Riga Stradins University Faculty of European Studies Department of Political Science Academic Study Program Degree of Master of Social Sciences in International Relations

Description of Study Subject Program

Title and category of study subject program -	Economic Aspects of Globalisation, A
Manager of Academic structural unit -	Dr. Ilga Kreituse
Lecturer involved in study subject program -	Dr. cand., mag. eoc. Jānis Bērziņš
Auditory (faculty, study program, year of study) -	The students of the Master’s course in InternationalRelations of the Faculty of European Studies
Volume of study program in credit points (CP)	5 credits, 80 hours
Aim of study subject –	To provide the analytic tools in order to understand and analysis the dynamic of the nowadays process of globalisation, dealing with its changes and challenges, phocusing on internacional economic relations and internacional political economy.
Tasks of study program –	The course objectives are to help the students to understand: The theoretical basis of the nowadays political economic system and the main theoretic approaches – liberalism, Keynesianism, institutionalism and their variations; The role of the State’s policies in the economic process, internally and in internationally; the main models of market based economies, which are present in almost all world’s countries; the economic crisis of socialism and its fall; the process of transition and its specificities (also in Latvia); e) the determinants of the process of globalisation, its essence and expressions, as the movements of anti-globalism, its causes and objectives;
Content of study subject –	1. International Political Economy’s theoretical basis and its most relevant economic approaches. 2. The role of the State in the economy. The Political Economy of the intervention of the State on the economy and the process of economic regulation. 3. Economic systems: theory and practice. 4. The influence of Globalisation in the field of International Political Economy. 5. The division of countries in developed, developing and underdeveloped. 6. The role of the international multilateral organisations in the run of the economic process. 7. The characteristics of the development of the post-socialist (transition) countries.
Tests in study subject –	All students must to take part in the lessons, seminaries and the final exam, as to submit reports and presentations.
List of literature-	BORDO, Michael, EICHENGREEN, Barry, IRWIN, Douglas. Is globalization today really different from than globalization a hundred years ago?. NBER Working Paper Series, no. 7195, June, 1999. BRABANT, Josef M. van (1998). The Political Economy of Transition. London, Routledge, London, 1998. BRADY, David. The poverty of liberal orthodox economics. The International Sociological Association, RC28 Meetings, Berkeley, California, August 14-16, 2001. CARNOY, Martin & Manuel Castells. Globalization, the Knowledge Society, and the network State: Poulantzas at the millennium. Global Networks 1, 1, 2001. GRAY, John (1999). False Dawn. The Delusions of Global Capitalism. London, Granta Books. HOBSBAWM, Eric. The age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991. London, Abacus, 2003. KRAUTHAMMER, Charles. The unipolar world revisited. The National Interest, Winter 2002/2003. LAIRSON, Thomas D., SKIDMORE, David (1997). International Political Economy. The Struggle for Power and Wealth. Philadelphia, Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2nd ed. McKINNON, RONALD. The International Dollar Standard and the Sustainability of the U.S. Current Account Deficit. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1, 2001. MÉSZÁROS, István. The challenge of sustainable development and the culture of substantive equality. Monthly Review, December, 2001. MILL, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. New York, Prometheus Books, 2004. NITZAN, Jonathan & BICHLER, Shimshon. Cheap Wars. The Economy of the Occupation: a Socioeconomic Bulletin, no. 10, September, 2006. NORDHAUS, William. The economic consequences of a war with iraq. NBER Working Paper Series, no. 9631, December, 2002. ORTIZ, Renato. Mundialization/Globalization. Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, pp. 401-403, 2006. PIEPER, Ute & TAYLOR, Lance. The revival of the liberal creed: the IMF, the World Bank, and inequality in a globalized economy. CEPA Working Paper Series I, Working Paper No. 4, October 1996 (Revised January 1998). RICARDO, David. On the principles of political economy and taxation. Ontario, Batoche Books, 2001. RIFKINS, Džeremijs (2004). Jaunās ekonomikas laikmets. Rīga, Jumava. SHAFAEDDIN, Mehdi. Trade liberalization and economic reform in developing countries: structural change or de-industrialization?. UNTAD Discussion Paper no. 179, 2005. SMITH, Adam. An inquiry into the nature and the causes of the wealth of the nations. New York, Modern Library, 1994. STIGLITZ, Joseph. Globalization and its discontents. London, Penguin Books, 2003. UNCTAD. Globalization: an European perspective. Geneva, UNCTAD, Analysis Division, Working Papers series, no. 1, February, 2000. UNCTAD. Trade and economic report. Geneva, 2002. WILLIAMSON, John. What should the World Bank think about the Washington Consensus?. The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 15, no. 2, August, 2000, pp. 251–64. WOHLFORT, William. The stability of a unipolar world. International Security, MIT Press, vol. 24, no. 01, 1999, pp.5-41.

Manager of study subject program:

Head of International Relations Master Degree Program, Dr. Andris Spruds

(signature) (scientific degree, academic position, name, family name)
11.04.2007
COORDINATED

Rīga Stradiņš University

Faculty of European Studies

Political Science Dpt. Session

11 April 2007, Record No. 9

Form No. M-3 (3) COORDINATED

Rīga Stradiņš University

Deans’ Council Session on

16 April 2007,

Record No. 29

AFFIRMED

Rīga Stradiņš University

Senate Session on

15 May 2007,

Record No. 1-2/15.05.07