SESSION ONE---Introduction:  What is International Political Economy?   02/19

Required Reading:

Gilpin, Robert. Global Political Economy, Ch. 1, 2

SESSION TWO--- Major Theories of International Political Economy       02/26

Required Reading:

Gilpin, Robert. The Political Economy of International Relations, Ch. 2

SESSION THREE --- Major Theories of International Political Economy   03/05

Required Reading:  

Gilpin, Robert. Global Political Economy, Ch. 3, 4

SESSION FOUR --- Major Theories of International Political Economy   03/12

Required Reading:

Gilpin, Robert. Global Political Economy, Ch. 3, 4  

SESSION FIVE --- Competing Paradigms of Economic Development   03/19

Required Reading:

Gereffi, “Paths of Industrialization,” ; Bradford, Jr., “Policy Interventions and Markets,” in Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia

SESSION SIX --- Taiwan and South Korea    03/26

Required Reading:

Sung Gul Hong, "Theoretical Debates on the East Asian Miracle," and "Why Differ? Taiwan and South Korea" in The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in East Asia

Chung-Chian Teng, "Taiwan’s Economic Development: A Test of Mercantilistic Model," in The Annals of Chinese Association of Political Science

Tun-jen Cheng, “Political Regimes and Development Strategies: South Korea and Taiwan,” in Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia       

SESSION SEVEN --- Intercollegiate Activities (no Class)       04/02

SESSION EIGHT --- State and Development      04/09

Required Reading:

Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy, Ch. 1, 3,4, 10.

Nora Hamilton, The Limits of State Autonomy, pp. 4-15.

SESSION NINE ---   Domestic Institutions & Development    04/16

Required Reading:

Linda Weiss, “Introduction: bringing domestic institutions back in,” in States in the Global Economy.

Tianbiao Zhu, “Building institutional capacity for China’s new economic opening,”, in States in the Global Economy.

David Levi-Faur, “New regimes, new capacities: the politics of telecommunications nationalization and liberalisation,” in States in the Global Economy.

Meredith Woo-Cumings, “Diverse paths towards ‘the right institutions’: law, the state, and economic reform in East Asia,” in States in the Global Economy.

SESSION TEN --- Developmental State           04/23

Required Reading:

Mark Beeson, “ The Rise and Fall of the Developmental state,”

Christopher M. Dent, “the New International Political economy of East Asia and the Developmental State,”

Yin-wah Chu, “The Asian Developmental State: Ideas and Debates,”

SESSION ELEVEN ---  The Political Economy of International Free Trade     04/30

Required Reading:

Stephan Hagaard, “Theory: The Political Economy of Growth,” in Pathways from the Periphery

Michael Fowler, "The Liberal International Order After World War II," in The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

SESSION TWELVE ---  International Trade: U.S. vs China I       05/07

Required Reading:

Hua, Shiping, "The Global Context and Personality Politics of the Trade War,"in The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

Steve Hess, “Institutional Adaptation and Regime Resilience under Xi Jinping, “in The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

Negeow Chow Bing, “Great Power Diplomayc with Chinese Characteristics and US-China Trade War,” in The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

SESSION THIRTEEN --- International Trade: U.S. vs China II        05/14

Required Reading:

Sutter, Robert. "US Domestic Politics and the US-China Trade War,"in The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

Teng, Chung-Chian and Yeh-Chung Lu, "The Impact of US domestic Politics on the Trade War," in The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

SESSION FOURTEEN --- University Athletic Contests (no class)       05/21 

SESSION FIFTEEN --- Regionalism in Latin America (I)           05/28 

Required Reading:

Gardini, The Origins of MERCOSUR, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6 & Conclusion.

SESSION SIXTEEN --- Regionalism in Latin America (II)          06/04

Required Reading:

Paul Kellogg, “Regional Integration in Latin America: Dawn of an Alternative to Neoliberalism?” New Political Science, 29:2 (June 2007), 187-209.

Gomez-Mera, Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of MERCOSUR, Ch. Two & Eight.  

SESSION SEVENTEEN --- Final Review of International Political Economy  06/11

SESSION EIGHTEEN --- Review of the Final Term Paper     06/18 

1.  Seminar attendance/participation 10%. Students will be graded on their regular attendance as well as vocal participation in this seminar.

2.  In-class review report: 40%.  Each week, there is one student or group of students being class discussion leader or leaders.  Their duties are: (1) preparing questions for class discussion and 2-to-3-page reading summary, (2) developing their own preliminary answers to these questions, and (3) leading class discussion.  Questions and a summary (2-3 pages in length) must be disseminated to the instructor and their classmates via e-mail 48 hours prior to class.  The instructor will help sort out the key arguments or issues in the required readings.  Occasionally, the instructor will intervene in the class discussion if the direction or thread of discussion strays off the topic or if some important ideas need to be paid attention to.  Students should be responsible for their own class participation (discussion) and attendance.

3.  Final Term Paper: 50%.  A final term paper will be due on July 3, 2024.  Each student is required to choose his or her own topic relating with international political economy. The topic and brief abstract has to be submitted on May 3, 2024. 

Textbooks & Reference Books:

Chu, Ming-chin Monique, The  East Asian Computer Chip War. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Evans, Peter. Embedded Autonomy: States & Industrial Transformation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Gardini, Gian Luca (Ed.) . External Powers in Latin America: Geopolitics between Neo-extractivism and South-South Cooperation. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Gereffi, Gary & Donald L. Wyman (Eds). Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia. Princeton , NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Gardini, Gian Luca. The Origins of MERCOSUR: Democracy and Regionalization in South America. New York: palgrave, 2010.

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

Gilpin, Robert. The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Gomez-Mera, Laura. Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of MERCOSUR. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. 

Haggard, Stephan. Pathways from the Periphery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. 

Hamilton, Nora. The Limits of State Autonomy: Post-Revolutionary Mexico. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. 

Held, David & Anthony McGrew (Eds.). The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, Second Edition. London: Polity, 2003.

Held, David & Anthony McGrew (Eds.). Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance. London: Polity, 2002.

Hong, Sung Gul. The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in East Asia. Northamptonm, MA: Edeard Elgar, 1997. 

Hua, Shiping (Ed.) The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War. New York: Lexington Books, 2022.

Keohane, Robert O. & Joseph S. Nye. Power and Interdependence, Third Edition. New York: Longman, 2001.

Krugman, Paul r., Maurice Obstfeld, & Marc J. Melitz. International Economics: Theory & Policy, Ninth Edition. New York: Person, 2012. 

Ougaard, Morten & Anna Leander (Eds.) Business and Global Governance. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Pang, Chien-kuo. The State and Economic Transformation: The Taiwan Case. New York: Garland, 1992.

Sampson, Gary P. & Stephen Woolcock (Eds) Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Economic Integration. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003.

Weiss, Linda (Ed.) States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.