 103, no. 1: Meyer, Mary K., and Elisabeth Prugl, eds Gender Politics in Global Governance. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Michigan State University, MSU Gender Center, GDIP papers Milanovic, Branko Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press The Haves and the Have Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality. NY: Basic Books. Moghadam, Valentine M Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement. Lanham and NY: Rowman & Littlefield (2 nd ed.) Women, Gender, and Economic Crisis Revisited. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology [PGDT], vol. 10: Moghadam, Valentine M., Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow (eds.) Making Globalization Work for Women: The Role of Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Moghadam, Valentine M. and Dilek Elveren The Making of an International Convention: Culture and Free Trade in a Global Era, in Review of International Studies, vol. 34, no. 4 (October): Munk, Ronaldo, ed Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects. Liverpool University Press. Oxfam Rigged Rules and Double Standards: Trade, Globalization, and the Fight Against Poverty. Oxford: Oxfam. Payer, Cheryl The Debt Trap: The International Monetary Fund and the Third World. New York: Monthly Review Press. Peterson, V. Spike A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Productive, Reproductive, and Virtual Economies. New York: Routledge. Podobnik, Bruce and Thomas Reifer (eds.) Transforming Globalization. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. Polanyi, Karl [1944]. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press. 8

9 Robinson, William I A Theory of Global Capitalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Rupert, Mark, and M. Scott Solomon Globalization and International Political Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Sklair, Leslie Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sparr, Pam (ed.) Mortgaging Women s Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment. London: Zed Books. Steger, Manfred Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. NY: OUP (2 nd ed.) Globalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Steger, Manfred and Ravi K. Roy Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction. NY: OUP. Strange, Susan The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Taylor, Lance External Liberalization, Economic Performance, and Distribution in Latin America and Elsewhere. Helsinki: WIDER Working Papers No. 215 (December) The Rocky Road to Reform: Adjustment, Income Distribution and Growth in the Developing World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Vieceli, Jacqueline M Assessing the Impact of Structural Adjustment on Prospects for Democracy in the Third World. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol. XVII, no. 2: Visvanathan, Nalini et al (eds.) The Women, Gender, and Development Reader. London: Zed Books. Walton, John, and David Seddon Free Markets and Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment. Oxford: Blackwell. Wilkinson, Richard and Kate Pickett The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. NY and London: Bloomsbury Press. 9