IRPG855Globalisation and the North-SouthRelationshipS1 Day 2013

Modern History, Politics and International Relations

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Learning Outcomes 2

Assessment Tasks 3

Delivery and Resources 4

Unit Schedule 25

Policies and Procedures 27

Graduate Capabilities 28

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General Information

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Learning OutcomesOn successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

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

Unit convenor and teaching staffUnit ConvenorGeoffrey Hawkergeoffrey.hawker@mq.edu.auContact via geoffrey.hawker@mq.edu.auW6A 428Thursday 5-6pm or by appointment

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PrerequisitesAdmission to MIntRel or PGDipIntRel or PGCertIntRel or MIntCommMIntRel orMIntBusMIntRel or MIntRelMIntTrdeComLaw or MTransInterMIntRel or MAppAnth orPGDipAppAnth or MDevCult or PGDipDevCult

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Unit descriptionGlobalisation is one of the most overused and poorly understood of terms. For some it simplyrefers to a situation in which time, space and global inequalities have been broken down bythe global market, creating a 'flat world'. Critics see the shifts that have taken place from thelate 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 inrelationships of dependency to the West or 'First World' will also be studied.

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Assessment TasksName Weighting Due

Participation 20% negotiated

Minor essay 30% 18 March

Major essay 50% 20 May

ParticipationDue: negotiatedWeighting: 20%

Undertake and in class presentation (includes particpation throughout) or maintain effective webresponses to post

On successful completion you will be able to:• Ability to command texts and represent them

• Show critical learning through written and oral means

• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications

Minor essayDue: 18 MarchWeighting: 30%

Against set topic (see below)

On successful completion you will be able to:• Ability to command texts and represent them

• Show critical learning through written and oral means

Major essayDue: 20 MayWeighting: 50%

One selected topic - see below.

On successful completion you will be able to:• Ability to command texts and represent them

• Show critical learning through written and oral means

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• Show range of analytical tools

• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications

Delivery and Resources

Reading/sA set of readings in available on iLearn. New material will be posted from time to time during thecourse of the unit.

Other useful sources can be found in the library. Below is a short list of materials stored in theUniversity library. This is both a useful list for further reading but also a list from which at leastsix of the sources you use in your major essay will be drawn from. Of course, your research willextend 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 willbe 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 inthe 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

David Held and Ayse Kaya (eds.) Global inequality : patterns and explanations,. Cambridge :

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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 tothe 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 newinequality, 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 inContemporary 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 currentappraisal 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 ofthe last decade or so, but many of the older volumes repay study if you visit the Library. Theygive 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 (mostaround DT30 œ 38 for materials on Africa). Also, the library holds (as hard-copy) a number of

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journals that are worth browsing over a period of time as sources of detail and argument. Theseinclude Africa Quarterly, the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Journal ofModern 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 databasesavailable through the Library; please let the convener know urgently if you have any problemaccessing 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 discussiontopics for each week. All the weekly mandatory topics as listed in the outline are located in thecourse reader.

Week 1

Introduction

The first week is an opportunity to discuss the basic premises and themes which will be the focusof 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 ofInternational Relations (IR) has become almost synonymous with “globalization” studies. IR. Ahistory of this transformation is a useful and interesting way to commence the journey into theglobalization 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. Inparticular, the readings and lecture will address the key concerns regarding the differentdefinitions of globalization. In the tutorial, students are expected to address a number of keyconceptual and historical questions posed in the lecture and the reading. The questions of focusinclude:

What is globalization and does globalization have a history?

Can we even speak of globalization, or is it more accurate to refer to globalizations?

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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 andthe 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 AfricanStudies, Vol. 37, No. 3-5, 2002, pp271-285.

Patrick Wolfe, “History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory from Marx to Postcolonialism,” TheAmerican 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”.

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

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projects. The lecture and the readings will assess the extent that views regarding the globalsouth (before this the Third World) have been constructed by western individuals and institutionsand whether there exists a discourse through which history is constantly mediated. Thus, thequestion of the extent that representations of the global south, as it is today, is an invention ofEuropean colonialism and neo-colonial power structures will be posed. Students will be asked tochallenge 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 productionidentical 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 anunderstanding 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 theyformed? Whose interests do they serve?

How is Africa and the global south portrayed in different mediums and what impact does thishave 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” Researchin 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. : DukeUniversity Press, 1998.

Gopal Balakrishnan (ed), with contributions by Stanley Aronowitz, Debating empire. New York :VERSO, 2003.

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Week 4 “Globalization” in the age of European expansion: The Atlantic Slave trade and theemergence of capitalism, colonization, and how Europe underdeveloped Africa, Asia and LatinAmerica (part 1)

The conquest and colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century was arguably one of thegreat turning points of history. The impact of the expansion of European power in this era onglobal relations cannot be understated. In 1944, Caribbean born economic historian Eric Williamspublished an influential book titled Capitalism and Slavery which turned the history of slavery onits head. Williams not only argued that slavery was an important component of US economicdevelopment but was essential for the rise of capitalism. Furthermore, he argued that slaveryand the slave-trade came to an end due to the superior economic value of wage-labour and notas 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 economicimportance of the triangular trade of the period 1500-1885. Following Williams, recentscholarship has presented a more sophisticated view of the end of slavery grounded in thedevelopment of culture and class in eighteenth century England.

This lecture will examine William’s thesis and other contributions to the debate regarding the roleof Africa in the development of capitalism and the international system that emerged as WesternEuropean 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 aresult of slavery, colonialism and the “western” exploitation of Africa, the important issue of whatrole the Atlantic slave-trade played in the underdevelopment, impoverishment and disintegrationof Africa’s political systems will be addressed. The issues raised open questions relevant to thewider issue of the history of globalization and in particular, the part that the Atlantic slave-tradeplayed in the formation of the contemporary international system. Questions to be discussed inthe tutorial are:

In what ways can it be argued that the triangular trade of the period 1500-1800 constituted thefirst age of globalization?

What were the key features of the triangular trade and are some of these features comparable tocontemporary global relations?

Describe the relationships between the different international actors in the triangular trade of theearly 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?

What part did slavery and the slave-trade play in the underdevelopment of Africa, Asia and LatinAmerica?

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Readings:Joseph E. Inikori, “Africa and the Globalization Process: Western Africa, 1450–1850,” Journal ofGlobal 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 , GlobalPolitical Economy, London” Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp.53-86.

Recommended Readings:

David Northrup, “Globalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the LongTerm,” Journal of World History, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2005, pp. 249-267.

Pieter Emmer, “The myth of early globalization: the Atlantic economy, 1500–1800,” EuropeanReview 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 PublishingHouse, 1973.

Seymour Drescher, "British Capitalism and British Slavery," History and Theory, Vol. 26, No. 2,1987, pp. 180-196

Week 5The Colonial System: Imperialism and Underdevelopment (part 2)

The causes of the scramble for Africa remains a much-debated topic with different schoolspresenting a range of reasons from the philanthropic to those grounded in the politics of empireand the expansion of capitalism. This lecture will commence with the debate surrounding thereasons behind the surge of colonial expansion in the late nineteenth century whereby Europeanempires came to control eighty percent of the world’s land surface by the end of the Great War (ithad been approximately 20 per cent in 1800). While the causes that led to the second age ofglobalization (1885-1945) are important, the question of the impact of colonialism is crucial forunderstanding the contemporary character of the global south and the relationship that theformer colonies have with the rest of the world. In terms of theories of imperialism (dependencyand neo-dependency theories, world-systems theories, etc) the colonial age was an era which

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led to the formalisation of the dependent relationship between former colonies and their formercolonial powers. Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a majorcontribution to the literature on the colonial legacy on Africa and will form the basis, along with aninteresting chapter on the relevance of colonialism for understanding contemporary internationalrelations.

What changes in the political, economic and cultural aspects of nineteenth century Europe wereresponsible for the ‘scramble for Africa”?

How did colonialism structure the international system of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies?

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 trueof 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 takenfrom 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 ofPolicy 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 Robinsonand 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 andKegan 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”

Week 6 From Colonial Empires to the Modern International System: decolonization and theformation of the modern nation-state system

The end of the First World War marked the apogee of the colonial system. Within a generation

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the ideology of colonialism had been completely discredited and European colonies everywherewere agitating for independence. The question of how and why this system unravelled so quicklyhas 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 SecondWorld War as less a major transformation than a conjunctural shift in the relations between theNorth-South. Roger Louis, for one, is a historian of imperialism who views decolonization as aprocess by which the colonial powers transferred hegemony of the international system to theUS without sacrificing the key centre-periphery relations that had been generated by the colonialsystem. Additionally Louis, along with Frank Furedi for example, argues that decolonisation isincomprehensible unless placed in the context of the post Second World War US-Sovietrelations. It is from this viewpoint that the lecture and the readings assess the nature ofdecolonisation and the continuities and change that occurred with the end of empire. Questionsto keep in mind include:

What factors drove anti-colonialism?

What impact did the emergence of the Soviet Union have on the colonial struggle forindependence?

In what ways was continuity of the relations between colonizer and colonized maintained by thecolonial 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 RogerWilliam Louis, Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Decolonization and theSuez Crisis, London: I.B. Tauris and Co., 2006, pp451-502.

Kate Manzo, “Do colonialism and slavery belong to the past?” in Jenny Edkins and MajaZehfuss, 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.

William Roger Louis, Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez andDecolonization: Collected Essays, London: I.B. Taurus, 2006.

Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalization and the postcolonial world : the new political economy of

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development, Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001.

Michael Adas, Machine as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of WesternDominance, Cornell University Press, 1992,

Michael Adas, “Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on theCivilizing 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, Chapter6, 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 originslay in the death throes of the colonial system. The moment of development as an internationalmovement came when President Truman’s advisors decided to add a fourth pillar on which theUS would define its international role in the post war era. That fourth pillar, or Point Four, was acommitment from the US to fight poverty. The other pillars emphasised stability of theinternational system and the great struggle against communism. Development and the Cold Warwere from the very beginning inextricably intertwined. In this lecture the question of developmentand definitions of poverty, underdevelopment and the other will be addressed. The developmentparadigm as a relationship between the countries of the first world and the Bretton Woodsinstitutions on the one hand, and the Third World on the other hand, will be examined tounderstand how development became institutionalized as both a discourse and set of practicesto maintain global power structures. The readings by Arturo Escobar and Mark Berger challengethe apolitical character of development and tie the idea and practices of development tointernational 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 definedand 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 thesuccess/failure of this period of development?

Review Readings:

Arturo Escobar, “The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of the Three Worlds andDevelopment” in Susanne Schech and Jane Haggis (eds.), Development: A Cultural StudiesReader, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, pp79-82.

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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 ofCalifornia Press, 1997, pp1-44.

Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions, ThousandOaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2001, pp18-50.

David Lehmann, “An opportunity lost: Escobar's deconstruction of development,” Journal ofDevelopment Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, 1997, pp568 – 578.

Arturo Escobar, “Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of theThird 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 BureaucraticPower 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”. Thecause, according to a number of these commentators, is located in the impact of the neo-liberaltransformation which Africa was coerced into undertaking in the 1980s. This lecture will examinethe nature of the ‘”Washington Consensus” and the different policies that (generally poorer andweaker) states were forced to implement, these policies are known as Structural AdjustmentPolicies (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 wouldprove counter-productive the WB and IMF pushed ahead. The SAPs were based on four basicstructural 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 towhat extent the policies were based on providing changes to ensure maintenance of pre-existingnorth-south relations or aimed at debt alleviation and as a basis for propelling economicdevelopment. Does the EITI reflect an alternative and better approach?

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?

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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” ThirdWorld 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: TheWorld 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,” WorldDevelopment, 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&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=949701282&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5df712f3bd4d4eee6f87b37b004556fd - 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 / RevueCanadienne 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 andCultural Change, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1990, pp. 713-732.

Daniel Tettah Oabu-Kle, “The Politics of One-Sided Adjustment in Africa”, Journal of BlackStudies, Vol. 30, No. 4, March, 2000, pp515-533.

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”

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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 worldprosperity 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 increasepoverty. In this lecture and the readings the extent of the failure of neo-liberalism to address thekey issues of debt reduction and economic growth will be examined alongside claims that SAPsexacerbated poverty and reduced living standards in the majority of the states that comprise theglobal south. We will ask questions related to poverty and its implications. Other questionsinclude:

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 oftenportrayed 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 livingstandards?

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.

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).

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William Easterly, The white man's burden : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done somuch 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 theRole 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 internationalsystem. In time, the policies of the WB/IMF have led to the erosion of the institutions andcapacities 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 thathave collapsed but others such as Nigeria, Ethiopia and Angola teeter on the edge of a majorcollapse. This weeks lecture and readings will address the relationship between neo-liberalismand the crisis of the state as a global phenomenon and in the African context. The EITI will beagain 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 ofInternational Political Economy, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1997, pp472 – 496.

Saskia Van Hoyweghen and Stefaan Smis, “The crisis of the nation-state in Central Africa: atheoretical 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 ofAfrica,” Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1999, pp61 – 96.

Martin Doornbos, Global forces and state restructuring : dynamics of state formation andcollapse, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Jean-Franc?ois Bayart ; translated by Andrew Brown, Global subjects : a political critique ofglobalization, Cambridge: Polity, 2007.

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Saskia Van Hoyweghen and Stefaan Smis, “The crisis of the nation-state in Central Africa: atheoretical introduction,” Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 93, 2002, pp575 –581

Francis Adams, Satya Dev Gupta, and Kidane Mengisteab (eds.) Globalization and thedilemmas 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 fromthe South

On one level globalization is the spread of cultural norms, ideologies, practices and beliefsacross the globe. The extent that this process is controlled by global media conglomerates andthe idiom of capitalism is still much debated. Scholars speak not of a global culture but ofhybridity, fragmentation, dislocation and marginalization. Regardless, there has been a trendsince the 1980s for a dominant ideology of state and society which has reshaped the world andwhich is grounded in capitalism, consumption, materialism, and individualism. In this weekslecture and readings the questions will revolve around what is culture and in what ways have theagents of globalization undermined cultural difference and imposed a dominant credo around theworld. 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 thepost Cold War period. The End of the Cold War and the flattening effect of the spread of neo-liberal capitalism brought a euphoria characterised most emphatically by the claim of the “end ofhistory”. However, within moments of this incredible claim, Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Rwanda, toname but three international crises, undermined any sense that the world was moving into a newworld order of global peace and stability. It was true, at least for the time-being that the Cold Warparadigm of left-right politics had been abandoned in most cases. Yet, the “new wars” were noless ideological than those that divided the world during the Cold War even if they were by whatseemed to be ethnic or religious identities. At the core of the post Cold War wars, as with earlierstruggles, were questions of access to power, inequality, marginalization, and state-societyrelationships. The tendency of scholars and political commentators to overlook the materialreasons for conflict are part of the triumph of the post Cold War ideology of neo-liberal capitalismand liberal governance.

However, with the collapse of both state and the nation-state in the contemporary era there hasbeen an increase in sub-national affiliations, principally ethnic based movements, or trans-national identities such as pan-Islamic movements. This weeks lecture and readings locate thequestion of post-Cold War identity politics in the collapse of the state and the reactions to globalculture and capitalism. Students are asked to consider the following questions:

Has culture ever been either local or global?

Who controls culture and what purpose can cultural idioms serve?

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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 thespread 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 tobe 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 - GeneralSeries 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” inEdwin N. Wilmsen and Patrick Macallister (eds.) The politics of difference: Ethnic premises in aworld 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 UncivilNationalism”, African Affairs, 97, London, 305-341 (1998)

Martin Doornbos, “Linking the future to the past: ethnicity and pluralism,” Review of AfricanPolitical 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 andSecurity, 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.

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.

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Giles Mohan and A. B. Zack-Williams, “Globalisation from below: conceptualising the role of theAfrican 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 PopularDisenchantment in Africa,” African Sociological Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000, pp1-45, retrievedfrom http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/asr4_2full/Nyamjoh.pdf

Tandeka C. Nkiwane, “Africa and International Relations: regional Lessons for a GlobalDiscourse” International Political Science Review, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2001, 279-290.

Nigel C. Gibson, “Africa and Globalization: Marginalization and Resistance,” Journal of Asian andAfrican 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 precedingweeks. In addition, there will be opportunity to assess the GFC and predict the future of theglobal system (and globalization) now that the mythology of globalization has been strippedaway 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. OseiKwadwo 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

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

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Challenging global inequality : development theory and practice in the 21st century / AlastairGreig, 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 PatrickHayden 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 ... [etal.]. New York : VERSO, 2003. HX44.5 .D43 2003

Development and social change : a global perspective / Philip McMichael. Los Angeles : PineForge Press, c2008. HC79.E44 M25 2008

East Asia and globalization / edited by Samuel S. Kim. Lanham, MD : Rowman & LittlefieldPublishers, 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 AnneBraveboy 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

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

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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 North-South 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]. NewYork : New Press, 1998. HF1359 .S27

Globalization and the postcolonial world : the new political economy of development / AnkieHoogvelt. 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 : OxfordUniversity Press, 2002. HD2755.5 .S564 2002

Globalization : critical reflections / James H. Mittelman, editor. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne RiennerPublishers, 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 byPatrick Camiller. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2002. HD78 .R5713 2002

How "American" is globalization? / William H. Marling. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UniversityPress, 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

AssessmentIn Class Presentation and Participation 20% (ongoing)

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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 outsetof 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 socialstudies.

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 theglobal 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 globalsouth and result from the character of “globalization”?

3. Assess the conclusions drawn by David Held that globalization weakens the capacities ofnational democratic institutions with the result that in the future "democracy has to become atransnational 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 geographicallocations?

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?

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External Students Only:In place of the class presentation and participation you will be asked to submit a 1000 word on-line discussion and then engage in any discussion that arises from your posting. Moreinformation on this exercise will be given in the first week of semester. This is a discussionactivity that has been designed to provide some dialogue and substitute (in a limited sense) fortutorials. This assessment is worth 20% of your final grade.

AssessmentIn 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 outsetof 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 socialstudies.

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 theglobal 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 globalsouth and result from the character of “globalization”?

3. Assess the conclusions drawn by David Held that globalization weakens the capacities ofnational democratic institutions with the result that in the future "democracy has to become a

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Unit Schedule

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 geographicallocations?

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 on-line discussion and then engage in any discussion that arises from your posting. Moreinformation on this exercise will be given in the first week of semester. This is a discussionactivity that has been designed to provide some dialogue and substitute (in a limited sense) fortutorials. This assessment is worth 20% of your final grade.

IRPG855 Globalisation and the North-South Relationship Semester 2/2013

Overview and ObjectivesGlobalization is an overused, poorly understood and misused term. For some (“globalists”), theterm refers to he most recent period of history when time, space and global inequalities havebeen broken down by the global market to create a “flat world” where access and opportunity areopen to everyone. Sceptics and critics of globalization take a very different view of the impact ofthe shift that doubtless occurred in the international political economy in the late 1970s and1980s - a shift that has resulted in a widening of the disparities within and between states in theinternational system. Nowhere has globalization had a more apparent impact than across theAfrican continent that shows, many think, the failure of “globalization”. For that and otherreasons, Africa is taken as the paradigm case of “the South” in this unit, although other countriesthat 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 politicsthat have long engaged perceptive thinkers. The unit undertakes a broad comparative analysisof the impact of the cycles of “globalization” and internationalization that have characterized thecreation, consolidation and recent transformation of the modern international system.

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take, as a kind of case-study throughout the unit, the current state of play around the ExtractiveIndustries Transparency Initiative (EIT) - see http://eiti.org. This is an example of emerginginstitutional developments that reflect current negotiations in the North South debate, in this casethe ownership of mining revenues. The relevance of the case should increase as the unitprogresses from the necessary historical background to the pressing real dilemmas on politicallife 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.

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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

9 Globalisation's impact: the balance sheet with the extractive industries

10 Essay study week

11 The NGOs

12 The South speaks

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Graduate CapabilitiesPG - Discipline Knowledge and SkillsOur postgraduates will be able to demonstrate a significantly enhanced depth and breadth ofknowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content knowledge in their chosenfields.

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 ThinkingOur 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 andknowledge from a range of sources and environments. A characteristic of this form of thinking isthe generation of new, professionally oriented knowledge through personal or group-basedcritique 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 - Research and Problem Solving CapabilityOur postgraduates will be capable of systematic enquiry; able to use research skills to createnew knowledge that can be applied to real world issues, or contribute to a field of study orpractice to enhance society. They will be capable of creative questioning, problem finding andproblem 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

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social, cultural, and professional audiences. They will be able to use a variety of technologicallysupported media to communicate with empathy using a range of written, spoken or visualformats.

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 CitizensOur postgraduates will be ethically aware and capable of confident transformative action inrelation to their professional responsibilities and the wider community. They will have a sense ofconnectedness with others and country and have a sense of mutual obligation. They will be ableto appreciate the impact of their professional roles for social justice and inclusion related tonational and global issues

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes• Show critical learning through written and oral means

• Show monitoring of progress and ethical identifications

PG - Capable of Professional and Personal Judgment andInitiativeOur postgraduates will demonstrate a high standard of discernment and common sense in theirprofessional and personal judgment. They will have the ability to make informed choices anddecisions 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

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