Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Dr. Govand Azeez
Contact via 9850 8811
W6426
Tuesday 12-1 or by appoinment
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp or (6cp in HIST or MHIS or POL units at 200 level including 3cp in POL)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit focuses on the relationship and interaction between politics/states and economics/markets at the national, international and global levels. Global/International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned with the study of those global problems and issues that cannot adequately be explained by recourse to economic, political, or sociological analysis alone. IPE is the study of international affairs that focuses on the elements of complex interdependence that define many of our most pressing problems today; it breaks down the barriers that separate and isolate the traditional methods of analysis, seeking a comprehensive understanding of issues, events and units of analysis.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Class Participation | 10% | 13 November |
In-Class Test | 30% | Week 7 Tuesday 13 September |
On-line Quiz | 10% | Week 3 August 16 |
Major Essay | 50% | Week 11 October 28 |
Due: 13 November
Weighting: 10%
All students are expected to do the required reading for each week in preparation for the lectures and seminars. Active and informed participation is expected in each week’s seminar from all students.
Due: Week 7 Tuesday 13 September
Weighting: 30%
A one-hour in-class test will be held in week 7 on the material covered in the first 6 weeks of the course.
Due: Week 3 August 16
Weighting: 10%
The Quiz will be undertaken by students on Tuesday of week 3 (August 16). Students will log in anytime on the Monday before midnight (the quiz will close at 12am sharp). You will have 45 minutes to complete the 3 questions. All answers are to be 100 words in length and no more. This is an open book exam and students can refer to lecture notes and readings to answer the questions. It is expected that you will reference in text as follows (Author surname, year: page no). The quiz is the same for both internal and external students.
Due: Week 11 October 28
Weighting: 50%
Major Essay:
The major essay is due Friday 28th October. The essay length is 3000 words (10% above and below allowed- nothing more) [including footnotes and bibliography]
Questions:
1. In what ways is IPE/GPE an analysis not only of the material world but of the constructed reality that defines the way the world is organised?
2. Which IPE/GPE perspective offers a better explanation and remedy for the current global economic crisis?
3. Do you agree with Philip McMichael that globalisation is a ‘historically specific project of global economic (financial) management’ prosecuted by a ‘powerful elite of financiers, international and national bureaucrats, and corporate leaders’ to restructure developing states and their economies? See McMichael in Roberts and Hite, The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Social Change, 1996: 218.
4. Does world-systems analysis provide a persuasive explanation for the disparities in wealth and power in the global political economy? What are the major criticisms of this approach and are they valid?
5. “Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.” (Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.)
In what way can the quote from Dr King be interpreted as a critique of how racism (and other forms of bigotry and discrimination) is generated by the capitalist system?
Submission of Essays
All essays are to be submitted through turn-it-in on the ilearn website. Journals will be submitted in your tutorials and handed directly to your tutor. Please remember to have your name, tutorial time, page number on each journal submission.
There will be strictly NO extensions on submission deadlines for essays other than on certified medical grounds. Late submissions of essays will be penalised at the rate of 2 marks a day. For example, if you submit your essay 3 days late, and if the paper would have normally been awarded a 75 (out of 100), then 6 marks will be deducted, resulting in 69 as the final grade for the paper.
All work submitted for this course will be graded according to the guidelines issued by the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations which are attached at the end of this course guide. Also, rubrics will be made available for the journals and essays.
There will be no written examination at the end of the semester.
This course has 1x2hr Lecture each week on Tuesday mornings from 10-12. Students also attend 1x1hr tutorial as timetabled. The class locations and times are as follows:
The first lecture is on Tuesday August 2. The first tutorial will be held on Tuesday August 9.
Lectures: Tuesday 10-12 in Room W5C229
Tutorials 1: Tuesday 2-3 in Room W5C211
Tutorials 2: Tuesday 3-4 in Room W5C211
The Course Reader for this Unit is O'Brien, R. and Williams, M. "Global Political Economy"4th edition, 2014, London: Palgrave Macmillan. available from the co-op.
Week 1 | August 2 | Introduction to the course (No tutorials this week) |
Week 2 | August 9 | Introducing GPE |
Week 3 | August 16 | Problem Solving Theories of GPE: mercantilism, liberalism and neoliberalism |
Week 4 | August 23 | Critical Theories of GPE: Marxism, Dependency and World Systems Theory |
Week 5 | August 30 | Creating the International System Part 1: 1492-1815 |
Week 6 | September 6 | Creating the International System Part 2: 1815-1945 |
Week 7 | September 13 | Creating the International System Part 3: 1945-onwards |
Sept 19- Oct 3 Mid Semester Break | ||
Week 8 | October 4 | No Class On Echo: Global (un)development and the Global Political Economy of Debt and Inequality |
Week 9 | October 11 |
The Political Economy of Globalization
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Week 10 | October 18 | The Political Economy of Race and Gender |
Week 11 | October 25 |
Reading Week (no lectures or tutorials) Friday 28 Oct Essay submitted via turn-it-in |
Week 12 | November 1 | Crisis and Reform in the Global Political Economy |
Week 13 | November 8 | Concluding Remarks |
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