Syllabus
Y669 International
Political Economy
(Course
No. 10211) -- Spring 2009
Class
Meets Wed. 4:35-6:35pm, Woodburn Hall, Room 200
Instructor:
Jeffrey Hart
Office:
Woodburn Hall 346
Office
Hours: Wed 1-3pm and by appointment
Phone: 855-9002
Email: hartj@indiana.edu
Course
web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~gradipe
The
seminar will be divided into two halves.
The first half involves discussion of a common core of readings (see the
list below). The second half is
organized around presentations by seminar participants on journal articles and
books on topics of special interest. A
longer list of optional readings is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~ipe/bibliog.html which may be used to help define these
presentations. Each presenter will be
responsible for providing one copy of important articles for classroom
discussion at least two weeks before his/her presentation.
Grades
will be based on a midterm examination (25%), a seminar presentation (25%), and
a term paper based on the seminar presentation (50%).
The following books have been ordered for
purchase and will be available at the Indiana Memorial Union bookstore:
Andrew
Walter and Gautam Sen, Analyzing
the Global Political Economy, 2008
John Ravenhill, ed., Global
Political Economy, 2008
Reading List and Course Schedule
|
Jan. 14 |
No reading assignment. |
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Jan. 21 |
Walter and Sen,
ch. 1; Stephen
Krasner, "State Power and the Structure of International Trade," World Politics 28 (April 1976), pp. 317-347; Ravenhill, chs. 1-4. |
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Jan. 28 |
Walter and Sen,
chs. 2-3; Joseph Grieco
and John Ikenberry, “The
Economics of International Trade,” in Grieco
and Ikenberry, State
Power and Markets, ch. 2; Ronald Rogowski, “Political
Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade,” American Political Science Review, 81
(December 1987), pp. 1121-1137; Goddard volume, chs.
6 and 9; Ravenhill, chs.
5-6. |
|
Feb. 4 |
Walter and Sen,
chs.4-5; Ravenhill, chs.
7-8; Joan E. Spero and Jeffrey Hart, The Politics of International Economic
Relations, 7th edition, ch.
2. |
|
Feb.11 |
Walter and Sen,
chs. 6-7; Ravenhill, chs. 9-14; Spero
and Hart, ch. 4. |
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Feb. 18 |
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Feb. 25 |
Spero
and Hart, ch. 10; Anders Åslund,
Russia’s
Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
(Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute, 2007); and Thomas G. Rawski,
“Can
China Sustain Rapid Growth Despite Flawed Institutions?”, May 2008. |
|
Mar. 4 |
John G. Ruggie,
“What
Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-Utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist
Challenge,” International
Organization, 52 (Autumn 1998), pp. 855-885; Wayne Sandholtz
and Alec Stone Sweet, “Law,
Politics and International Governance,” in Christian Reus-Smit, ed., The
Politics of International Law, 2004; Spero
and Hart, ch. 11. |
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Mar.11 |
Midterm Examination |
|
Mar. 25 |
Benjamin J. Cohen, "The
Transatlantic Divide: Why Are American and British IPE So Different?," Review of International Political Economy
(2007) ; Walter and Sen,
ch. 8. |
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Apr. 1 |
Presentations |
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Apr. 8 |
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Apr. 15 |
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Apr. 22 |
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Apr. 29 |
Conclusion and Seminar Papers are Due |