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MSc International Business and Management
GLOBALISATION
POPP 5007
Handbook 2016/2017
Module Leader: Dr Zo Pflaeger Young

Tutor: Carlos Salas Lind
E-mail: cali@niels.brock.dk
Handbook for POPP 5007
Globalisation
Contents
1) Module Outline
2) Module Content
3) Learning Outcomes
4) Skills Development
5) Teaching and Learning
6) Assessment
7) Plagiarism
8) Reading List and Seminar Questions
9) Essay Topics
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10) Postgraduate Marking Criteria
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1) Introduction
Globalisation is all around us. We see it, hear about it, and experience it in our place of work,
in our homes, in the products we buy, and in the decisions that shape our lives. It is a term
that we have all heard of, on television, radio, websites, and blogs. We also read about it in
the press and we may even discuss it with friends and family. As university students,
whatever subject you are studying, globalisation appears in articles, books and on the
internet. It is a term that has entered our vocabulary and our thinking in recent decades and is,
yet very few people have any informed idea of what it is and how it works.
The aim of this module is to give you the opportunity to develop this informed understanding
of globalisation, of its effects on the lives of us all, and of the implications of the change it
has brought about from a wide variety of International Political Economy (IPE) perspectives.
At an immediate and visible level, young people today have been brought up and have come
to understand as normal many of the technologies linked to the process of globalistion:
computers, the internet, email, satellite and cable television, digital radio, iphones and ipads,
advanced technologies across a range of products like cameras, cars, medical treatments and
all kinds of gadgets that were only theoretical possibilities when your parents were young and
undreamt of in the age of your grandparents. Partly because of these advances not only have
global communications and the opportunity to do new things become possible, but we are
also able to travel and see the world like never before: not long ago few people went on an
aeroplane more than once a year, mainly for their annual holiday, but now many people travel
much more frequently and greater distances for business, education, and pleasure.
As we reach out to see and discover the world through new technologies and travel, and
consume the products of modern society, the companies that open up these opportunities and
provide these goods also seek to attract our custom and influence us. Today advertising is
much more intense and sometimes more involved with our lives than it was in the past.
Corporations like Coca Cola, Nike, GAP, Quiksilver, and hundreds more have established
brand desirability and brand loyalties that function throughout most of the world, so if we are
in virtually any city or even medium sized town anywhere in Europe, Africa, Asia or the
Americas we can buy these brands. For those who travel abroad frequently it is increasingly
noticeable how people, especially the younger generation, look and dress the same, with
similar tastes and aspirations. A good example of young people coming together who share
many similarities and interests, as well as retaining some cultural diversity, is right here on
campus at De Montfort University where we have students from over fifty different countries.
At one level, globalisation can be seen as the world becoming smaller; we can communicate
with almost anyone, anywhere, more quickly; we can travel more conveniently and at
relatively low cost; we can share in a worldwide culture of fashion, music, food and various
technological products. At another level, we must realise that all these things did not just
happen as a natural evolution and that he changes that have occurred have profound
implications for and effects on the lives of billions of people in the Global North and South.
The material and physical changes that are associated with globalisation have human and
social consequences. Why, we might ask, when there are so many new opportunities and
possibilities is there a bigger gap between the rich and the poor today than at the beginning of
the 20th century? Why do almost one quarter of the worlds population not have sufficient
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food to eat when many of us are able to eat well, fly abroad several times a year and enjoy
many products supported by advanced technology? Was the world ever different to the period
of globalisation and could it be different again? Is globalisation itself just like the things we
have come to see as normal and part of our everyday lives or is it something we have got to
be aware of, and sometimes challenge, so that is does not get out of control? Today we are
seeing the consequences of unrestrained globalisation, which may have damaging effects for
humanity as a whole, but with the global financial crisis of 2008 we have seen an upsurge in
challenges in Europe, in North America, in Latin America, and in the Middle East.
Whatever you believe now or end up believing at the end of the module does not really
matter some will think globalisation is wonderful and others will be more uncertain - the
point is that you should understand what it is about and how it can affect your lives and the
lives of those around you. To know about globalisation, its implications, and the ongoing
challenges it raises is to know the world you live in better and to be prepared to take
advantage of the opportunities and attempt to avoid or confront the negative consequences.
2) Module Content
The course will be based on twelve 3-hour seminar workshops as listed below. These will
take place in
Seminar 1 (Session 1) Globalisation: An Overview
Seminar 2 (Session 2) Post-WWII and the Bretton Woods System
Seminar 3 (Session 3) The Rise of the New Right and the Deregulation of International
Finance
Seminar 4 (Session 4) Transnational Corporations and the Globalisation of Production
Seminar 5 (Session 5) Globalisation and the State
Seminar 6 (Session 6) Globalisation, Poverty and Uneven Development
Seminar 7 (Session 7) Gender and Global Restructuring
There will also be a chance to discuss your essay plans this week
Seminar 8 (Session 8) Globalisation and Culture: A New Imperialism?
Seminar 9 (Session 9) Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethical Consumerism, Fair Trade,
and Decent Work
Seminar 10 (Session 10) Global Governance and Democracy
Seminar 11 (Session 11) The Anti-Globalisation Movement and Resisting Globalisation
Seminar 12 (Session 12) Conclusion: The Global Financial Crisis and Beyond
3) Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module, I hope that you will be able to:
Assess factors and processes that are part of, or contribute to,
globalisation.
Critically analyse aspects of globalisation, particularly from the

perspective of International Political Economy (IPE).
Demonstrate the relevance of globalisation to business in general or

some specific aspect of business.
Critically evaluate material produced by authors on globalisation

and IPE.
Assess some of the implications of global processes for human development and
progress.
4) Skill Development
This course will allow students to further develop the following skills:
i. Oral and presentation skills through participating in class discussions and presentations
and articulating the knowledge you have gained in a clear and concise form.
ii. Writing skills through composing a short and a long essay that require you to read
widely from the reading list and other sources and to synthesis and communicate
complex information accurately and clearly using structured and coherent arguments.
iii. Critical reading and reflection skills through the essays and class activities that require
you to read a wide range of texts/materials critically and to evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of the different arguments presented.
iv. The ability to participate in group discussion and to collaborate effectively with others
in group-working exercises.
v. Research skills, including the ability to select and use relevant resources effectively
(both printed and electronic), to present information and research findings clearly and
accurately, adhering to scholarly conventions in referencing and bibliographies.
5) Teaching and Learning

This course is taught through a weekly three-hour seminar workshop in Semester Two The
organisation of these sessions will vary but they will include a combination of lecture and
seminar components, usually in the form of mini-lectures focusing on the weeks topic,
and class discussion based on small group exercises, case studies, additional resources and
informal presentations. In addition, each week there will be a formal group presentation,
which is part of the assessment for the course and is detailed below. You are expected to
attend every seminar and should contact me by email in advance if you are unable to attend.
For each session you will all (not just the presenters) be expected to be familiar with some of
the key readings and to be able to ask questions and comment on that weeks subject matter.
For each week there are a number of additional readings relevant to the topic to help guide
you but you are also encouraged to find further reading yourself, this could be something else
of interest that you have found in the library, or a policy document, journal article, news
report and other relevant sources that you have found on the internet. You are expected to
participate actively in seminar discussions and the more you are able to read and bring to
class, the better that discussion will be. Questions and suggested reading for each seminar are
provided below in this handbook. However, these are only intended to guide your reading and
initiate discussion and you are encouraged to come to class with additional questions that you
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would like to discuss or issues that you would like to raise from your reading or relating to
that seminars topic.
6) Assessment
This module is assessed in two ways:
1) A 3500-4000-word individual review essay (worth 80% of the final mark for the
course). Hand in date: On Monday the 2nd of January, 2017. The assignment must
be submitted by 13.00 hrs on the day of the assignment deadline, both in hard
copy to the module tutor and on Turnitin.
Essay marks and feedback will be available from Monday 6th February onwards. Please note
these marks are provisional.
2) A 20-minute group presentation and tutorial discussion (worth 20% of the final mark
for the course). This will consist of 10-15 minutes of presentation and 5-10 minutes of
leading class discussion.
Please note that BOTH ASSESMENTS MUST BE ATTEMPTED to pass the module.
Assessment Components
Essay 1 - Written Assignment
Weighting 80%. The component receives a mark.
Other Coursework 1 - Group Presentation
Weighting 20%. The component receives a mark.
Reassessment Requirements
Normally students will be given an opportunity to be reassessed on any
failed module or component in accordance with standard DMU
postgraduate regulations. Reassessment will be by resubmission using
the same specification as for the original assignment.
A failed written assignment (3500-4000 words - 80% of total marks) will
be reassessed by a new submission on a different question.
A failed presentation component (20% of total marks) will be reassessed
by the submission of a 1500-word essay/report on the presentation topic.
Reassessed marks will be capped at the 50% pass mark.
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Assignment Briefs
Essay
Essays are expected to:
1) Address a subject area that is directly connected to, or closely related to, the issue of
globalisation.
2) Consult a wide range of sources including books, articles, newspapers, documentaries, the
Internet etc. Some topic areas may also require the student to consult primary sources. It
is accepted that each topic will differ regarding sources consulted.
3) Provide full and accurate referencing of all sources consulted using in a recognised
academic form (Preferably the Harvard System of Referencing as outlined in the
Referencing Guide)
4) Write coherently and ensure that the presentation, including grammar, spelling, and
punctuation is consistent and of a postgraduate standard.
5) Give the essay a clear structure (introduction, argument, and conclusion).
6) Demonstrate an ability and willingness to engage in debate, consider different opinions
and develop an argument.
Please see the end of the handbook for postgraduate mark descriptors.
Presentation
Seminar presentations will be judged on the following criteria:
1) Clarity of explanation of the topic of the presentation.
2) Clear and logical organisation of ideas.
3) Development of coherent arguments and conclusion.
4) Ability to defend and develop arguments in seminar discussion.
5) Ability to involve the listening group in the debates.
6) Response of listening group to the presentation and subsequent debate. At the end of each
session the listening group will be invited to comment on the seminar and indicate its
merits and how it might be improved.
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Anonymous marking and feedback
Your assignments are to be submitted and marked anonymously. When submitting your
anonymous assignment to Turnitin you need to ensure that your name is not visible in any
pages of the assignment. For further information, see
http://celt.our.dmu.ac.uk/anonymous-marking-for-eassessment-the-staff-guide/anonymousmarking-resources-for-students/
Feedback will be provided when your mark assessment is returned.
7) Plagiarism
Plagiarism consists of any form of passing off, or attempting to pass off, the knowledge or
work of others as ones own. It is a form of cheating and indeed of intellectual theft. It is
therefore not surprising that the University regards it as a serious academic offence, which
can carry a severe penalty.
Everything submitted for assessment by an individual student or group of students must be
original work.
De Montfort Universitys Academic Regulations describe plagiarism as
the significant use of other people's work and the submission of it as though it were one's
own in assessed coursework (such as dissertations, essays, experiments etc)
This includes:
Copying from another student's work
Copying text from sources such as books or journals without acknowledgement
Downloading information and/or text from the Internet and using it without
acknowledgement
Submitting work which you claim to be your own when it has been produced by a group
Submitting group work without acknowledging all contributors
De Montfort University describes bad academic practice as:
Low level duplication without citation for example errors made through carelessness or
misunderstanding or
Passing off ideas, data or other information as if originally discovered by the student.
De Montfort University has access to Turnitins plagiarism prevention system which can
instantly identify papers containing unoriginal material. Students are required to submit
assignments through Turnitin which will assign a plagiarism score.
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The following simple guidelines are intended to help avoid problems of plagiarism:
(a) Append a list of references and other sources used to each of your assignments.
(b) Surround all direct quotations with inverted commas, and cite the precise source
(including page numbers) directly after the quotation.
(c) Use quotations sparingly and make sure that the bulk of the essay is in your own words.
(d) Remember that it is your own value added that gives an essay merit. Whatever sources
you have used, the structure and presentation of the argument should be your own.
(e) Make sure you read and interpret your material and give references to your sources
throughout the text. Not just when you give direct quotations but also when you paraphrase
or give your version.
(f) If you are in any doubt about how you should indicate references and footnotes, talk to
your module tutor.
WARNING. When plagiarism is established, penalties will apply. The severity of the
penalty will vary with the extent to which work is plagiarised e.g. sporadic lapses
in citation will be treated differently to wholesale copying.
You should consult General Regulations and Procedures Affecting Students, chapter 3,
Academic Offences for full details of the rules.
See the library website for useful information on plagiarism and referencing:
Study Guides: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Support/Guides/index.php?page=359
Referencing: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Support/Guides/index.php?page=495
8) Reading List and Seminar Questions

Recommended Textbooks:
*OBrien, Robert and Marc Williams (2013) Global Political Economy (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan) 4th edition (new edition requested into the library)
Ravenhill, John (2014) Global Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 4th
edition
Stubbs, Richard and Underhill, Geoffrey (2006) Political Economy and the Changing Global
Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 3rd edition
Introductions to Globalisation and IPE:

NB There are earlier editions available for those books which have their edition stated next to
them but it is best to use the up-to-date version where possible, especially if specific chapters
have been referenced.
Appelbaum, Richard and Robinson, William (eds.) (2005) Critical Globalization Studies
(London: Routledge)
Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (eds.) (2014) The Globalization of World
Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 6th edition (new edition requested into the
library)
Cameron, Angus and Palan, Ronen (2004) The Imagined Economies of Globalization
(London: Sage)
el-Ojeili, Chamsy and Hayden, Patrick (2006) Critical Theories of Globalization
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
Held, David and McGrew, Anthony (eds.) (2003) Global Transformations (Cambridge: Polity
Press) 2nd edition
Helleiner, Eric (1994) States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (London: Cornell
University Press)
Hirst, Paul, Thompson, Grahame and Bromley, Simon (2009) Globalisation in Question: The
International Economy and the Possibilities (Cambridge: Polity Press) 3rd edition
Hoogvelt, Ankie (2001) Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political
Economy of Development (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
Kiely, Ray (2007) The New Political Economy of Development: Globalization, Imperialism
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
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Lechner, Frank and Boli, John (2012) The Globalization Reader (Chichester: WileyBlackwell) (new edition requested into the library)
Monthly Review (2015) The New Imperialism of Globalized Monopoly-Finance Capital,
July-August, 67 (3) available online here: http://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/mr-067-032015-07_0/
Robinson, William (2004) A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class and State in a
Transnational World (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press)
Rupert, Marx and Hazel Smith (2002) Historical Materialism and Globalization (London:
Routledge)
Scholte, Jan Aart (2005) Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan) 2nd edition
Sklair, Leslie (2002) Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives (Oxford: Oxford
University Press)
Van der Pijl, Kees (2009) A Survey of Global Political Economy, available online here:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ir/research/gpe/gpesurvey/ Version 2.1
Wolf, Martin (2005) Why Globalization Works (London: Yale University Press)
Session1 Globalisation: An Overview

A. Introduction to the course
B. Historical background to globalisation: the rise of Europe, feudalism, capitalism and
imperialism
C. Theories of globalisation: key debates and controversies
Seminar Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
What was feudalism and what were the principal forces that made feudalism change?
What is distinctive about the capitalist mode of production?
How and why was Britain able to build an international trading and financial system?
What was the importance of the colonialism to the development of capitalism in Europe?
Can globalisation be understood as a recent phenomenon?
What are the main theoretical debates on globalisation?
Is there a relationship between capitalism and globalisation? And if so, how should it be
understood?
8) How can we conceptualise the emergence and spread of globalisation?
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Key Reading:
Economy of Development (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 1 The History of Capitalist
Expansion
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 2 Capitalist Expansion and
Imperialism
Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 3 Forging a World Economy and Ch 4 The Industrial Revolution,
Pax Britannica and Imperialism
Further Reading:
Brenner, Robert (1977) The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian
Marxism, New Left Review 104, July/August
Callinicos, Alex (2007) Globalization, Imperialism and the Capitalist World System in
David Held and Antony McGrew (eds.) Globalization Theory: Approaches and
Controversies (Cambridge: Polity Press)
Callinicos, Alex (2009) Imperialism and Global Political Economy (Cambridge: Polity Press)
Ch 3 Capitalism and La Longue Dure
Cutler, Claire (1999) Locating Authority in the Global Political Economy, International
Studies Quarterly, 43(1): pp. 59-81
Frank, Andre Gunder (1969) Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America (New York:
Monthly Review Press)
Gallagher, John and Robinson, Ronald (1953) The Imperialism of Free Trade, The
Economic History Review, 6 (1): 1-15
Halperin, Sandra (2013) Re-Envisioning Global Development (London: Routledge)
International Economy and the Possibilities (Cambridge: Polity Press) 3rd edition
Hobsbawm, Eric (1984) The Age of Empire 1875-1914 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
Rupert, Marx and Hazel Smith (2002) Historical Materialism and Globalization (London:
Routledge) Part I
McNally, David (1993) Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the
Marxist Critique (London: Verso) Ch 1 Origins of Capitalism and the Market
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Meiksins Wood, Ellen (1998) The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism, Monthly Review, 50 (3)
http://monthlyreview.org/1998/07/01/the-agrarian-origins-of-capitalism
Meiksins Wood, Ellen (2002) The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (London: Verso)
Schwartz, Herman (2000) State Versus Markets: The Emergence of a Global Economy
(Basingstoke: Macmillan) Part 1
Schwartz, Herman (2006) Globalization: The Long View in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey
Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (Oxford: Oxford
University Press)
Smith, Adam (2008 [1776]) The Wealth of Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Chapters 1 - 3
Wallerstein, Immanuel (1974, 1980, 1989) The Modern World-System Volume 1, 2 and 3 (San
Diego, CA: Academy Press)
Session 2 - Post-WWII and the Bretton Woods System

A. The Great Depression and the end of Laissez-Faire
B. World War II and the Bretton Woods System
C. Fordist production, Keynesian interventionism, and semi-fixed exchange rates
D. De-colonisation and approaches to development
Seminar Questions:
1) What was the impact of the Great Depression on the international political economy and
how were its effects understood?
2) What is Fordism and what relationship did it have with the new welfare states?
3) What were the main arguments of British economist John Maynard Keynes?
4) What were the key decisions taken at Bretton Woods?
5) Why and how did the US support the reconstruction of Europe?
6) Describe the key elements of the post-war financial and economic system.
7) What impact did Bretton Woods have on the post-colonial world?
8) What alternative economic strategies were attempted in the Global South?
Key Reading:
Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 5 The 20th Century
Peet, Richard (2009) Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO (London: Zed Books)
Ch 2 Bretton Woods
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Chang, Ha-Joon (2003) The Market, the State and Institutions in Economic Development in
Ha-Joon Chang (ed.) Rethinking Development Economics (London: Anthem Press) pp. 41-60
Further Reading:
Galbraith, John Kenneth (1975) The Great Crash 1929 (London: Penguin)
Galbraith, John Kenneth (1995) The World Economy Since the Wars (London: Mandarin)
Halperin, Sandra (2013) Re-Envisioning Global Development (London: Routledge) Ch 6 and
7
Helleiner, Eric (2006) Reinterpreting Bretton Woods: International Development and the
Neglected Origins of Embedded Liberalism, Development and Change 37(5): 943-67
Hirschman, Albert O. (1963) Journeys Toward Progress: Studies of economic policy-making
in Latin America (New York: Twentieth Century Fund)
Hobsbawm, Eric (1994) The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
(London: Michael Joseph)
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 3 Post-1945 Capitalism and
Development
Knafo, Samuel (2006) The Gold Standard and the Origins of the Modern International
Monetary System, Review of International Political Economy, 13 (1): 78-102
Love, Joseph (1990) The Origins of Dependency Analysis, Journal of Latin American
Studies, 22 (1-2): 143-168
McMichael Philip (2005) Globalization and Development Studies in Richard Appelbaum,
and William Robinson (eds.) Critical Globalization Studies (London: Routledge)
Rodrik, Dani (2011) The Globalization Paradox (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Ch 2 and
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Ruggie, John (1982) International Regimes, Transactions and Change: Embedded Liberalism
in the Postwar Economic Order, International Organization 36(2): 379-405
Rupert, Mark (2000) Ideologies of Globalization (London: Routledge) Ch 2 Americanism,
Fordism and Hegemony
(Basingstoke: Macmillan) Chapter 8
Silva, Eduardo (2007) The Import-Substitution Model: Chile in Comparative Perspective,
Latin American Perspectives 34 (3): 67-90
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Thorp, Rosemary (1992) A Re-Appraisal the Origins of Import-Substituting

Industrialisation, 1930-1950, Journal of Latin American Studies, 24 (Supplement S1): 181195
Webb, Michael (2006) The Group of Seven and Global Macroeconomic Governance in
Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global
Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Woods, Ngaire (2014) International Political Economy in an Age of Globalization in John
Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford:
Oxford University Press)
Session 3 The Rise of the New Right and the Deregulation of

International Finance
A. Challenges to the Bretton Woods System
B. The rise of New Right thinking and the deregulation of international finance
C. The New Right in political power
D. The international political economy of neoliberalism
Seminar Questions:
1) What were the main developments that began to weaken the Bretton Woods system?
2) Explain the expansion and functioning of the Eurodollar market.
3) How and why did the US begin to move from a Bretton Woods regulatory framework in
international finance to a more liberal system in the 1960s and early 70s?
4) Why was Britains acceptance of an IMF restructuring package so significant in the
process of financial deregulation? And which countries attempted to hold out against
financial deregulation and why?
5) What was the effect of OPEC oil price rises on financial markets and the fluidity of
international private capital flows?
6) How did the debt crisis affect the world financial system?
7) Why are most capital movements short term?
8) Describe the magnitude of the global financial markets.
9) What are the principal dangers of the worlds financial markets in the forms they
currently take?
10) Neoliberalism provided the ideological justification for deregulation discuss.
11) What is neoliberalism and how is it manifested in economic policy and practice?
12) How did the rise of neoliberalism impact upon the political power of the state?
Key Reading:
*Helleiner, Eric (2014) The Evolution of the International Monetary and Financial System
in John Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
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OBrien, Robert and Marc Williams (2013) Global Political Economy (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan) Ch 8 The Global Financial System
Dumnil, Grard & Lvy, Dominique (2001) Costs and Benefits of Neoliberalism: A Class
Analysis, Review of International Political Economy, 8 (4): 578-607
Further Reading:
Best, Jacqueline (2004) Hollowing Out Keynesian Norms: How the Search for a Technical
Fix Undermined the Bretton Woods Regime, Review of International Studies 30(3): 383-404
Commanding Heights documentary
Cerny, Philip (1994) The Dynamics of Financial Globalization: Technology, Market
Structure, and Policy Response, Policy Sciences, 27 (4): 319-342
Dumnil, Grard & Lvy, Dominique (2004) Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal
Revolution (London: Harvard University Press)
Gilpin, Robert (2001) Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic
Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Chs 9 and 10
Gill, Stephen (1995) Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism,
Millennium Journal of International Studies, 24 (3): 399-423
Harvey, David (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Helleiner, Eric (1994) States and the Re-emergence of Global Finance (New York: Cornell
University Press)
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 4 The End of the Post-war Boom and
Capitalist Restructuring
Konings, Martijn (2010) Neoliberalism and the American State, Critical Sociology, 36 (5):
741-765
Klein, Naomi (2007) The Shock Doctrine (London: Penguin)
Lambie, George (2009) Nemesis of Market Fundamentalism? The Ideology, Deregulation
and Crisis of Finance, Contemporary Politics, 15 (2): 157-177
Lambie, George (2011) The Historical Context of the Financial Crisis: From Bretton Woods
to the Debacle of Neoliberalism, in Richardson, Joanna (ed.) From Recession to Renewal:
The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Public Services and Local Government (Bristol: Policy
Press) pp. 25-50
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Moffitt, Michael (1983) The Worlds Money: International Banking from Bretton Woods to
the Brink of Insolvency (New York: Simon and Schuster).
Pauly, Louis (2006) Global Finance and Political Order in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey
University Press)
Introduction
Rodrik, Dani (2011) The Globalization Paradox (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Chs 5 and
6
(Basingstoke: Macmillan) Ch 9 International Money
Silva, Eduardo (1993) Capitalist coalitions, the state, and neoliberal restructuring in Chile,
1973-1988, World Politics, 45 (4): 525-559
Soederberg, Susanne, Menz, George & Cerny, Philip (2005) Internalizing Globalization: The
Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism (London: Palgrave
Macmillan)
Strange, Susan (1997) Casino Capitalism (Manchester: Manchester University Press)
Strange, Susan (1998) Mad Money (Manchester: Manchester University Press)
Session 4 Transnational Corporations and the Globalisation of Production

A. The rise of the multinational corporations (MNCs)
B. The shift from multinational to transnational corporations (TNCs)
C. Value and production networks: the changing geography of the global political economy
Seminar Questions:
1) Explain the rise and development of the multinational corporation from the end of WWII
to the 1970s
2) What is the typical structure of the multinational corporation?
3) Describe the cost of production advantages of being multinational
4) What is a transnational corporation and how do these differ, if at all, from MNCs?
5) What are the key arguments with regards to the increasing power of global corporations?
6) To what extent and in what ways has production become globalised?
7) What is the new international division of labour and how is it organised?
8) How and why do transnational corporations support the globalisation of production?
9) In what ways has the globalisation of production impacted on the Global South?
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Key Reading:
Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 7 Transnational Production and Ch 9 Global Division of Labour
Ruigrok, Winfried (2006) Multinational Corporations in the Global Economy in Richard
Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order
(Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Gereffi, Gary, Humphrey, John & Sturgeon, Timothy (2005) The governance of global value
chains, Review of International Political Economy, 12 (1): 78-104
Further Reading:
Bair, Jennifer (2005) Global capitalism and commodity chains: looking back, going
forward, Competition & Change, 9 (2): 153-180
Bernard, Mitchell (2000) Post-Fordism and Global Restructuring in Richard Stubbs and
Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (Oxford:
Oxford University Press) pp. 152-162 (2nd edition)
Cox, Robert (1987) Production, Power and World Order (USA: Columbia University Press)
Cumbers, Andy, Navitel, Corinne & Routledge, Paul (2008) Labour agency and union
positionalities in global production networks, Journal of Economic Geography, 8 (3): 369387
Dicken, Peter (2010) Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy
(London: SAGE Publications) Parts 1 and 2
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 2 Economic Globalization
Fishwick, Adam (2014) Beyond and beneath the hierarchical market economy: Global
production and working-class conflict in Argentinas automobile industry, Capital & Class,
38 (1): 115-127
Gereffi, Gary (2005) The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development (Geneva:
International Labour Office)
Gibbon, Peter and Ponte, Stefano (2005) Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains and the Global
Economy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) Chapter 1
Press) Part IV
International Economy and the Possibilities (Cambridge: Polity Press)
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Economy of Development (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Part II
Klein, Naomi (2001) No Logo (London: Flamingo)
Korton, David (1995) When Corporations Rule the World (Bloomfield, Connecticut:
Kumarian)
Madeley, John (2008) Big Business: Poor Peoples (London: Zed Books)
McGrew, Anthony (2014) The Logics of Economic Globalization in John Ravenhill (ed.)
Global Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Ohmae, Kenichi (1990) The Borderless World (London: Collins)
Robinson, William (1996) Globalisation: Nine Theses on our Epoch, Race and Class, 38
(2): 13-30
Robinson, William (2004) A Theory of Global Capitalism. Production, Class and State in a
Transnational World (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press) Ch 1 Globalization as
Epochal Change in World Capitalism and Ch 2 Global Class Formation and the Rise of a
Transnational Capital Class
Robinson, William and Harris, Jerry (2000) Towards a Global Ruling Class? Globalisation
and the Transnational Capitalist Class, Science and Society, 64 (1): 11-54
Scholte, Jan Aart (2005) Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan)
(Basingstoke: Macmillan) Ch 10 Transnational Firms
Selwyn, Benjamin (2012) Beyond firm-centrism: re-integrating labour and capitalism into
global commodity chain analysis, Journal of Economic Geography, 12 (1): 205-226
University Press)
Thun, Eric (2014) The Globalization of Production in John Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political
Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Session 5 The State and Globalisation

A. Definitions of the state
B. The Keynesian welfare state to the neoliberal state
C. State policy options and national autonomy in the context of globalisation
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Seminar Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
What do you understand by the concept of the state?

What are the main functions of the state?
How would you describe a neoliberal perception of the state?
What pressures does globalisation place upon the state?
In what ways is the state adapting to the effects of globalisation?
Is globalisation leading to a retreat of the state or a shift in its functions?
What if any is the relationship between states and markets?
What does Robinson mean when he talks of the transnational state?
Does the state still have a role to play in the Global South?
Key Reading:
*Hay, Colin (2014) Globalizations Impact on States in John Ravenhill (ed.) Global
Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Robinson, William (2004) A Theory of Global Capitalism. Production, Class and State in a
Transnational World (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press) Ch 3 The Transnational
State
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 8 Globalization, Neo Liberalism and
the State
Further Reading:
Cerny, Philip and Evans, Mark (2004) Globalisation and Public Policy under New Labour
Policy Studies, 25 (1): 51-65
Cerny, Philip (2006) Political Globalization and the Competition State in Richard Stubbs
and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (Oxford:
(London: SAGE Publications) Ch 6 The State Really Does Matter
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 3 Globalization and Politics
Press) Part II
International Economy and the Possibilities (Cambridge: Polity Press)
Marsh, David, Smith, Nicola, and Holti, N (2005) Globalisation and the State in Colin Hay,
Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds.) The State (Basingstoke: Palgrave)
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Martell, Luke (2010) The Sociology of Globalization (Cambridge: Polity) Ch 9 Politics, the
State and Globalization: The End of the Nation-State and Social Democracy?
Mann, Michael (1997) Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?
Review of International Political Economy, 4 (3): 472-96.
Strange, Susan (1996) The Retreat of the State. The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Underhill, Geoffrey (2003) States, Markets and Governance: Private Interests, the Public
Good and the Legitimacy of the Development Process, International Affairs, 79 (4): 755-781
Weiss, Linda (1997) Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State, New Left Review,
225: 3-27
Session 6 Globalisation, Poverty and Uneven Development

A. Theories of development, underdevelopment, and post-development
B. The debt crisis and IMF and World Bank restructuring
C. Post-Washington Consensus and the poverty reduction agenda
D. BRICS and the Rise of the South
Seminar Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
Why are some parts of the world underdeveloped?

What are the main arguments of development theories?
Why were the 1980s dubbed as the lost decade for development?
What were the social, economic and political impacts of structural adjustment policies?
How is the relationship between globalisation and development understood?
What impact has globalisation had upon poverty and inequality?
What is the significance of poverty reduction strategies? Do they indicate a shift in
development policy? Have they contributed to greater national ownership of development
policies in the Global South?
8) What is the Rise of the South and has this rise impacted on poverty, inequality, and
development?
Key Reading:
*Philips, Nicola (2014) Globalization and Development in John Ravenhill (ed.) Global
Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 416-449
Thomas, Caroline and Evans, Tony (2014) Poverty, Development and Hunger in John
Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford:
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Broad, Robin and John Cavanagh (1999) The Death of the Washington Consensus?, World
Policy Journal 16 (3): 79-88
UNDP (2013) The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World, Human
Development Report 2013 (New York: UNDP) available online here:
http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/reports/14/hdr2013_en_complete.pdf, Introduction &
Chapter 2
Further Reading:
Cammack, Paul (2002) Attacking the Poor, New Left Review, 13: 125-134
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and Faletto Enzo (1979) Dependency and Development in Latin
America (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press)
Chang, Ha-Joon (2003) Globalisation, Economic Development and the Role of the State
(London: Zed Books)
Chang, Ha-Joon and Grabel, Ilene (2004) Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic
Policy Manual (London: Zed Books)
Chossudovsky, Michael (1998) The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World
Bank Reforms (Australia: Pluto Press)
Craig, David and Doug Porter (2003) Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A New
Convergence, World Development, 31 (1) 53-69
Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert (eds) (2008) The Companion to Development Studies
(London: Hodder Education) Part 4 Globalization, Employment and Development
Escobar, Arturo (1995) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third
World (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
Fine Ben, Lapavitsas, Costas and Pincus, Jonathon (eds) (2001) Development Policy in the
Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus (London: Routledge)
Giddens, Anthony (ed.) (2001) The Global Third Way Debate (Cambridge: Polity
Press) Part IV A Global Third Way
Gray, Kevin and Craig Murphy (2014) Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance,
(Abingdon: Routledge)
Press) Part V
Economy of Development (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Part III
Kaplinsky, Raphael (2005) Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Between a Rock and a
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Hard Place (Cambridge: Polity Press)
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 7 Globalization, Poverty and the
Contemporary World Economy
Krishna, Sankaran (2009) Globalization and Postcolonialism (Plymouth, Rowman and
Littlefield Publishers)
Lechner, Frank and Boli, John (2012) The Globalization Reader (Chichester: WileyBlackwell) Part IV Globalization and the World Economy
Leys, Colin (1996) The Rise and Fall of Development Theory (Oxford: James Curry)
Nayyar, Deepak (2003) Globalization and Development in Ha-Joon Chang (ed.) Rethinking
Development Economics (London: Anthem Press)
McMichael Philip (2005) Globalization and Development Studies in Richard Appelbaum
OBrien, Robert and Marc Williams (2013) Global Political Economy (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan) Ch 11 Economic Development
Pradella, Lucia and Thomas Marois (2014) Polarizing Development: Alternatives to
Neoliberalism and the Crisis, (London: Pluto Press)
Prebisch, Ral (1988) Dependence, Development and Interdependence in Gustav Ranis and
T. Paul Schultz (eds) The State of Development Economics: Progress and Perspectives
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd) pp. 31-41
Robinson, William (2002) Remapping Development in the Light of Globalisation: From a
Territorial to a Social Cartography Third World Quarterly, 23 (6): 1047-1071
Rodrik, Dani (2011) The Globalization Paradox (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Saad Filho, Alfredo (2014) The Rise of the South in Pradella, Lucia and Thomas Marois
(eds.) Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis, (London: Pluto
Press)
Selwyn, Benjamin (2014) The Global Development Crisis, (Cambridge: Polity)
Stiglitz, Joseph (2002) Globalisation and its Discontents (London: Allen Lane)
Schuurman, Frans (ed.) (1993) Beyond the Impasse: New Directions in Development Theory,
(London: Zed Books)
Schuurman, Frans (ed.) (2001) Globalization and Development Studies: Challenges for the
21st Century (London: SAGE)
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University Press)
Toye, John (2003) Changing Perspectives in Development Economics in Ha-Joon Chang
(ed.) Rethinking Development Economics (London: Anthem Press) pp. 21-40
Wade, Robert Hunter (2014) Globalization, Growth, Poverty, Inequality, Resentment and
Imperialism in John Ravenhill (ed.) Global Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University
Press)
Williamson, John (1993) Democracy and the Washington Consensus, World Development
21(8): 1329-36
Session 7 - Gender and Global Restructuring

A. Notions of gender and feminist theories
B. Gender and global restructuring
C. Social reproduction
D. Feminisation of poverty
Seminar Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
What is gender?
What are the main contributions of feminist theories?
What does it mean to apply a gender lens to global politics?
What is the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy?
What is the gendered division of labour?
To what extent has global restructuring exacerbated gendered inequalities?
Critically explore the gendered nature of poverty
What are feminist responses to globalisation and global restructuring?
Key Reading:
Marchand, Marianne (2006) Gendered Representations of the Global: Reading/Writing
Globalization in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Political Economy and the
Changing Global Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pg 260-271
Palgrave Macmillan) Chapter 10 Gender
Tickner, J. Ann (2014) Gender in World Politics in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia
Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 262277
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Further Reading:
Amoore, Louise (2005) The Global Resistance Reader (Routledge: London) Part 3 Gender
Bakker, Isabella and Gill, Stephen (eds) (2003) Power, Production and Social Reproduction
(Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan)
Barrientos, Stephanie, Kabeer, Naila and Hossain, Naomi (2004) The Gender Dimensions of
the Globalization of Production, ILO Working Paper No. 17
Elias, Juanita and Beasley, Christine (2009) Hegemonic Masculinity and Globalization:
Transnational Business Masculinities and Beyond, Globalizations, 6 (2): 281-296
Griffen, Penny (2007) Refashioning IPE: What and How Gender Analysis Teaches
International (Global) Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, 14 (4):
719-736
Griffen, Penny (2010) Gender, Governance and Global Political Economy, Australian
Journal of International Affairs, 64 (1): 86-104
Marchand, Marianne and Runyan, Anne Sisson (eds.) (2011) Gender and Global
Restructuring: Sightings, Sites, and Resistances (London: Routledge)
Oxfam (2004) Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains
(available online at http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/trading-away-our-rightswomen-working-in-global-supply-chains-112405)
Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar (2005) The International Division of Reproductive Labor: Paid
Domestic Work and Globalization in Richard Appelbaum, and William Robinson (eds.)
Critical Globalization Studies (London: Routledge)
Pearson, Ruth (2003) Feminist Responses to Economic Globalization: Some Examples of
Past and Future Practices, Gender and Development, 11 (1): 25-34
Peterson, V. Spike (2003) A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Reproductive,
Productive and Virtual Economies (London: Routledge)
Pyle, Jean (2005) Critical Globalization Studies and Gender in Richard Appelbaum, and
William Robinson (eds.) Critical Globalization Studies (London: Routledge)
Runyan, Anne Sisson and V. Spike Peterson (2013) Global Gender Issues in the New
Millennium (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press)
Shepherd, Laura (ed.) (2010) Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to
International Relations (London: Routledge) Section Four Political Economy
Steans, Jill (2003) Globalization and Gendered Inequality in Held, David and McGrew,
Anthony (eds.) Global Transformations (Cambridge: Polity Press)
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Session 8 Globalisation and Culture

A. Definitions of Culture
B. Homogenisation and cultural imperialism
C. Hybridisation and the local
D. Postcolonial theory and the subaltern
Seminar topics:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
What is culture?
Is there a global culture?
To what extent does globalization mean Westernisation?
What is the relationship between globalisation and consumerism?
Why has it been argued that globalisation is a form of cultural imperialism? Do you
agree?
6) Has the globalisation of culture led to a clash of cultures?
7) What is the theory of hybridisation?
8) How does globalisation interact with the local?
9) How can postcolonial analysis contribute to our understanding of globalisation?
10) What is the idea of the subaltern and why is this important?
Key Reading:
Murden, Simon (2014) Culture in World Affairs in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia
Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 414427
*Martell, Luke (2010) The Sociology of Globalization (Cambridge: Polity) Ch 4 The
Globalization of Culture: Homogeneous or Hybrid?
University Press) Ch 7 The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism
Further Reading:
Barber, Benjamin (1996) Jihad vs McWorld (New York: Ballantine Books)
Daniel, C. Reginald (2005) Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism: Globalization, Critical
Hybridity, and Postcolonial Blackness in Richard Appelbaum, and William Robinson (eds.)
Critical Globalization Studies (London: Routledge)
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 4 Cultural Globalization
Fukuyama, Francisco (1992) The End of History and the Last Man (London: Hamish
Hamilton)
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Huntington, Samuel (1996) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order
(New York: Touchstone)
Krishna, Sankaran (2009) Globalization and Postcolonialism (Plymouth, Rowman and
Littlefield Publishers)
Lechner, Frank and Boli, John (2012) The Globalization Reader (Chichester: WileyBlackwell) Part I Debating Globalization, Part III Experiencing Globalization and Part VIII
Globalization and Media
Martin, Hans-Peter and Schumann, Harald (1997) The Global Trap: Globalisation and the
Assault on Democracy and Prosperity (London: Zed Books)
Nederveen Pieterse, Jan (2004) Globalization and Culture: Global Mlange (Oxford:
Rowman and Littlefield)
Smith, Anthony (1990) Towards a Global Culture?, Theory, Culture and Society, 7: 171-91.
Ritzer, G (1993) The McDonaldization of Society (California: Pine Forge Press)
Sylvester, Christine (2014) Post-colonialism in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia
Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Tomlinson, John (1999) Globalisation and Culture (London: Polity Press)
Session 9 Ethical Consumerism, Fair Trade, Decent Work and Corporate

Social Responsibility
A. Ethical consumerism and corporate social responsibility
B. Fair trade and global trade justice
C. Decent work and labour regulation
D. Alternative forms of globalisation
Seminar Questions:
1) What is corporate social responsibility and why did it emerge?
2) To what extent can it address social, economic and environmental problems associated
with globalisation?
3) What are the problems associated with private forms of regulation and voluntary
standards and codes of conduct?
4) Can consumerism be ethical? And is it a form of resistance to capitalist globalisation?
5) What is fair trade and can it help achieve global trade justice?
6) Does fair trade offer an alternative to conventional trading practices? And can it help to
address poverty and inequality?
7) What is decent work and what implications does it have for globalisation?
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8) How can labour regulation be implemented in global production networks?
Key Reading:
Barratt Brown, Michael (2007) Fair Trade with Africa, Review of African Political
Economy, 34 (112): 267-277
Barrientos, Stephanie and Sally Smith (2007) Do workers benefit from ethical trade?
Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems, Third World Quarterly, 28
(4): 713-729
Blowfield, Mick (1999) Ethical Trade: A Review of Developments and Issues, Third World
Quarterly, 20 (4) 753-770
Jenkins, Rhys (2005) Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility and Poverty,
International Affairs, 81 (3): 525-540
Further Reading:
Anner, Mark (2008) Meeting the challenges of industrial restructuring: Labor reform and
enforcement in Latin America, Latin American Politics and Society, 50 (2): 33-65
Blowfield, Michael (2005) Corporate Social Responsibility: Reinventing the Meaning of
Development, International Affairs, 81 (3): 515-524
Blowfield, Michael and Jedrzej George Frynas (2005) Setting New Agendas: Critical
Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Developing World, International
Affairs, 81 (3): 499-513
Crane, Andrew and Matten, Dirk (2010) Business Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
3rd edition
Davies, Iain, Doherty, Bob and Knox, Simon (2010) The Rise and Stall of a Fair Trade
Pioneer: The Cafedirect Story, Journal of Business Ethics, 92: 127-147
Daviron, Benoit and Ponte, Stefano (2005) The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity
Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (London: Zed Books Ltd)
(London: SAGE Publications) Ch 9 and 17
Doherty, Bob and Tranchell, Sophi (2005) New Thinking in International Trade? A Case
Study of the Day Chocolate Company, Sustainable Development, 13, 166-176
Doherty, Bob, Iain Davies and Sophi Tranchell (2013) Where Now for Fair Trade?,
Business History 55 (2): 161-189
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Fitter, Robert and Kaplinsky, Raphael (2001) Can an Agricultural Commodity be DeCommodified, and if so, Who is to Gain?, IDS Discussion Paper 380 (Brighton: Institute of
Development Studies)
Fridell, Gavin (2006) Fair Trade and Neoliberalism: Assessing Emerging Perspectives,
Latin American Perspectives, 33 (8) 8-28
Jaffee, Daniel (2007) Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
(California: University of California Press)
Jenkins, Rhys, Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang (2002) Corporate Social Responsibility and
Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy (London: Earthscan Publications)
Le Mare, Ann (2008) The Impact of Fair Trade on Social and Economic Development: A
Review of the Literature, Geography Compass, 2/6, 1922-1942
Low, William and Davenport, Eileen (2005), Postcards from the Edge: Maintaining the
Alternative Character of Fair Trade, Sustainable Development, 13, 143-153
Low, William and Eileen Davenport (2013) Mainstreaming Fair Trade: Adoption,
Assimilation, Appropriation, Journal of Strategic Marketing 14 (4): 315-327
Murray, Douglas, Raynolds, Laura and Taylor, Peter (2003) One Cup at a Time: Poverty
Alleviation and Fairtrade in Latin America (Colorado: Colorado State University)
Oxfam (2002) Rigged Rules and Double Standards: Trade, Globalisation and the Fight
Against Poverty (Oxford: Oxfam)
Pearson, Ruth (2007) Beyond Women Workers: Gendering CSR, Third World Quarterly, 28
(4): 731-49
Pearson, Ruth and Gill Seyfang (2001) New Hope or False Dawn? Voluntary Codes of
Conduct, Labour Regulation and Social Policy in a Globalizing World, Global Social Policy,
1 (1): 49-78
Raynolds, Laura, (2002) Poverty Alleviation Through Participation in Fair Trade Coffee
Networks: Existing Research and Critical Issues available at
infoagro.net/shared/docs/a6/CoffeeFairTrade.pdf [accessed 30/08/2010]
Raynolds, Laura (2009) Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee: From Partnership to
Traceability, World Development 37 (6): 1083-1093
Raynolds, Laura, Douglas Murray and John Wilkinson (eds) (2007) Fair Trade: The
Challenge of Transforming Globalization (London: Routledge)
Richey, Lisa Ann and Ponte, Stefano (2011) Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
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Selwyn, Benjamin (2013) Social upgrading and labour in global production networks: a
critique and an alternative conception, Competition and Change, 17 (1): 75-90
Tallontire, Anne (2000) Partnerships in Fair Trade: Reflections From a Case Study of
Cafdirect, Development in Practice, 10 (2) 166-177
Tallontire, Anne (2002) Challenges Facing Fair Trade: Which Way Now?, Small Enterprise
Development, 13 (3) 12-24
Tallontire, Anne, Catherine Dolan, Sally Smith and Stephanie Barrientos (2005) Reaching
the Marginalised? Gender Value Chains and Ethical Trade in African Horticulture,
Development in Practice, 15 (3/4): 559-571
Vosko, Leah (2002) Decent Work: The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global
Social Justice, Global Social Policy, 2 (1): 19-46
Walton, Andrew (2010) What is Fair Trade? Third World Quarterly 31 (3): 431-447
Williams, Glyn, Meth, Paula and Willis, Katie (2009) Geographies of Developing Areas: The
Global South in a Changing World (London: Routledge) Ch 10 Market-Led Development
Session 10 Global Governance and Democracy

A. Global governance institutions
B. The example of the WTO
C. The changing nature of political communities
Seminar Questions:
1) What is global governance?
2) What are the main global governance institutions?
3) Are these institutions accountable?
4) Can global governance institutions be democratic?
5) Is the WTO an example of a democratic global governance institution?
6) Can developing countries effectively participate in organisations such as the WTO?
7) To what extent is globalisation transforming political communities?
8) What are the arguments for and against cosmopolitan democracy?
9) What is global civil society?
10) Are globalisation and democracy compatible?
Key Reading:
Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 15 Governing the Global Political Economy
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Linklater, Andrew (2014) Globalization and the Transformation of Political Community in
John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics
(Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Mortensen, Jens Ladefoged (2006) The WTO and the Governance of Globalization:
Dismantling the Compromise of Embedded Liberalism in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey
University Press)
Further Reading:
Archibugi, Daniele (2004) Cosmopolitan Democracy and its Critics: A Review, European
Journal of International Relations, 10 (3): 437-73
Held, David (1995) Democracy and the Global Order. From the Modern State to
Cosmopolitan Governance (Cambridge: Polity Press)
Press) Part VI
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 6 Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and
Global Governance
Kwa, Aileen and Fatoumata Jamara (2003) Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of
International Trade Negotiations (New York: Zed Books)
Martell, Luke (2010) The Sociology of Globalization (Cambridge: Polity) Ch 10 Global
Politics and Cosmopolitan Democracy
Nye, Joseph (2001) Globalisations Democratic Deficit: How to Make International
Institutions More Accountable, Foreign Affairs, 80 (4): 2-6
OBrien, Robert, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams (2000) Contesting
Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements
Rodrik, Dani (2011) The Globalisation Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World
Economy, World Trade Review, 10 (3): 409-417
Wade, Robert Hunter (2003) What Strategies are Viable for Developing Countries Today?
The World Trade Organization and the Shrinking of Development Space, Review of
International Political Economy, 10 (4): 621-644
Wallach, Lori and Patrick Woodall (2004) Whose Trade Organisation? A Comprehensive
Guide to the WTO (New York: New Press)
Wilkinson, Rorden and Hughes, Steve (eds.) (2002) Global governance: Critical
Perspectives (London: Routledge)
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Wilkinson, Rorden (ed.) (2005) The Global Governance Reader (London: Routledge)
Willetts, Peter (2014) Transnational Actors and International Organizations in Global
Politics in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World
Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Woods, Ngaire (2000) Globalization and International Institutions in Ngaire Woods (ed.)
The Political Economy of Globalization (Basingstoke: Macmillan)
Session 11 The Anti-Globalisation Movement and Resisting Globalisation

A. Critical globalisation studies
B. The anti-globalisation movement
C. Resistance to globalisation in the Global South
D. Forms of resistance
Seminar Questions:
1) What is a critical approach to studying globalisation and how can this inform our
conceptualisation of resistance to globalisation?
2) Who has benefited from the rise of globalisation?
3) What criticisms can be made about globalisation in its current form?
4) What are the aims of the anti-globalisation movement and why has it come about?
5) What is globalisation from below? What examples are there of forms of resistance to
globalisation from above?
6) Who is challenging globalisation?
7) What forms of resistance to globalisation have emerged in the Global South?
8) Can globalisation in its current form be transformed?
Key Reading:
Appelbaum, Richard and Robinson, William (2005) Introduction in Richard Appelbaum,
and William Robinson (eds.) Critical Globalization Studies (London: Routledge) pp. xi-xxxiii
Mittelman, James (2006) Globalization and its Critics in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey
University Press)
Gill, Stephen (2000) Towards a Postmodern Prince? The Battle in Seattle as a Moment in the
New Politics of Globalisation, Millennium, 29 (1) 131-141
Stahler-Sholk, Richard, Harry Vanden and Glen David Kuecker (2007) Globalizing
Resistance: The New Politics of Social Movements in Latin America, Latin American
Perspectives, 34 (2): 5-16
Further Reading:
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Atzeni, Maurizio (2013) Workers and Labour in Globalized Capitalism: Contemporary

Themes and Theoretical Issues (Palgrave Macmillan)
Amoore, Louise (2005) The Global Resistance Reader (Routledge: London)
Appelbaum, Richard and Robinson, William (eds.) (2005) Critical Globalization Studies
(London: Routledge) Part 5
Bello, Walden (2004) Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Order (New York: Zed Books)
(older version available)
Dinerstein, Ana (2015) The Politics of Autonomy: The Art of Organising Hope (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan) Part 2
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 5 Resisting Globalization
Eschle, Catherine & Bice Maiguashca (2005) Critical Theories, International Relations, and
the Anti-Globalization Movement: The Politics of Global Resistance
Helleiner, Eric (2006) Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism? Towards a More Heterogeneous
Global Political Economy in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Political
Economy and the Changing Global Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Houtart, Francois and Polet, Francois (eds) (2001) The Other Davos: The Globalisation of
Resistance to the World Economic System (London: Zed Books)
and Hegemony (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Ch 10 Resisting Globalization?
Lechner, Frank and Boli, John (2012) The Globalization Reader (Chichester: WileyBlackwell) Part VII Globlization, INGOs and Civil Society and Part XI Alternative
Globalization and the Global Justice Movement
Nilsen, Alf-Gunvald & Laurence Cox (2015) We Make Our Own History: Marxism and
Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism
OBrien, Robert, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams (2000) Contesting
Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements
Martell, Luke (2010) The Sociology of Globalization (Cambridge: Polity) Ch 11 Antiglobalization and Global Justice Movements
Mason, Paul (2007) Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global
Mittelman, James (2005) What is a Critical Globalization Studies? in Richard Appelbaum,
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Petras, James and Henry Veltmeyer (2011) Social Movements in Latin America:
Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan)
Rupert, Mark (2000) Ideologies of Globalization (London: Routledge)
Rupert, Mark and Scott Solomon (2005) Globalization and International Political Economy:
The Politics of Alternative Futures (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers)
Silver, Beverly (2003) Forces of Labor: Workers Movements and Globalization Since 1870
University Press)
Taylor, Marcus (2007) Who Works for Globalisation? The challenges and possibilities for
international labour studies, Third World Quarterly, 30 (3): 435-452
Van der Pijl, Kees (2015) The International Political Economy of Production (Edward Elgar)
Session 12 Conclusion: The Global Financial Crisis and Beyond

Please feel free to search for you own readings on this topic in addition to the suggested
readings below:
Dumnil, Grard & Levy, Dominique (2011) The Crisis of Neoliberalism (London: Harvard
University Press)
Green, Duncan, King, Richard and Miller-Dawkins, May (2010) The Global Economic
Crisis and Developing Countries, Oxfam International Research Report
Grugel, Jean & Riggirozzi, Pa (2012) Post-neoliberalism and Latin America: Rebuilding
and reclaiming the state after crisis, Development and Change, 43 (1): 1-21
Harvey, David (2010) The Enigma of Capital (London: Profile)
Helleiner, Eric (2011) Understanding the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for
Scholars of International Political Economy?, Annual Review of Political Science 14: 67-87
Helleiner, Eric, (2010) A Bretton Woods Moment? The 2007-2008 Crisis and the Future of
Global Finance, International Affairs 86 (3): 619-36
Helleiner, Eric, et al. (2009) Special Forum: Crisis and the Future of Global Financial
Governance. Global Governance 1-28.
Konings, Martijn (2009) Rethinking Neoliberalism and the Subprime Crisis: Beyond the ReRegulation Agenda, Competition and Change, 13 (2): 108-127
Krugman, Paul (2008) The Return of Depression Economics (London: Penguin)
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Lambie, George (2009) Nemesis of Market Fundamentalism? The Ideology, Deregulation
and Crisis of Finance, Contemporary Politics, 15 (2): 157-177
Mirowski, Philip (2014) Never Let a Serious Crisis Go To Waste: How Neoliberalism
Survived the Financial Crisis (London: Verso)
Pauly, Louis (2014) The Political Economy of Global Financial Crises John Ravenhill (ed.)
Global Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Wade, Robert, (2008) Financial regime change? New Left Review, No. 53
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9) Suggested 3500 - 4000 Word Assignment Topics

If you would like to do an essay question on a topic that is not in the list below, it is possible
to agree a separate topic with me, as long as this is done in advance and the question is
relevant to the module.
1) Critically assess the claim that globalisation is a recent phenomenon
2) How successful was the Bretton Woods regime in achieving global prosperity?
3) The international financial system has been the main driver of globalisation. Discuss.
4) To what extent have firms shifted from multinational to transnational organisations?
5) How and why is global production organised in chains or networks and what are the
implications of this?
6) Does the state still have a role in the international political economy? And if so, why?
7) Evaluate the claim that globalisation has led to cultural homogenisation
8) How and why is the impact of globalisation gendered?
9) How has globalisation changed the way we understand development?
10) What impact has globalisation has upon poverty and inequality and why?
11) Evaluate the effect of ONE of the following on the social problems associated with
globalisation:
a. Corporate Social Responsibility
OR
b. Fair Trade
OR
c. The Decent Work Agenda
12) What impact has globalisation had on democracy?
13) What is a critical approach to globalisation and how can this inform attempts to resist
globalisation in its current form?
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10) Postgraduate Mark Descriptors

Mark
Range
90-100%
Distinctio
n
80-89%
Distinctio
n
70-79%
Distinctio
n
60-69%
Merit
50 59%
Pass
Criteria
Demonstrates an exceptional ability and insight, indicating the highest level of
technical competence.
The work has the potential to influence the forefront of the subject,
and may be of publishable/exhibitable quality.
Relevant generic skills are demonstrated at the highest possible standard.
Demonstrates an outstanding ability and insight based on authoritative
subject knowledge and a very high level of technical competence.
The work is considered to be close to the forefront of the subject, and
may be close to publishable/exhibitable quality.
Relevant generic skills are demonstrated at a very high level.
Demonstrates an authoritative, current subject knowledge and a high level of
technical competence.
The work is accurate and extensively supported by appropriate evidence. It
may show some originality. Clear evidence of capacity to reflect critically and
deal with ambiguity in the data.
Relevant generic skills are demonstrated at a high level.
Demonstrates a sound, current subject knowledge. No significant errors in
the application of concepts or appropriate techniques. May contain some
minor flaws.
The work is well developed and coherent; may show some originality. Clear
evidence of capacity to reflect critically.
Relevant generic skills are demonstrated at a good level.
Demonstrates satisfactory subject knowledge. Some evident weaknesses;
possibly shown by conceptual gaps, or limited use of appropriate techniques.
The work is generally sound but tends toward the factual or derivative.
Limited evidence of capacity to reflect critically.
Relevant generic skills are generally at a satisfactory level.
40-49%
Demonstrates limited core subject knowledge. Some important weaknesses;

possibly shown by factual errors, conceptual gaps, or limited use of
appropriate techniques.
The work lacks sound development. Little evidence of capacity to reflect
critically.
The quality of the relevant generic skills do not meet the requirements of the
task.
30-39%
Demonstrates inadequate subject knowledge.

The work lacks coherence and evidence of capacity to reflect critically.
task.
20-29%
Demonstrates seriously inadequate knowledge of the subject.

The work contains minimal evidence of awareness of relevant issues or
theory.
task.
10-19%
The work is almost entirely lacking in evidence of knowledge of the subject.
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No evidence of awareness of relevant issues or theory.
task.
0-9%
The work presents information that is irrelevant and unconnected to

the task.
No evident awareness of appropriate principles, theories, evidence
and techniques.

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Module Leader: Dr Zo Pflaeger Young

Handbook for POPP 5007

5) Teaching and Learning

8) Reading List and Seminar Questions

10) Postgraduate Marking Criteria

Critically analyse aspects of globalisation, particularly from the

Demonstrate the relevance of globalisation to business in general or

Critically evaluate material produced by authors on globalisation

5) Teaching and Learning

8) Reading List and Seminar Questions

Introductions to Globalisation and IPE:

Session1 Globalisation: An Overview

Session 2 - Post-WWII and the Bretton Woods System

Thorp, Rosemary (1992) A Re-Appraisal the Origins of Import-Substituting

Session 3 The Rise of the New Right and the Deregulation of

Session 4 Transnational Corporations and the Globalisation of Production

Session 5 The State and Globalisation

What do you understand by the concept of the state?

Session 6 Globalisation, Poverty and Uneven Development

Why are some parts of the world underdeveloped?

Session 7 - Gender and Global Restructuring

Session 8 Globalisation and Culture

Session 9 Ethical Consumerism, Fair Trade, Decent Work and Corporate

Session 10 Global Governance and Democracy

Session 11 The Anti-Globalisation Movement and Resisting Globalisation

Atzeni, Maurizio (2013) Workers and Labour in Globalized Capitalism: Contemporary

Session 12 Conclusion: The Global Financial Crisis and Beyond

9) Suggested 3500 - 4000 Word Assignment Topics

10) Postgraduate Mark Descriptors

Demonstrates limited core subject knowledge. Some important weaknesses;

Demonstrates inadequate subject knowledge.

Demonstrates seriously inadequate knowledge of the subject.

The work is almost entirely lacking in evidence of knowledge of the subject.

The work presents information that is irrelevant and unconnected to

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