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HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
INR 316 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY II
2012-2013 SPRING SEMESTER
Class Time: Wednesday, 9:00-11:45 am
Place: DZ13
Lecturer: Itır ÖZER İMER, Ph.D.
Office Hour: Thursday 13:30– 15:30 or by appointment
Phone: 297 81 11
E-mail: [email protected]
Text:
Spero, J. E. and Hart, J. A. The Politics of International Economic Relations, Seventh
Edition, Wadsworth Publishing, 2010.
Suggested Texts:
Balaam D.N. and B. Dillman, Introduction to International Political Economy, Fifth Edition,
Pearson Education, N.J., 2011.
Gilpin, R., The Political Economy of International Relations, Princeton University Press,
1987.
Gilpin, R., Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order,
Princeton University Press, 2001.
Walter, A. and G. Sen, Analyzing the Global Political Economy, Princeton University Press,
2009.
Watson, M. Foundations of International Political Economy, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
Miller, R. C. International Political Economy: Contrasting World Views, Routledge, 2008.
Cohen, B. J. International Political Economy: An Intellectual History, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2009.
Course Objectives: This course aims to highlight the role of economic power in
international relations and possession of global power structure. It explores how economic
structure and economic policies are employed in seeking global power.
Course Requirements: You are expected to attend classes and to participate in
discussions. There will be one midterm exam and a comprehensive final exam (the dates of
the exams are to be announced in due course). The midterm exam will account for 40% and
final exam 60% of the final grade. You are also required to get at least 50 out of 100 in the
final exam, no matter what your grades were in the the midterm.
Tentative Course Outline:
WEEK 1. Governing the International Monetary System I
The Bretton Woods System
From Bretton Woods to Interdependence
WEEK 2. Governing the International Monetary System II
Interdependence
WEEK 3. Governing the International Monetary System III
Globalization
Crisis Management
WEEK 4. The Multinational Corporation and Global Governance
Common Characteristics of MNCs
Trends in FDI and Other MNC Activities
WEEK 5. The Multinational Corporation and Global Governance
The Consequences of MNC Activity
WEEK 6. Financial Flows to Developing Countries I
Bretton Woods and Foreign Aid
WEEK 7. Financial Flows to Developing Countries II
Financial Flows in the Era of Interdependence-The Debt Crisis of the 1980s
WEEK 8. Mid-term Exam
WEEK 9. Financial Flows to Developing Countries III
Globalization-Financial Crisis of the 1990s
WEEK 10. Multinational Corporations in the Third World I
The Role of MNCs and FDI in the South
Interdependence
WEEK 11. Multinational Corporations in the Third World II
Globalization
WEEK 12. Oil and Politics I
Corporate Oligopoly
The OPEC System
Other OPECs?
WEEK 13. Oil and Politics II
OPEC in Decline
Era of Globalization
Changing Economics of Oil at the End of the Twentieth
Century
WEEK 14. Concluding Remarks