The Politics of Globalization
Two exam questions to be answered in 1000 words each. no referencing is needed but academic sources should be used to support answer in text. Ensure that the material provided is used as well.
1. Is the current system of international trade fit for purpose?
Theoretically forthright pieces:
Clausing Clausing – Alternative Formats , K. (2019) ‘The Progressive Case Against Protectionism: How Trade and Immigration Help American Workers’, Foreign Affairs, 98: 109-120.
Hannah Hannah – Alternative Formats , E., A. Roberts & S. Trommer (2021) ‘Towards a feminist global trade politics’, Globalizations, 18(1): 70-85.
Strange Strange – Alternative Formats , G. (2020) ‘Debating Free International Trade’, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 79(1): 25-47.
Empirically useful analyses of recent developments:
Bishop Bishop – Alternative Formats , M. L. & Z. Xiatong (2020) ‘Why is China a Reluctant Leader of the World Trade Organization?’, New Political Economy, 25(5): 755-772. , M. L. & Z. Xiatong (2020) ‘Why is China a Reluctant Leader of the World Trade Organization?’, New Political Economy, 25(5): 755-772. – Alternative Formats
Griffith Griffith – Alternative Formats , M. K., R. H. Steinberg & J. Zysman (2017) ‘From great power politics to a strategic vacuum: Origins and consequences of the TPP and TTIP’, Business and Politics, 19(4): 573-592. , M. L. & Z. Xiatong (2020) ‘Why is China a Reluctant Leader of the World Trade Organization?’, New Political Economy, 25(5): 755-772. – Alternative Formats
Hoekman , M. L. & Z. Xiatong (2020) ‘Why is China a Reluctant Leader of the World Trade Organization?’, New Political Economy, 25(5): 755-772. – Alternative Formats , B. (2020) ‘Trade Wars and the World Trade Organisation: Causes, Consequences and Change’, Asian Economic Policy Review, 15: 98-114.
Sukar Sukar – Alternative Formats , A. & S. Ahmed (2019) ‘Rise of trade protectionism: the case of the US-Sino trade war’, Transnational Corporations Review, 11(4): 279-289.
2. What do political responses to either the 2008-9 economic crisis or climate change reveal about globalisation?
On the global economic crisis:
Bini Smaghi, L. (2009) ‘A failure of capitalism?’, Distinguished Lecture by a Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, Siena, Italy, 16 October.
Helleiner, E. (2011) ‘Understanding the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for Scholars of International Political Economy’, Annual Review of Political Science, 14: 67-87.
Kouvelakis, S. (2012) ‘Introduction: The End of Europeanism’, in C. Lapavitsas et al., Crisis in the Eurozone (London: Verso): xiv-xxi.
Martins, N. (2010) ‘Globalisation, Inequality and the Economic Crisis’, New Political Economy, 16(1): 1-18.
Huwart, J. L. & L. Verdier (2013) ‘The 2008 financial crisis – A crisis of globalisation?, in Economic Globalisation: Origins and consequences (Paris: OECD Publishing): 126-143.
On the climate crisis:
Karlsson, R. (2016) ‘The Environmental Risks of Incomplete Globalisation’, Globalizations, 14(4): 550-562.
Malm, A. (2012) ‘China as Chimney of the World: The Fossil Capital Hypothesis’, Organization & Environment, 25(2): 146-177.
Huwart, J. L. & L. Verdier (2012) ‘What is the impact of globalisation on the environment?’,i n Economic Globalisation: Origins and consequences (Paris: OECD Publishing): 109-125.
Redclift, M. (2011) ‘Living with a new crisis: Climate change and transitions out of carbon dependency’, in M. Pelling et al. (eds), Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Chance to Reclaim Self, Society and Nature (London: Routledge): 21-36.
