Dr T Sattler, CLM 4.10

Course intended primarily for BSc International Relations, BSc International Relations and History and BSc Management. Students from other degree programmes will be admitted by permission of the Course Coordinator, including BSc Economic History and BSc Economics.

Students should normally have completed EH101 or EC100.

The economic factor in foreign policy; the development of thought about the relationship between international politics and the international economy.

Power and politics in international economic relations. Major approaches in international political economy: economic nationalism, laissez faire, marxism and comparative political economy. The political economy of money, trade, economic security and development since 1944. Current debates: economic sanctions, environmental protection, regionalism, capital market integration, the role of non-state actors, globalisation and the retreat of the state.

15 weekly lectures (IR304) commencing in week one of the MT and 20 weekly classes (IR304.A) commencing in week three of the MT, plus two revision classes. Ten lectures on Introduction to Economics (IR304.1) in MT.

Students deliver class papers and write four essays of a maximum length of 1,500 words each.

Basic references are: D Baldwin, Economic Statecraft; R Heilbronner, The Worldly Philosophers; S Strange, States and Markets; J Frieden & D Lake, International Political Economy; J Ravenhill, Global Political Economy; A Walter & G Sen, Analyzing the Global Political Economy. A detailed reading list will be given at the beginning of the course.

A three-hour written examination in ST, four questions chosen from 12.