Days & Times / Room / Instructor / Meeting Dates
Tu 2:00PM - 3:15PM / Paul Cejas Architecture 150 / Percy Hintzen / 01/07/2013 - 04/20/2013
Th 2:00PM - 3:15PM / Percy Hintzen / 01/07/2013 - 04/20/2013
Course Instructor: Percy C. Hintzen
Class Hours: Tues- Thurs: 2.00 P.M. – 3.15 PM
Room Number: PCA 150
Phone: 305 348 4419
E. Mail:
Office Hours: Tuesday 12.00 – 1.30 pm
Thursday 2 – 4. pm
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will examine, through the use of case studies and historical analysis, the changes in post-colonial conditions in the global south (Third World) occurring after 1980s. Particular attention will be paid to new forms of globalization. Case studies will examine the lives of women and the poor in light of these changes. We will examinetheirforms of struggle and resistance. Finally, there will be significant focus on the emergence of new centers of global economic and political power in the global south and on the conditions that explain such emergence.
REQUIRED READING:
The End of the Third World. Nigel Harris, Hardcover, New Amsterdam Books; Open market edition, 1998.
Power Politics, Arundhati Roy, Southend Press, 2001. 2nded.
Disposable People: New Slavery in a Global Economy (Revised Edition). Kevin Bales. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.
Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey through Heaven and Hell.Alice H. Amsden Cambridge, MIT Press. 2009
There will be additional readings posted on Moodle
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
4 Mid Term Examinations40%
Summary Review Paper30%
Final Examination30%
Mid-Term
There will be four mid-term examinations. Each exam will count for 10 percent of the grade. The examinations will be in class essays.
Final Examination
There will be a final examination covering the entire course.
Summary Review Paper
Students will be required to write a 2 – 3 page summary review paper focused on theirunderstanding of the “third world.” The paper will be due on March 14th
Reading and Class Assignments
Jan. 8Course Introduction
Jan 10Third Worldism: An Ideology
Reading: Harris, Preface and Chapter 1
Jan 15East Asia, Brazil and Mexico: The Beginnings of New Global Formations.
Reading: Harris, Chapters 2 and 3.
Jan 17Globalism and the Global South:
Reading: Harris, Chapters 4 and 5
Jan 22Neo-liberalism and the Global South
Readings: Harris, Chapters 6 and 7
Jan 24The End of National Development
Reading: Harris, Ch. 8
Jan 29First Mid-Term Examination
Jan 31The Rule of Experts
Reading: Roy, Chapter 1
Feb 5The Power of Power
Reading: Roy Pages 35 – 86
Feb 7Violent Dispossession
Reading: Roy, Pages 105 - 145
Feb 12Second Mid Term
Feb 14New Slavery in a Global Economy
Reading: Bales: Preface and Ch. 1.
Feb 19Globalization and Slavery in Thailand and Mauritania
Reading: Bales, Chapter 2 and 3
Feb 21Globalization and Slavery in Brazil and Pakistan
Reading: Bales, Chapters 4 and 5
Feb 26Globalization and Slavery in India
Reading: Bales Chapter 6
Feb 28Third Mid Term
Mar 5Can Anything be Done?
Reading: Bales Chapter 7 and Coda.
Mar 7Globalism against National Development in the Global South: The role of the United States.
Reading: Amsden, Chapter 1
Mar 12Colonialism and its Discontent
Reading: Amsden, Chapter 2
Mar 14National Development and American Interests
Reading: Amsden, Ch. 3
Summary Paper on “Third World” Due on Moodle
Mar 19Is Foreign Aid a Good Thing?
Reading: Amsden, Chapter 4.
Mar 21The Development Agenda in the Global South: Policy and Practice
Reading: Amsden Chapter 5
Mar 26Planning for Development in the Global South
Reading: Amsden, Chapter 6
Mar 28Fourth Mid Term
Apr 2Viet Nam and the Japanese Challenge: From Hegemony to Violent Dispossession
Reading: Amsden, Chapters 7 and 8
Apr 4The Washington Consensus and Asian Challenge
Reading: Amsden Chapters 9
Apr 9Inequality against Development
Reading: Amsden, Chapter 10
Apr 11The New Global Architecture: The Third World Strikes Back
Reading: Amsden, Chapter 11
Apr 16 Review Week
Apr 18Review Week