POL 255 - Introduction to International Political Economy

In this course, students learn the fundamentals concerning the rise of international economic cooperation and conflict. Thus, we approach IPE with a strong overlap of International Relations, Comparative Politics, Economics, and History. We examine the rise of international economic institutions and norms as well as some current international economic arrangements. We also examine and discuss three primary theoretical prisms: Liberal, Realist, and Marxist that can be used to think these through. At the end of the course, students should understand empirically the rise of international trade, the rise of international investment, and the rise of international money, the rise of international financial institutions, the current state of such institutions, their evolving nature, and the basics of the three paradigms that we use to explain these phenomena. This class will be both conceptual as well as empirical, with both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

This course may be used as an elective in the Political Science and International Relations Major or be applied in partial fulfillment of the B.S. requirement, but not both.

Credit(s): 3
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Social Perspective course for the Dialogues.