Pols 455 North-South Relations

Pols 455 North-South Relations

POLS 455 NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS

SPRING 2017

SYLLABUS

Instructor: Zühre Aksoy

Office: IB 501

Office Hours: M 10:00-11:00 and T 10:00-11:00, or by appointment

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Teaching Assistant: Levent Önen

Course Description:

This course is intended to provide an overview of the relations between the North and the South with a focus on the history and the debates on development, the role of international institutions, and the current discussions on international distributive justice, globalization and democratic governance. We will first examine various definitions of development, and then look into the historical background of development in the context of capitalism. Second, we will review some of the debates on modernization, development and underdevelopment, and then focus on North-South relations during the Cold War and the post-Cold War periods. A discussion of the international institutions and development will be followed by an in-depth analysis of the relations between the North and the South in cases which have provided significant controversy: agriculture and the politics of food, the environment, intellectual property rights. The last three weeks of the course will examine the arguments for international distributive justice, the globalization process, the rising powers and the quest for global democratic governance.

Requirements:

Class sessions will be a mixture of lecture and discussion. Students are expected to come to class and have completed the assigned readings before the designated session. Regular attendance is required.

There will be a midterm and a final exam. There will also be a group assignment. Students will form of groups of three to four, and analyze a current issue in global politics in the context of North-South relations. The group will write a (10-15 pages) paper on the topic, present their findings to the class, which will be followed by a class discussion. More information will be given about the paper and the presentation during class.

Grading:

Class attendance and participation in discussion: 20 %

Group Assignment: 25 %

Midterm exam: 25 %

Final exam (cumulative): 30 %

Academic Honesty:

The Department of Political Science and International Relations has the following rules and regulations regarding academic honesty.

  1. Copying work from others or giving and receiving answers/information during exams either in written or oral form constitutes cheating.
  2. Submitting take-home exams and papers of others as your own, using sentences or paragraphs from another author without the proper acknowledgement of the original author, insufficient acknowledgement of the consulted works in the bibliography, all constitute plagiarism. For further guidelines, you can consult
  1. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offenses and will result in:

a)an automatic “F” in the assignment or the exam

b)an oral explanation before the Departmental Ethics Committee

c)losing the opportunity to request and receive any references from the entire faculty

d)losing the opportunity to apply in exchange programs

e)losing the prospects of becoming a student assistant or a graduate assistant in the department

The students may further be sent to the University Ethics committee or be subject to disciplinary action.

READING LIST

  1. Introduction (February 6, 7)

Gilbert Rist, The History of Development (London: Zed Books, 1997), pp.1-24.

  1. Modernization, Development and Underdevelopment (February 13, 14)

Richard Peet and Elaine Hartwick, Theories of Development (New York, Guilford Press, 1999), pp.1-16.

W.W. Rostow, ‘The Five Stages of Growth’, in Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality, Mitchell A. Seligson and John T. Passe-Smith (eds.), pp. 123-131 (reprinted from the Stages of Economic Growth, W. W. Rostow, New York: Cambridge University Press).

Andre Gunder Frank ‘The Development of Underdevelopment’, in Imperialism and Underdevelopment: A Reader (edited by Robert Rhoades, (Monthly Review Press).

Erik Wibbels. 2009. Cores, Peripheries, and Contemporary Political Economy. Studies in Comparative International Development. 44 (4): 441-449.

  1. The North and the South (February 20, 21)

Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner. 2009. Institutions of the Global South. (Routledge), pp.1-54.

Sally Morphet. 2004. Multilateralism and the Non-Aligned Movement: What is the Global South Doing and Where Is It Going?. Global Governance, 10, 4, pp. 517-37.

John Toye. 2014. Assessing the G77: 50 Years after UNCTAD and 40 Years after NIEO. Third World Quarterly, 35 (10): 1759-1774.

  1. Film Screening(February 27, 28)

February 27: Film Screening

February 28: Groups will be formed and topics determined

  1. International Institutions and Development (March 6, 7)

Caroline Thomas. 2001. Global Governance, Development and Human Security: Exploring the Links. Third World Quarterly, 22, 2, pp. 159-175.

Ziya Öniş and Fikret Şenses. 2005. Rethinking the Emerging Post-Washington Consensus. Development and Change, 36, 2, pp.263-290.

World Bank 2016. World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends (Overview).

  1. Agriculture and the Politics of Food(March 13, 14)

Jennifer Clapp. 2006. WTO Agricultural Negotiations: Implications for the Global South’, Third World Quarterly, 27, 4, pp.563-577.

World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development (Overview): 1-24.

Saturnino M. Borras and Jennifer Franco. 2012. Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis. Journal of Agrarian Change, 12, 1, pp.34-59.

Haroon Akram-Lodhi. 2015. Accelarating Towards Food Sovereignty. Third World Quarterly, 36 (3): 563-583.

  1. Environment (March 20, 21)

Marc Williams. 2005. The Third World and Global Environmental Negotiations: Interests, Institutions and Ideas. Global Environmental Politics, 5, 3, pp.48-69.

Andrew Hurrell and Sandeep Sengupta. 2012. Emerging Powers, North-South Relations and Global Climate Politics, International Affairs, 88, 3, pp. 463-484.

James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones. 2012. Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature. Journal of Peasant Studies (39): 2, pp.237-261.

Carl Death. 2015. Four Discourses of the Green Economy in the Global South. Third World Quarterly, 36 (12): 2207-2224.

March 21: Group assignment paper outlines are due

  1. (March 27, 28):

MIDTERM EXAM: MARCH 27 MONDAY (In class)

  1. Intellectual Property Rights (April 3, 4)

Susan K. Sell and Christopher May. 2001.Moments in Law: Contestation and Settlement in the History of Intellectual Property. Review of International Political Economy,8, 3, pp.467-500.

İpek Eren-Vural. 2007. Domestic Contours of Global Regulation: Understanding the Policy Changes on Pharmaceutical Patents in India and Turkey. Review of International Political Economy, 14, 1, pp.105-142.

A.Verger and B. van Paassen. 2013. Human Development vis-a-vis Free Trade: Understanding Developing Countries’ Positions in Trade Negotiations in Education and Intellectual Property Rights. Review of International Political Economy, 20 (4): 712-739.

  1. International Distributive Justice (April 10, 11)

Charles Beitz, ‘International Distributive Justice’ in Political Theory and International Relations, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979), pp.125-183.

Thomas W. Pogge. 2011. What is Global Justice? In Politics as Usual: What Lies behind the Pro-poor Rhetoric? byThomas W. Pogge, (Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity), pp.6-24.

  1. SPRING BREAK: NO CLASS(April 17, 18)
  1. Globalization and Global Governance(April 24, 25)

Keith Griffin. 2003. Economic Globalization and Institutions of Global Governance’, Development and Change. 34, 5, pp.789-807.

James K. Boyce. 2004. Democratizing Global Economic Governance’, Development and Change. 35, 3, pp.593-599.

Robert Keohane. 2011. Global Governance and Legitimacy. Review of International Political Economy. 18 (1): 99-109.

Group Assignment Presentations (I)

  1. Rising Powers and Global Governance (May 1, 2)

May 1: HOLIDAY: NO CLASS

May 2:

Marco Vieira. 2012. Rising States and Distributive Justice: Reforming International Order in the 21st Century. Global Society 26 (3), pp. 311-329.

Ramesh Takur. 2014. How representative are brics?. Third World Quarterly, 35, 10, pp. 1791-1808.

Matthew D. Stephen. 2014. Rising Powers, Global Capitalism, and Liberal Global Governance: A Historical Materialist Account of the BRICs Challenge. European Journal of International Relations, pp.1-27.

Group Assignment Presentations (II)

  1. (May 8, 9)

Group Assignment Presentations (III)

  1. May 15: GROUP ASSIGNMENT PAPERS ARE DUE.

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