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G&amp;D Term 2 Syllabus

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Lecture 1 - Introducing Globalisation and Development (G.Achcar)

1. McGrew, A. (2014). ‘The Logics of Economic Globalization’,

Went, R. (2000), ‘Globalization: What’s New about It?’, Ch. 1, in Went, Globalization: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical Responses, London: Pluto, pp. 7-51.

4. Bughin, J., S. Lund, and J. Manyika (2015), ‘Harnessing the Power of Shifting Global Flows’

Lecture 1-Introducing Globalisation and Development

Lecture 2 - Empire, Imperialism, US Hegemony (G.Achcar)

Gowan, P. (2004), ‘Contemporary Intra-Core Relations and World Systems Theory’, Journal of World-Systems Research, v.X #2, pp. 471-500

Hardt and Negri Network Power US Sovereignty and the New Empire

Savas, M. (2008), 'The New-Old Imperialism', Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 36: 1, 45-61.

Lecture 2-Empire, Imperialism and US Hegemony

Lecture 3 - The ‘Unipolar Moment’ (G.Achcar)

Bacevich, A. (2002), ‘Globalization and its Conceits’, Ch. 2 of American Empire, Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard U.P., pp.32-54

Brzezinski (2004)

Huntington, S. (1997), ‘From Transition Wars to Fault Line Wars’, Ch. 10 of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, London: Simon &amp; Schuster, pp. 246-265

Panitch and Gindin, ‘A World After Its Own Image’

Lecture 3-Global Bipolarity to Unipolar Moment

Lecture 4 - US Global Dominance and Its Challengers (G.Achcar)

Achcar, G. (1998), ‘The Strategic Triad: The United States, Russia and China’, in New Left Review, N. I/228, March/April, pp. 91-126. Available electronically through New Left Review on-campus only.

Lecture 4-US Global Dominance and its Challengers

Lecture 5 - Gendering Globalisation (A.Mezzadri)

Gendering globalisation

Lecture 6 - Informalisation of Labour in Developing Countries (A.Mezzadri)

Informalisation

Lecture 7 - Thinking the ‘International’ and the ‘Global’ Differently (S.Sinha)

Lecture 8 - Globalisation and Urbanisation (S. Sinha)

Lecture 9 - Transformation of Work, Precarity and Anomie (G.Achcar)

Karoly, L. and C. Panis (2004), ‘Implications for Work in the Twenty-First Century’, The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States, Santa Monica: Rand, Ch. 5, pp. 183-222.

Reich, R. (1991), ‘The Three Jobs of the Future’, The Work of Nations, London: Simon &amp; Schuster, Ch. 14

Standing, G. (2011), The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, London: Bloomsbury Academic, Ch. 1, pp. 1-25

Lecture 9-Transformation of Work, Precarity and Anomie

Lecture 10 - Neoliberalism (T.Marois)

Neoliberalism Lecture Guide

Hayek,A Prinicples of a Liberal Social Order undeclared scan

Balassa, B. (1982), ‘Structural Adjustment Policies in Developing Economies”, World Development, v.10 #1, pp. 23-38

Lecture 11 - Financialisation and Development (T.Marois)

Financialisation Lecture Guide

Lecture 12 - Alternatives in an Era of Financialisation (T.Marois)

Finance Alternatives Guide

Finance Alternatives 2016-17

Lecture 13 - Global Labour Movement (T. Pringle)

Ch.17 Pringle

Lecture Slides

Lecture 14 - States and Global Markets (T. Pringle)

Burnham, P. (1997), ‘Globalisation: states, markets and class relations’, Historical Materialism, v.1 #1, pp.150-160.

Haque, M.S. (2008), ‘Global Rise Of Neoliberal State And Its Impact On Citizenship: Experiences In Developing Nations’, Asian Journal of Social Science, v.36 #1, pp. 11–34.

Jessop, B. (2010), ‘The ‘return’ of the national state in the current crisis of the world market’, Capital &amp; Class, v. 34#1, pp. 38-43.

Robinson, W. I. (2007), ‘Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the Transnational State’, Societies Without Borders, v.II #1, pp. 5-26.

Additional Reading

Lecture Slides

Lecture 15 - Globalisation and Agrarian Change (L. Vergara-Camus)

Lecture Glob and Agrarian Change 2016-2017

Lecture 16 - Neo-extractivism (L. Vergara-Camus)

Lecture New Extractivism 2017

Lecture 17 - Labour Migration in the Time of Globalisation (P.Novak)

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Lecture 18 - Borders and Dis-integration (P.Novak)

World Bank, 2011, ‘Overview’ in World Development Report. Conflict Security Development Washington: World Bank

Maher, D (2014) Rooted in Violence: Civil War, International Trade and the Expansion of Palm Oil in Colombia.

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Lecture 19 - Potential and limits of local, national and global forms of Resistance (L.Vergara-Camus)

Vergara-Camus MST EZLN Taking Control

Local, National, Global Resistance 2016-2017

Lecture 20 - Globalisation, Democratisation, and Revolt (G.Achcar)

Lecture 20 - Globalisation, Democratisation, and Revolt

Lecture 18 - Globalisation, Democratisation and Revolt (G. Achcar)

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G&D Handbook 2016-17_v.16 Sept

G&D Term 2 Syllabus

Huntington, S. (1997), ‘From Transition Wars to Fault Line Wars’, Ch. 10 of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, London: Simon & Schuster, pp. 246-265

Reich, R. (1991), ‘The Three Jobs of the Future’, The Work of Nations, London: Simon & Schuster, Ch. 14

Jessop, B. (2010), ‘The ‘return’ of the national state in the current crisis of the world market’, Capital & Class, v. 34#1, pp. 38-43.