INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS (2 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify the political economic aspects of multinational companies; describe historical development related to multinational companies; explain policy aspects that govern the operation of multinational companies; analyze the relations between the state, the international regime, and the multinational companies.

Topics:

1. The State and the Multinationals_1;
2. Early Multinational Companies;
3. The early emergence of multinational corporations from the resource-scarce countries;
4. The emerging MNC and the New Asian Multinationals;
5. Political Relations between Headquarter and the subsidiaries: case studies;
6. Introduction: MNCs and their pathways of influence in global politics;
7. The State and the Multinationals_2;
8. Contemporary issues “MNCs and state infrastructural power;
9. Globalizing state capitalism? Selective internationalization of MNCs from emerging economies;
10. Corporate influence and environmental regulation in shipping: navigating norms and influence pathways in the International Maritime Organization;
11. Knowledge and power: the role of the Big Four in the competitive disharmonization of global corporate tax avoidance regulations;
12. MNCs and their role in global business associations;
13. Private sustainability governance and global corporate power;
14. Tutorial to case of Multinational Corporations and Global Governance;
15. Tutorial to case of The early emergence of multinational corporations from the resource abundant countries;
16. tutorial to case of The Protest Movement and the Future of Global Governance of Multinational Corporations;
17. Tutorial to case of the Global War of Internet Governance;
18. Political Relations between Headquarter and the subsidiaries: case studies;
19. Tutorial to Case MNC and SOE towards RCEP in ASEAN.