2002/2003 Department of Political Science THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - POLI 5520R WINTER TERM

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1 2002/2003 Department of Political Science THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - POLI 5520R WINTER TERM Professor: Gilbert R. Winham Telephone: Office: Room 365, A&A Building Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00-4:00 Course Description The second half of Theories of International Relations will deal broadly with economic factors in international affairs, and with certain theories that support a focus on those factors. Historically, it has been said that nations interacted principally through war or trade. This simple behavioural distinction clearly no longer describes today s complex world. Nevertheless, one can see reflections of this distinction in the approaches to international studies that emphasize security and defence issues on the one hand, versus approaches that emphasize political economy on the other. It is common today to speak of international political economy as a sub-discipline of international relations, and to expect that this sub-discipline will focus on different questions than those raised by those whose main focus are war and peace. This course is divided into two sections. The first will examine theories that form building blocks of the study of political economy, such as the economic determinants of politics, or theories of cooperation or system change. Just as Classical Realism is a building block to the study of security in the world, so also are theories such as cooperation fundamental to an understanding of political economic behaviour. The second section of the course will deal with the different subject areas that are normally examined under the heading of international political economy, such as trade, finance, and development. Each of these areas has spawned theoretical efforts on its own, and an attempt will be made to acquaint the student with some these efforts. Taken in toto, international political economy is a complex sub-field because of the vast factual material it engages, and because of the diversity of theory - from far Left to far Right - that claims to represent the field. An attempt will be made in Class 7 to review empirically the subjects that comprise the field of international political economy, simply to ensure that subsequent theoretical efforts proceed from a common base of understanding. As for the diversity of theory in international political economy, much of this has been generated as a criticism of contemporary economic policy making, or even as a fundamental critique of the broader field of International Relations Theory. 1

2 2 Several examples of these theoretical efforts are presented in the syllabus. The coursework consists of the discussion of class readings, led by the instructor, and in-class reports presented by designated students. Readings for reports are set in the syllabus; reports are expected to be about 15 minutes (including brief discussion), and should be accompanied with a 1-2 page summary of the reading. One 15 page paper is expected at the end of each section, on a question to be set by the instructor. The final grade for the course will be compiled as follows: two papers, 70%, class participation (including reports) 30%. SECTION ONE International Relations Theory: General Class 1 Class 2 Introduction to Course -Review of Syllabus -Assignment of Class Reports Economic Determinants of International Politics Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, New York: Random House, Introduction, Chapters 1,7,8. W.W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth, 2 nd Ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, Chapters 1-4. Peter A. Gourevitch, International Trade Domestic Coalitions, and Liberty: Comparative Responses to the Crisis of ", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. VIII (1977). David A. Lake, International Economic Structures and American Foreign Economic Policy, ", World Politics, Vol. 35:4 (July, 1983). Class 3 John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State, New York: Mentor, The Problem of Cooperation in International Relations Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, 1984 Chapters 1-7,11.

3 3 Stephen Haggard and Beth Simmons, Theories of international regimes, International Organization (Summer, 1987). Susan Strange, Cave! Hic Dragones: A Critique of Regime Analysis, International Organization, Vol. 36:2 (Spring, 1982). Class 4 James N. Rosenau and Ernst Otto Czempiel (eds.), Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The Techniques of Cooperation: Institutional Bargaining and Negotiation Andrew Moravcsik, A New Statecraft? Supranational Entrepreneurs and International Cooperation, International Organization, Vol. 53: 2 (Spring, 1999). Oran Young, Comment on Andrew Moravcsik, A New Statecraft? Supranational Entrepreneurs and International Cooperation, International Organization, Vol. 53: 4 (Autumn, 1999). Andrew Moravcsik, Theory and Method in the Study of International Negotiation: A Rejoinder to Oran Young, Ibid. Thomas Risse, Let s Argue! Communicative Action in World Politics, International Organization, Vol. 54:1 (Winter, 2000). Karl Ravstiala, Domestic Institutions and International Regulatory Cooperation: Comparative Responses to the Convention on Biological Diversity, World Politics, Vol. 49:4 (July, 1997). H. Richard Friman, Side-payments versus Security Cords: Domestic Bargaining Tactics in International Economic Negotiations, International Organization, Vol. 47:3 (Summer, 1993). Anatol Rapoport, Fights, Games and Debates, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, John Odell, Negotiating the World Economy, Cornell, Class 5 System Change and the End of the Cold War Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, New

4 York: Avon, 1992, Introduction, Chapters 1-12, [p. 198], 19-20, 23-26; skim remainder. Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilization, Foreign Affairs (Summer, 1993). 4 John J. Mearsheimer, Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 266:2 (August, 1990). Daniel Philpott, The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations, World Politics, Vol. 52 (January, 2000). Richard Ned Lebow and Thomas Risse-Kappen (eds.), International Relations Theory and The End of the Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press, John Lewis Gaddis, International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, International Security, Vol. 17:3 (Winter, 1992/93). Class 6 Globalization and the Nation State Jean Marie Guehenno, The End of the Nation State (tran. Victoria Elliott) (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). Robert Wade, Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of the National Economy are Greatly Exaggerated in Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore (eds.), National Diversity and Global Capitalism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Review from first term: Joseph Nye, The Paradox of American Power, 2002, Chapter 3 Globalization. Dorothy J. Solinger, Globalization and the paradox of participation: The Chinese Case, Global Governance, (Apr.-Jan. 2001). Peter Evans, The Eclipse of the State : Reflection on Statelessness in an Era of Globalization, World Politics, 50:1 (October, 1997). The State in a Changing World, (World Bank: World Development Report, 1997).

5 5 SECTION TWO International Political Economy Class 7 Overview of International Political Economy Joan Spero and Jeffrey A. Hart, The Politics of International Economic Relations, Fifth Edition, New York: St. Martin s Press, 1997, Chapters 1-5. V.I. Lenin, Selections from Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, in Jeffrey A. Frieden and David A. Lake, International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, (2 nd Ed.), St. Martin s, Repots: Louis W. Pauly and Simon Reich, National structures and multinational corporate behavior: enduring differences in the age of globalization, International Organization, 51:1 (Winter, 1997). Mark Kesselman, How Should One Study Economic Policy- Making: Four Characters in Search of an Object, World Politics, Vol. 44:4 (July 1992). Kendall W. Stiles and Tsuneo Akaha, International Political Economy: A Reader, New York: Harper Collins, Peter B. Kenen (ed.), Managing the World Economy: Fifty Years After Bretton Woods, Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, Class 8 Theories of International Political Economy Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1-3, 10. Robert W. Cox, Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory, Millennium, Vol. 10:2 (1991). Ethan B. Kapstein, Winners and Losers in the Global Economy, International Organization, Vol. 54:2 (Spring, 2000). M. Shamsul Hague, The Fate of Sustainable Development Under Neo-Liberal Regimes in Developing Countries, International

6 6 Political Science Review, Vol. 20:2 (1999). Class 9 Theodore H. Cohn, Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice, New York: Longman, International Trade Sylvia Ostry, The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who s on First, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), Preface, Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7 (skim 3-5). Gilbert R. Winham, The World Trade Organization: Institution- Building in the Multilateral Trade System, The World Economy, Vol. 21:3 (May 1998). Susan Strange, Protectionism and World Politics, International Organization, Vol. 39:2 (Spring, 1985). John S. Odell, Understanding International Trade Policies: An Emerging Synthesis, World Politics, 43:1 (October, 1990). Ernest H. Preeg, Traders in a Brave New World: The Uruguay Round and the Future of the International Trading System, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Gilbert R. Winham, The Evolution of International Trade Agreements, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Class 10 Global Finance Eric Helleiner, States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Chapters 1,7-9, Skim Chapters 2-6. Benjamin A. Cohen, Phoenix Arisen: The Resurrection of Global Finance, World Politics, Vol. 48:2 (January, 1996). Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics, Foreign Affairs, January/February, John B. Goodman and Louis W. Pauly, The Obsolescence of Capital Controls: Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets, World Politics, Vol. 46 (October, 1993).

7 7 Class 11 Louis W. Pauly, Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, International Development Policy Robert Wade, Governing the Market: Economics Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization, Princeton: Princeton University Press, Introduction, Chapters 1-3, 10-11, Skim Chapters 4-9. Graham Bird, The International Monetary Fund and developing countries: a review of the evidence and policy options, International Organization, Vol. 50:3 (Summer, 1996). Gilbert R. Winham, Explanations of Developing Country Behaviour in the GATT Uruguay Round Negotiation, World Competition, 21:3 (March, 1998). Class 12 John Williamson (ed.), The Political Economy of Reform, Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, The Future of International Political Economy Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, Norton, 2002, Chapter 1, 2, 3, 9. Rigged Rules and Double Standards: Trade, Globalization and the Fight Against Poverty, Oxfaxm, Executive Summary, Introduction. Martin Wolf, Doing More Harm Than Good, Financial Times, May 8, Report: Eric Helleiner, Economic Nationalism as a Challenge to Economic Liberalism? Lessons from the 19 th Century, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46:3 (Sept. 2002). Jagdish Bhagwati, Free Trade Today, Princeton University Press, 2002.