SELECTED TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (4 Credits)
Learning outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Identify the elements that structure global economic architecture; Explain the development of global economic architecture; Illustrate the interaction between actors within global economic context; Analyze strategic issues and empirical cases that influence global economic architecture.
Topics:
- Introduction to global economic architecture;
- Structuring the order;
- World trading system in the 20th century and beyond;
- The political economy of world trading system;
- Global monetary system in the 20th century and beyond;
- Reforming international monetary system;
- The US economic hegemony;
- World economic order: Western dominance;
- North-South and South-South Economic Relations;
- North-South and South-South Economic Relations 2;
- The gentlemen clubs;
- Global economic leadership;
- Catching Up with the West: New Industrialised Countries;
- The Asian Miracle;
- The political economy of regional integration;
- Making regionalism works;
- Study Visit: The tale of the two crises;
- Study Visit: The global financial crisis in the 2000s;
- The other side of the coin: development agenda;
- Discussion Forum;
- The rise of BRICS;
- The core of BRICS: China plays dominant role;
- Withering the Western dominance;
- Reordering world economic order;
- Assignment Presentation 1;
- Assignment Presentation 2.
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