PSC 753

International Political Economy

Instructor

Mark Rupert
office: Eggers 513
phone: (315) 443-1748
e-mail: merupert@maxwell.syr.edu

INTRODUCTION

This course is designed to provide students with a substantial introduction to some of the major established schools of thought in the area of IPE, as well as some strains of dissident thought. We will deal explicitly with the basic presuppositions of each approach to IPE, and the ways in which these give rise to the basic analytic puzzles and research strategies characteristic of that approach.

We will read major works of scholarship and more directly political writings representing some of the best and most influential work in IPE. As we read these representative works, we will be attentive to the ways in which the basic presuppositions of each theoretical approach shape its research program, enabling it to illuminate some aspects of social life while obscuring others. We will discuss the political implications of each approach, and the kinds of possible worlds toward which each points.

At the end of the semester, students should have a basic appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses intrinsic to each of the major approaches to IPE, as well as a familiarity with some of the landmark scholarship in this field, and the political visions broadly characteristic of each approach.

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Course Schedule & Reading Assignments