POLS 254-01: Globalization

Syllabus

Week 1 – Introduction

Session 1 – Globalization & Politics (1/20)
Session 2 – History or Globalization Reloaded (1/22)

Readings:

Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, pp. 3-30. [Reserve]
Joseph Grieco, “The International Political Economy since WWII,” pp. 1-24.
Angus Maddison, “The West and the Rest in the International Economic Order,” OECD Observer 235 (December 2002).
A. T. Kearney Inc., “The Globalization Index,” Foreign Policy (November/December 2006), pp. 74-81.

Week 2 – Institutions & Technology

Session 1 – Institutional Enablers (1/27)

Readings:

Benjamin J. Cohen, “The Resurrection of Global Finance,” World Politics 48, no. 2 (January 1996): 268-296. [Project Muse ]
Saskia Sassen, “The Participation of States and Citizens in Global Governance,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 10, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 5-28. [Project Muse ]

Session 2 – Technological Enablers (1/29)

Readings:

Daniel H. Pink, “Why the World is Flat ,” Wired Magazine 13 (May 2005).
Daniel H. Pink, “Why the World is Flat: The Ten Great Levelers ,” Wired Magazine 13 (May 2005).
Michale Truscello, “The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and the Tactical Postructuralist Anarchism ,” Postmodern Culture 13, no. 3 (2003). [Project Muse]

Week 3 – Ethics & Culture

Session 1 – Values & Disagreements (2/3)

Readings:

Kwame Anthony Appiah (2007) Cosmopolitanism, pp. 1-85.

Session 2 – Imaginary Strangers & Real Obligations (2/5)

Readings:

Kwame Anthony Appiah (2007) Cosmopolitanism, pp. 87-176.

Week 4 – Citizenship, Sovereignty, Ideology

Session 1 – (2/10)

Readings:

Aihwa Ong (2006) Neoliberalism as Exception, pp. 1-118.

Session 2 – (2/12)

Readings:

Aihwa Ong (2006) Neoliberalism as Exception, pp.121-239.

Week 5 – The Global Circuit (I)

Session 1 – Mobility & Agglomeration (2/17)

Readings:

Saskia Sassen (2001) Global Cities: New York, London, Tokyo, pp. 3-84.

Session 2 – Networks & Hierarchies (2/19)

Readings:

Saskia Sassen (2001) Global Cities: New York, London, Tokyo, pp. 85-196.

Week 6 – The Global Circuit (II)

Session 1 – Social Order (2/24)

Readings:

Saskia Sassen (2001) Global Cities: New York, London, Tokyo, pp. 197-250.

Session 2 – Class & Spatial Polarization (2/26)

Readings:

Saskia Sassen (2001) Global Cities: New York, London, Tokyo, pp. 251-358.

Week 7 – “Externalities”

Session 1 – (3/3)

Readings:

Mike Davis (2006) Planet of Slums, pp. 1-94.

Session 2 – (3/5)

Readings:

Mike Davis (2006) Planet of Slums, pp. 95-198.

MIDTERM ESSAY (Essay question handed out in class on 3/6)

Week 8 – Economic Globalization (I)

Session 1 – (3/10)

Readings:

Martin Wolf (2004) Why Globalization Works, pp. 3-94.

Session 2 – (3/12)

Readings:

Martin Wolf (2004) Why Globalization Works, pp. 95-219

MIDTERM ESSAY (Due on Friday 3/13/08 at or before Noon)

[SPRING BREAK]

Week 9 – Economic Globalization (II)

Session 1 – (3/24)

Readings:

Martin Wolf (2004) Why Globalization Works, pp. 220-320.

Session 2 – (3/26)

Readings:

Dani Rodrik (2007) One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth, pp. 1-95.

Week 10 – Economic Globalization (III)

Session 1 – (3/31)

Readings:

Dani Rodrik (2007) One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth, pp. 99-192.

Session 2 – (4/2)

Readings:

Dani Rodrik (2007) One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth, pp. 195-242.

Week 11 – Case Study I: Globalization in the Gulf

Session 1 – Traditionalism globalized or Globalization traditionalized? (4/7)

Readings:

John Fox, ed. (2006) Globalization and the Gulf, pp. 1-60.

Session 2 – Concepts, History, Dynamics, and Consequences (4/9)

Readings:

John Fox, ed. (2006) Globalization and the Gulf, pp. 61-124.

Week 12 – Case Study I: Globalization in the Gulf

Session 1 – Gulf Engulfed (4/14)

Readings:

John Fox, ed. (2006) Globalization and the Gulf, pp. 125-162.

Session 2 – Ambivalent Anxieties (4/16)

Readings:

John Fox, ed. (2006) Globalization and the Gulf, pp. 163-287.

Week 13 – Case Study II: Globalization in India

Session 1 – History (4/21)

Readings:

Jackie Assayag and Chris Fuller, eds. (2005) Globalizing India,pp. 1-46.

Session 2 – Economy and Agriculture (4/23)

Readings:

Jackie Assayag and Chris Fuller, eds. (2005) Globalizing India,pp. 47-118.

Week 14 – Case Study II: Globalization in India

Session 1 – Education and Language (4/28)

Readings:

Jackie Assayag and Chris Fuller, eds. (2005) Globalizing India,pp. 119-164.

Session 2 – Culture and Religion (4/30)

Readings:

Jackie Assayag and Chris Fuller, eds. (2005) Globalizing India, pp. 165-236.

Week 15 – Conclusion

Session 1 – Review Session (5/5)
Final Exam (TBA)