International Political Economy

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

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This course discusses the global patterns of production and trade, finance and investment, development and work. It compares systematically the competing accounts of these patterns, as provided by the different analytical languages used to articulate the modernist project. It also compares critiques of the way in which these debates are conducted by those who are marginalised by them, for example, by women, environmentalists, indigenous peoples, and postcolonials. In the process it confronts many of the key world issues of our day, like how do we effect the miracles of global supply? Whose needs get met and whose do not? How viable is the world economy?

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• be able to demonstrate competence in analytical, critical, and creative thinking, through the writing of weekly briefing papers, through essay writing, and through seminar discussions;

• be able to demonstrate proficiency in assessing the modernist context in which contemporary international politics are couched, and which they promote and protect on a global basis.