The course will proceed as follows. The instructor will do the lecture for the first three weeks. Then, since the fourth week, there will be weekly exams in the beginning of each week’s class from 9:10AM to 9:40AM. The questions in the weekly exams will cover the reading assignments of that week as well as students’ presentation in the previous week. There will be about 10 weekly exams and I will count your best 8 to calculate your final score. The instructor will group students into 5 groups and each one take turns to present the material the instructor assigned during the second hour of each week’s class. The instructor will lead the discussion based on the weekly reading assignments in the second and the third hour. The instructor will require students who do not do well in the weekly exams to take the final exam to pass this class.

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   Weekly Exams: 80%

   
   


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   Class Participation: 20%

   
   


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   Final Exam: For those who do not do well in the weekly exams or who want to pursue a higher final score.

   
   

Note:

1. Students who are enrolled in the class but do not show up in the first week are not allowed to take this class.

2. The instructor will take attendance in each week. Students who are absent for more than three weeks are failed automatically with no exceptions, despite any reason. You do not have to ask for leave in advance if you plan to be absent.

3. The instructor can and is more than happy to fail students who are not hard-working in their studies.

4. The instructor will ask students who come to class late or being absent to sing a song at the beginning of next week’s class as punishment. If you are frequently tardy, you will have to sing a song in a second language assigned by the instructor.

5. This class requires you to do lots of readings, so please do not enroll in this class if you do not plan to spend your valuable time on the readings.

6. To make sure the classes will be productive for everyone, please do not enroll in this class if you do not agree to any of the previous rules and requirements.

Recommended Books (Not required to buy)

Robert Gilpin. 2001. Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Joseph M. Grieco and G. John Ikenberry. 2003. State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Jeffry A. Frieden, David A. Lake, and J. Lawrence Broz, eds. 2009. International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, 5^th edition. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Thomas Oatley. 2012. International Political Economy, 5^th edition. New York. NY: Routledge.

John Ravenhill, ed. 2014. Global Political Economy, 4^th edition. New York. NY: Oxford University Press.

Thomas L. Friedman. 1999. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

Thomas L. Friedman. 2007. The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Satyajit Das. 2016. The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth is Unattainable and the Global Economy is in Peril. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.

Recommended Journals (you can download the articles for free through NCCU’s ip address)

International Organization

Review of International Political Economy

Review of International Organizations

World Politics

New Political Economy

Journal of Political Economy

The Journal of Economic History

Journal of International Economics

International Studies Quarterly

International Studies Review

Comparative Political Studies

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Journal of Peace Research

Conflict Management and Peace Science

International Interactions

International Security

Security Studies

Defense and Peace Economics

American Political Science Review

American Review of Political Science

Annual Review of Political Science

Foreign Policy

Foreign Affairs

International Affairs

The Economist http://www.economist.com/

The International Interest http://intlinterest.com/

The National Interest http://nationalinterest.org/