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| INT3001 | International Political Economy | 3+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hülya KINIK | | Co-Lecturer | Asst. Prof. Esra Elif NARTOK VAN DER KIST | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to enable students to analyze the theoretical approaches that explain the global economic structure; to become familiar with the issues and concepts that determine the structure of international finance and trade; and to comment on current issues affecting international political economy such as poverty, migration and financial crises.
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| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | The student learns the history of globalization, its different but related dimensions and contemporary controversies about the concept. | 2,4 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | The student gains information on the main approaches about international political economy | 2,4 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | The student analyzes mutual interaction between global economy and international relations. | 2,4 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | The student develops ideas about the possible solutions on the damage the international economy created in the non-developed countries. | 2,4 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course provides students with the building blocs of International Political Economy (IPE), the famous sub-discipline of International Relations (IR). IPE is an inter-disciplinary field of study and it covers issues ranging from the current role of states to the growing importance of markets and from global governance to gender. This course will cover some main theoretical positions within IPE as well as IPE's most common topics. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | INTRODUCTION
This lecture is an introductory lecture which introduces the course to students in detail. I will explain how the course progresses in time and what we will do week by week. I will also explain what is needed from students to pass the course and how I will evaluate their exams. In this lecture, I will also make a brief introduction what International Political Economy (IPE) is as a sub-discipline of International Relations (IR).
| | | Week 2 | UNDERSTANDING THE SUB-DISCIPLINE IPE
This lecture makes a detailed introduction to IPE. I will explain how and with what premises IPE arose as a sub-discipline in the 1970s. I will introduce you with the founding figures of IPE and how they paved the way for establishing a sub-discipline within IR. In light of these, I will explain how we should approach the issues related to politics/economics and states/markets from an IPE point of view broadly.
| | | Week 3 | HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: BRETTON WOODS AND BEYOND
Before we deal with IPE's theories and topics in detail, this lecture gives the required historical background to students. In this lecture, I will talk about the period called Bretton Woods System and its international political economy, which used to rule the world prior to globalisation and neoliberalisation. I will particularly focus on the 'embedded liberalism' which marked that period.
| | | Week 4 | THE GLOBALISATION DEBATE: MAKING SENSE OF THEORETICAL POSITIONS IN IPE
This lecture focuses on one of the most important debates in IPE, namely the globalisation debate. In this lecture, I will explain different approaches, and therefore, different definitions of globalisation. This takes us to see and understand different theoretical positions within IPE. I will further talk about the differences between mainstream and critical IPE approaches accordingly.
| | | Week 5 | NEOLIBERALISM
This lecture is about one of the most contested concepts of IPE, namely neoliberalism. In this lecture, I will explain different definitions and stages of neoliberalism, which marked the last four decades of world history.
| | | Week 6 | HEGEMONY
This lecture is on hegemony, one of the most commonly used concept of IPE as well as IR. I will explain how different perspectives within IPE understand hegemony differently. I will also show how the picture of the world changes as perspective on hegemony changes.
| | | Week 7 | GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
This lecture is on one of the most important topics of IPE, namely global governance. Since globalisation, it has been widely discussed who governs the world. Depending on their IPE perspectives, scholars are discussing whether it is states or markets or both of them altogether. I will explain these different perspectives and their different arguments on globalisation. I will further talk about global corporations in detail.
| | | Week 8 | PREPARATION FOR THE MIDTERM EXAM
In this lecture, I will review the topics that we have learnt prior to this lecture. I will give students some tips that might be useful for them in their midterm exam. | | | Week 9 | MIDTERM WEEK | | | Week 10 | DEVELOPMENT
This lecture covers the issues related to development. Development is one of the most important topic of IPE. Similar to other important topics of IPE, approaches to development and definitions of it change according to the IPE perspective taken by scholars. I will explain different understandings of development and its relevance in current political-economic developments. | | | Week 11 | GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS
This lecture is in fact the continuation of the previous week, related to development. I will explain the production process under globalisation, whose complementary parts are Global Production Networks and Global Value Chains. I will also talk about the new international division of labour. | | | Week 12 | GENDER
This lecture is on IPE of gender. Some scholars have recently turned to relate gender with IPE and argued this fundamental relationship has been ignored for so long. I will explain different approaches within feminist IPE and their discussions, mainly around the topics such as social reproduction and debt. | | | Week 13 | EMERGING ECONOMIES
This lecture looks at emerging economies and their important place in IPE. Following the global financial crises in 2008-2009, some developing economies started to register significant economic growth and they have received their places in scholarly debates. I will explain these economies in this lecture. | | | Week 14 | HEALTH/ COVID-19
This lecture is about IPE of health. The world has been shaken by the pandemic known as Covid-19 in late 2019 and early 2020. Since then, scholars have been arguing the world as we know has changed irreversibly. In this lecture, firstly I will explain how to approach health-related issues in IPE, and secondly, make a discussion specifically on Covid-19. | | | Week 15 | LAST LECTURE
In this final lecture of the semester, I will make a review of the issues we have covered throughout the semester. I will also give some tips that might be of use in your final exam.
| | | Week 16 | FINAL EXAM | | | |
| 1 | Shaw, T. M., Mahrenbach, L. C., Modi, R. and Yi-chong, X. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of International Poltical Economy, London: Palgrave Macmillan. | | | 2 | Vivares, E. (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Global Political Economy, Oxon: Routledge. | | | |
| 1 | Ravenhill, J. (2009). International Political Economy, in Oxford Handbooks Online, retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276973954 on 01.10.20.
| | | 2 | Underhill, G. R. D. (2000). State, Market, and Global Political Economy: Genealogy of an (Inter-)Discipline, International Affairs, 76(4), pp. 805-824. | | | 3 | Helleiner, E. (2019). The life and times of embedded liberalism: Legacies and innovations since Bretton Woods, Review of International Political Economy, 26(6), pp. 1112-1135. | | | 4 | Cox, R. (1981). Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 10(2), pp. 126-155. | | | 5 | Ashman, S. (2009). Capitalism, uneven and combined development and the transhistoric, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 22(1), pp. 29-46 | | | 6 | Henderson, J., Dicken, P., Hess, M., Coe, N. and Yeung, H. W. (2002). Global Production Networks and the Analysis of Economic Development. Review of International Political Economy, 9(3), pp. 436-464. | | | 7 | Elias, J. and Roberts, A. (2018). Introduction: Situating Gender Scholarship in IPE, in J. Elias and A. Roberts (Eds.), Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. | | | 8 | Roberts, A. and Ghazal, Z. (2019). Social Reproduction, finance and the gendered dimensions of pawnbroking. Capital & Class, 43(4), pp. 581-597. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 3.12.2023 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 25.01.2024 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 6 | 14 | 84 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 5 | 2 | 10 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 150 |
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