spring 09 coursepage: international political economy
Welcome to the the POLS/ECON 426! CoursePage for International Political Economy, Spring Quarter 2009 This page contains links (see below) to the course syllabus, lecture notes and materials, supplemental and recommended readings, links to useful resources on the web, and other class-related information (including grades, assignments, and "model papers"). You should refer to this page first whenever you have questions about our class. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact me.
introduction to course
From course syllabus.Today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of the world we live in without some understanding of the history, theories, institutions, and relationships found in international, or perhaps more accurately, global political economy. Unfortunately, studying IPE/GPE is not a straightforward exercise: not only are the workings of the world economy complex, but also the various modes of analysis used to unravel this complexity are, more often than not, in sharp disagreement. Nonetheless, it behooves us to learn as much as we can about how the world economy “works.” Indeed, we need to know how it works and why it works the way it does—that is, unless we are willing to surrender our lives completely to the flow of world events, both economic and political.
Click here to download entire syllabus (pdf document)
WebCT Guidelines and Information (including grading rubric) are available here.
finding course information and materials
Finding course information is easy. Just click on the buttons (or text links) below to go where you want to go. Be advised, however, that some links may not be active and some pages may seem incomplete. For obvious reasons, this is more likely to happen in the beginning of the quarter, but there are times when I will not be able to update my CourseSite on a regular basis.
WebCT Guidelines and Information (including grading rubric) are available here.












