Readings

9/10: Prelude. Tony Judt. Ill Fares The Land: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/29/ill-fares-the-land/?pagination=false

9/12: Barber–Jihad McWorld, Sen–Judging Globalism, Gray–Great Transformation to Free Market, Wallerstein–Rise:Decline, Michthelwait–Hidden Promise

9/17: Harvey–Freedom’s Just Another Word, Harvey–The Construction of Consent

9/19: Schaeffer–Globalizing Production In the US, Europe, Japan

The Wall Street Journal. “We’ve become a nation of takers, not makers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576219073867182108.html

9/24: Ohmae:Strange Decline of State, Harvey–Neoliberal State

9/26: Gereffi–The Global Economy, Bull–Beyond the State System, Stliglitz–Promise of Global Institutions

Vreeland–IMF, Slaughter–New Worl Order, Halliday–Global Governance Proposects and Problems

Anne-Marie Slaughter. A New World Order

10/1: Schaeffer–Debt Crisis and Globalization

10/3: Reader–Inequality Readings, Chang–Market Reforms Don’t make Countries Rich

10/8: wallerstein–curve of american power, Chua–Day of Empire Introduction, Chua-US as Hyperpower, Hardt and Negri–Empire

10/10: Tilly–Globalization Threatens Labor Rights, Bhagwati-In Defense of Globalization chpt 10, Herod–Contradictions of Labor Internationalism, Chun-Organizing at the Margins Chpt 1

10/15: Brink Lindsey. Poor Choice: Why Globalization Didn’t Create 9/11: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/poor-choice-why-globalization-didnt-create-911

Robert K Schaeffer. “The Legacy of Partition in India and Pakistan: 1947-1948”

“Partition in Palestine: 1948”

“Revolution and war in Iran and Iraq: 1978-1980”

“Revolution and War in Afghanistan”

“The Aftermath of 9/11”

10/17: Harvey–The Condition of Postmodernity

10/22: No Class, Fall Recess

10/24: No Class, Sorry.

10/29: Kellner–globalizationpostmodernturn

10/31: Experiencing Globalization Readings

11/5: Chua–Globalization and Ethnic Hatred,

11/7: Peter Thomson Guest Lecture on Global Environmental Issues