GLOBAL ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE (4 Credits)

Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student 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:

1. Introduction to global economic architecture;
2. Structuring the order;
3. World trading system in the 20th century and beyond;
4. The political economy of world trading system;
5. Global monetary system in the 20th century and beyond;
6. Reforming international monetary system;
7. The US economic hegemony;
8. World economic order: Western dominance;
9. North-South and South-South Economic Relations;
10. North-South and South-South Economic Relations 2;
11. The gentlemen clubs;
12. Global economic leadership;
13. Catching Up with the West: New Industrialised Countries;
14. The Asian Miracle;
15. The political economy of regional integration;
16. Making regionalism works;
17. Study Visit: The Tale of the Two Crisis;
18. Study Visit: The Global Financial Crisis in the 2000s;
19. The other side of the coin: development agenda;
20. Economic Discussion Forum;
21. The rise of BRICS;
22. The core of BRICS: China plays dominant role;
23. Withering the Western dominance;
24. Reordering world economic order;
25. Assignment Presentation 1;
26. Assignment Presentation 2.