HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY of ECONOMICS and ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
INR-426
PERSPECTIVES on GLOBALIZATION
Associate Professor Dr. Örsan Ö. Akbulut
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Course Objective. The main purpose of this course, on the basis of capitalism is to discuss the phenomenon of globalization. This discussion will be done in two ways. 1. Discussion of the origins of capitalism. 2. Capitalism periodic crises. Production, trade and financial capital through qualifications will be established the relationship between capitalism and globalization. Globalization and internationalization will form the focus of this course. Internationalization and globalization, as a contrast or an illusion or a transition will be discussed.
Content.
Introduction
Week 1
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2007), Küreselleşme Ulus-Devlet ve Kamu yönetimi, TODAİE Yayını, Ankara. .
I. CAPITALISM
Economical Sphere-Political Sphere (1)
Week 2
Reading Material.
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2009), Siyaset ve Yönetim İlişkisi-Kuramsal ve Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım, Turhan Kitabevi Yayını, 2. Baskı, Ankara.
Maurice Dobb (1964), Studies in the Development of Capitalism, Routledge and Kegan & Paul.
Ellen M. Wood (2002), The Origins of Capitalism: A Longer View, Verso.
Ellen M. Wood and Neal Wood (1997), A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism 1509-1688, New York University.
Must Reading (1).
Ellen Meiksins Wood (1995), Democracy Against Capitalism-Renewing Historical Materialism-, Cambridge University, ( Chapter 2 “The Seperation of the ‘Economic’ and the ‘Political’ in Capitalism”, p. 19-49).
Economical Sphere -Political Sphere (2)
Week 3
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2009), Siyaset ve Yönetim İlişkisi-Kuramsal ve Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım, Turhan Kitabevi Yayını, 2. Baskı, Ankara.
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2007), Küreselleşme Ulus-Devlet ve Kamu yönetimi, TODAİE.
Must Reading (2).
Ellen Meiksins Wood (1991), The Pristine Culture of Capitalism- A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States-, Verso, (Chapter 6, “A National Economy”, p. 95-117).
II. CAPITAL ACCUMULATION and INTERNATIONALIZATION
Capital Accumulation and Capitalist Crises
Week 4
Karl Marx (1967), Capital: A Crituque of Political Economy, International Pub.
Simon Clarke (1994), Marx’s Theory of Crises, Palgrave Macmillan.
Rudolf Hilferding (2006), Finance Capital, Routledge and Kegan & Paul.
Rosa Luxemburg (2003), The Accumulation of Capital, Routledge.
Alan Freeman and G. Carchedi (1996), Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics, Edward Elgar.
Must Reading (3).
Bob Rowthorn and Donald J. Harris (1985), “The Organic Composition of Capital and Capitalist Development”, Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory, H. Magdoff and P. Swezzy (ed.), Autonomedia.
Capital Accumulation and Nation and State
Week 5
E.J. Hobsbawm (1992), Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, Cambridge.
Ernest Gellner (1983), Nations and Nationalism, Blackwell.
Anthony D. Smith (1987), Ethnic Origins of Nations, Blackwell.
Alex Callinicos (2007), “Does Capitalism Need the State System”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 20, Nu. 4, December, p.533-549.
Must Reading (4).
E.J. Hobsbawm (1992), Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, Cambridge (“The Nation as Novelty: from Revolution to Liberalism”, p.14-46).
Capital Accumulation and International Political Order
Week 6
Robert Brenner (2003), The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy, Verso.
Paul Sweezy (1968), The Theory of Capitalist Development, Monthly Review.
R. O’Brien and M.Williams (2004), “World Wars and the Post-1945 Order” in
O’Brien R.and Williams M. (eds.) Global Political Economy, Evolution and Dynamics,
Palgrave; Macmillan.
Capital Accumulation and World-System and World Systems Theories
Week 7
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2007), Küreselleşme Ulus-Devlet ve Kamu yönetimi, TODAİE Yayını, Ankara.
Andre Gunder Frank (1970), Latin America:Underdevelopment or Revolution-Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and the Immediate Enemy, Monthly Review.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1974), Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, Academic.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1966), Social Change-The Colonial Situation-, Wiley.
Karl Polanyi (1944), The Great Transformation, Beacon.
Must Reading (5).
Immanuel Wallerstein (2004), World System Analysis, Duke University Press, (“The Modern World System as a Capitalist World-Economy: Production, Surplus-Value and Polarization”).
III. FINANCIAL ACCUMULATION and GLOBALIZATION
Globalization
Week 8
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2007), Küreselleşme Ulus-Devlet ve Kamu yönetimi, TODAİE Yayınları, Ankara.
Robert Brenner (2003), The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy, Verso.
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (2005), “Finance and American Empire”, Socialist Register, 2005.
Galip Yalman (2009), Transition to Neoliberalism, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi.
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (2004) “Global Capitalism and American Empire”, Socialist Register.
Bruno Amoroso (1998), On Globalization-Capitalism in the 21st Century-,Macmillan.
F. Hirst and G. Thompson (1999), Globalization in Question, Blackwell.
Martin Shaw (2000), Theory of the Global State –Globality as an Unfinished Revolution-, Cambridge.
Ankie Hooqvelt (2001), Globalization and the Postcolonial World-The New Political Economy of Development-, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Henry Veltmeyer –ed.- (2004), Globalization and Anti-Globalization –Dynamics of Change in the New World Order-, Ashgate.
Zygmunt Bauman (1997), Globalization: Human Consequences, New York.
Werner Bonefeld andJohn Holloway (1995), Global Capital, National State and the Politics of
Money, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Werner Bonefeld (2000), "The Specter of Globalization: On the Form and Content of the World
Market", The Politics of Change: Globalization Ideology and Critique. edited by Bonefeld W.
and Psychopedis K., Palgrave, New York.
David Held and McGrew, A. G. (2007), The Reconfiguration of Political Power? in Held, D. and McGrew, A. G., Globalization/Anti-Globalization: beyond the Great Divide, Cambridge: Polity Press.
David Held and McGrew, A. G. (2007), A New World Economic Order? Global Markets and State Power, in Held, D. and McGrew, A. G., Globalization/Anti-Globalization: beyond the Great Divide, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Must Reading (6).
John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff (2008), “Financial Implosion and Stagnation-Back to the Real Economy”, Monthly Review, Oct.
Globalization as Imperialism
Week 9
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2007), Küreselleşme Ulus-Devlet ve Kamu yönetimi, TODAİE Yayını, Ankara.
David Harvey (2003), The New Imperialism, Oxford University.
James Petras, (2000) “Globalization: A Critical Analysis”, Chilcote, R.H. (ed.), Political Economy of Imperialism , Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Y. Saillard (2002) “Globalisation, Localisation and Sector Based Specialisation: What is the Future of National Regulation?”, Boyer, R. and Saillard, Y. (ed.), Regulation Theory: The State of the Art, Routledge.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2001), Empire, Harvard University.
Vladimir Lenin (1996), Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Pluto.
John Bellamy Foster(1986), The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism-An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy-, Monthly Review.
Korkut Boratav (2000) “Emperyalizm mi? Küreselleşme mi?”, Tonak, A. (der.) Küreselleşme: Emperyalizm Yerelcilik İşçi Sınıfı içerisinde, İmge Kitabevi.
C. Farrands and O. Worth (2005) “Critical Theory in Global Political Economy: Critique? Knowledge? Emancipation?”, Capital and Class, 85.
Must Reading (7).
John Bellamy Foster (2008), “The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis”, Monthly Review, April.
Globalization as Regionalism
Week 10
Guglielmo Carchedi (2001), For Anaother Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration, Verso.
Linda Weiss (2003), States in the Global Economy, Cambridge University.
Hasan Engin Şener(2009), Macaristan ve Türkiye’nin AB’ye Uyum Süreci-The EU Accession Process in Hungary and Turkey, Phoenix, Ankara.
Linda Weiss (1997), “Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State”, New Left Review, 225.
Must Reading (8-9).
Ellen Meiksins Wood (1999), “Unhappy Families: Global Capitalism in a World of Nation-States”, Monthly Review, July-August.
Guglielmo Carchedi (2001), For Anaother Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration, Verso (“A Value Theory of European Economic Integration” p.60-92).
IV. INTERNATIONALIZATION and GLOBALIZATION
Globalization versus Internationalization
Week 11
Ali Murat Özdemir (2011), Güç, Buyruk, Düzen, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara.
Ali Murat Özdemir (2010), Ulusların Sefaleti, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara.
Must Reading (10-11).
Riccardo Petrella (1998), “Globalization and Internationalization- The Dynamics of the Emerging World Order”, States Against Markets-The Limits of Globalization-,Ed. R. Boyer, D.Drache, Routledge.
Herman E. Daly (1999), “Globalization versus Internationalization-some implications”, Ecological Economics, 31, p. 31-37.
Globalization and Political Sphere
Week 12
Richard Falk (1999), Democratizing, Internationalizing, and Globalizing: A Collage of Blurred Images, in Falk R., Predatory Capitalism: A Critique, Cambridge: Polity Pres.
O. Holman (1993), Internationalisation and Democratisation: Southern Europe, Latin America and the World Economic Crisis, in Gill, S. (ed.), Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Must Reading (12).
Sol Picciotto (1990), “The Internationalization of the State”, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 22 (1), p. 28-44.
Globalization and Nation State
Week 13
Örsan Ö. Akbulut (2007), Küreselleşme Ulus-Devlet ve Kamu yönetimi, TODAİE Yayınları, Ankara.
John Dunn –ed.- (1995), Contemporary Crisis of the Nation State, Oxford, Cambridge.
Jean Marie Guehenno (1995), The End of the Nation-State, Minneapolis.
Gencay Şaylan (1994), Değişim, Küreselleşme ve Devletin Yeni İşlevi, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara.
Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay (1999), “Ulus-Devlet Sona mı Eriyor?”, Dinin Fiziği Demokrasinin Kimyası, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara.
Paul Hirst and G. Thompson (1995) “Globalization and the Future of the Nation State”, Economy and Society, 24.
Must Reading (13).
Ellen Meiksins Wood (2003), “Globalization and the State: Where is the Power of Capital?” in Saad-Filho A. (ed.) Anti-Capitalism, A Marxist Introduction, London; Pluto Press, pp. 127-142.
Hacettepe University
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
Department of International Relations
INR-426
PERSPECTIVES on GLOBALIZATION
Associate Professor Dr. Örsan Ö. Akbulut
MID-TERM EXAMINATION
RESEARCH (STATISTICAL DATA) SUBJECTS and WRITING RULES
GENERAL STRUCTURE OF WORLD ECONOMY AND REGIONALIZATION
(After 1990)
Sectors / GNP-GDP-Population / Agriculture / Industry / Services / Trade / Debt / EmploymentCriteria of Analysis - Countries / Total GNP-GDP and Population (Proportional and Quantitative) / Share in GDP and Rate of Value-added / Share in GDP and Rate of Value-added
Value-added rates of the industries of food, textile, chemistry, mechanics, transportation and etc.
Total energy supply and consumption
Rate of direct investment / Share in GDP and Rate of Value-added / Import and Export Rates of goods, and their share in GDP
Foreign-trade balance and Current account balance
Sectoral distribution of import and export
Countries that the country have import and export relations with
Country’s position in World Trade
Number of trans-national companies / External debt
Short term foreign debt
Ratio of foreign debt to GNP / Public and private employment
Sectoral distribution of public and private sector employment
Unemployment rate
Rate of labour efficiency
USA
CANADA
MEXICO
CHINA
EU-7
EU-15
EU-27
IRAN
EGYPT
SAUDI ARABIA
JORDAN
ISRAEL
CHAD
SOUTH ARFICA
NIGERIA
MOROCCO / JAPAN
SOUTH KOREA
SINGAPORE
INDIA
BRAZIL
ARGENTINA
VENEZUELA
CUBA
RUSSIA
UKRAINE
KAZAKHISTAN
AZERBAIJAN
TURKEY
Rules of Writing and Review
Page number shall not exceed 2 A4 size paper.
Top, bottom and right margins will be 2,5 cm; and the left margin will be 3 cm.
Body of the text will be 12pt font size, foot notes will be 8pt font size and the tables will be 8pt font size.
There will be 1 space between rows (lines).
There will not be any cover page.
Endnotes and/or in-text footnotes can be used.
Reference/bibliography adding is not required, yet if added it will not be included within 2 pages limitation.
Concerning the numerical data derived from related sectors of the selected country and using the criteria specified in the table, review will be held to attain the results regarding on the link of regionalization and globalisation.
It shall be stated specifically when no data could be found related to any of the criterion. At least one criterion shall be used. Increasing the capacity of interpretation, each of the criteria will help you to reach the result.
A specifically selected year after 1990, or generally, the sum of the years can be used for comparison.
In order to strengthen your interpretation, 1990s can be compared to 1870s, 1930s, 1970s. Such review will be graded within the scope of commentary.
In the evaluation, (a) will be considered as the collection and interpretation of the existing data, whereas (b) as drawing a conclusion by comparing the data in themselves, within the framework of criteria. Grading will be applied as (a: 80; b: 20). The task (a) is compulsory.
In the first page, reviewed country and sectors will be stated in detail as well as the identity info of the reviewer.
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