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Year 4 Politics.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Ann Capling.
Prerequisite: Admission to fourth-year Political Science.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject will:
- be able to analyse critically the principal approaches to understanding the international political economy;
- be aware of some of the new critiques of these approaches including the feminist and post-modernist critiques;
- have gained an understanding of the principal structures in international political economy, including the monetary and financial system, the production and trade system, the knowledge system, and the security system;
- be aware of the new dilemmas and opportunities posed by interdependence and globalisation;
- be able to analyse critically the relationships between domestic political economies and the international political economy.
Content:
International political economy is an area of investigation, a particular range of questions, and a series of assumptions about the nature of the international system and how we understand the system. These questions embrace concerns about the nature of the global economy, the relationship between political, economic and social change, the interaction between the world and domestic economies, and the conflict between states, markets and societies.
Assessment:
Written work totalling 6,000 words
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