70048 - GLOBALIZATION AND NATION-STATES

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course has three objectives: knowledge of mainstream theories regarding the impact of globalization on nation- states; critical analysis of stengths and weaknesses of such theories; understanding of similarities and differences in industrialized nations ‘ ability to respond to international pressures. At the end of the course students will be able to interpret the transformations of modern nation- states; students will possess analytical and critical skills to evaluate arguments and counter-arguments about the relationship between global forces and national borders.

Contenuti

This course explores changes in the international economy and their effects on domestic politics and economy. Some of the key issues that will be explored include:

·       Is globalization really a new phenomenon?

·       Is it irreversible?

·       What are effects on wages and inequality, on social safety nets, on production, and innovation?

·       Does globalization affect democracy?

 

 

 

Week:

 

1-2) Globalization: A New Economic Order? The Historical Antecedents

Domestic and International Economies in the 19th Century

Eichengreen, Barry J. Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and The Great Depression, 1919-1939. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1992, chapters 1-3.

Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001, chapters 3-6, 12. 

 

3) Globalization before  1915 and after WWII

Berger, S., and R. Dore, eds. National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, chapters Introduction, 1, 2, 5, 11, and 15.

Eichengreen, Barry J., et al. "Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization 100 years ago?" NBER Working Paper No. 7195 (June 1999).

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 1999, chapters 1-2.

Mann, M. Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state? Review of International Political Economy, 4  3 , 1997.

Sartori, G. (1994) Compare Why and How. Comparing, miscomparing and the comparative method, in Dogan,M. K e Kazancigil, A. (eds.) Comparing nations: concepts, strategies and substance, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.

4) Creating the global economy:  trade and politics

Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986, chapters 1-4.

 

5) Global Capital Flows

 

 Frieden, Jeffery. "Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance." International Organization 45 (1991): 425-451.

 Strange, Susan. Casino Capitalism. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1986, chapters 1, 2, and 6.

6 ) mid-term exam  

7) Does Globalization Increase Unemployment and Inequality?

Milanovic, Branko Worlds Apart, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2005.

Pontusson, J. and  D. Raess,  How (and Why) Is This Time Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States, Annual Review of Political Science,  15, pp. 13-33, 2012.

Rodrik, Dani. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington, DC, Institute for International Economics, 1997.

Sala-I-Martin, Xavier, "The Disturbing 'Rise' of Global Income Inequality." NBER Working Paper No. 8904, April 2002.

 

8-10) In the last two weeks students present papers on one  of the following topics

a) Globalization and Democracy

b) Does Globalization Destroy the Power of the State? Are Reforms and Redistribution Still Possible?

 

 

Swank, Duane. "Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change." In Developed Welfare States. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, chapters 1, 7, and 8.

Navarro, V., Schmitt, J. and Astudillo, J. 2004. Is globalisation undermining the welfare state?Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 28, 133–52

Berger, Suzanne. "Globalization and Politics." In Annual Review of Political Science, 3 (2000).

Berger, Suzanne, and Roland Dore, eds. National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1996, chapters: Introduction, 1, 2, 5, 11, and 15.

 

Hall, P.  and Soskice D. (eds) Varieties of Capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage.  Oxford, Oxford University Press 2001.

 

Lijphart, A. Patterns of democracy. Government forms and performance in thirty-six countries. Yale University  Press, New Haven 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metodi didattici

Oltre alle 40 ore del corso, sono previste 20 ore di didattica sui metodi di ricerca e di esposizione dei risultati per gli studenti che presentano papers durante il corso.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Mid-term exam  is worth 50% of final grade. Oral exam is worth 50% of final grade.

Orario di ricevimento

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