Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM105: The Politics of Global Capitalism

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Introduction: Why IPE?

Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks

Economic Nationalism

The Liberal Tradition

Critical Perspectives

Part 2: Governing the Post-war International Political Economy

Finance: From Bretton Woods to the Big Bang

Trade: From the GATT to the WTO

Development and its Discontents

Part 3: Capitalism in CrisisThe Financial Explosion: Causes and Consequences

Reconfiguring World Trade: The WTO and Beyond

A Planetary Emergency: The Political Economy of the Environment

A Crisis of Ideas? Reimagining World Capitalism

Review Seminar

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	278	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled learning and teaching activities	22	11 x 2 hour Seminars
Guided Independent Study	110	Reading and writing: - Reading in preparation for class each week: c10hrs per week
Guided Independent Study	168	Research and writing for formative and summative assessment

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Introductory reading

Blyth, M. (ed), Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE): IPE as a Global Conversation (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).

Gilpin, R., Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (Princeton:PrincetonUniversity Press, 2001).

Frieden, J. and Lake, D., International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth (London: Routledge, 2000).

Ravenhill, J. (ed), Global Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). **

Strange, S., States and Markets (London: Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd, 1994).

Walter and Sen, G., Analyzing the Global Political Economy (Princeton:PrincetonUniversity Press, 2008).

ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/