International Relations and European Studies Programme

Central European University

COURSE OFFERINGS

1997 - 1998

International Relations and European Studies Programme

Nádor Utca 9

H-1051 Budapest

Hungary

Telephone: (36.1) 327.3017

Facsimile: (36.1) 327.3243

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Contents

First Term

Introduction to International Political Economy______4

World Order______8

International Security______16

International Organizations______21

Conflict And Conflict Resolution______32

Contemporary American Society And Politics______44

Democratic Transition In Contemporary Europe______54

Theories of International Relations: The Classical Debates______63

Core Course: International Politics______69

Second Term

Legal Dimensions of Preventing Forced Migration in Transitional Societies______75

The End of the (Post) Cold War______76

International Communication______80

Comparative Politics: Issues of Power, State and Authority______89

International Law______89

European Studies______89

Democracy in Western Europe______89

First

Term

Courses

Introduction to International Political Economy

Course Convenor: John Phillips

International Political Economy is an integrated field that encompasses the individual disciplines of politics, economics, and international relations. In conventional terms, political economy requires analysis of both the way in which politics shapes the economy, and of the way in which the economy shapes politics. This course provides an integrated approach to the study of international economic relations with reference to issues and policies as well as to political philosophies and competing ideologies. The organisation of the course reflects these empirical and theoretical purposes. The first session defines the nature of international political economy and examines the basic concepts and assumptions that shape the types of questions that are posed and the types of answers that can be given. The sessions that follow focus on international economic relations in the post-1945 period. Major themes are international monetary management, the political economy of trade, North-South relations, transnational corporations, East-West relations, and regionalism.

Requirements: Final grades are determined on the basis of the following: (a) a mid-term essay (25%); (b) class presentations (25%); (c) final exam (30%); (d) class participation. Students will be expected to prepare for each class and actively participate in class discussions.

Session 1: Perspectives and Concepts: The Nature of International Political Economy

*Economics, politics, and the international system

*Realism, liberalism, Marxism

*Cooperation and institutions

*Power, structure and hegemony

Readings:

*Robert Keohane, "Politics, Economics, and the International System", in

Robert Keohane. After Hegemony: Coopration and Discord in the World Political Economy. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1984, pp. 18-30.

*Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton:Princeton Univ. Press, 1987, pp. 8-117.

Sessions 2 & 3: Political Economy of International Trade

*Importance of international trade

*Theories of international trade

*Postwar trade development

*Multilateral management under U.S. leadership

*GATT system

*Structural change and protectionism

*Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds

Readings:

*Stephen Krasner, "State Power and the Structure of International Trade", World Politics, vol. 26 (1976): 317-343.

*Cletus Coughlin, K. Alec Chrystal, and Geoffrey E. Wood, "Protectionist Trade Policies: A Survey of Theory, Evidence, and Rationale", in Jeffrey Frieden and David Lake, eds. International Political Economy. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991, pp. 18-33.

*Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987, pp. 171-230.

*Charles Lipson, "The Transformation of Trade: the Sources and Effects of Regime Change", International Organisation, vol. 36 (1982): 417-455.

*Stephen Gill and David Law, The Global Political Economy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1988, pp. 224-255.

*Vincent Cable, "The New Trade Agenda: Universal Rules Amid Cultural Diversity", International Affairs, vol. 72 (1996): 227-246.

Sessions 4 & 5: International Monetary Management

*Postwar international economic institutions

*U.S. in the postwar political economy: The Marshall Plan

*Bretton Woods System

*Breakdown of the Bretton Woods System

*Floating exchange rates and the dollar

*Monetary management in the 1990s

Readings:

*Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987, pp. 118-170.

*G. J. Ikenberry, "A World Economy Restored: Expert Concensus and the Anglo-American Postwar Settlement", International Organisation, vol. 46 (1992): 289-321.

*Michael Webb, "Understanding Patterns of Macroeconomic Policy Co-ordination in the Post-war Period", in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, eds. Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994, pp. 176-189.

*Jeffrey Frieden, "Capital Politics: Creditors and the International Political Economy", Journal of Public Policy, vol. 8 (1988): 296-312.

*Joan Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations. London: St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp.159-202.

Sessions 6 & 7: The Political Economy of North-South Relations

*Perspectives on North-South relations

*New International Economic Order (NIEO)

*Political economy of aid

*Debt crisis and debt management

*Development strategies

*From import substitution to trade expansion

*Commodity agreements and regimes

Readings:

*Robert Aliber, "The Debt Cycle in Latin America", Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, vol. 27 (winter 1985-86): 313-319.

*Manuel Pastor, "Latin America, the Debt Crisis, and the International Monetary Fund", Latin American Perspectives, vol. 16 (1989): 320-334.

*Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987, pp. 263-305.

*Shalendra Sharma, "The World Trade Organization and Implications for Developing Countries", SAIS Review, (summer-fall 1997): 61-75.

*Timothy Shaw and E.J. Inegbedion, "The Marginalization of Africa in the New World (Dis)Order", in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, eds. Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994, pp. 390-403.

*Joan Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations. London:St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp. 203-235.

*Robert Wlaters and David Blake, The Politics of Global Economic Relations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992, pp. 152-164.

*Marianne Marchand, "The Political Economy of North-South Relations" in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, eds. Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994, pp. 289-301.

*Thomas Biersteker, "The 'Triumph' of Liberal Economic Ideas in the Developing World", in Barbara Stallings, ed. Global Change, Regional Response. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995, pp. 174-196.

Sessions 8 & 9: Transnational Corporations and the Globalization of

Production

*Nature of TNCs

*Bargaining with TNCs

*Cooperation or Conflict?

Readings:

*Richard Caves, "The Multinational Enterprise as an Economic Organization",

in Richard Caves. Multinational Enterprise and Economic Growth. Cambridge:

Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982, pp. 146-160.

*Riccardo Petrella, "Globalization and Internationalization: The Dynamics of

the Emerging World Order", in Robert Boyer and Daniel Drache, eds. States

Against Markets. London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 62-83.

*Robert Walters and David Blake, The Politics of Global Economic Relations.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992, pp. 103-151.

*Lorraine Eden, "Bringing the Firm Back In: Multinationals in International

Political Economy", in Lorraine Eden and Evan Potter, eds. Multinationals in

the Global Economy. London: St. Martin's Press, 1993, pp. 25-58.

Sessions 9 & 10: The Political Economy of East-West Relations

*Eastern economic bloc

*Soviet hegemony and Eastern Europe

*East-West relations in the 1990s

Readings:

*Andras Inotai and Judit Kiss, "Central and Eastern Europe's Integration Into the World Trading Systems", in Harald Sander and Andras Inotai, eds. World Trade After the Uruguay Round. London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 155-173.

*Henry Nau, "Managing East-West Trade: Denial, Detente, and Deterrence", in Henry Nau. The Myth of America's Decline. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992, pp. 293-325.

*Joan Spero, The Politics of International Economic Relations. London: St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp. 305-349.

*Ian Kearns, "Eastern and Central Europe in the World Political Economy" in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, eds. Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Basinstoke: Macmillan, 1994, pp. 378-389.

*S. Weber, "Origins of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development", International Organisation, vol. 48 (1994): 1-38.

*Jozef M. van Brabant, "Trade, Integartion and Transformation in Eastern Europe", Journal of International Affairs, vol. 48 (1994): 165-192.

Session 12: Regionalism

*Global trends, regional patterns

*The changing European political economy

*The political economy of the Asia-Pacific region

*Inter-American relations

Readings:

*Marc Busch and Helen Milner, "The Future of the International Trading System: International Firms, Regionalism, and Domestic Politics", in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, eds. Political Economy and the Changing Global Order. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994, pp. 259-275.

*Siegfried Schultx, "Regionalization of World Trade: Dead End or Way Out?", in Meine Pieter van Dijk and Sandro Sideri, eds. Multilaterlaism Versus Regionalism: Trade Issues After the Uruguay Round. London: Frank Cass, 1996, pp. 20-39.

*Sheila Page, "The Integartion of Regional Groups into Multi-Country Organizations", in Meine Peiter van Dijk and Sandro Sideri, eds. Multilateralism Versus Regionalism: Trade Issues After the Uruguay Round. London: Frank Cass, 1996, pp. 76-89.

*Stephen Haggard, "The Political Economy of Regionalism in Asia and the Americas", in Edward Mansfield and Helen Milner, eds. The Political Economy of Regionalism. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1997, pp. 20-49.

*Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza and Barbara Kotschwar, "Latin America: Expanding Trade Opportunities", SAIS Review (summer-fall 1997): 39-60.

World Order

Course Convener: J. Philip Rogers

Course Description:

With the end of the cold war and in the wake of a successful conclusion of the Gulf War, US President George Bush proclaimed the dawning of a "New World Order," a new global era with radically transformed means for avoiding global warfare and the prospect for improving the general quality of life. A number of analysts took strong exception to President Bush's claims. One group of critics see the future as a dangerous time of disorder and anarchy; a dystopia characterized by fragmented, failed states overwhelmed by myriad problems such as intra-communal conflicts, massive migrations, and the rapid depletion of arable land and potable water. A second group of critics look with nostalgia on the bipolar cold war era as much safer than the uncertain, precarious multipolar world of the future. Finally, a third group of critics sees the future world order in malevolent terms. For them, President Bush's claims are nothing more than propaganda designed to hide US efforts to achieve global hegemony designed to promote parochial American perspectives rather than global peace or social justice. But if many analysts felt that President Bush's claims were wrong or perhaps even disingenuous, there was consensus on the fact that profound global changes had occurred and that, in light of these changes, there was a need to re-examine the dynamics of world politics and the prospects for order or disorder in this new era.

In this course, we will examine a wide range of different empirical conceptions of the degree of world order or disorder in this new era and divergent normative ideas about how to produce world order (as they define it). We will take the conception of “anarchy” as the starting point and see how different perspectives understand, and respond to, the idea of anarchy in their bid to produce what they conceive as “order.” Having completed this course, students will be expected to be able to articulate their own informed, cogent positions on the following issues:

- What is anarchic?

- What does it mean to speak of world order or disorder?

- In what respects is the world ordered and in what respects is it anarchic?

- How have the dynamics of world order changed over time?

- What are the prospects for world order in the future?

- What are the most important factors that produce order and disorder?

- Within the bounds of what you deem possible, what should this new world order look like?

Office Hours: I hold a minimum of four office hours per week. On the first day of class I will notify you as to my typical weekly office hours. However, due to other departmental obligations, these times may change from week to week. For this reason and to avoid “crowding” at office hours, I post a sign-up sheet of the office hours for the up-coming week outside my door. You are encouraged to sign-up in advance. If you can not make any of the posted hours, contact me and I will arrange another time of mutual convenience to meet. My office number is Faculty Towers, 306. My office phone is 327-3248. The best way to reach me is via e-mail: .

Course Requirements and Grades:

There are four assignments on which the grade will be based:

“Mid-Term” Exam = 30%

2 “Response Papers” = 50% (25% @).

Oral Presentation = 10%

Class Participation = 10%

Mid-Term Exam: At the conclusion of class on the seventh week, you will be given a take-home essay exam consisting of two essay questions which will select from a list of possible essay questions given on the exam. The questions will test your understanding of the different theoretical approaches to “world order” which will be covered in the course during the first seven weeks of class. The typed responses (approximately 750-1,000 words per essay question for a total of 1,500-2,000 words) are due no later than 9:00 AM on Friday morning of the eigth week. Late papers will be penalized a letter grade per day. The essays must be appropriately footnoted (using Turabian) with both a work cited and a title page included for each essay. The essays are open book/open notes; however, you are NOT to consult with other students in writing the essay. ANY evidence of plagiarism or evidence that the work is “not your own” will result in a zero for the assignment which will probably mean an F for the course and the consequent termination of your stay in the program. Because this is a take-home exam, the quality of your writing will effect your grade along with the quality of your analysis. Your work should be a cogent response to the questions asked. You should employ a synthesis of relevant material from required reading, lecture and discussion, and your own critical analysis. While additional reading is not required, the best essays typically include relevant sections beyond the reading required for the course. A good essay typically is one, which evinces an understanding of both theory and empirical evidence. It will be very difficult to write two good essays in one week unless you have kept up on a week to week basis prior to the ninth week.

Response Essays: Students are required to write two 1,500-2,000 word “response essays.” The essays are your response to the basic questions suggested by the different themes we will address on different weeks. In the syllabus before the list of readings for that week, you will see a list of questions to think about. These questions are intended to serve as the focus of the lecture/discussion for that week's classes. Some of these questions are simply descriptive in nature; they simply identify things you should know. These can NOT serve as the basis for an essay.

However, some of these questions - those that are require a critical response and not just a description of a particular theory or concept - can also serve to give you ideas about a possible essay for that week. You do not have to address any of these questions and you certainly can not address all of them for any particular week but the questions should give you a good idea of the central theme for that week and suggest possible analytical questions. You should always get your topic approved in advance to ensure that you are, in fact, addressing a question, which requires an analytical response. The essays must be appropriately footnoted (using Turabian) with both a work cited and a title page included for each essay. You are NOT to consult with other students in writing the essay. ANY evidence of plagiarism or evidence that the work is “not your own” will result in a zero for the assignment which will probably mean an F for the course and the consequent termination of your stay in the program. The quality of your writing will effect your grade along with the quality of your analysis. Your work should be a cogent response to the questions asked. You should employ a synthesis of relevant material from required reading, lecture and discussion, and your own critical analysis. While additional reading is not required, the best essays typically include relevant sections beyond the reading required for the course. A good essay typically is one, which evinces an understanding of both theory and empirical evidence. Even though your essays may focus on questions addressed on any two weeks from weeks 2-11, the two essays are due are particular times. You MUST submit your first essay by Monday, 9:00 AM on the 6th week. The first essay does NOT have to be based have to material covered by the point (you may “read ahead”) but it must be submitted by this date whether we have covered that subject or not. Late first papers are penalized one letter grade per day. The second essay is due no later than Monday 9:00 AM on Week Twelve. Late second papers are NOT accepted. You are encouraged to submit a rough draft of your papers 1-2 weeks before they are due for some critical, non-graded suggestions on what is expected in the papers.

Oral Presentation: All students will participate, possibly along with a few other students, in an 20-30 minute oral presentation in which they discuss (and lead the class in discussing) some aspect of the topic covered for a particular week of class. The exact focus of the presentation is a matter of consultation between the students and the professor. However, it is expected that it will include some material beyond the required reading. Students are NOT permitted to present on a topic they covered in either of their two essays. Students can sign up for these presentations on a first come, first serve basis beginning the second week of class.