IRPG855
Globalisation and the North-South
Relationship
S1 Evening 2013
Modern History, Politics and International Relations
Contents
General Information
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Learning Outcomes
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Assessment Tasks
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Delivery and Resources
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Unit Schedule
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Policies and Procedures
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Graduate Capabilities
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General Information
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Geoffrey Hawker
[email protected]
Contact via [email protected]
W6A 428
Thursday 5-6pm or by appointment
Credit points
4
Prerequisites
Admission to MIntRel or PGDipIntRel or PGCertIntRel or MIntCommMIntRel or
MIntBusMIntRel or MIntRelMIntTrdeComLaw or MTransInterMIntRel or MAppAnth or
PGDipAppAnth or MDevCult or PGDipDevCult
Corequisites
Co-badged status
Unit description
Globalisation is one of the most overused and poorly understood of terms. For some it simply
refers to a situation in which time, space and global inequalities have been broken down by
the global market, creating a 'flat world'. Critics see the shifts that have taken place from the
late 1970s as resulting in a widening of the disparities, especially across the African continent.
Thus Africa is taken as the paradigm case of 'the South', although other countries that stand in
relationships of dependency to the West or 'First World' will also be studied.
Important Academic Dates
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are
available at http://students.mq.edu.au/student_admin/enrolmentguide/academicdates/
Learning Outcomes
1. Ability to command texts and represent them
2. Show critical learning through written and oral means
3. Show range of analytical tools
4. Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications
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Assessment Tasks
Name
Weighting
Due
Participation
20%
negotiated
Minor essay
30%
18 March
Major essay
50%
20 May
Participation
Due: negotiated
Weighting: 20%
Undertake and in class presentation (includes particpation throughout) or maintain effective web
responses to post
This Assessment Task relates to the following Learning Outcomes:
• Ability to command texts and represent them
• Show critical learning through written and oral means
• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications
Minor essay
Due: 18 March
Weighting: 30%
Against set topic (see below)
This Assessment Task relates to the following Learning Outcomes:
• Ability to command texts and represent them
• Show critical learning through written and oral means
Major essay
Due: 20 May
Weighting: 50%
One selected topic - see below.
This Assessment Task relates to the following Learning Outcomes:
• Ability to command texts and represent them
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• Show critical learning through written and oral means
• Show range of analytical tools
• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications
Delivery and Resources
Reading/s
A set of readings in available on iLearn. New material will be posted from time to time during the
course of the unit.
Other useful sources can be found in the library. Below is a short list of materials stored in the
University library. This is both a useful list for further reading but also a list from which at least
six of the sources you use in your major essay will be drawn from. Of course, your research will
extend beyond the six books drawn from the long list below but essays that do not use at least 6
(six) sources from either the weekly compulsory or recommended readings or the list below will
be penalised.
Mark T. Berger, The battle for Asia : from decolonization to globalization, London : Routledge,
2004. HC412 .B47
C.A. Bayly, The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914 : global connections and comparisons,
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2004. D295 .B28 2004
George Ritzer (ed.) The Blackwell companion to globalization, Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub.,
2007. JZ1318 .B615 2007
Scott R. Sernau (ed.) Contemporary readings in globalization, Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London :
Pine Forge, c2008. JZ1318 .C6574 2008
Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson (eds.) Critical globalization studies,. New York :
Routledge, 2005. HN17.5 .C75 2005
Richard Harris & Melinda J. Seid (eds.) Critical perspectives on globalization and neoliberalism in
the developing countries, Brill, 2000. HF2580.9 .C75/2000
Dictionary of globalization / Andrew Jones. Cambridge : Polity, 2006. JZ1318 .J66
Jens-Uwe Wunderlich and Meera Warrier, A dictionary of globalization, London : Routledge,
2007. JZ1318 .W86 2007
Roland Robertson, and Jan Aart Scholte (eds.) Encyclopaedia of globalization, New York :
Routledge, 2007. JZ1318 .E63 2007
Manuel Castells, End of millennium, Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998. HN17.5 .C354/
1998
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David Held and Ayse Kaya (eds.) Global inequality : patterns and explanations,. Cambridge :
Polity, 2007. HF1359 .G57337 2007
Robert O'Brien and Marc Williams, Global political economy : evolution and dynamics,
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. HF1359 .O26 2007
David Held and Anthony McGrew (eds.) The global transformations reader : an introduction to
the globalization debate, Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2000. JZ1318 .G56/2000
Joseph E. Stiglitz Globalization and its discontents, New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Co.,
2002. HF1418.5 .S75 2002
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Globalization or empire? New York : Routledge, 2004. E902 .N43 2004
Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods (eds.) Inequality, globalization, and world politics, Oxford ;
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. JZ1305 .I54/1999
Mustapha Kamal Pasha and Craig N. Murphy (eds.), International relations and the new
inequality, Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2002. JZ1242 .I568 2002
Recommended Books on Africa:
James Ferguson, Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order, Durham, N.C. ; London :
Duke University Press, 2006. JZ1773 .F47 2006
N. Chazan, P. Lewis, R. Mortimer, D.Rothchild and S. Stedman (1999) Politics and Society in
Contemporary Africa, 3rd ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999.
Christopher Clapham, Africa and the International System the Politics of State Survival,
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996,
Alex Thomson, An Introduction to African Politics, 2nd ed. London: Routledge 2004.
Mazrui, Ali A. The African Condition A Political Diagnosis, Reith Lectures, London: Heinemann.,
1980. This text by Mazrui is a little dated now but in many ways holds true for a more current
appraisal of Africa especially in terms of the key themes he raises.
The library‘s holdings in African politics are somewhat limited, especially in the current period of
the last decade or so, but many of the older volumes repay study if you visit the Library. They
give a good background that can be updated quite quickly if you know what you are looking for,
such as recent political developments in a particular country. So do browse the shelves (most
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around DT30 œ 38 for materials on Africa). Also, the library holds (as hard-copy) a number of
journals that are worth browsing over a period of time as sources of detail and argument. These
include Africa Quarterly, the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Journal of
Modern African Studies and the Journal of Southern African Studies. It is expected, however,
that you will do most of your search and retrieval of journals from the Web-based databases
available through the Library; please let the convener know urgently if you have any problem
accessing and using (for example) Ingenta or Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Lecture & tutorial outline:
Following is a list of lecture subjects for each week, showing also the reading and discussion
topics for each week. All the weekly mandatory topics as listed in the outline are located in the
course reader.
Week 1
Introduction
The first week is an opportunity to discuss the basic premises and themes which will be the focus
of the following twelve weeks. In particular, I want to assess your expectations of the course,
your ideas regarding “globalization”, north-south, and importantly how the discipline of
International Relations (IR) has become almost synonymous with “globalization” studies. IR. A
history of this transformation is a useful and interesting way to commence the journey into the
globalization and north-south relationship. During this lecture, the logistics of the course
assessment, reader, blackboard, and tutorials will also be discussed.
Students are expected to attend tutorials in week one.
Reading for week one:
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, “Globalization north and south” in Globalization or Empire? New York:
Routledge, 2004, pp. 107-119.
Week 2 Globalization and the North –South: Defining the Key Concepts
This week’s topic focuses on the debates regarding “globalization” and introduces the EITI. In
particular, the readings and lecture will address the key concerns regarding the different
definitions of globalization. In the tutorial, students are expected to address a number of key
conceptual and historical questions posed in the lecture and the reading. The questions of focus
include:
What is globalization and does globalization have a history?
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Can we even speak of globalization, or is it more accurate to refer to globalizations?
What is the major problem/s associated with viewing globalization historically?
What interests and motives are there in the different representations of globalization?
Reading:
Ulrich Beck, What is Globalization, Polity Press, 2000, pp17-42.
Other recommended readings:
Justin Rosenberg, The Follies of Globalization Theory, London; Verso, 2000
Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, Globalization in question : the international economy and
the possibilities of governance, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999,
Frederick Cooper, “What is the concept of globalization good for? An African historian's
perspective,” African Affairs Vol. 100, No. 399, 2001, pp189-213.
James Petras, “Globalization: A critical analysis, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 29, No. 1,
1999, pp3 – 37.
Tilman Dedering, “Globalization, Global History, and Africa,” Journal of Asian and African
Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3-5, 2002, pp271-285.
Patrick Wolfe, “History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory from Marx to Postcolonialism,” The
American Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 2, 1997, pp388-420.
Ronald H. Chilcote, “Globalization or Imperialism?” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 29, No. 6,
Nov., 2002, pp80-84.
A.G. Hopkins (ed), Globalization in world history, London : Pimlico, 2002.
Kate Nash, Contemporary political sociology : globalization, politics , and power, Malden, Ma. :
Blackwell Publishing, 2000.
Danilo Zolo ; translated by Mark Wei, Globalisation : an overview, Colchester, UK : ECPR Press,
2007. JZ1318 .Z65 2007
Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization : a critical introduction, New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
JZ1318 .S36 2000
Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson (eds.), Globalization and global history, New York, NY
:Routledge, 2006.
Week 3 Power/Knowledge and defining the “Other”.
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This lecture applies the tools of postcolonial theory, especially the concept of power/knowledge,
to interrogate the representations of the global south as constructed by successive imperial
projects. The lecture and the readings will assess the extent that views regarding the global
south (before this the Third World) have been constructed by western individuals and institutions
and whether there exists a discourse through which history is constantly mediated. Thus, the
question of the extent that representations of the global south, as it is today, is an invention of
European colonialism and neo-colonial power structures will be posed. Students will be asked to
challenge their pre-conceived notions of the global south, Africa, poverty, underdevelopment,
racial categories and history. The questions that form a basis for this reconsideration include:
Tutorial Questions:
Who controls knowledge? To what extent is the centre-periphery of knowledge production
identical to the wider power relations in the international system?
How can we understand the power/knowledge nexus at work and what does it mean for an
understanding of the world as we know it?
Does Africa exist? Where is Africa? What is the “real” Africa?
What images and representations of Africa and the global south do you have? How were they
formed? Whose interests do they serve?
How is Africa and the global south portrayed in different mediums and what impact does this
have on the way we view Africa?
Readings:
Stuart Hall, “The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power” in Susanne Schech and Jane Haggis
(eds.) Development: a cultural studies reader, pp56-64.
Fred Halliday, The World at 2000, Basingstoke: Hampshire, 2001, pp110-124.
Other recommended readings:
Ali A. Mazrui, “The Re-invention of Africa: Edward Said, V. Y. Mudimbe, and Beyond” Research
in African Literatures 36.3 (2005) 68-82.
Eric Wolf, Europe and the People’s Without History, Berkeley : University of California Press,
1982, especially pp3-24.
V.Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
V.Y. Mudimbe, The Idea of Africa, London: James Currey Publishers, 1994.
Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (eds.), The cultures of globalization, Durham, N.C. : Duke
University Press, 1998.
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Gopal Balakrishnan (ed), with contributions by Stanley Aronowitz, Debating empire. New York :
VERSO, 2003.
Week 4 “Globalization” in the age of European expansion: The Atlantic Slave trade and the
emergence of capitalism, colonization, and how Europe underdeveloped Africa, Asia and Latin
America (part 1)
The conquest and colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century was arguably one of the
great turning points of history. The impact of the expansion of European power in this era on
global relations cannot be understated. In 1944, Caribbean born economic historian Eric Williams
published an influential book titled Capitalism and Slavery which turned the history of slavery on
its head. Williams not only argued that slavery was an important component of US economic
development but was essential for the rise of capitalism. Furthermore, he argued that slavery
and the slave-trade came to an end due to the superior economic value of wage-labour and not
as a philanthropic mission, as had been the dominant representation, until William’s intervention.
Williams work inspired greater scrutiny of the history of slavery and capitalism and the economic
importance of the triangular trade of the period 1500-1885. Following Williams, recent
scholarship has presented a more sophisticated view of the end of slavery grounded in the
development of culture and class in eighteenth century England.
This lecture will examine William’s thesis and other contributions to the debate regarding the role
of Africa in the development of capitalism and the international system that emerged as Western
European power increased vis-à-vis non-European empires, kingdoms, and other societies. Also,
taking a cue from Walter Rodney’s argument that Africa’s contemporary impoverishment is a
result of slavery, colonialism and the “western” exploitation of Africa, the important issue of what
role the Atlantic slave-trade played in the underdevelopment, impoverishment and disintegration
of Africa’s political systems will be addressed. The issues raised open questions relevant to the
wider issue of the history of globalization and in particular, the part that the Atlantic slave-trade
played in the formation of the contemporary international system. Questions to be discussed in
the tutorial are:
In what ways can it be argued that the triangular trade of the period 1500-1800 constituted the
first age of globalization?
What were the key features of the triangular trade and are some of these features comparable to
contemporary global relations?
Describe the relationships between the different international actors in the triangular trade of the
early modern period.
How has it been argued that the Atlantic Slave Trade stimulated the development of capitalism?
What brought an end to the Atlantic Slave Trade: philanthropy or economic developments?
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What part did slavery and the slave-trade play in the underdevelopment of Africa, Asia and Latin
America?
Readings:
Joseph E. Inikori, “Africa and the Globalization Process: Western Africa, 1450–1850,” Journal of
Global History Vol. 2, No.1, 2007, pp63-86.
Robert Harms, “Early Globalization and the Slave Trade,” retrieved from
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=1587.
Also recommended reading for weeks 4 and 5: “Robert O’Brien and Marc Williams , Global
Political Economy, London” Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp.53-86.
Recommended Readings:
David Northrup, “Globalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the Long
Term,” Journal of World History, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2005, pp. 249-267.
Pieter Emmer, “The myth of early globalization: the Atlantic economy, 1500–1800,” European
Review Vol. 11, No. 1, 2003, pp 37-47.
Selwyn H.H. Carrington, “Capitalism & Slavery and Caribbean Historiography: An Evaluation,”
The Journal of African American History, Vol. 88, No. 3, 2003, pp. 304-312.
K Bales, “Expendable people: Slavery in the age of globalization,” Journal of International Affairs,
Vol. 53, No.2, 2000, pp461-485 retrieved from http://classshares.student.usp.ac.fj/GE303/
additional%20readings/informal%20sector/
slavery%20in%20the%20age%20of%20Globalization.pdf
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Dar-es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing
House, 1973.
Seymour Drescher, "British Capitalism and British Slavery," History and Theory, Vol. 26, No. 2,
1987, pp. 180-196
Week 5
The Colonial System: Imperialism and Underdevelopment (part 2)
The causes of the scramble for Africa remains a much-debated topic with different schools
presenting a range of reasons from the philanthropic to those grounded in the politics of empire
and the expansion of capitalism. This lecture will commence with the debate surrounding the
reasons behind the surge of colonial expansion in the late nineteenth century whereby European
empires came to control eighty percent of the world’s land surface by the end of the Great War (it
had been approximately 20 per cent in 1800). While the causes that led to the second age of
globalization (1885-1945) are important, the question of the impact of colonialism is crucial for
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understanding the contemporary character of the global south and the relationship that the
former colonies have with the rest of the world. In terms of theories of imperialism (dependency
and neo-dependency theories, world-systems theories, etc) the colonial age was an era which
led to the formalisation of the dependent relationship between former colonies and their former
colonial powers. Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a major
contribution to the literature on the colonial legacy on Africa and will form the basis, along with an
interesting chapter on the relevance of colonialism for understanding contemporary international
relations.
What changes in the political, economic and cultural aspects of nineteenth century Europe were
responsible for the ‘scramble for Africa”?
How did colonialism structure the international system of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries?
How was colonialism in Africa structured?
What have been the legacies of colonialism?
In what ways did colonialism impose a specific role for Africa in the global economy? Is this true
of other regions of the world?
Has contemporary globalization broken down this colonial/neo-colonial system or reasserted it?
Reading:
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 1972, pp223- 260 (reader version taken
from http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/how-europe/index.htm)
Other recommended readings:
Crawford Young, “The African Colonial State Revisited”, Governance: An International Journal of
Policy and Administration, Vol.11, No. 1, January, 1998, pp101-120
Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912, Abacus: London, 1992.
Nicholas Frayn, “Agency in Imperialism and Empire: useful questions raised by the Robinson
and Gallagher debate,” ISA Conference Paper, Montreal, March 2004, retrieved from
http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/7/3/5/8/pages73583/
p73583-1.php
Anthony Brewer, Marxist theories of imperialism : a critical survey, London : Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1980, especially chapter 8, ‘Dependency Theories”.
Colin Leys, The rise & fall of development theory, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996,
especially chapter 4, “Development Theory & Africa”
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Week 6 From Colonial Empires to the Modern International System: decolonization and the
formation of the modern nation-state system
The end of the First World War marked the apogee of the colonial system. Within a generation
the ideology of colonialism had been completely discredited and European colonies everywhere
were agitating for independence. The question of how and why this system unravelled so quickly
has been a topic of much debate. Viewing decolonization as part of reconstituted imperialism,
provides a basis for understanding the changes that occurred in the period following the Second
World War as less a major transformation than a conjunctural shift in the relations between the
North-South. Roger Louis, for one, is a historian of imperialism who views decolonization as a
process by which the colonial powers transferred hegemony of the international system to the
US without sacrificing the key centre-periphery relations that had been generated by the colonial
system. Additionally Louis, along with Frank Furedi for example, argues that decolonisation is
incomprehensible unless placed in the context of the post Second World War US-Soviet
relations. It is from this viewpoint that the lecture and the readings assess the nature of
decolonisation and the continuities and change that occurred with the end of empire. Questions
to keep in mind include:
What factors drove anti-colonialism?
What impact did the emergence of the Soviet Union have on the colonial struggle for
independence?
In what ways was continuity of the relations between colonizer and colonized maintained by the
colonial powers?
What part did the US play in the era of decolonization?
Why were African post-colonial states formed from the colonies that preceded them?
What were the major continuities and discontinuities between colonial and post-colonial states?
What level of decolonization did Africa experience?
Readings:
Roger William Louis (with Ronald Robinson), “The Imperialism of decolonization” in Roger
William Louis, Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Decolonization and the
Suez Crisis, London: I.B. Tauris and Co., 2006, pp451-502.
Kate Manzo, “Do colonialism and slavery belong to the past?” in Jenny Edkins and Maja
Zehfuss, Global Politics: A new introduction, London: Routledge, 2009.
Recommended Reading:
Eric Wolf, Europe and the People’s Without History, Berkeley : University of California Press,
1982.
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William Roger Louis, Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and
Decolonization: Collected Essays, London: I.B. Taurus, 2006.
Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalization and the postcolonial world : the new political economy of
development, Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001.
Michael Adas, Machine as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western
Dominance, Cornell University Press, 1992,
Michael Adas, “Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the
Civilizing Mission Ideology, JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, 15/1, 2004, pp. 31-64.
Frank Furedi, Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism, London: I. B. Tauris,
Christopher Clapham, Africa and the International System, Cambridge University Press, Chapter
6, pp 134-158
1994.
Week 7 Globalizing Development, Poverty and Power: Inventing the Third World
Development became a defining motif of the post Second World War era. However, its origins
lay in the death throes of the colonial system. The moment of development as an international
movement came when President Truman’s advisors decided to add a fourth pillar on which the
US would define its international role in the post war era. That fourth pillar, or Point Four, was a
commitment from the US to fight poverty. The other pillars emphasised stability of the
international system and the great struggle against communism. Development and the Cold War
were from the very beginning inextricably intertwined. In this lecture the question of development
and definitions of poverty, underdevelopment and the other will be addressed. The development
paradigm as a relationship between the countries of the first world and the Bretton Woods
institutions on the one hand, and the Third World on the other hand, will be examined to
understand how development became institutionalized as both a discourse and set of practices
to maintain global power structures. The readings by Arturo Escobar and Mark Berger challenge
the apolitical character of development and tie the idea and practices of development to
international capitalism, the Cold War and the interests of the first world. We will re-visit the EIT.
Some questions include:
How are concepts such as development and underdevelopment, poverty, and wealth defined
and how do these definitions serve particular global interests?
What role did the Cold War have in defining the character of post WW2 international capitalism?
How did development became a discourse and what did this mean for north-south relations?
What impact did development have on the Third World?
What characteristics defined post WW2 development and what lessons are available from the
success/failure of this period of development?
Review Readings:
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Arturo Escobar, “The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of the Three Worlds and
Development” in Susanne Schech and Jane Haggis (eds.), Development: A Cultural Studies
Reader, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp79-82.
Other recommended readings:
Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard, International Development and the Social Sciences:
Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge by Frederick Cooper, Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1997, pp1-44.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions, Thousand
Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2001, pp18-50.
David Lehmann, “An opportunity lost: Escobar's deconstruction of development,” Journal of
Development Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, 1997, pp568 – 578.
Arturo Escobar, “Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the
Third World,” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 3, No. 4, Nov., 1988, pp. 428-443.
Arturo Escobar, “The Problematisation of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development”
in Susanne Schech and Jane Haggis (eds.) Development: a cultural studies reader, Malden, MA
: Blackwell, 2002, pp79-89.
James Ferguson, The Anti-politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, And Bureaucratic
Power In Lesotho, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp3-24.
Colin Leys, The Rise & Fall of Development Theory, London” James Currey, 1996.
Week 8 Globalization Again? Imposing the neo-liberal order
The 1980s have been declared by a large number of analysts of Africa as the “lost decade”. The
cause, according to a number of these commentators, is located in the impact of the neo-liberal
transformation which Africa was coerced into undertaking in the 1980s. This lecture will examine
the nature of the ‘”Washington Consensus” and the different policies that (generally poorer and
weaker) states were forced to implement, these policies are known as Structural Adjustment
Policies (SAPs), under the auspices of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Despite, strong domestic opposition to the SAP program and evidence that the policies would
prove counter-productive the WB and IMF pushed ahead. The SAPs were based on four basic
structural changes to indebted economies: deregulation, privatisation, liberalization and austerity.
Each of these policies will be assessed, as well as the overall WB/IMF intervention, to judge to
what extent the policies were based on providing changes to ensure maintenance of pre-existing
north-south relations or aimed at debt alleviation and as a basis for propelling economic
development. Does the EITI reflect an alternative and better approach?
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To what extent was neo-liberalism a solution to rising Third Worldism?
What have been the different agendas of the International Financial Institutions?
What theoretical underpinnings led to the adoption of neo-liberal economic policies?
How was the global south restructured by the neo-liberal agenda?
What role did the Bretton Woods institutions have in introducing neo-liberalism?
Is there a neo-liberal development agenda?
Reading:
Fouad Makki, “The Empire of Capital and the Remaking of Centre Periphery Relations” Third
World Quarterly, Vol. 25, No.1, 2005, pp149-168
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 39-63.
Other recommended readings:
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents, New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2003.
Francis Owusu, “Pragmatism and the Gradual Shift from Dependency to Neoliberalism: The
World Bank, African Leaders and Development Policy in Africa,” World Development, Vol. 31,
No. 10, 2003, pp.1655-1672.
Howard Stein, “Deindustrialization, adjustment, the World Bank and the IMF in Africa,” World
Development, Vol. 20, No.1, 1992, pp83-95.
Lance Taylorhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/
science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VC6-3SWV6CP-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_d
- fn1, “Editorial: The revival of the liberal creed — the IMF and the World Bank in a globalized
economy,” World Development, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1997, pp.145-152.
G. K. Helleiner, “The IMF and Africa in the 1980s,” Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue
Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1983, pp. 17-33.
Axel Dreher, “The Development and Implementation of IMF and World Bank Conditionality,”
HWWA Discussion Paper No. 165, 2002 retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
papers.cfm?abstract_id=333960
S Amin, Capitalism in the age of globalization: the management of contemporary society,
London: Zed Books, 1997.
Henry Bienen, “The Politics of Trade Liberalization in Africa,” Economic Development and
Cultural Change, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1990, pp. 713-732.
Daniel Tettah Oabu-Kle, “The Politics of One-Sided Adjustment in Africa”, Journal of Black
Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4, March, 2000, pp515-533.
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Michael Barratt-Brown, Africa’s choices: after thirty years of the World Bank, Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press, 1996, chapter 4, “Structural Adjustment - by the World Bank”
Week 9 Globalization’s Impact on the South: The Balance Sheet
The World Bank and IMF policies were intended to reduce debt and stimulate economic growth.
These institutions argued that ultimately neo-liberalism would lead to real gains in third world
prosperity and increases in living standards. By the end of the 1990s, the WB and IMF finally,
after sustaining immense criticism and faced with a mountain of empirical evidence,
acknowledged that one of the primary repercussions of the SAP program was to increase
poverty. In this lecture and the readings the extent of the failure of neo-liberalism to address the
key issues of debt reduction and economic growth will be examined alongside claims that SAPs
exacerbated poverty and reduced living standards in the majority of the states that comprise the
global south. We will ask questions related to poverty and its implications. Other questions
include:
Are the criticisms of neo-liberalism valid?
What defence can be mounted for neo-liberalism as an approach for combating poverty?
Are there examples where WB/IMF reforms have proven successful? Which countries are often
portrayed as success stories of the WB/IMF policies? What can be said for these examples?
What role did the different global actors play in exacerbating poverty?
How serious is poverty in the global south?
Why have some areas witnessed a reduction in poverty and others only seen declining living
standards?
What has been the link between SAPs and other crises in the global south?
Reading:
Manuel Castells, End of Millennium, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp70-95 and 115-120.
Other recommended readings:
Samir Amin, “Africa” Living on the Fringe,” Monthly Review, 2002, retrieved from
http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/mcooper/ps597readings/Amin.pdf
Michael Barratt-Brown, Africa’s choices: after thirty years of the World Bank, Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press, 1996.
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Ann Harrison (ed), Globalization and poverty, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
(HC79.P6 G664 2007).
Michel Chossudovsky, The globalisation of poverty: impacts of IMF and World Bank reforms,
N.J. : Zed Books, 1997 (HG3881.5.I58 .C47/1997).
William Easterly, The white man's burden : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so
much ill and so little good, New York : Penguin Press, 2006 (HC59.7 .E22 2006).
Giovanni Arrighi, “The African Crisis: World Systemic and Regional Aspects,” New Left Review,
15 May, 2002, retrieved from http://newleftreview.org/A2387
Week 10 Reading Week Week 11 Globalization and the Collapse of the Nation-State and the
Role of NGOS Assessed
As discussed the post WW2 political economy was dominated by state-centred development.
Neo-liberalism inverted this paradigm and placed global capital at the centre of the international
system. In time, the policies of the WB/IMF have led to the erosion of the institutions and
capacities of the nation-state in many parts of the world. In particular, African states are in crisis.
Sudan, Somalia, and Democratic Republic of Congo are the most apparent cases of states that
have collapsed but others such as Nigeria, Ethiopia and Angola teeter on the edge of a major
collapse. This weeks lecture and readings will address the relationship between neo-liberalism
and the crisis of the state as a global phenomenon and in the African context. The EITI will be
again reviewed.
Reading:
Mark T. Berger, “The nation-state and the challenge of global capitalism,” Third World Quarterly,
Vol. 22, No. 6, 2001, pp889 – 907.
Julie Hearn, “African NGOs: The New Compradors?” Development and Change, Vol. 38 No.
6, pp. 1095 – 1110.
Other recommended readings:
Robert J. Holton, Globalization and the nation-state, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Macmillan Press, 1998.
Michael Mann, “Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state?” Review of
International Political Economy, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1997, pp472 – 496.
Saskia Van Hoyweghen and Stefaan Smis, “The crisis of the nation-state in Central Africa: a
theoretical introduction,” Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 93, 2002, pp575 –
581.
David Moore, “‘Sail on, O Ship of State’: Neo-Liberalism, Globalisation and the Governance of
Africa,” Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1999, pp61 – 96.
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Martin Doornbos, Global forces and state restructuring : dynamics of state formation and
collapse, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Jean-Franc?ois Bayart ; translated by Andrew Brown, Global subjects : a political critique of
globalization, Cambridge: Polity, 2007.
Saskia Van Hoyweghen and Stefaan Smis, “The crisis of the nation-state in Central Africa: a
theoretical introduction,” Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 93, 2002, pp575 –
581
Francis Adams, Satya Dev Gupta, and Kidane Mengisteab (eds.) Globalization and the
dilemmas of the state in the south, New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Week 12 Globalization and Cultural Imperialism: The Culture of Capitalism and Responses from
the South
On one level globalization is the spread of cultural norms, ideologies, practices and beliefs
across the globe. The extent that this process is controlled by global media conglomerates and
the idiom of capitalism is still much debated. Scholars speak not of a global culture but of
hybridity, fragmentation, dislocation and marginalization. Regardless, there has been a trend
since the 1980s for a dominant ideology of state and society which has reshaped the world and
which is grounded in capitalism, consumption, materialism, and individualism. In this weeks
lecture and readings the questions will revolve around what is culture and in what ways have the
agents of globalization undermined cultural difference and imposed a dominant credo around the
world. Additionally, how global culture have been received in the south and what reactions to the
“American dream’ are evident will be discussed.
Also, to be discussed in this week’s lectures and tutorials is the question of identity politics in the
post Cold War period. The End of the Cold War and the flattening effect of the spread of neoliberal capitalism brought a euphoria characterised most emphatically by the claim of the “end of
history”. However, within moments of this incredible claim, Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Rwanda, to
name but three international crises, undermined any sense that the world was moving into a new
world order of global peace and stability. It was true, at least for the time-being that the Cold War
paradigm of left-right politics had been abandoned in most cases. Yet, the “new wars” were no
less ideological than those that divided the world during the Cold War even if they were by what
seemed to be ethnic or religious identities. At the core of the post Cold War wars, as with earlier
struggles, were questions of access to power, inequality, marginalization, and state-society
relationships. The tendency of scholars and political commentators to overlook the material
reasons for conflict are part of the triumph of the post Cold War ideology of neo-liberal capitalism
and liberal governance.
However, with the collapse of both state and the nation-state in the contemporary era there has
been an increase in sub-national affiliations, principally ethnic based movements, or transnational identities such as pan-Islamic movements. This weeks lecture and readings locate the
question of post-Cold War identity politics in the collapse of the state and the reactions to global
culture and capitalism. Students are asked to consider the following questions:
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Has culture ever been either local or global?
Who controls culture and what purpose can cultural idioms serve?
How pervasive are American/western cultural values? What are the consequences?
How have Africans dealt with the expansion of global cultural motifs such as those inherent in the
spread of consumer capitalism?
In what ways is contemporary culture globalizing beyond the narrow imperialist paradigm?
How can we understand identity?
Why is it commonly believed that identities are historically contingent and constructed?
What is meant by the statement that “identity is not an explanation but something that needs to
be explained”?
Are identity conflicts really about identities?
What are the problems with a focus on identity as the source of conflicts?
Readings:
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, “Globalization as hybridization,” No 152, Working Papers - General
Series from Institute of Social Studies, retrieved from http://biblio.iss.nl/opac/uploads/wp/
wp152.pdf , later version available from, International Sociology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1994, pp161-184.
J. L. Comaroff, “Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of Difference in an Age of Revolution” in
Edwin N. Wilmsen and Patrick Macallister (eds.) The politics of difference: Ethnic premises in a
world of power, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp162-183.
Other recommended readings:
Bruce Berman, “Ethnicity, Patronage and the African State: The Politics of the Uncivil
Nationalism”, African Affairs, 97, London, 305-341 (1998)
Martin Doornbos, “Linking the future to the past: ethnicity and pluralism,” Review of African
Political Economy, Vol. 18, No. 52, 1991, pp53 – 65.
Crawford Young, “The heart of the African conflict zone: democratization, ethnicity, civil conflict,
and the Great Lakes Crisis,” Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 9, 2006, pp301-328.
Mark Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and
Security, London: Zed Books, 2001, especially pp108-127.
James Petras, “Cultural imperialism in the late 20th century,” Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.
23, No. 2, 1993, pp.139 – 148
Ulrich Beck, What is Globalization? Polity Press, 2000, pp. 42-63.
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John Carlos Rowe, “Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization,” American Literary History, Vol.
16, No.4, 2004, pp. 575-595.
Walter Bgoya, “The Effect of Globalisation in Africa and the Choice of Language in Publishing,”
International Review of Education, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, 2001, pp283-292.
Giles Mohan and A. B. Zack-Williams, “Globalisation from below: conceptualising the role of the
African diasporas in Africa’s development,” Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No.92,
2002, pp211 – 236.
FB Nyamnjoh, “For Many are Called but Few are Chosen": Globalisation and Popular
Disenchantment in Africa,” African Sociological Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000, pp1-45, retrieved
from http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/asr4_2full/Nyamjoh.pdf
Tandeka C. Nkiwane, “Africa and International Relations: regional Lessons for a Global
Discourse” International Political Science Review, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2001, 279-290.
Nigel C. Gibson, “Africa and Globalization: Marginalization and Resistance,” Journal of Asian and
African Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2004, pp1-28
Week 13
Conclusion: Globalization or What?
This last lecture will serve to summarise the key themes and ideas discussed in the preceding
weeks. In addition, there will be opportunity to assess the GFC and predict the future of the
global system (and globalization) now that the mythology of globalization has been stripped
away after twelve weeks of intensive historical and conceptual analysis and debate.
There is no tutorial or reading for Week 13.
(Other sources which can be used for the major essay)
Against global capitalism : African social movements confront neoliberal globalization / E. Osei
Kwadwo Prempeh. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2006. JQ1879.A15 P72 2006
The American empire and the political economy of global finance / edited by Leo Panitch and
Martijn Konings. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008. HF1455 .A676 2008
The Arab state and neo-liberal globalization : the restructuring of state power in the Middle East /
edited by Laura Guazzone and Daniela Pioppi. Reading, UK : Ithaca, 2009. BP173.7 .A73 2009
Beyond globalization : capitalism, territoriality and the international relations of modernity /
Hannes Lacher. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. HF1359 .L323 2006
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Capitalism in the age of globalization : the management of contemporary society / Samir Amin.
London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1997. HB501 .A5866/1997
Cardoso's Brazil : a land for sale / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. Lanham, Md. : Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2003. HC187 .P43 2003
Challenging global inequality : development theory and practice in the 21st century / Alastair
Greig, David Hulme and Mark Turner. Basingstoke, Hants. : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007. HD82
.G674 2007
China and globalization : the social, economic and political transformation of Chinese society /
Doug Guthrie. New York : Routledge, 2006. HC427.95 .G87 2006
China as a rising world power and its response to 'globalization' / edited by Ronald C. Keith.
London : Routledge, 2005. DS779.27 .C4874 2005
Civil society and global finance / Jan Aart Scholte with Albrecht Schnabel. London : Routledge,
2002. HG3881 .S3744 2002
Confronting globalization : humanity, justice, and the renewal of politics / edited by Patrick
Hayden and Chamsy el-Ojeili. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. JZ1318 .C6573 2005
The cultures of globalization / edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press, 1998. HM101 .C94/1998
Debating empire / edited by Gopal Balakrishnan ; with contributions by Stanley Aronowitz ... [et
al.]. New York : VERSO, 2003. HX44.5 .D43 2003
Development and social change : a global perspective / Philip McMichael. Los Angeles : Pine
Forge Press, c2008. HC79.E44 M25 2008
East Asia and globalization / edited by Samuel S. Kim. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 2000. HF1600.5 .E17 2000
Embedding global markets : an enduring challenge / edited by John Gerard Ruggie. Burlington,
VT : Ashgate, 2008. HF1359 .E57 2008
Empire with imperialism : the globalizing dynamics of neoliberal capitalism / by James Petras ...
[et al.]. New York : Zed Books ; Nova Scotia : Fernwood, 2005. JC359 .E45 2005
The ends of globalization / Mohammed A. Bamyeh. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
c2000. JZ1318 .B36 2000
An everyday geography of the global south / Jonathan Rigg. London ; New York : Routledge,
2007. HN980 .R54 2007
The foreign policies of the global south : rethinking conceptual frameworks / Jacqueline Anne
Braveboy Wagner, editor. Boulder, Co. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. D887 .F67 2003
Free trade : myth, reality and alternatives / Graham Dunkley. London : Zed Books ; New York :
Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. HF1713 .D86 2004
Geographies of globalization / Warwick E.Murray. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge,
2006. GF50 .M87 2006
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Geography of power: making global economic policy / Richard Peet. London : Zed Books, c2007.
HF1359 .P44 2007
Global capitalism: its fall and rise in the twentieth century / Jeffry A. Frieden New York : W.W.
Norton & Company, c2006, [i.e. 2005]. HF1359 .F735 2006
Global governance and the new wars: the merging of development and security / Mark Duffield.
London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave,
2001. HC59.72.D44 .D84 2001
Global governance in question : empire, class, and the new common sense in managing NorthSouth relations / Susanne Soederberg. London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2006. HF1359
.S623 2006
Global political economy: theory and practice / Theodore H. Cohn. New York : Longman, c2000.
HF1359 .C654/2000
Globalisation, democracy and terrorism / Eric Hobsbawm. London : Little, Brown, 2007. JZ1318
.H63
Globalization and its discontents / Saskia Sassen ; [with a foreword by K. Anthony Appiah]. New
York : New Press, 1998. HF1359 .S27
Globalization and the postcolonial world : the new political economy of development / Ankie
Hoogvelt. Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001. HF1413 .H66 2001
Globalization/anti-globalization: beyond the great divide / David Held and Anthony McGrew.
Cambridge, England : Polity Press, c2007. JZ1318 .H45 2007
Globalization : capitalism and its alternatives / Leslie Sklair. Oxford ; New York : Oxford
University Press, 2002. HD2755.5 .S564 2002
Globalization : critical reflections / James H. Mittelman, editor. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1996. HF1359 .G558
Globalization in question / Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson and Simon Bromley. Cambridge, UK ;
Malden, MA : Polity, 2009. HF1359 .H575 2009
Globalization : north-south perspectives / John Glenn. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
JZ1318 G554 2007
Historical materialism and globalization / edited by Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith. New York ;
London : Routledge, 2002. HF1359 .H584 2002
The history of development : from western origins to global faith / Gilbert Rist ; translated by
Patrick Camiller. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2002. HD78 .R5713 2002
How "American" is globalization? / William H. Marling. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2006. JZ1318 .M345 2006
Imperial nature : the World Bank and struggles for social justice in the age of globalization /
Michael Goldman. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2005. HG3881.5.W57 .G63 2005
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Assessment
In Class Presentation and Participation
20%
(ongoing)
Minor Essay
(1500 words)
30%
Due Week 4 (18 March)
Major Essay
(3000 words)
50%
Due Week 11 (20 May)
Further information on the components of assessment will be given and discussed at the outset
of the program. Notes on each component will also appear on iLearn.
Minor Essay (1500 words)
30%
Due Monday Week 4
Do you agree or disagree with Frederic Jameson’s assertion (from the Cultures of Globalization,
1998:54) that "globalization is nothing new"?
or
Explain the reasons why “globalization” is one of the most contested of all phenomena in social
studies.
Major Essay (3000 words)
50% Due Monday Week 11
Questions:
1. In what ways are colonial legacies still responsible for the political and economic crisis in the
global south? Answer this question with reference to the north-south relationship.
2. To what extent is Africa's current situation emblematic of the challenges faced by the global
south and result from the character of “globalization”?
3. Assess the conclusions drawn by David Held that globalization weakens the capacities of
national democratic institutions with the result that in the future "democracy has to become a
transnational affair" (Held 1992:32-34).
4. Can it be argued that globalization is more ideology than reality?
5. Why do some critics of globalization argue that globalization does not exist?
6 What is the global “north” and “south” and why are they increasingly unrelated to geographical
locations?
7. What are the arguments regarding the impact of "globalization" on the contemporary
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nation-state? How do you think "globalization" has affected the capacities of the state?
External Students Only:
In place of the class presentation and participation you will be asked to submit a 1000 word online discussion and then engage in any discussion that arises from your posting. More
information on this exercise will be given in the first week of semester. This is a discussion
activity that has been designed to provide some dialogue and substitute (in a limited sense) for
tutorials. This assessment is worth 20% of your final grade.
Assessment
In Class Presentation and Participation
20%
(ongoing)
Minor Essay
(1500 words)
30%
Due Week 4 (18 March)
Major Essay
(3000 words)
50%
Due Week 11 (20 May)
Further information on the components of assessment will be given and discussed at the outset
of the program. Notes on each component will also appear on iLearn.
Minor Essay (1500 words)
30%
Due Monday Week 4
Do you agree or disagree with Frederic Jameson’s assertion (from the Cultures of Globalization,
1998:54) that "globalization is nothing new"?
or
Explain the reasons why “globalization” is one of the most contested of all phenomena in social
studies.
Major Essay (3000 words)
50% Due Monday Week 11
Questions:
1. In what ways are colonial legacies still responsible for the political and economic crisis in the
global south? Answer this question with reference to the north-south relationship.
2. To what extent is Africa's current situation emblematic of the challenges faced by the global
south and result from the character of “globalization”?
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3. Assess the conclusions drawn by David Held that globalization weakens the capacities of
national democratic institutions with the result that in the future "democracy has to become a
transnational affair" (Held 1992:32-34).
4. Can it be argued that globalization is more ideology than reality?
5. Why do some critics of globalization argue that globalization does not exist?
6 What is the global “north” and “south” and why are they increasingly unrelated to geographical
locations?
7. What are the arguments regarding the impact of "globalization" on the contemporary
nation-state? How do you think "globalization" has affected the capacities of the state?
External Students Only:
In place of the class presentation and participation you will be asked to submit a 1000 word online discussion and then engage in any discussion that arises from your posting. More
information on this exercise will be given in the first week of semester. This is a discussion
activity that has been designed to provide some dialogue and substitute (in a limited sense) for
tutorials. This assessment is worth 20% of your final grade.
Unit Schedule
IRPG855 Globalisation and the North-South Relationship Semester 2/2013
Overview and Objectives
Globalization is an overused, poorly understood and misused term. For some (“globalists”), the
term refers to he most recent period of history when time, space and global inequalities have
been broken down by the global market to create a “flat world” where access and opportunity are
open to everyone. Sceptics and critics of globalization take a very different view of the impact of
the shift that doubtless occurred in the international political economy in the late 1970s and
1980s - a shift that has resulted in a widening of the disparities within and between states in the
international system. Nowhere has globalization had a more apparent impact than across the
African continent that shows, many think, the failure of “globalization”. For that and other
reasons, Africa is taken as the paradigm case of “the South” in this unit, although other countries
that stand in relationships of dependency to the West or “First World” will also be studied.
The unit follows two tracks, one broad and historical in nature, the other more contemporary and
‘applied’. For most of the unit we study and debate issues of domestic and international politics
that have long engaged perceptive thinkers. The unit undertakes a broad comparative analysis
of the impact of the cycles of “globalization” and internationalization that have characterized the
creation, consolidation and recent transformation of the modern international system.
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Thus the unit has a traditional emphasis on texts, writers, and intellectual debate. In addition, we
take, as a kind of case-study throughout the unit, the current state of play around the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative (EIT) - see http://eiti.org. This is an example of emerging
institutional developments that reflect current negotiations in the North South debate, in this case
the ownership of mining revenues. The relevance of the case should increase as the unit
progresses from the necessary historical background to the pressing real dilemmas on political
life in the world.
At the conclusion of this unit you should be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the general geography and history of globalization;
• Identify the trajectories that have underpinned the formation of the north-south paradigm
in the international sphere;
• Demonstrate, in oral and written presentation, an ability to summarise key ideas in the
study of globalisation in a Southern context.
.
Unit guide at a
glance
week
1
Overview:
2
The worlds of globalisation, South and North
3
The construction of politics and international relations
4
The epochs 1: Slavery and the early empires
5
Epoch 2: Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa
6
Epoch 3: Colonialism, post-colonialism and the (European)
state
7
Epoch 4: Modernity, the reshaped conflicts of politics
MSB
8
Imposing the neo-liberal order
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Globalisation's impact: the balance sheet with the extractive
industries
10
Essay study week
11
The NGOs
12
The South speaks
13
Review
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Our postgraduates will be capable of systematic enquiry; able to use research skills to create
new knowledge that can be applied to real world issues, or contribute to a field of study or
practice to enhance society. They will be capable of creative questioning, problem finding and
problem solving.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
• Show critical learning through written and oral means
• Show range of analytical tools
• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications
PG - Capable of Professional and Personal Judgment and
Initiative
Our postgraduates will demonstrate a high standard of discernment and common sense in their
professional and personal judgment. They will have the ability to make informed choices and
decisions that reflect both the nature of their professional work and their personal perspectives.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
• Ability to command texts and represent them
• Show critical learning through written and oral means
• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications
PG - Discipline Knowledge and Skills
Our postgraduates will be able to demonstrate a significantly enhanced depth and breadth of
knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content knowledge in their chosen
fields.
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This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
• Ability to command texts and represent them
• Show range of analytical tools
PG - Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking
Our postgraduates will be capable of utilising and reflecting on prior knowledge and experience,
of applying higher level critical thinking skills, and of integrating and synthesising learning and
knowledge from a range of sources and environments. A characteristic of this form of thinking is
the generation of new, professionally oriented knowledge through personal or group-based
critique of practice and theory.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
• Ability to command texts and represent them
• Show critical learning through written and oral means
• Show range of analytical tools
• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications
PG - Effective Communication
Our postgraduates will be able to communicate effectively and convey their views to different
social, cultural, and professional audiences. They will be able to use a variety of technologically
supported media to communicate with empathy using a range of written, spoken or visual
formats.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
• Show critical learning through written and oral means
• Show range of analytical tools
PG - Engaged and Responsible, Active and Ethical Citizens
Our postgraduates will be ethically aware and capable of confident transformative action in
relation to their professional responsibilities and the wider community. They will have a sense of
connectedness with others and country and have a sense of mutual obligation. They will be able
to appreciate the impact of their professional roles for social justice and inclusion related to
national and global issues
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
• Show critical learning through written and oral means
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• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications
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