***Schedule last updated 4/27***

Assignments/ Readings Due

January

1/12

Introduction
Course Syllabus

Reminder:  Access your NKU email.  If you don’t use it regularly, then forward it to an account you do use.

1/14

Intro to IPE

• The Basics
• IPE perspectives (you might want to print this chart for class)

Choose case of discussion leader case

IPE perspectives: Mercantilism

Alexander Hamilton The Federalist Papers #11 and #12

Robert Gilpin Excerpt from "The Politics of Transnational Economic Relations," International Organization 25(3):398-419.
 

Mercantilism Assignment

IPE Perspectives:
(Neo)Liberalism
 

If you're interested--this may help to simplify Smith's basic ideas:  Allan Sloan's NY Times Book Review of P.J. O'Rourke's On 'The Wealth of Nations' (don't reference this in your assignment)

Keohane & Nye's "Interdependence in World Politics" (pages 122-132 only) 

Liberalism Assignment
 

1/28

IPE Perspectives:
Marxism
 

2/2

Karl Marx: from The German Ideology The Rise in Manufacturing (read this section and through the end of The Most Extension Division of Labour, Large Scale Industry--you can stop at the end of the first section and don't have to read The Relation of State and Law to Property)

V.I. Lenin from Imperialism: The Highest State of Capitalism  Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism (skip over Lenin's critique of Kautsky that runs from page 4-6, i.e. the paragraph that begins "Kautsky refers especially---and repeatedly..." until you get to the paragraph that begins "R. Calwer, in his little book..." and read from that to the end.)
 

Marxism Assignment
 

2/9

Pew case discussion

Order case here
#282 Globalization: France, Nazis, and the Internet
 

RA #1 due: Tips on summarizing readings

Case discussion preparation -reminder to email me your assignment

Leaders: Ashlie, Bobby, Scott

Class not meeting-I'm at a conference.

International Trade System

Class not meeting-watch this to discuss on 2/23 along with case

Analysis #1 due under my door (FH 440) no later than 10:40
 

1)  It is not necessary for you to write an RA for your discussion leader case. 

2)  You need to complete either RA #1 or RA #2 (i.e., an RA before spring break)

3)  You MAY complete up to 2 RAs in a row, amending the previous rule of completing only every-other one in the syllabus.

March

3/2

Pew case discussion

Order case here

#276- Saving the Coffee Industry in El Salvador

Class not meeting--instead, we will discuss this case and the Cappuccino Trail through discussion threads on BlackBoard. 

The discussion leaders will post their questions in individual discussion threads and the rest of you, for participation credit, will respond to their questions.  Discussion leaders may respond to one another's questions.  I, or any of you, can post threads about the video and respond.

RA #2 due: Tips on summarizing readings

Case discussion preparation -reminder to email me your assignment

Leaders: Kyle, Oula, Nigel, Eric

For those completing RA #2, please put it under my door (FH 440) no later than 3:00 today.
 

3/4

Readings: 

• Fixing the IMF Identity Crisis

• Winners & Losers as the Dollar Falls

• Understanding the Gold Standard

Spring Break Week

Exchange rates (you might want to print this chart for class)

If you're interested: Economic View - Will the Fed Use Its Whole Arsenal
 

International Trade System

Pew case discussion

Order case here

#235- Managing the Asian Meltdown 

April

4/1

In lieu of class, complete Analysis #2

International Investment & Financial Flows

Analysis #2 due
 

Pew case discussion

Order case here

#280- Political Economy in Putin’s Russia: YUKOS
 

RA #4 due: Tips on summarizing readings

Case discussion preparation -reminder to email me your assignment

Leaders: Jonathan, Melissa, Shea H.

The Global South
 

In lieu of class, watch India Rising (video link on right)

Pew case discussion
Order case here

#266: The Rocky Road Toward Debt Forgiveness

RA #5 due: Tips on summarizing readings

Case discussion preparation -reminder to email me your assignment

Leaders: Tim, Joey, Mike, Paul

Pew case discussion
Order case here
#290: A Helping Hand? Eliminating Child Labor in Bangladesh's Garment Industry 
 

RA #6 due: Tips on summarizing readings

Case discussion preparation -reminder to email me your assignment

Leaders: Leigha, Anne, ChuChu, Elyse
 

Pew case discussion

Order case here

#224: Environmental Protection or Economic Development? The Case of the Huai River Basin Clean-Up Plan
 

RA #7 due: Tips on summarizing readings

Case discussion preparation -reminder to email me your assignment

Leaders: Chris, Oula, Nigel

Pew case discussion

Order case here

#295:  Sewing or Sex? Labor Migration in Thailand
 

RA #8 due: Tips on summarizing readings

Case discussion preparation -reminder to email me your assignment

Leaders: Maegan, Stephanie, Nick, Mirza

May

5/6 (TH)
10:10-12:10

Final Exam time

Analysis #3 due to me in my office (FH 440) no later than 12:10