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Friday, 28 January 2005

this is the blog I am starting for a directed reading with Peter Mandaville as a portion of my field of global political economy. we are reading a variety of texts, most of which are related in one way or another to International relations (IR) theory--whether as part of the mainstream of that discipline or as heterodoxical challenges from within or without. We have succinctly (and tenatively) titled it "Globalization and IR" as the idea of "globalization" has been the greatest recent challenge to the staid state-based realism of IR. At least that's the way I'm understanding it. What do I know--I just started the Directed Reading.

I am looking forward to it. Here is a first draft of the map of our approach to the face of the cliff we will be scaling (so many prepositions!)

Possible Syllabus:

Week 1: (Alt soc history; world systems theory)

Frank, A. G. (1998). Re-Orient : global economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Week 2 (Alt soc history; world systems theory; Regulationist economics):

Arrighi, G. (1994). The long twentieth century : money, power, and the origins of our times. London ; New York, Verso.

Week 3:

Scholte, J. A. (1993). International relations of social change. Buckingham, Open University

Week 4:

Escobar, A. (1994). Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the third world. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.

Week 5:

Walker, R. B. J. (1993). Inside/outside : international relations as political theory. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press.

Week 6:

Gill, S. (1993). Gramsci, historical materialism and international relations. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press

Week 7:

Fukayama, F. (1992) The End of History and the Last Man.

Huntington, S. P. (1997). The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order. New York, Simon & Schuster.

Week 9 (skip week for spring break, after that):

Rosenberg, J. (1994). The empire of civil society : a critique of the realist theory of international relations. London; New York, Verso.

Neufeld, M. A. (1995). The restructuring of international relations theory. New York, N.Y, Cambridge University Press.

Gilpin, R. (2001). Global political economy : understanding the international economic order. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.

Week 10

Sylvester, C. (1999). "Development studies and postcolonial studies: disparate tales of the 'Third World'." Third World Quarterly 20(4): 703 - 721.

Sen, A. K. (1999). Development as freedom. New York, Knopf

Week 11

Sassen, S. (2001). The global city : New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.

______. (2002). Global networks, linked cities. New York, Routledge.

Week 12

Badie, B. (2000). The imported state: the westernization of the political order. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press.

Week 13

Rupert, M. (2000). Ideologies of globalization : contending visions of a new world order. London ; New York, Routledge.

______. (2000). The follies of globalisation theory : polemical essays. London ; New York, Verso.

Week 14

Inayatullah, N. and D. L. Blaney (2004). International relations and the problem of difference. New York, Routledge.

Rosenberg, J. “Globalization Theory: A Post-Mortem.” (Forthcoming)

Week 15

Cowen, T. (2002). Creative destruction : how globalization is changing the world's cultures. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

García Canclini, N. (2001). Consumers and citizens : globalization and multicultural conflicts. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.