Schedule

Unit 1: Course Introduction

Week 1

Class 1: Introduction and Overview: What is IPE? Why should we care? (Monday, January 4) Slides

  • Read Course Site.
  • Carefully Read Course Policies.
  • Frieden. Global Capitalism. “Prologue.”

Unit 2: A Brief History of Globalization Then & Now

Class 2: The First Era of Globalization (Tuesday, January 5)

  • Frieden. Global Capitalism. Chs 1, 2, 5. (63 pp)

Class 3: Deglobalization (Wednesday, January 6)

  • Frieden. Global Capitalism. Chs 6, 8, 9. (81 pp)

Class 4: Reglobalization (Thursday, January 7)

  • Frieden. Global Capitalism. Chs 11, 13, 15. (63 pp)

Week 2

Class 5: Globalization Now (Monday, January 11)

  • Frieden. Global Capitalism. Chs 17, 18, 19; “Conclusion.” (65 pp)

Unit 3: The Economics of Globalization

Class 6: Economic Perspectives Then (Tuesday, January 12)

  • Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. Bk IV, Ch 8. (20 pp)
  • Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Selections from The German Ideology. In Selected Writings. Edited by David McLellan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (23 pp)
  • Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. 1787. “Query 12: Manufactures.” (3 pp) Available via: http://tinyurl.com/JeffersonNotes
  • Hamilton, Alexander. Report on Manufactures. 1791. Selections. (5 pp)

Class 7: Economic Perspectives Now (I) (Wednesday, January 13)

  • Wolf, Martin. Selections from Why Globalization Works. (In Mingst & Snyder.) (25 pp)
  • Krugman, Paul. “In Praise of Cheap Labor: Bad Jobs at Bad Wages Are Better Than No Jobs at All.” Slate, March 20 1997. (3 pp)
  • Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn. “Two Cheers for Sweatshops.” New York Times, September 24, 2000. (3 pp)

Class 8: Economic Perspectives Now (II) (Thursday, January 14)

  • Rodrik, Dani. “Trading in Illusions.” Foreign Policy (2001): 55-62.
  • Stiglitz, Joseph. Making Globalization Work. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2006. Ch 1. (20 pp)
  • Freeman, “Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?” (In Frieden & Lake.)

–Thursday, 14 January: Midterm Essay Due, 10:30 pm-

Week 3

Class 9: Special Project: Global Vermont (Monday, January 18)

Unit 4: The Politics of Globalization

Class 10: Political Perspectives Then (Tuesday, January 19)

  • Schmoller, Gustav von. The Mercantile System and Its Historical Significance Illustrated Chiefly from Prussian History. New York: Peter Smith, 1884. pp 50-80. (30 pp)
  • Angell, Norman. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909. Ch 3: “The Great Illusion.” (20 pp) Available via: Google Books.

Class 11: Political Perspectives Now (I) (Wednesday, January 20)

  • Friedman, Thomas. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Chs 1, 12. (37 pp)
  • Naím, Moisés. “The Five Wars of Globalization.” (In Mingst & Snyder.) (7 pp)

Class 12: Political Perspectives Now (II) (Thursday, January 21)

  • Keohane, Robert, and Joseph Nye. “Globalization: What’s new? What’s not? (And so what?).” Foreign Policy (2000): 104-119. Available via: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1149673
  • Barber, Benjamin. “Jihad versus McWorld.” Atlantic Monthly 269, no. 3 (1992): 53-65. Available via: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199203/barber
  • Milner, Helen V. “Globalization, Development, and International Institutions.” (In Mingst & Snyder.) (16 pp)

Unit 5: The Sociology of Globalization

Week 4

Class 13: Sociological Perspectives Then (Monday, January 25)

  • Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labor in Society. Free Press, 2008. Chs. 2-3 (61 pp)

Class 14: Sociological Perspectives Now (I) (Tuesday, January 26)

  • Sklair, Leslie. Sociology of the Global System. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Ch 1.
  • Tomlinson, John. “Globalization and Cultural Identity.” In The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, edited by David Held and Anthony McGrew, 269–77. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2003. (8 pp)

Class 15: Sociological Perspectives Now (II) (Wednesday, January 27)

  • Morris, Lydia. “Globalization, migration and the nation-state: the path to a post-national Europe?.” The British Journal of Sociology 48, no. 2 (1997): 192-209. Available via: http://www.jstor.org/stable/591748
  • Finnemore, Martha. “Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology’s Institutionalism.” International Organization 50, no. 2 (1996), 325-347. (22 pp) Available via: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2704081

Class 16: Global Vermont: Final Group Presentations (Thursday, January 28)