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This sequence in the junior tutorial covers some of the major issues in international political economy today: trade, international commodity cartels, direct foreign investment, monetary relations, imperialism, global economic depression, and underdevelopment. International economic relations will be studied in light of domestic and international political forces. Political economy constructs will be subject to both critical analysis of descriptive assumptions and behavioral postulates as we ll as testing against empirical data and historical case studies. Topics in this tutorial sequence will include the emergence of free trade toward the middle of the 19th century and the devolution toward protectionism toward the end of the century. The G reat Depression will be examined, along with parallels to our own time in which protectionism and debt servicing problems threaten the functioning of world financial markets. The rise of imperialism in the latter-part of the 19th century will be examined critically in terms of probable causes. The rise of the post-World War II economic regime Bretton Woods will be analyzed, with special attention to its evolution as a means of creating international economic order and stability. Considerable attention will be devoted to North-South relations. Our principal international commodity cartel example will be OPEC. We look at how OPEC finally overcame its internal and external political weaknesses to exploit its monopoly potential in the economic realm. We also analyze multinational corporations.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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