University of Warwick
Department of Politics and International Studies
Theories and Issues in
International
Development
2012-2013
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/po901
Module Director: Prof. Shirin M. Rai
Module Tutors:
Prof. Shirin M. Rai
B0.06, Ext. 2349; [email protected]
Dr. Iain Pirie
B0.13, Ext. 2557, [email protected]
Office hours may be found in the ‘Contact Details’ section of the module website
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Table of Contents
Introduction 2
Aims and Learning Objectives 3
Aims 3
Learning Objectives 3
Learning Methods and Materials 4
Questions 4
Reading 4
Web Research 4
Seminars 5
Other Consultations with Tutors 6
Warwick Global Development Society 6
Assessment (Ours of You) 7
For students who take this as their core module 7
For students who take this as an option 8
Deadlines and Penalties for Late Submission 8
Plagiarism 9
Five Points to Remember When Writing Essays 9
Essay Titles 10
Evaluation (Yours of Us) 11
Schedule of Topics 12
Week-by-Week Outline 14
Autumn Term 15
Spring Term 24
Supplementary Reading 32
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Introduction
Theories and Issues in International Development
(TIID) is the core module of the MA/Diploma in
Globalisation and Development. The module is also
available as an optional unit of the MA/Diploma in
International Relations, International Political
Economy and Politics. Module seminars run across
the Autumn and Spring Terms, from October to
March, and the final assessment exercise is submitted
in May.
Within the broad field of ‘social science’ development has been the concern of
economists, political scientists, sociologists and lawyers for many decades now. As practice, development agencies and institutions have sought to impose some
discipline on this ever-expanding area of research by focusing on economic growth,
sustainability or capability enhancement. Globalisation has fundamentally altered the
context of development and we need to understand it how and in what ways this
new context poses challenges for development. One of the ways in which
globalisation and development are speaking to each other is through the
reconstitution of governance mechanisms and processes, which are then provoking
new theoretical debates, research trajectories and development agendas.
This module explores both ‘theories’ and ‘issues’ relating to globalisation,
governance and development. By examining ‘theories’ we explore the ways that
knowledge is constructed. What assumptions do we make? What concepts do we
employ? What explanations do we propose? What normative judgements do we
make?
By examining ‘issues’, this module considers some of the prominent substantive
items on the policy agenda of development institutions and agencies, as well as other
civil society actors. Whether and how do processes of globalisation transform,
undermine or reinforce existing patterns of inequality and injustice? Is the traditional
organisation of political life and the work of key development agencies still relevant
in a context of globalisation? What new configurations of power have emerged in a
globalised society? Are countries of the South able to respond and take advantage of
these new configurations?
Theoretical work and empirical work are not separate exercises. Practical problems
stimulate theory construction, and theories inform the ways that we handle
substantive issues. Theory that lacks bearing on practice is irrelevant. Action that
lacks theoretical clarity and coherence is confused and ineffective.
No study of globalisation, governance and development can be comprehensive or
uncontested. Although we will examine the major approaches and problems, our coverage cannot be exhaustive. Nor is the selection and treatment of theories and
issues ‘unbiased’. It reflects the state of the field at the present time, the specific
analysis and preferences of the module tutor as well as of the students, whose work
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is central to the delivery of the module. However, we hope this module will give you
a sound basis for further study, including work that could explore alternative
approaches and different problems. we also hope that the discussions in class will be
respectful of differences, thus enabling all to participate and to feel comfortable in so
doing.
Aims and Learning Objectives
The aims and learning objectives of this module reflect and reinforce the aims and
learning objectives of the overall Warwick MA/Diploma in Globalisation and
Development.
‘Aims’ are the broad gains that you should achieve in your studies. Meanwhile ‘learning objectives’ are the more precise attainments that are delivered through
specified teaching and learning activities and assessed through specified exercises.
Aims
TIID module has three aims:
to explore definitions, measurements, chronologies and explanations of development and globalisation;
to assess the implications of development and globalisation for the workings
of governance at both international and national levels;
to evaluate policy alternatives in respect of key problems of development and
globalisation.
Learning Objectives
Again in keeping with the learning objectives of the MA/Diploma overall, by the end
of the core module students should be able:
to evaluate contending accounts of globalisation;
to assess relations of structure and agency in the politics of social change;
to draw links between academic political analysis and policy practice;
to use the Internet as a tool in political communication and policy evaluation;
to develop sophisticated arguments in written form.
Remember: the achievement of these aims and learning objectives depends not
only on effective teaching by staff, but also on your efforts to take full advantage of
the learning opportunities that the module offers.
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Learning Methods and Materials
Questions
Learning in this module centres on the exploration of questions. Each weekly topic is
examined in relation to one or two questions, which are specified at the top of the
relevant entry in the week-by-week outline. Careful, critical, creative consideration
of these questions will allow you to achieve the principal analytical learning
objectives of the module.
Reading
In terms of time spent, most of your weekly learning will take place through
independent reading. Each entry in the week-by-week outline specifies the core
reading that is relevant to the question(s) for the topic at hand. Supplementary
literature is listed by topic in the final part of the module outline. You should always
cover the core reading that is listed for a given week. Not only has this literature
been selected as especially helpful, but it is also important that everyone comes to
seminars with some common reading to discuss.
In addition to the core reading, you are encouraged to consult some of the
supplementary readings listed for each week. Moreover, feel free to range wider still
by roaming the library shelves and browsing data bases for further books and
articles. It is essential to do additional reading if you are preparing an oral
presentation or an essay on a given topic.
Needless to say, engage in critical reading. ‘Taking notes’ means more than simply
underlining or copying out passages. Reflect on and react to what an author is saying.
Also, approach your reading with the weekly questions in mind. Do not read a piece
for its own sake, but extract the information and ideas that you need to construct a
response to the module question at hand.
Web Research
Websites can provide us with the latest information on particular issues. Useful
documents are available on many sites and can be useful resources. Like any other
medium, the quality of websites varies – some are excellent in providing not only
information but also analysis. Others are rather poor. When selecting material from
the internet, make certain that it is of a high standard – if your sources are of a low
quality, your essay is likely to reflect this. A range of useful web links may be found
on the GGD module website to get you started with web research.
Note: Wikipedia might be a first port of call for many, but it is not a good academic source – do not rely on this website for your research!
Material cited from any website should be properly referenced by giving the full web-
address and where available the name of the author, date of publication and the page
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number(s). Make sure that you reference web-based material as fully as books.
You will find tips on how to do this in the PaIS Postgraduate Handbook (accessible
here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/currentstudents/) and on the module
website.
Seminars
Seminar Times: Tuesday 10am – 12 noon – Rm. H3.58
1pm – 3pm – Rm. H5.45
Friday – 2pm – 4pm – Rm. S1.14
Your main interactive learning will take place in a weekly two-hour seminar
convened by your Module Tutor. You may wish also to meet with other students
informally for additional group discussions, without your tutor; any such
supplementary arrangements are up to you. I would also encourage you to form an
e-mail discussion group for the class. The purpose of this group is to share
information and ideas about the issues raised in class on a more informal basis.
Each seminar treats the relevant week’s topic. Needless to say, come to seminars
ready to contribute. Do ample preparatory reading and thinking. Seminars are about
active participation. Successful learning depends on your input.
Every seminar will have a ‘mini-lecture’ by the Module Tutor which will introduce
the seminar topic, the main problems that it raises, the principal authors and literature that has addressed the question, and so on. The tutor thereby draws
together your readings and sets the scene for seminar discussions.
Seminars may adopt different learning strategies. In some cases, for example, a
previously identified student may give an individual oral presentation in response to
one of the week’s questions. Alternatively, a subgroup within the seminar may
present a jointly prepared presentation. Or the seminar may be split into several
subgroups that debate a question from different perspectives. Or students may
report back to the group on certain sources for material on that week’s topic. We
also might stage a debate with students taking a position on a particular topic and
attempting to persuade the others of their stance, or a problem solving exercise
associated with the topic.
From the above it should be clear that, apart from the mini-lecture, the Module
Tutor will not spoon-feed you ready-made knowledge. The tutor’s role is to
facilitate student presentations, discussions and other learning activities.
Other Consultations with Tutors
The seminar is your designated time for a weekly group meeting with your Module
Tutor. In addition, we have at least two office hours each week (posted in the
‘Contact Details’ section of the module website) when you may consult us
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individually concerning topics, readings, essays or other learning concerns. We may
also be able to schedule appointments outside of these office hours if those times
are not convenient for you. You can also contact us by e-mail with any questions and
queries you may have.
Do not hesitate to see your Module Tutor, your Personal Tutor or the Programme
Director if you are experiencing academic or other difficulties with your studies.
Our rigorous admissions procedures mean that everyone who gets a place is in
principle capable of successfully completing the course. On the other hand, students
come from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, and many people may
find it helpful to seek supplementary advice from tutors as they adjust to their
studies at Warwick.
Warwick Global Development Society (WGDS)
In addition to your seminar work, TIID offers you the opportunity
to explore issues and theories of development through the work of
the Warwick Global Development Society (WGDS). WGDS was
established in 2002 by students enrolled on the Globalisation,
Governance and Development module.
WGDS has been established primarily as a forum for debate and
exchange of ideas for anyone with an interest in the Development field. It aims to
further understanding and awareness of development theory and practice through a
programme of talks and events covering a wide variety of issues, from global
governance, to the role of TNCs, to the gendered dimensions of development.
Importantly, the WGDS is student-led. At the beginning of the module an election
for President of the WGDS and WGDS Newsletter Editor will be held. It will be the
reponsibility of these office holders to coordinate the activities of the society
throughout the year. All TIID students are expected to participate in the
activities of the WGDS, so be prepared, for example, to write articles for the
Newsletter and to participate in the WGDS Seminar Programme.
Please visit the society website on for more information:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/PaIS/staff/rai/teaching/po901/wgds/
Assessment (Ours of You)
The principal mode of assessment in the core module – namely, essay writing – is at
the same time also a mode of learning. The preparation of papers is an excellent way
to consolidate your understanding of a subject.
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For students who take this module as their core module
Each student will submit three items of assessment for this module: one short essay
of 2000-2500 words; one policy paper of 2000 words; and one research essay of 5000 words.
The short essay will address a metatheoretical question from the material
covered in weeks 2–5.
The policy paper will require you to address a particular developmental issue,
related to the topics covered between weeks 7 and 15, within a specific
theoretical framework.
The 5000 word research essay will (drawing on theory) address some aspect of the issues covered during th module.
The timed essay and policy paper together account for 50 per cent of the module
grade. The long essay accounts for the other 50 per cent. The policy paper has
double the weight of the timed essay. So the formal assessment of the module
breaks down as: short essay 16.7 per cent; policy paper 33.3 per cent; and long essay
50 per cent. In this way the assessments attract progressively more weight as you
become more acquainted with the module material and the British/Warwick/PaIS
approach to teaching and learning.
Both the short essay and the policy paper should draw on relevant module material
and must include an abstract and a bibliography as described in the PaIS Postgraduate
Handbook. Late submissions are not accepted (but see the Postgraduate Handbook
for rules regarding extensions). A compulsory workshop on writing policy
papers will be convened at the end of Term 1 (see the PaIS Postgraduate
Handbook for the precise date and time).
The long essay should involve considerable independent research, going well beyond
assigned readings and seminar work, and analysis should be theoretically informed. A list of pre-approved titles will be made available on the module tutor’s webpage
within the first few weeks of the module commencing. You are free to choose to
write your essays based on any of these titles. However, the titles are only indicative
and you may also negotiate a separate title with your tutor. Whether you choose a
title from the pre-approved list, or negotiate a title with your tutor, please
remember that you must ask your module tutor to sign a submission title form and
submit it to the Graduate Office by the deadline listed in the PAIS Postgraduate
Handbook. The essay must be 5000 words in length and typed with double spacing.
It must include an abstract and a bibliography as described in the Postgraduate
Handbook.
All pieces of written work must include an Abstract of no more than 150 words.
This will not be counted towards the total word count.
Consult your Handbook for the full rules and regulations governing
assessments. Take particular note of the rules regarding plagiarism. Also consult
your Handbook for guidance on writing essays and the criteria that staff use in
evaluating your assessed work.
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For students who take this module as an option
Formal assessment of TIID occurs by means of two 5000-word essays for students
who take it as an optional module in another PAIS MA programme. Each essay
counts for 50 per cent of the final assessment.
The long essay should involve considerable independent research, going well beyond
assigned readings and seminar work, and analysis should be theoretically informed.
A list of pre-approved titles will be made available on the module tutor’s webpage
within the first few weeks of the module commencing. You are free to choose to
write your essays based on any of these titles. However, the titles are only indicative
and you may also negotiate a separate title with your tutor. Whether you choose a
title from the pre-approved list, or negotiate a title with your tutor, please
remember that you must ask your module tutor to sign a submission title form and
submit it to the Graduate Office by the deadline listed in the PAIS Postgraduate
Handbook. The essay must be 5000 words or less in length and typed with double
spacing. It must include an abstract and a bibliography as described in the
Postgraduate Handbook.
All pieces of written work must include an Abstract of no more than 150 words.
This will not be counted towards the total word count.
Consult your Handbook for the full rules and regulations governing
assessments. Take particular note of the rules regarding plagiarism. Also consult
your Postgraduate Handbook for guidance on writing essays and the criteria that staff use
in evaluating your assessed work.
Essay Titles
For your long research essays, you may either choose one of the pre-approved
topics will be made available on the module tutor’s webpage within the first few
weeks of the module commencing, or you may propose a topic on an area of
interest to you (in which case the pre-approved titles may serve as a useful model for formulating your own topic). If you choose to formulate your own topic (which
must be in ‘journal article’ format), make certain to consult closely and in good time
with your module tutor. Proposed titles for the long essay must be submitted to
PAIS Graduate Office by the published deadline. These topics must then be approved
by the Director of the MA/Diploma in Globalisation and Development and the
External Examiner.
For information on referencing, plagiarism, and penalties regarding late
submission of assessed work please see the Postgraduate Handbook.
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Schedule of Topics
This core module explores the global dimension of contemporary governance and
development. There are three strands to the syllabus of the module. The first
addresses the definitions and theoretical underpinnings of development, followed by
a selection of relevant topics, such as structural adjustment, poverty, the
environment, social capital and debt. The second addresses theories of globalisation,
followed by seminars on corporate power, labour, gender and biotechnology. And
the third section of the module focuses on theories of global governance, followed
by discussions on the nation-state, international institutions, civil society and human
rights.
Autumn Term
Week 1: Introduction to the module, overview of theories and
issues and the organisation of the year ahead
Week 2: Theories of International Development I: Modernisation
and Dependency Theories
Week 3: Theories of International Development II: Critical
Approaches
Week 4: Development and Poverty
Week 5: Development and Debt
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: From Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) to Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): Old Wine in New
Bottles?
Week 8: Development and the Restructuring of Gender
Relations
Week 9: Development and Ecological Degradation
Week 10: Theories of Globalisation
Spring Term
Week 11: Globalisation and Corporate Power
Week 12: Globalisation and Labour
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Week 13: The International Food System
Week 14: Social Capital and Social Development
Week 15: Theories of Global Governance
Week 16: Reading Week
Week 17: Globalisation and the Nation-State
Week 18: Supra-State Governance: International Institutions
Week 19: Human Rights, Civil Society and Social Movements
Week 20: Challenges for Global Development and Governance: A day long symposium
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Week-by-Week Outline
In the rest of this module document we elaborate your programme of study on a
week-by-week basis. Each week’s entry has three parts. First, it briefly describes the
general topic of the week. Second, the entry specifies the study question(s) for the
week. Third, the entry gives the bibliographical details for that week’s required
reading.
This module is not based on a textbook. We prefer to expose you to a wider range
of authors and writings. Students who wish to purchase textbooks for general
reference can find a selection in the University Book Shop. The principal suggestions
for purchases are:
Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter, 2008, The Companion to Development Studies.
London: Hodder Education. Excellent for brief introductory pieces on several of the topics covered on
the course.
David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, 1999, Global
Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, Cambridge: Polity
The first, and important, review of globalisation literature covering the three
areas and with lot of interesting data to substantiate the spread of
globalisation.
Peter Newell, Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott, eds., 2002, Development and the
Challenge of Globalisation, IT Publishers.
A critical review of the literature and global issues of development.
Anthony Payne, 2005, The Global Politics of Unequal Development, London: Palgrave
Macmillan
Jan Aart Scholte, 2006, Globalisation: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition), London:
Palgrave
Leslie Sklair, 2002, Globalization, Capitalism and its Alternatives (third edition), Oxford:
OUP.
However, it is important that you rely in the first place on the core reading specified
in the week-by-week schedule below. This week-by-week outline only specifies
several core readings for each question. Needless to say, the bibliography presented
there is far from exhaustive, and you are encouraged to discover and consult as wide
a range of literature as you find interesting and useful.
Subject to legal and operational requirements, copies of all core readings are
available either in the Library Short Loan Collection (SLC), Learning Grid or online.
If a core reading is not available in this manner, you should consult the Subject Librarian and your module tutor.
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AUTUMN TERM
Week 1: Introduction to the module and the year ahead
The first seminar is devoted to a discussion of the aims and learning objectives of the
module; the schedule of topics; the learning methods and materials; the assessment
exercises; your evaluation of the module; and use of the week-by-week outline. We
will also organise the seminar schedule for the term. In short, students should
emerge from the first session with a clear idea of the nature, purpose and
procedures of the module – and thus be ready to tackle the substance of our work.
As part of our discussion we will also introduce the three key terms that form the
basis of this module: globalisation, governance and development. What do we mean
by each of these when we use it in common parlance? Why do we use the term the
way we do? What can we infer about the political assumptions underlying linguistic
usage?
A few short writings on globalisation and development are given below to get you
started. Time before our first seminar will be short, but try to read at least two of
the four selections.
Reading:
Paul Cammack, ‘Making the Poor Work for Globalisation’, New Political Economy, 6, 3,
October 2001, pp. 397-408
Peter Newell, Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott 2002 ‘Introduction: Development and
the Challenge of Globalisation’ in Peter Newell, Shirin M. Rai and Andrew
Scott (eds.) Development and the Challenge of Globalisation
Amartya Sen, 1990, More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing, The New York
Review of Books, Volume 37, Number 20 · December 20 (available online at:
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/gender/Sen100M.html)
_____, 1999, Introduction, Development as Freedom, Oxford, Oxford University
Press
Joseph Stiglitz, 2003, Globalisation and Its Discontents , Introduction
Robert Wade, 2001 “Showdown at the World Bank” New Left Review, No.7, pp.124-
137.
Immanuel Wallerstein, ‘After Developmentalism and Globalisation, What?’ , Keynote
Adddress at the conference ‘Development Challenges for the 21st Century’
Cornell University, 1 October, 2004 (www.iwallerstein.com/articles)
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Week 2: Development Theory I – Modernisation and Dependency
Theories
Modernisation and Dependency theories have
framed debates on development during the
twentieth century. Developed in the context of the
Cold War, modernisation theory focused on the
political and economic conditions necessary for
economic growth in developing countries.
Modernisation analyses of political economy and
development have elicited a critical response. These
can be examined through studying what came to be
called in the 1970s Dependency theories. These were neo-marxist analyses of the
causes of ‘underdevelopment’ by examining the peripheralisation of postcolonial
states in an expanding capitalist world system. These theories were eclipsed during
the 1980s and 1990s but have made a comeback in Development Theory since then.
Questions:
(1) What would a development strategy based on modernisation theory look like?
How would you evaluate such a strategy?
(2) Make a critical assessment of dependency theory as a framework for
development.
Core Reading for (1):
Desai and Potter, 2008, Companion to Development Studies, Chapter 2.1.
Diana Hunt, 1989, Economic Theories of Development, Chapter 3 and 4.
W.W. Rostow, 1960, ‘Introduction’ and ‘The five stages of growth – A summary’,
The Stages of Economic Growth: a non-Communist manifesto
Talcott Parsons, 2000, ‘Evolutionary Universals in Society’, in J. Timmons Roberts
and Amy Hite (eds) From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on
Development and Social Change, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 83-99.
Vicky Randall and Robin Theobald, 1998, ‘Modernisation Revisionism’ in Political
Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics.
Core Reading for (2):
Immanuel Wallerstein, 2004, World Systems Theory: An Introducation, Chapter 2
David L. Blaney, 1996, ‘Reconceptualizing Autonomy: The Difference Dependency
Theory Makes’, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 3, no. 3 (Autumn),
pp. 459-97.
Anthony Brewer, 1990, Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey (2nd ed.)
Chapter 8
Andre Gunder Frank, 1969, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America:
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil, Chapter 1. Ankie Hoogvelt, 1997, Globalization and the Postcolonial World, Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Diana Hunt, 1989, Chapters 6 and 7, Economic Theories of Development
V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Vicky Randall and Robin Theobald, 1998, ‘Dependency Theory and the Study of
Politics’ in Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third
World Politics
Week 3: Development Theory II – Critical Approaches
In the 1980s, further critiques of classical political
economy resulted in a bundle of theoretical
perspectives which are called critical development.
These include postdevelopment, feminism and
development sustainability. These theories engaged
both with the form of capitalism that had developed
in the postcolonial context, challenged the meaning
of development itself.
Questions:
(1) Is postdevelopment a persuasive framework for the study of development under
globalisation?
(2) How does engendering macro-economic policy transform our understanding of
globalisation and development?
Core Reading for (1):
Crush J. 1995 (ed.). Introduction and Chapters 1, 4, and 5 Power of Development
Lehmann D. 1997. ‘An opportunity lost. Escobar’s deconstruction of development.’
The Journal of Development Studies, 33 (4).
Parpart, Jane and Marchand, Marianne, 1995, ‘Exploding the Canon: An
Introuction/Conclusion’ in Marchand, Marianne and Parpart, Jane,
Feminism/Postmodernism/development
Pieterse, Jan Nederveen, 1998, ‘My Paradigm or Yours? Alternative
Development, Post-Development, Reflexive Development’, Development
and Change, 29
Schuurman F.J. (ed.) 1993. Beyond the Impasse: new directions in development theory
Introduction
Core Reading for (2):
Isabella Bakker, 1994, ‘Introduction: Engendering Macro-economic Policy Reform in
theEra of Global Restructuring and Adjustment’ in I. Bakker (ed.) The Strategic
Silence: Gender and Economic Policy
Lourdes Benería and Shelley Feldman (eds.), 1992, Unequal burden : economic crises,
persistent poverty and women’s work, Chapters 1, 4
Marianne Ferber and Julie Nelson (eds.), 1993, Introduction, Beyond Economic Man:
Feminist Theory and Economics V. Spike Peterson, Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive,
and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies 2002, International Feminist Journal of
Politics, Volume 4, Number 1 / April
Shirin M. Rai, 2002, Chapter 2 in Gender and the Political Economy of Development
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Week 4: Development and Poverty
Almost no accounts of the processes of globalisation
claim that poverty is being substantially reduced
through the expansion of capitalist production.
However, accounts differ radically on whether the
nature of these processes is such that in the long
term impoverishment of people will be reversed.
Definitions of poverty – capability deprivation,
exploitation of surplus labour, (non)sustainable
development, food security – also affect the way in
which we analyse the impact of globalisation on people’s livelihoods.
Questions:
(1) To what extent can proposals of the international development community to
alleviate poverty be considered as effective policy instruments?
(2) ‘…poverty must be seen as the deprivation of basic capabilities rather than
merely as lowness of incomes, which is the standard criterion of identification of
poverty’ (Amartya Sen). Discuss.
Core Reading for (1):
Michel Chossudovsky, 1998, The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World
Bank Reforms, Chapters 1 and 2
Department of International Development 2000, Eliminating world poverty : making
globalisation work for the poor; White Paper on international development
UNRISD, 1995, States of Disarray: The social effects of globalisation
Unwin, Tim, 2007, ‘No End to Poverty’, Journal of Development Studies, 43(5), pp.
929-953
World Bank, 2001, World Development Report: Attacking Poverty
Core Reading for (2):
Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen, 2000, ‘Human Development and Economic
Sustainability’ World Development vol. 28, no. 12
Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen, 1996, Sustainable Human Development: Concepts and
Priorities, UNDP
Sylvia Chant, 2008, The ‘Feminisation of Poverty and the ‘Feminisation’ of Anti-
Poverty Programmes: Room for Revision? Journal of Development Studies
44(2), pp. 165-197
David Crocker, 1995, ‘Functioning and Capability: The Foundations of Sen’s and
Nussbaum’s Development Ethic’, in M. Nussbaum and J. Glover, (eds.)
Women, Culture and Development Martha Nussbaum, 1999, ‘Women and Equality: The Capabilities Approach’ ,
International Labour Review, vol. 138, no. 3
Amartya Sen, 2000, Development as Freedom, introduction and Chapter 4.
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Week 5: Debt and Development: From Third World to Global South
As external debt of developing countries has increased exponentially over the past
twenty years, debt has now become a global problem. For most developing
countries, interest payments are so high that social and anti-poverty spending is
severely restricted. From the early responses to the Latin American debt crisis at
the start of the 1980s, the international policy approach to debt was primarily
multilateral. In the late 1990s, the World Bank developed the Highly Indebted Poor
Countries (HIPC) initiative in order to cancel debt of the poorest countries in
exchange for a structural reform package. This week we will start by considering the
origins and main problems of international debt. We will then evaluate some of the
key points of view and policies in the international debt debate.
Questions: (1) Would unconditional debt relief reward irresponsible or corrupt southern
governments at the expense of responsible ones?
(2) How effective are policy initiatives such as the World Bank’s HIPC programme?
Core Reading for (1):
T. Allen and D. Weinhold, 2000, ‘Dropping the debt for the millennium: Is it really
such a good idea?’, Journal of International Development, 12(6).
Stuart Corbridge, 2008, ‘Third World Debt’, in Desai, V. et al. (eds) The Companion
to Development Studies, London: Hodder Education.
Thomas D. Lairson and David Skidmore, 2003, International Political Economy: The
Struggle for Power and Wealth, 3rd edition, Belmont, CA: Thomson
Wadsworth, Chapter 12.
C. Locke and F. Ahmadi-Esfahani, 1998, ‘The origins of the international debt crisis’,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40(2), pp. 223-246.
Core Reading for (2):
Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman, 2004, HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality, The
Hague: Fondad. (general overview and case-studies). See
http://www.fondad.org/publications/hipc/contents.htm.
Axel von Trotsenburg and Alan MacArthur, 1999, The HIPC Initiative: Delivering Debt
Relief to Poor Countries, Washington D.C.: IMF.
M. Williams, 1994, International Economic Organisations and the Third World (See
chapter 5 on the World Bank, and chapter 4 on the IMF), for general
background.
See also:
Official World Bank and IMF pages:
http://www.worldbank.org/hipc
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/hipc.htm Jubilee debt relief campaign:
http://www.jubileeplus.org/hipc/what_is_hipc.htm
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Week 6: Reading Week – No Seminars
Week 7: From Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) to Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): Old Wine in New Bottles?
This week we will reflect upon how issues of poverty and social development were
addressed within the framework of neoliberal economic policy of the 1980s. What
assumptions are being made by institutions, such as the World Bank and the IMF,
about the role of the state, of private economic actors, and of civil society and non-
governmental organisations. One area where these assumptions have led to specific
policy outcomes is that of ‘structural adjustment policies’ or SAPs in their various
forms.
Questions: (1) Critically assess the impact of economic policies of restructuring on
development in Africa.
(2) Make a case for and against Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers as strategies for
addressing poverty alleviation.
Core Reading for (1):
Michel Chossudovksy, 1998, The Globalisation of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World
Bank Reforms, Chapters 4 and 5.
Diane Elson, 1995, ‘How is Structural Adjustment Affecting Women?’ in Male Bias in
the Development Process
Ingrid Palmer, 1991, Introduction, Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African
Economies: planning for change.
Special Issue on ‘Structural Adjustment’, Review of African Political Economy. No. 47,
Spring 1990.
Graham Harrison (2005) 'The World Bank, Governance and Theories of Political
Action in Africa', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 7(2)
240- 260
Core Reading for (2):
Biersteker, Thomas J., 1992, ‘The triumph of neoclassical economics in the
developing world: Policy convergences and bases of governance in the
international economic order’, in James N. Rosenau and Czempiel, E.-O (eds)
Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Bromley, S., 1995, ‘Making sense of structural adjustment’, Review of Political Economy,
22(65).
Wade, Robert H., 2003, ‘What strategies are viable for developing countries today?
The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’’,
Review of International Political Economy, 10:4, pp. 621-644.
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Week 8: Restructuring Gender Relations
What do we understand by gender relations? How
are shifts in macro-economic policies gendered and
how are these resulting in changing gender relations
within the family as a unit of cultural and economic
reproduction? How are women and men
responding to these changes? What do we
understand by production and reproduction? How
do we count what is work and how is this reflected
in economic policy? Are gender relations
fundamental to understanding strategies of development?
Questions:
(1) Discuss the concept of social reproduction and whether/how it expands our understanding of development.
(2) How is prostitution contributing to globalisation and how is globalisation
changing the nature of prostitution?
Core Reading for (1):
Isabella Bakker, 2007, Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered
Political Economy, New Political Economy, 12:4, 541 - 556
Diane Elson and R. Pearson, ‘Nimble fingers Make Cheap Workers: an analysis of
women’s employment in Third World Export Manufacturing’ in Feminist
Review 7, 1981
Wendy Harcourt, 2009, Body Politics in Development
Catherine Hoskyns and Shirin M. Rai 2007, 'Recasting the Global Political Economy:
Counting Women's Unpaid Work', New Political Economy, 12:3, 297 - 317
Shirin M.Rai, 2008, The Gender Politics of Development, chapters 1, 2 and 3
Shirin M. Rai, 2011, ‘Gender and development: theoretical perspectives’ in The
Women,Gender annd Deevelopment Reader 2nd edition
Marilyn Waring, 1988, If Women Counted, Introduction by Gloria Steinem, and
Chapter 1
United Nations, 2009, World Survey of the Role of Women in Development
Core Reading for (2):
Anna Agathangelou, 2004, Introduction, The Political Economy of Sex Desire, Violence,
and Insecurity in the Meditteranean Nation-State, Palgrave MacMillan
Cynthia Enloe, 1989, Bananas, Beaches and Bases. Making Feminist Sense of International
Politics. Pandora, Chapters 2 and 4.
J. Pettman, Worlding Women chapter 8 and 9, 1996.
Thanh-Dam Truong, 1990, Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in
Southeast Asia, Zed Books, Chapters 1 and 2.
Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, 1998, Global Sex Workers, Routledge, Introduction and Chapter 1.
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Week 9: Development and Ecological Degradation
The relationship between globalisation and natural resource use patterns is mediated
by policies, institutions and processes from the local to the global level. Are the
pressures of globalisation and the inability or reluctance of national states to
regulate, leading to rapid ecological degradation? Are institutions of global
governance able to address the issue of ecological degradation or are they
contributing to the problem?
Questions:
(1) Assess whether global biodiversity can be maintained in the context of
globalisation of trade and its regulation by the WTO. Can market
environmentalism be said to offer a viable framework within which to manage
the ecosystem?
(2) Is the environmental movement a success story of global civic action?
Core Reading for (1):
Environmental Politics 2006; Beyond Borders: Transnational Politics, Social Movements
and Modern Environmetalisms, Vol. 15, Issue 5
Gro Harlem Brundtland et al. 1987, World Commission on Environment and
Development], Our Common Future, ch 2.
Noel Castree (2008) Neoliberalisng Nature: The Logics of Derergulation and
Reregulation, 14(1): 131-52.
Noel Castree (2008) Neoliberalising Nature: Processes, Effects and Evualutions,
14(1): 153-73
Haas, Peter, 2012, The Political Economy of Ecology: Prospects for Transsforming
the World at Rio Plus 20, Global Policy 3(1)
Andrew T. Mushita and Carol B. Thompson, 2002, Patenting Biodiversity? Rejecting
WTO/TRIPS in Southern Africa, in Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 2 No.1
Peter Newell et al, 2002, Development and the Challenge of Globalization, chapters by
Duverne, Newell and Finger and Tamiotti
Wolfgang Sachs (ed.) 1999, ‘Environment’ in the The Development Dictionary
Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla-Bhar, 1996, ‘Piracy by Patent: The Case of the Neem
Tree’ in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds.) The Case Against the
Global Economy
J. Ann Tickner, January 1993, ‘States and Markets: An Ecofeminist Approach on
International Political Economy’, International Political Science Review, vol. 14,
no. 1.
Core Reading for (2):
John B. Foster, 2002, Introduction, Ecology Against Capitalism
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, ‘From Local Knowledge and Practice to Global Environmental
Governance’ in Martin Hewson and Timothy J. Sinclair (eds.) Approaches to
Global Governance Theory Paul Nelson, 1996, ‘Internationalising Economic and Environmental Policy:
Transnational NGO Networks and the World Bank’s Expanding Influence’ in
Millennium, Vol. 25, No. 3
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Stephen Yearly and John Forrester, ‘Shell: A Sure Target for Global Enviromental
Campaigning?’ in Robin Cohen and Shirin M. Rai (ed.) Global Social Movements
Week 9:
Week 10: Theories of Globalisation
Although it sometimes seems that there are as many definitions of globalisation as
globalisation theorists, the problems and realities of increased interconnectedness
cannot be ignored in development studies. The key puzzle here is whether
globalisation is eroding state sovereignty, and if so, what alternative modes of regulatory authority are being developed. Within the globalisation and/as
development debate, there is also a continuing controversy is whether globalisation
promotes economic growth and social development, or whether globalisation in fact
reinforces existing inequalities.
Question:
(1) How can we think about the relationship between development and
globalisation?
Core Reading for (1):
A. Giddens (1990) The Consequences of Modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press,
Chapter 1 and 2.
D. Harvey (1990) The Condition of Postmodernity: An enquiry into the origins of
cultural change (Part III, especially 15 and 17), Oxford: Blackwell.
David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, 2000,
‘Introduction’, Global Transformations
Marianne Marchand and Ann Sisson Runyan, 2000, Gender and Global
Restructuring, Introduction
V. Spike Peterson, Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive,
and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies 2002, International Feminist Journal of
Politics, Volume 4, Number 1 / April
Also see http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/globalization.htm
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SPRING TERM
Week 11: Globalisation and Corporate Power
If transnational corporations (TNCs) are now key
actors in the globalisation process, what are the
implications of their presence in developing
countries? Firstly, there is no conclusive answer to
the question whether foreign direct investment
(FDI) and TNCs are a good thing for developing countries. Attracting FDI and TNCs is nevertheless
a crucial development strategy for developing
countries. Secondly, the globalisation of production
has led to increasing vertical and horizontal
integration of production processes across borders.
This process can be said to result in ‘global
production chains’, in which wages, working
conditions, the social and environmental dimensions
of production are linked across borders.
Questions:
(1) Evaluate the role of TNCs in developing
countries today.
(2) What are the political and social implications of global division of labour? Discuss
with reference to the global production chains debate.
Core Reading for (1):
J Bair (2005) ‘Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going
Forward’, Competition and Change, pp 153-180.
R. Barnet and J. Cavenagh 1994. Introduction, Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations
and the New World Order
John H. Dunning, 1997, Alliance capitalism and global business, Chapter 2
David Held et.al. 1999, Chapter 5, Global Transformations
UNRISD 1995. ‘Freedom without Responsibility’, States of Disarray: the Social Effects
of Globalisation.
Marc Williams and Robert O’Brien (2004) ‘Transnational Production’, in Global
Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics, London: Palgrave.
http://www.corpwatch.org
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Core Reading for (2):
Barrientos, Stephanie (2001) ‘Gender, flexibility and global value chains’, IDS Bulletin,
32 (3), pp. 83-93.
Gary Gereffi (1995) ‘Global production systems and third world development’, in
Barbara Stallings (ed.) Global Change, Regional Responses, Cambridge: CUP, pp.
100-142.
International Labour Organisation (1998) Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export
Processing Zones, ILO: Geneva. (Available online at:
http://training.itcilo.it/actrav_cdrom1/english/global/iloepz/reports/epzre/defau
lt.htm)
Florence Palpacuer and Aurelio Parisotto (2003) ‘Global production and local jobs:
Can global enterprise networks be used as levers for local development?’,
Global Networks, vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 97-120.
J. Humphery and H Schmitz (2001), ‘Governance in Global Value Chains’, IDS Bulletin – The Value of Value Chains: Spreading the Gains from Globalisation, 32: 3, pp.19-
29.
Week 12: Globalisation and Labour
How has globalisation changed the nature of work? As states come under pressure
to attract FDI, is the state able to protect workers’ rights? What is the impact of
global movement in commodities and people? What are the consequences of
migration at the local level and on North-South relations? As production is globalised
and the working class is locked into the global economy, is a global labour movement
still conceivable? These are some of the questions that we will consider this week.
Questions:
(1) What are the new challenges and opportunities facing working class movements
under globalisation?
(2) Can global regulation of labour rights and standards improve the functioning of
national labour legislation?
Core Reading for (1):
A.V. Jose, 2002, ‘Organized Labour in the 21st Century: Some Lessons for
Developing Countries’, in A.V. Jose (ed.) Organized Labour in the 21st Century,
Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, pp. 1-20. (Available online
at: http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/2002/102B09_32_engl.pdf)
Ronaldo Munk, 2000, ‘Labour in the Global’ in Robin Cohen and Shirin M. Rai (eds.)
Global Social Movements
World Bank, 1995, Workers in an Integrating World
Core Reading for (2):
Kimberley A. Elliott and Richard Freeman, 2003, Can Labor Standards Improve under
Globalization?, Washington D.C.: Institute of International Economics,
Chapters 4 and 6.
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Naila Kabeer, 2004, ‘Globalisation, Labor Standards, and Women’s Rights: Dilemmas
of Collective (In)Action in an Interdependent World’, Feminist Economics,
10(1), March, pp. 3-35
Robert O’Brien et al., 2000, ‘The World Trade Organization and Labour’, in O’Brien
et al., Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global
Social Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
On international labour standards and the ILO, see http://www.ilo.org and in
particular http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/norm/index.htm.
Week 13: The Global Food System
Profound changes have taken place in the organisation of the global food system
since the end of the Second World War. Throughout the core capitalist world there
has been a shift from medium sized family farms to systems of production dominated
by large agricultural corporations. The industrialisation of food production has led to massive declines in prices of key products and transformed diets across Europe and
North American. These changes have, in turn, transformed the nature of cross-
continental food chains and had a major impact on national food systems in the
developing world. The objective of this session is to explore problems associated
with global restructuring of food systems for people in the Global North and South.
Question:
(1) What social, economic and moral problems are presented by the
commodification of food?
(2) Analyse the forces behind and problems generated by the increased consumption
of meat as an indicator of development and prosperity.
Core Reading for (1)
José Esteban Castro, 2008, ‘Neoliberal water and sanitation policies as a failed development
strategy: lessons from developing countries’, Progress in Development States, 8(1).
FAO (various years) The State of Food Insecurity in the World. Rome: FAO. The annual reports
can be accessed here: http://www.fao.org/ publications/sofi/index_en.htm
Alex Evans, 2008, ‘Food Prices: Feeding the Ten Billion’, The World Today, 64(6).
Harriet Friedmann, 2002, “The International Political Economy of Food: A Global Crisis” in
Carole Counihan, Food in the USA: A Reader, London, Routledge.
Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, 1977, ‘Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?’, in
Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity. Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin.
William Friedland, “Commodity Systems: Forward to Comparative Analysis”, in Niels Fold
and Bill Pritchard (ed) ,2005, Cross-Continental Food Chains, London, Routledge
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Laura Raynolds, 1994 ‘The restructuring of Third World Agro-Exports: Changing Production
Relations in the Dominican Republic’ in Phillip McMicheal (ed) Global Restructuring of Agro-
Food Systems, New York: Cornell University Press.
Iain Pirie, 2011, ‘The Political Economy of Bulimia Nervosa’, 16(3)0
Lisa C. Smith, Omani E. El Obeid and Helen H. Jensen, 2002, ‘The geography and causes of
food insecurity in developing countries’ Agricultural Economics, 22(2).
Bill Vorley, 2003, Food Inc.: Corporate Concentration from Farm to Consumer. London: UK Food
Group. (Available online at: http://www.ukfg.org.uk/docs/UKFG-Foodinc-Nov03.pdf)
John W. Warnock, 1987, ‘The Industrial Food System’, in John W. Warnock, The Politics of
Hunger: The Global Food System. London: Methuen.
Core Reading for (2):
William Boyd and Michael Watts “Agro-Industrial Just-In-Time: The Chicken Industry and
Postwar American Capitalism”, in David Goodman and Michael Watts (eds), 1997,
Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring, London, Routledge.
Ben Fine, Micheal Heasman and Judith Wright (1996) Consumption in the Age of Affluence:
The World of Food, London: Routledge (essential Chapter 10. Chapter 9 also useful)
Deborah Frink “Farm Boys Don’t Believe in Radicals: Rural Time and Meatpacking Workers”
in David Goodman and Michael Watts (eds) (1997) Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions
and Global Restructuring, London, Routledge.
Brian Page “Restructuring Pork Production: Remaking Rural Iowa”, in David Goodman and
Michael Watts (eds) (1997) Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring,
London, Routledge.
Week 14: Social Capital and Social Development
Social capital has been called the non-material glue that holds society together. Social
capital includes social networks, value systems and relationships between individuals
and groups. Both marxist (Bourdieu) and pluralist (Putnam) social theorists have
development this concept to draw upon material and symbolic capital that
contributes to the cohering of societies. Development theorists and practitioners
have used this concept to define development interventions as well as the evaluate
them.
Question: (1) Is social capital a useful concept for understanding development or is it a
disciplinary framework for governance?
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Core Reading:
Ben Fine (2003) ‘Social Capital: The World Bank’s Fungible Friend’, Journal of Agrarian
Change, vol. 3 (4): 586-603.
Paul Francis, 2002, ‘Social Capital Civil Society and Social Exclusion’ in Uma Kothari
and Martin Minogue (eds.) Development theory and practice
John Harriss and P. De Renzio, 1997, ‘Missing link or analytically missing?: the concpt
of social capital’, Journal of International Development 9(7)
Erika McAslan, 2002, ‘Social capital and development’ in Vandana Desai and Robert
Potter (eds) The Companion to Development Studies
Maxine Molyneux, 2002, ‘Gender and the Silences of Social Capital: Lessons from
Latin America’ in Development and Change, Vol. 33, no. 2
Robert Putnam, 1993, ‘The Prosperous Community: Social capital and public life’,
American Prospect 13 http://www.prospect.org/print/V4/13/putnam-r.html
Week 15: Theories of Global Governance
If globalisation challenges old patterns of political authority and economic
organisation, what are the new forms of governance taking shape in a globalising
world? Governance is being used to convey the regulation of a multi-layered set of
institutions – from the local to the global. Economic organisation as well as political
decision-making are addressed through this concept. ‘Good governance’ has become
both a normative and an economic conception of regulation through conditionalities
imposed via structural adjustment.
Questions:
(1) Assess whether the concept of governance provides us with a better
explanatory framework than that of the state within which to understand
development under globalisation.
Core Reading for (1):
David Held and Anthony McGrew (eds) (2002) Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance
Martin Hewson and Timothy J. Sinclair, 1999, Approaches to Global Governance Theory
chapter 1
Robert O’Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte, Marc Williams, 2000,
Contesting Global Governance, Chapters 2 and 5.
Shirin M. Rai, 2004, ‘Gendering Global Governance’, International Feminist Journal of
Politics, 6(4), December
Peter Newell, ‘Environmental NGOs and Globalization: The governance of TNCs’, in
Robin Cohen and Shirin M. Rai (eds) Global Social Movements.
Week 16: Reading Week – No Seminars
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Week 17: Globalisation and the Nation-State
The nation state has come under increasing scrutiny as focus has shifted to
globalization of the world economy. A growing liberature suggests that globalisation
and the marginalisation of the state go hand in hand. Critics of this literature,
however, assert that the state is a participant actor in globalisation and repositions
itself to maximise its advantage as global political economy changes shape. Issues of
state sovereignty are at the heart of this heated debate.
Question:
(1) Is the state becoming powerless under globalisation? If so, what implications
does this have for the governance of development?
Core Reading: Peter Burnham, 2002, ‘Class struggle, states and global circuits of capital’ in Mark
Pupert and Hazel Smith (eds.) Historical Materialism and Globalization
David Held et.al, 2000, Global Transformations, Chapter 1
Bob Jessop, 2002, Paradigm Lost: state theory reconsidered, chapter 8
Elen Meiksins Wood, 2002, ‘Global capital, national states’in Mark Rupert and Hazel
Smith (eds.) Historical Materialism and Globalization
Saskia Sassen, 1997, Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization, Chapter 1
Susan Strange, 1996, ‘The declining authority of states’ in Susan Strange, The Retreat
of the State
Weiss, Linda, 2000, ‘Globalisation and State Power’, Development and Society, 29(1),
June
Week 18: Supra-State Governance: International Institutions
Global institutions, and especially international
financial institutions such as the IMF and the World
Bank, play a key role in shaping policies and policy
option of developing countries. Although these
institutions have moved on from the structural
adjustment programmes of the 1980s to the
Washington Consensus and the post-Washington
Consensus in the 1990s, some argue that these
programmes are essentially the same and others
argue that substantial policy changes have been made.
Questions:
(1) Make a case for and against the World Bank and the IMF as institutions of global
governance advocating and implementing neo-liberal policies. (2) How convincing are McMicheal’s arguments about the world-historical context
out of which the WTO emerged and the role of the WTO in securing global
market rule?
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Core Reading for (1):
Paul Cammack (2002) ‘The mother of all governments: The World Bank’s matrix for
global governance’, in Steven Hughes and Rorden Wilkinson (eds) Global
Governance: Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge.
Ben Fine (2001) ‘Neither the Washington nor the post-Washington Consensus: An
Introduction’, in Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas and J. Pincus (eds) (2001)
Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century: Beyond the Post-Washington
Consensus, London: Routledge.
John Williamson (1990) ‘What Washington Means by Policy Reform’, in John
Williamson (ed.) Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened?,
Washington D.C.: Institute of International Economics. (Available online at:
http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/williamson1102-2.htm)
Core Reading for (2): B. Hoekman and M. Kostecki (2001) The Political Economy of the World Trading
System: The WTO and Beyond, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 1
and 2.
P. McMichael (2000) “Sleepless since Settle: what is the WTO about”, Review of
International Political Economy 7(3): 466-74.
S. Sell (2000) Structures, Agents and Institutions: Private Corporate Power and the
Globalisation of Intellectual Property Rights, in R. Higgot, G. Underhill and A.
Bielder, London: Routledge.
Week 19: Human Rights, Civil Society and Social Movements
Can alternatives to capitalist globalisation be
explored through exploring the ideas of democracy
and human rights? Some scholars such as Sklair have
argued that both democracy and human rights need
rescuing from the individualised politico-civil
culture-ideology, and to be placed within an
alternative global discourse of socio-economic
democratic human rights. Others have questioned
the idea of human rights itself in the context of
globalisation. Can we harness the power of the
ideas represented (however imperfectly) by the
political formulations of democracy and human
rights in the interests of an alternative development
and governance regime? We will also discuss a case
study on the role of civil society organisations in the
human rights regime (see supplementary readings for further bibliography).
Questions:
(1) How effective is the discourse of human rights in resisting the negative
consequences of globalisation?
(2) Evaluate the role of civil society organisations in the promotion of human rights.
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Core Reading for (1):
Upendra Baxi, 2000, ‘Human Rights: Suffering between movements and markets’ in
Robin Cohen and Shirin Rai (eds.) Global Social Movements
Upendra Baxi, 2006, Introduction, The Futures of Human Rights (2nd edition)
Tony Evans, 1998, Human Rights Fifty Years On: A reappraisal, Introduction
V. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi, 1998, ‘Are Women Human? It’s not an academic
question’ in Tony Evans, Human Rights Fifty Years On: A reappraisal
Gordon White, 1996, ‘Civil Society, Democratization and Development’ in Robin
Luckham and Gordon White (eds.) Democratization in the South, The Jagged
Wave
Core Reading for (2):
Mary Kaldor (2003) ‘The Idea of Global Civil Society’, International Affairs, 79 (3): 583-93.
Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, 1998, Activists beyond Borders: Transnational
Advocacy Networks in International Politics, Chapter 1.
Cecelia Lynch, 2000, ‘Social Movements and the Problem of Globalization in the
International Policy Process’ in Richard Higgott and Anthony Payne (eds.) The
New Political Economy of Globalization, Vol. 1
Jan Aart Scholte (1999) ‘Global Civil Society: Changing the World?’, CSGR Working
Paper No. 31/99, http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CSGR/abwp3199.html.
Week 20: Global Futures Symposium: A Day-long Workshop on
Challenges for Development and Governance
After examining the various aspects of globalisation, governance and development
from different theoretical perspectives, what do we (individually and collectively)
understand by these terms? What are the challenges facing the discipline of
development in the context of globalisation? How do we understand the structure-
agency problem in this context? What are the alternatives that we see as viable as
well as feasible to the further extension of global capitalism? At the end of the
module we will reflect upon some of these questions.
This will be done in the form of a symposium where the experiences of particular
countries will form the basis of an analysis of globalisation (see
http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/socs/su338/ for more). The WGDS President will
take the lead in organising this with a team of students. All students on GGD will
participate.
Question:
(1) How have alternative envisionings of development under globalisation altered the relations between states, markets and civil society?
Core Reading:
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Richard Falk, 2000, ‘Humane Governance for the World: reviving the quest’ in Jan
Nederveen Pieterse (ed.) Global Futures
Mike Featherstone, 2000, ‘Technologies of Post-Human Development and the
Potential for Global Citizenship’ in Jan Nederveen Pieterse (ed.) Global Futures
Keith Griffin, 2000, ‘Culture and Economic Growth: The State and Globalization’ in
Jan Nederveen Pieterse (ed.) Global Futures
Anna Agathangelou and L.H.M. Ling, 2009, Transforming World Politics: From Empire to
Multiple Worlds
V. Spike Peterson,
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 2001, Development Theory, chapters 6,7 and 10
Leslie Sklair, 2002, Globalization, Capitalism and its Alternatives, chapter 12
Sakamoto Yohikazu, 2000, ‘An Alternative to Global Marketization’ in Jan Nederveen
Pieterse (ed.) Global Futures
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Supplementary Reading
Week 2: Development Theory I – Modernisation and Dependency
Theories
General:
E.A Brett, 2000, ‘Development theory in a post-socialist era: competing capitalisms
and emancipatory alternatives’, Journal of International Development, 12(6)
R. Culpeper, 1997, Global Development Fifty Years After Bretton Woods
B. Hettne, 1995, Development Theory and the Three Worlds
Paul Hirst and Graham Thompson, 1996, Introduction and Conclusion in
Globalization in Question
Ankie Hoogvelt, 1997, Globalization and the Postcolonial World
Diana Hunt, 1989, Economic Theories of Development, chapters 3, 4 and 5 O. Oman & G. Wignaraja G.,1991, The Post-War Evolution of Development Thinking
Shirin M. Rai, 2002, Gender and the Political Economy of Globalisation, chapter 2
Justin Rosenberg, 1994, The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of
International Relations. London: Verso.
Third World Quarterly, Special Issue, ‘After the Third World?’, vol. 25, no. 1.
Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism:
Paul Baran, 1957, The Political Economy of Growth
George T. Crane and Abla Amawi (eds) 1991, The Theoretical Evolution of International
Political Economy: A Reader, chapter 2.
Diana Hunt, 1989, Economic Theories of Development, chapter 2
Robert O. Keohane, 1990, ‘International Liberalism Reconsidered’, in John Dunn
(ed.), The Economic Limits to Modern Politics , pp. 165-94.
Andrew Linklater, 1990, Beyond Realism and Marxism , chs 5, 6.
Andrew Moravcsik, 1997, ‘Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of
International Politics,’ International Organization, vol. 51, no. 4 (Autumn), pp.
513-53.
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, (Pelican edition), 1971, Introduction by Skinner;
Book I, chapters 1-4.
Susan George, 2001, ‘A Short History of Neoliberalism: Twenty Years of Elite
Economics and Emerging Opportunities for Structural Change’ in Houtart and
Polet (eds.), The Other Davos: The Globalization of Resistance to the World
Economics
M. Wolf, 2005, Why Globalization Works, New Haven: Yale University Press
Marxism and Dependency Theory:
Samir Amin, Delinking
Samir Amin, 1976, Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral
Capitalism David L. Blaney, ‘Reconceptualizing Autonomy: The Difference Dependency Theory
Makes’, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 3, no. 3 (Autumn 1996),
pp. 459-97.
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Anthony Brewer, 1990, Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey (2nd edn).
Peter Burnham, 1995, ‘Capital, Crisis and the International State System’, in Werner
Bonefeld and John Holloway (eds), Global Capital, National State and the Politics
of Money, pp. 92-115.
Peter Burnham, 1995, ‘State and Market in International Political Economy: Towards
a Marxian Alternative,’ Studies in Marxism, vol. 2 (), pp. 135-76.
Peter Burnham, 2001, ‘Marx, International Political Economy and Globalisation’,
Capital and Class, vol. 75 (), pp. 7-16.
Peter Burnham, ‘Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order’, Capital and
Class, no. 45 (Autumn 1991), pp. 73-93.
Michael Cox, 2000, ‘The search for relevance: historical materialism after the Cold
War’ in Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.), Historical Materialism and
Globalisation
Robert W. Cox, 1983, ‘Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in
Method’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 162-75;
reprinted in Robert W. Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order, 1996, ch. 7.
Vandana Desai and Robert Potter, 2008, The Companion to Development Studies, chs
1.8, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Johann Galtung, ‘A Structural Theory of Imperialism’, Journal of Peace Research vol. 8,
1971, pp. 81-117.
Ghosh, B.N., 2001, Dependency Theory Revisited
Stephen Gill and David Law, 1988, The Global Political Economy: Perspectives, Problems,
and Policies, chs 5, 7.
B. Fine, 2004, ‘Examining the Ideas of Globalisation and Development Critically:
What Role for Political Economy?’, New Political Economy, 9(2)
D. Harvey, 1999, The Limits to Capital, London: Verso
Diana Hunt, 1989, Economic Theories of Development, chapters 6 and 7
C. Kay, 1989, Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment
Paul James, ‘Postdependency? The Third World in an Era of Globalism and Late-
Capitalism’, Alternatives, vol. 22, no. 2 (1997), pp. 205-26.
Jorge Larrain, 1989, Theories of development: capitalism, colonialism and dependency.
V.I.Lenin, Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Colin Leys, 1996, The Rise and Fall of Development Theory.
Shirin M Rai, 2002, Gender and the Political Economy of Development, chapter 2
Roger Owen and Bob Sutcliffe (eds), 1972, Studies in the Theory of Imperialism,
chapters 1, 2.
I. Wallerstein, 2000, The Essential Wallerstein, New York: The New Press
Post-Dependency:
Istvan Meszaros, 2007, Socialism or Barbarism: From the “Amercian Century” to the
Crossroads. Delhi: Aakar Books.
Ellen Meiksins Wood, 2003, The Empire of Capital. London: Verso.
Week 3: Development Theory II – Critical Approaches
Haleh Afshar, Women, Development and Survival in the Third World, Chapter 6,
L. Beneria, ed., 1982, Women and Development: the sexual division of labour in rural
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societies, esp. ch. by Beneria ‘Accounting for women’s work’,
E. Boserup, 1970, Women’s Role in Economic Development. (This was one of the first
interventions in the development debate that focussed on the issue of
gender) Introduction
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought
J. Cook, et.al (eds.) 2000, Towards a Gendered Political Economy,
Jonathan Crush (ed.), 1995, Power of development
Arturo Escobar, 1995, Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third
World
B. Hettne, 1995, Development Theory and the Three Worlds
M. Mayer and E. Prugl, 1999, Gender Politics in Global Governance
Martin Minogue and Uma Kothari, 2002, ‘Conclusion: Orthodoxy and its
Alternatives in Contemporary Development’, in Kothari and Minogue (eds)
Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Pp.
179-190.
Ronaldo Munck, 1999, ‘Deconstructing Development Discourses: Of Impasses, Alternatives and Politics’, in Ronaldo Munck and Denis O’Hearn (eds) Critical
Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm, London: Zed, pp. 196-
210.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 2001, Development Theory: Deconstructions/ Reconstructions,
London: Sage, chapter 10.
Rosemary Tong, 1992, Feminist Thought
Nalini Vishwanathan et.al, 1997, Women, Gender and Development Reader
Tina Wallace with C. March, Changing Perceptions, Writings on Gender and Development
Week 4: Development and Poverty
Karen Brock and Rosemary McGee, eds., 2002, Knowing poverty : critical reflections on
participatory research and policy
M. Castells, 2000, ‘The Rise of the Fourth World’ in D. Held and A. McGrew, The
Global Transformations Reader
Dept. for International Development (DfID), 1997, Eliminating world poverty : a
challenge for the 21st century : a summary
Dept. for International Development, 2000, Poverty elimination and the empowerment
of women.
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1979, The nature of mass poverty
Mahbub ul Haq, 1976, The poverty curtain : choices for the Third World
IDS Bulletin 29(1), 1998, Special edition on ‘Poverty and Social Exclusion in the North
and South’.
Bill Jordan, 1996, A theory of poverty and social exclusion, Oxford: Polity Press.
M. Nussbaum, 1995, ‘Introduction’ in M. Nussbaum and J. Glover (eds.) Women,
Culture and Development
Mustapha Kamal Pasha, 1996, ‘Globalisation and Poverty in South Asia’ in Millennium,
Vol. 25, No.3
Gerry Rodgers, Charles Gore, José B. Figueiredo, 1995, Social exclusion: rhetoric, reality, responses, Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies.
Eric B. Ross, 1998, The Malthus factor: population, poverty and politics in capitalist
development
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Julian Saurin, ‘Globalisation, Poverty and the Promises of Modernity’ in Millennium,
Vol. 25, No.3
Paul Schaffer, 2001, The costs of poverty and vulnerability (United Nations).
Amartya Sen, 1981, Poverty and famines : an essay on entitlement and deprivation
J. Therien, 1999, ‘Beyond the north-south divide: The two tales of world poverty’,
Third World Quarterly, 20(4).
Caroline Thomas, 2000, Global governance, development and human security : the
challenge of poverty and inequality
Roger Tooze and Craig N. Murphy, 1996, ‘The Epistemology of Poverty and the
Poverty of Epistemology in IPE: Mystery, Blindness and Invisibility’ in
Millennium, Vol. 25, No.3
Sarah Owen Vandersluis and Paris Yeros, eds., 1999, Poverty in world politics : whose
global era?
R. Wade, 2004, ‘On the Causes of Increasing World Poverty and Inequality, or Why
the Matthew Effect Prevails’, New Political Economy, 9 (2)
M. Watts, 2000, ‘Poverty and the Politics of Alternatives at the End of the Millennium’ in J. Nederveen Pieterse (ed.) Global Futures
UN, (Department of Economic and Social Affairs), 2003, First United Nations
Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006)
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/poverty/poverty.htm
UNDP, 1997, Human Development Report: Human Development to Eradicate Poverty.
Tim Unwin, 2007, ‘No End to Poverty’, Journal of Development Studies, 43(5)
Week 5: Debt and Development: From the Third World to the Global
South
P. Afxentiou and A. Serletis, 1999, ‘The foreign indebtedness of moderately and
severely indebted developing countries’, South African Journal of Economics,
67(1), pp. 95-110.
T. Biersteker, ed., 1993, Dealing with Debt: International Financial Negotiations and
Adjustment Bargaining, Boulder: Westview.
G. Bird, ed., 1989, Third World Debt: The search for a solution, London: Edward Elgar.
Nancy Birdsall and John Williamson with Brian Deese, 2002, Delivering on Debt Relief:
From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture, Washington D.C.: CGD/IIE.
J. Boyce and L. Ndikumana, 2001, ‘Is Africa a net creditor? New estimates of capital
flight from severely indebted sub-Saharan African countries’, Journal of
Development Studies, 38(2).
David Craig and Doug Porter, 2003, ‘Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A new
convergence’, World Development, 31(1), pp. 53-69.
B. Dogra, 1994, ‘International debt burden – in the interest of the interest’, Economic
and Political Weekly, 29(1 and 2), pp. 25-6.
Elizabeth Donnelly, 2002, “Proclaiming Jubilee: The Debt and Structural Adjustment
Network,” K. Sikkink, Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social
Movements, Networks, and Norms, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 155-80.
J. Hanlon, 2000, ‘How much debt must be cancelled?’, Journal of Development Studies, 12(6), pp. 877-901.
J. Kaminarides and E. Nissan, 1993, ‘The effects of international debt on the
economic development of small countries’, World Development, 21(2), pp.
227-232.
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D. Keet, 2000, ‘The international anti-debt campaign: A southern activists view for
activists in “the North” … and “the South”‘, Development in Practice, 10(3 and
4).
Robert Wade, 2001, ‘Showdown at the World Bank’, New Left Review, No.7, pp.124-
137.
Robert Wade, 2002, “US Hegemony and the World Bank: the fight over people and
ideas,” Review of International Political Economy 9(2), pp.215–243.
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: From Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) to Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): Old Wine in New Bottles?
General:
D. Elson, 1995, Male Bias in Development Process
Naila Kabeer, 1995, Reversed Realities Chapter 4
Philip McMichael, 2000, Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, London:
Sage, 2nd ed.
Henry Veltmeyer, 1997, Neoliberalism and class conflict in Latin America : a political
economy of development, London: Palgrave/Macmillan.
Peter Wilkin, 1997, New Myths for the South: Globalization and the Conflict
between Private Power and freedom’ in Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin
(eds.) Globalisation and the South
The IMF and the World Bank:
G. Bird, 2001, ‘IMF programmes: Do they work? Can they be made better?’, World
Development, 29(11).
Paul Cammack, 2002, ‘The mother of all governments: The World Bank’s matrix for
global governance’, in Steven Hughes and Rorden Wilkinson (eds) Global
Governance: Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge.
David Craig and Doug Porter, 2003, ‘Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A new
convergence’, World Development, 31(1), pp. 53-69.
G. Harrison, 2004, The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Goverance States,
London: Routledge
Journal of International Development, Volume 13, Number 3 (April 2001), special issue
“Focus on World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty “
M.S. Khan and S. Sharma, 2003, ‘IMF conditionality and country ownership of
adjustment programs’, The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 18, no. 2, pp.
227-248.
J. Pender, 2001, ‘From ‘structural adjustment’ to ‘Comprehensive Development
Framework’: Conditionality transformed?’, Third World Quarterly, 22(3), pp.
387-411. M. Williams, 1994, International Economic Organisations and the Third World (See
chapter 5 on the World Bank, and chapter 4 on the IMF)
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Washington Consensus:
Javed Burki and Guillermo E. Perry, 1998, Beyond the Washington Consensus:
Institutions Matter, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. (Available online at:
http://www-
wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1998/11/1
7/000178830_98111703552694/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf)
Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas and J. Pincus, eds., 2001, Development Policy in the Twenty-
first Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus, London: Routledge.
Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski and John Williamson, eds., 2003, After the Washington
Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America, Washington D.C.:
Institute for International Economics. (Available online at:
http://bookstore.piie.com/book-store/350.html)
Oxfam, 1995, ‘A Case for Reform: Fifty Years of the IMF and the World Bank’,
Oxford: Oxfam.
T.N.Srinivasan, 2000, The Washington Consensus a Decade Later: Ideology and the
Art and Science of Policy Advice’ The World Bank Research Observer, Aug. Joseph Stiglitz, 1998, More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the post-
Washington Consensus. The 1998 WIDER lecture, Helsinki, Finland January 7.
John Williamson, 1990, ‘What Washington Means by Policy Reform’, in John
Williamson, ed., Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened?,
Washington D.C.: Institute of International Economics. (Available online at:
http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/paper.cfm?researchid=486)
Structural Adjustment in Practice:
Haleh Afshar and Carolyne Dennis, 1992, Women and adjustment policies in the Third
World
Bela Balassa, 1981, Structural adjustment policies in developing economies.
T. Killick, 1995, IMF Programmes in Developing Countries, London: Routledge.
Tetteh A. Kofi, 1994, Structural adjustment in Africa: a performance review of World
Bank policies under uncertainty in commodity price trends : the case of Ghana
J. Mihevc, 1995, The Market tells them so: The World Bank and Economic
Fundamentalism in Africa.
P. Mosely, 2004, Pro-Poor Politics and the New Political Economy of Stabilisation,
New Political Economy, 9 (2)
New Internationalist , 1994, ‘IMF/World Bank. Squeezing the South - 50 years is
enough’. July.
Review of African Political Economy 1990, Special Issue on ‘Structural Adjustment’ in.
No. 47, Spring
D.E. Sahn, P.A. Dorosh, and S.D. Younger, 1997, Structural Adjustment Reconsidered:
Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Jumanne H. Wagao, 1990, Adjustment policies in Tanzania, 1981-1989 : the impact on
growth, structure and human welfare
Week 8: Restructuring Gender Relations
Haleh Afshar. ed., 1991, Women, development and survival in the Third World
Haleh Afshar and Stephanie Barrientos. eds., 1999, Women, globalization and
fragmentation in the developing world
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Lourdes Beneria, ed., 1982, Women and Development: the sexual division of labour in
rural societies, esp. ch. by Beneria ‘Accounting for women’s work’
Lourdes Beneria, 1995, ‘Toward a Greater Integration of Gender in Economics’ in
World Development, Vol. 23. No. 11, pp. 1839-1850
Lourdes Beneria and Gita Sen, ‘Accumulation, Reproduction and Women’s Role in
Economic Development, Boserup Revisited in Visvanathan, Nalini,
et.al.,Women, Gender and Development Reader Zed Books
Ester Boserup, 1970, Women’s Role in Economic Development, Introduction (This
was one of the first interventions in the development debate that
focussed on the issue of gender.)
Sylvia Chant, 2008, ‘The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ and the ‘Feminisation’ of Anti-
Poverty Programmes: Room for Revision?’, Journal of Development Studies,
44(2).
G. Chowdhry, 1995 ‘Engendering Development? Women in Development
(WID) in Interantional Development Regimes’ in Marchand, M and
Parpart, J., Feminism/Postmodernism/Development D. Cornell, ed., 2000, Feminism & Pornography (particularily Dworkins chp 1)
Joanna de Groot, 1991, ‘Conceptions and Misconceptions: the historical and cultural
context of discussion on women and development’ by in Haleh Afshar, ed.,
Women, Development and Survival in the Third World,
Diane Elson, 1994, ‘Micro, Meso, Macro: Gender and Economic Analysis in the
Context of Policy Reform’ in Bakker, I., ed., The Strategic Silience: Gender
and Economic Policy
Diane Elson, 1995, Male Bias in Development Processes
Ann-Marie Goetz, 1991 ‘Feminism and the Claim to Know: Contradictions in
Feminist Approaches to Women in Development’ in R. Grant, K. Newland,
eds., Gender and International Relations,
Ann-Marie Goetz , 1997, Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development,
Introduction
Jackson, C. and R. Pearson, 1998, Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and
Policy, Introduction, and chapters by Maxine Molyneux, and Diane Elson and
Ruth Pearson
Naila Kabeer, 1997, Reversed Realities, Chapters 1 & 2
Joon K Kim, and May Fu, 2008, ‘International Women in South Korea’s Sex Industry’,
Asian Survey, 48(3).
Laura Kipnis, 1998, Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Sexual Fantasy
Henrietta L Moore, 2007, The Subject of Anthropology
Marianne Marchand and Jane Parpart, 1995 Feminism/Postmodernism/Development
Introduction
Marianne Marchand and Anne Sissons Runyan, 2000, Gender and Global Restructuring
Introduction
Mariane Marchand, 1996, Reconceptualising ‘Gender and Development’ in an Era of
‘Globalisation’ in Millennium 25(3)
Heather Montgomery, 2008, ‘Buying Innocence: child-sex tourists in Thailand’, Third
World Quarterly, 29(5).
Henrietta Moore, 2007, The Subject of Anthropology, Polity Press
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Week 9: Development and Ecological Degradation
Karen Bakker, 2003, An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England
and Wales, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Ted Benton (ed), 1996, The Greening of Marxism, London, Guilford Press.
Paul Burkett, 1999, Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective, New York, St
Martins Press
Development and Change, Vol. 25 No.1. Special issue on ‘Development and
Environment’.
R. Guha and J. Maritnez-Alier, 1997, Varieties of Environmentalism: essays in North and
South
John Harriss, and Ian H. Rowlands, eds.,1993, Perspectives on environment and
development
Nik Heynen., James McCarthy, Scott Prudham and Paul Robbins, eds, 2007,
Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences,
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, 2007, Socialist Register 2007: Coming to Terms with Nature
Wolfgang Sachs, 1999, Planet dialectics : explorations in environment and development
Wolfgang Sachs, 1993, Global ecology : a new arena of political conflict
Wolfgang Sachs, 1992, ‘Environment’ in The Development dictionary : a guide to
knowledge as power
W. Scott Prudham, 2005, Knock On Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir Country
Vandana Shiva, 1989, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development Introduction
Vandana Shiva, and Maria Mies, Ecofeminism, Introduction
Sally Sontheimer, 1991, Women and the Environment: a reader
Neil Smith, 2008, Uneven Development: Nature, Capitalism and the Production of
Space, London, Routledge. S. Yearly, 1992, The Green Case, a sociology of environmental issues, arguments and
politics
Week 10: Theories of Globalisation
Martin Albrow, 1996, The Global Age Introduction, Introduction
Suzanne Bergeron, 2002, ‘Political Economy Discourses of Globalization and Feminist
Politics’ in Special Issue on Globalization and Gender, Signs, Journal of Women
in Culture and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4
Ian Clark, ‘Globalization and Fragmentation’ in Globalization and fragmentation:
International Relations in the Twentieth Century
Michael Featherstone, ed., 1990, Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and
Modernity
John Gray, 1998, False Dawn, The Delusions of Capitalism, chapters 1 and 3
Anthony Giddens, 1990, Consequences of Modernity, Introduction
Anthony Giddens, 1999, Runaway World: How Globalisation is Reshaping our Lives
D. Harvey, 2003, The New Imperialism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Paul Hirst and Graeme Thompson, 1996, Introduction, Globalization in Question
Ankie Hoogvelt, 1997, Globalization and the Postcolonial World
Uma Kothari and Martin Minogue, eds., 2002, ‘The Political Economy of Globalization’ in Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives
Marianne Marchand and Ann Sisson Runyan, 2000, Gender and Global
Restructuring, Introduction
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V. Spike Peterson and Ann Sissons Runyan, 1999, Global Gender Issues Introduction
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, Globalization Unmasked, Imperialism in the 21st
Century, chapters 1 and 2
James N. Rosenau, 2001, ‘The Dynamics of Globalization: Towards an Operational
Formulation’ in Richard Higgott and Anthony Payne (eds.) The New Political
Economy of Globalization Vol. 1
Ronald Robertson, 1992. Globalisation: Social Theory and Global Culture Chapter 1
Justin Rosenberg, 2001, The Follies of Globalisation Theory, chapter 1
W. Sachs, 1992, ‘One World’ in Sachs (ed.) The Development Dictionary
Jan Aart Scholte, 2000, Globalization: A Critical Introduction, chapter 1
David Slater, 1998, ‘Other Contexts of the Global: A Critical Geopolitics of North-
South Relations’ in Elenore Kofman and Gillian Youngs (eds.) Globalisation:
Theory and Practice
Martin Shaw, 1994, ‘The Theoretical Challenge of Global Society’ in Global Society and
International Relations
Leslie Sklair, 2002, ‘From Development to Globalization’ in Globalisation: Capitalism and its Alternatives
David Slater, 1998, ‘Other Contexts of the Global: A Critical Geopolitics of North-
South Relations’ in Elenore Kofman and Gillian Youngs (eds.) Globalisation:
Theory and Practice
E. Woods, 2005, The Empire of Capital, Verso: London
Week 11: Globalisation and Corporate Power
Transnational Corporations: General
V. Bornschier and V. Chase-Dunn, 1985. Transnational Corporations and
Underdevelopment.
P. Buckley and J. Clegg, eds., 1991, Multinational Enterprises in Less Developed Countries.
Peter Dicken, 1998, Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy, New York: Guilford
Press.
J. Dunning, 1993, Multinational Enterprises in a Global Economy
L Eden. and E. Potter, eds., 1993, Multinationals in the Global Political Economy.
R. Jenkins, 1987, Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The
Internationalisation of Capital and the Third World, London: Methuen.
D C. Korten 1996. When Corporations Rule the World
J. Stopford and S. Strange with J.Henley, 1991, Rival States, Rival Firms:
Competition for World Market Shares, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press
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Global Commodity Chains
J Bair (ed) (2009) Frontiers of Commodity Chains Research
P Dicken, P Kelly, K Olds and H Wai-Chung Yeung (2001) ‘Chains and networks,
territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global
economy’, Global Networks, 1: 2, pp. 89-112.
C Dolan and M Tewari (2001) ‘From What We Wear to What We Eat: Upgrading
in Global Value Chains’, IDS Bulletin – The Value of Value Chains: Spreading
the Gains from Globalisation, 32: 3, pp. 94-104.
N Fold and B Pritchard (eds.) (2005) Cross-continental Food Chains
P McMichael (1994) (ed.), The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems
G Gereffi (1995) ‘Global Production Systems and Third World Development’, in B.
Stallings (ed.), Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context
of Development,
G Gereffi and M Korzeniewicz (eds.) (1994) Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
G Gereffi, J Humphrey and T Sturgeon (2005) ‘The governance of global value chains’, Review of International Political Economy, 12: 1, pp. 78-104.
G Gereffi, J Humphrey, R Kaplinsky and T Sturgeon, (2001) ‘Introduction:
Globalisation, Value Chains and Development’, IDS Bulletin – The Value of
Value Chains: Spreading the Gains from Globalisation, 32: 3, pp. 1-8.
P Gibbon (2001) ‘Upgrading Primary Production: A Global Commodity Chain
Approach’, World Development, 29: 2, pp. 345-363.
P Gibbon and S Ponte (2005) Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global
Economy
M Hassler (2003) ‘The global clothing production system: commodity chains and
business networks’, Global Networks, 3: 4, pp.513-531.
J Henderson, P. Dicken, M. Hess, N. Coe, H.W-C Yeung (2002) ‘Global production
networks and the analysis of economic development’, Review of International
Political Economy, 9: 3, pp. 436-464.
T Hopkins and I Wallerstein (1986) ‘Commodity Chains in the World Economy
Prior to 1800’, Review, 10:1, pp.157-70.
A Hughes and S Reimer (eds.) (2004), Geographies of Commodity Chains
J. Humphery and H Schmitz (2001), ‘Governance in Global Value Chains’, IDS Bulletin
– The Value of Value Chains: Spreading the Gains from Globalisation, 32: 3, pp.19-
29.
Jackson, Russell and Ward (2004), ‘Commodity Chains and the Politics of Food’,
Cultures of Consumption, and ESRC-AHRB Research Programme Research
Paper 18, <http://www.consume.bbk.ac.uk/working_papers/jackson.doc>.
R Kaplinsky and M Morris (2001) A Handbook for Value Chain Research, Brighton:
IDS. [ONLINE]
D Leslie and S Reimer (1999) ‘Spatializing commodity chains’, Progress in Human
Geography, 23: 3, pp. 401-420
S Ponte and P Gibbon (2005) ‘Quality standards, conventions and the governance of
global value chains’, Economy and Society, 34: 1, pp. 1-31.
R Quadros (2002) ‘Global Quality Standards, Chain Governance and the
Technological Upgrading of Brazilian Auot-Components Producers’, IDS Working Paper, (May)Brighton: IDS.
P Raikes, M F Jensen and S Ponte (2000) ‘Global Commodity Chain Analysis and the
French Filière Approach: Comparison and Critique’, Economy and Society,
29:3, pp. 903-23
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A. Smith, A Rainnie, M Dunford, J Hardy, R Hudson and D Sadler (2002) ‘Networks
of value, commodities and regions: reworking divisions of labour in macro-
regional economies’, Progress in Human Geography, 26: 1, pp. 41-63.
G. Starosta (2010) ‘ Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value,
Antipode, 42 (2): 433-65
T. Sturgeon (2001) ‘How Do We Define Value Chains and Production Networks?’
IDS Bulletin – The Value of Value Chains: Spreading the Gains from
Globalisation, 32: 3, pp. 9-18.
S Topik, Z Frank and C Marichal (2006) ‘From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American
Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy
Codes of Conduct:
Stephanie Barrientos, 2000, ‘Globalisation and ethical trade: Assessing the implications for development’, Journal of International Development, vol. 12, pp.
559-570.
Mick Blowfield, 2000, ‘Ethical trade: A review of developments and issues’, Third
World Quarterly, 20(4), pp. 753-770.
Lance Compa, 2001, ‘Trade unions, NGOs and corporate codes of conduct’
International Union Rights, issue 3. (Available online at:
http://www.citinv.it/associazioni/CNMS/archivio/strategie/tradeU_NGO.html)
Robert Davies, 2003, ‘The business community: Social responsibility and corporate
values’, in John H. Dunning (ed.) Making Globalization Good: The Moral
Challenges of Global Capitalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 301-319.
Ann Florini, 2003, ‘Business and Global Governance’, The Brookings Review, 21(2), p.
4-8.
Virginia Haufler, 1999, ‘Self-regulation and business norms: Political risk, political
activism’, in A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter (eds) Private
Authority in International Affairs, New York: SUNY Press, pp. 199-222.
Ans Kolk and Rob van Tulder, 2002, ‘The effectiveness of self-regulation: Corporate
codes of conduct and child labour’, European Management Journal, 20(3), pp.
260-271.
Marina Ottaway, 2001, ‘Corporatism goes global: International organizations,
nongovernmental organization networks, and transnational business’, Global
Governance, 7(3), pp. 265-292.
Ruth Pearson, R. Jenkins and G. Seyfang, 2002, Corporate Responsibility and Labour
Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy, London: Earthscan.
Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang, 2001, ‘New Hope or False Dawn: Voluntary Codes of
Conduct and Global Social Policy’ Global Social Policy, 1(1).
Sol Piciotto and Ruth Mayne, eds., 1999, Regulating International Business: Beyond
Liberalisation, London: Macmillan Press.
John Ruggie, 2001, ‘Global_governance.net: The global compact as learning network’,
Global Governance, 7(4), pp. 371-379
Debora Spar and David Yoffie, 1999, ‘Multinational enterprises and the prospects for justice’, Journal of International Affairs, 52(2), p. 557-582.
Lisa Whitehouse, 2003, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship and
the Global Compact: A New Approach to Regulating Corporate Social
Power?’, Global Social Policy, 3:3, December, pp. 299-318.
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Week 12: Globalisation and Labour
L. Amoore, 2002, Globalisation Contested: An International Political Economy of Work,
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Manuel Castells, 2000, The Rise of the Network Society, Oxford: Blackwell, Chapter 4.
Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner, eds., 2001, Transnational Cooperation Among
Labor Unions, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien, eds, 2002, Global Unions? Theory and Strategies of
Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy, London: Routledge.
Jane Hutchison and Andrew Brown, 2001, ‘Organising Labour in Globalising Asia: An
Introduction’, in Jane Hutchison and Andrew Brown (eds) Organising Labour in
Globalising Asia, London: Routledge.
A.V. Jose, ed., 2002, Organized Labour in the 21st Century, Geneva: International
Institute for Labour Studies. [Case-studies on unionism in developed and developing countries] (Available online at:
http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/2002/102B09_32_engl.pdf)
Madeleine Leonard, 2000, ‘Coping Strategies in Developed and Developing Societies:
The Workings of the Informal Economy’, Journal of International Development,
12, pp. 1069-1085.
Alain Lipietz, 1997, ‘The Post-Fordist World: Labour Relations, International
Hierarchy and Global Ecology’, Review of International Political Economy, 4:1,
pp. 1-41.
Robert O’Brien, 2002, ‘The Varied Paths to Minimum Global Labour Standards’, in
Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien (eds) Global Unions? Theory and Strategies
of Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy, London: Routledge, pp. 221-
234.
Martín Rama, 2003, Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries, World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper 2958, January. (Available online at:
http://www-
wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2003/02/07
/000094946_03013004074424/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf)
Gerda van Roozendaal, 2002, Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a
Social Clause, London and New York: Continuum
Gay W. Seidman, 1998, ‘Labor’s Dilemmas: Union Responses to Globalization in
Brazil and South Africa’, Paper presented at the American Sociological
Association, August 1998.
Amartya Sen, 2000, ‘Work and Rights’, International Labour Review, 139:2, pp. 119-
128.
Leah Vosko, 2001, ‘‘Decent Work’: The shifting role of the ILO and the struggle for
global social justice’, Global Social Policy, 2:1, April, pp. 19-46.
On Labour, Migration and Globalisation:
David Held, et.al., 2000, Chapter 6, Global Transformations Eleonore Kofman, 2000, ‘Beyond a reductionist analysis of female migrants in global
European cities’ in Marianne Marchand and Ann Sisson Runyan (eds) Gender
and Global Restructuring
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Helene Pellerin, 1998, ‘Global Restructuring and International Migration:
Consequences for the Globalization of Politics’ in Eleonore Kofman and
Gillian Youngs (eds.) Globalization, Theory and Practice.
Week 13: Food and Hunger
Ramesh Chand, 2008, ‘The Global Food Crisis: Causes, Severity and Outlook’,
Economic and Political Weekly, 43(26/27), pp.115-122.
Paul Collier, 2008, ‘The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food
Crisis’, Foreign Affairs, 87(6).
Carole Counihan (ed), 2002, Food in the USA: A Reader, Routledge, London Stephen Devereux, 2001, ‘Famine in Africa’, in Stephen Devereux and Simon
Maxwell, eds., Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: ITDG.
Peter Drahos, 2002, ‘Developing Countries and International Intellectual Property
Standard-Setting’, Journal of World Intellectual Property, 5(5), pp.765-789. Jean Dreze, 2005, ‘Democracy and the Right to Food’, in Philip Alston and Mary
Robinson, eds., Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dominic Eagleton, 2005, Power Hungry: Six Reasons to Regulate Global Food
Corporations. Johannesburg: ActionAid. (Available online at:
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/_content/documents/power_hungry.pdf)
Niels Fold and Bill Pritchard, 2005 (eds) Cross-Continental Food Chains. London:
Routledge.
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, ed., 2007, Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights
Failure. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
J. Craig Jenkins, Stephen J. Scanlan and Lindsey Peterson, 2007, ‘Military Famine,
Human Rights, and Child Hunger: A Cross-National Analysis, 1990-2000’,
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 51(6).
Tim Lang and Michael Heasman, 2004, Food Wars: The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds
and Markets. London: Earthscan.
Sidney Mintz, 1985, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset, 1998, ‘Myth 1: There’s
Simply Not Enough Food’, in Frances Moore Lappé et al., World Hunger: 12
Myths. London: Earthscan.
Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset, 1998, ‘Myth 8: Free Trade Is
the Answer’, in Frances Moore Lappé et al., World Hunger: 12 Myths. London:
Earthscan.
Oxfam, 2002, Mugged: Poverty in Your Cup. Oxford: Oxfam International. (Available
online at: http://www.maketradefair.com/assets/english/mugged.pdf)
Raj Patel, 2007, The World Bank and Agriculture: A Critical Review of the World Bank’s
World Development Report 2008. ActionAid Discussion Paper. Johannesburg:
ActionAid. (Available online at:
http://www.actionaid.org/assets/pdf/Agricultural%20FINAL%20corrected%20(l
ow%20res).pdf)
Raj Patel and Alexa Delwiche, 2002, ‘The Profits of Famine: Southern Africa’s Long Decade of Hunger’, Backgrounder, 8(4), pp.1-8. (Available online at:
http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/2002/f02v8n4.pdf)
Prabhu Pingali, Luca Alinovi and Jacky Sutton, 2005, ‘Food security in complex
emergencies: enhancing food system resilience’, Disasters, 29(special issue).
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Peter Robbins, 2003, Stolen Fruit: The Tropical Commodities Disaster. London: Zed.
Alessandra Lundström Sarelin, 2007, ‘Human Rights-Based Approaches to
Development Cooperation, HIV/AIDS, and Food Security’, Human Rights
Quarterly, 29(2).
John D. Shaw, 2009, Global Food and Agricultural Institutions. Abingdon: Routledge.
Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla-Bhar, 1996, ‘Piracy by Patent: The Case of the Neem
Tree’, in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, eds., The Case Against the
Global Economy: And for a Turn Towards Localization. London: Earthscan.
Geoff Tansey and Worsley, Tony, 1995, ‘Modern Food – Where Did it Come
From?’, in Geoff Tansey and Tony Worsley, The Food System: A Guide. London:
Earthscan.
J. Treasure, 2005, The Essential Handbook of Eating Disorders.
UKFG, 1999, Hungry for Power. London: UK Food Group. (Available online at:
http://www.ukfg.org.uk/docs/Hungry%20For%20Power.pdf)
John W. Warnock, 1987, ‘Ideological Approaches to World Hunger’, in John W.
Warnock, The Politics of Hunger: The Global Food System. London: Methuen. Philip White, 2005, ‘War and food security in Eritrea and Ethiopia, 1998-2000’,
Disasters, 29(special issue).
Alan Warde and Lydia Martens, 2000, Eating Out: Social Differentiation,
Consumption and Pleasure, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. World Bank, 2008, World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development.
Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
D Wu and S Cheung (2002) The Globalization of Chinese Food, Routledge, London.
Week 14: Social Capital and Social Development
See World Bank website on social capital: http://go.worldbank.org/VEN7OUW280
Pierre Bourdieu, 1986, ‘The forms of capital’, in John G. Richardson (ed.) Handbook
of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, Westport: Greenwood,
pp. 241-260.
James S. Coleman, 1988, ‘Social capital in the creation of human capital’, American
Journal of Sociology, 94, pp. S95-S120.
James S. Coleman, 1990, Foundations of Social Theory, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Bill Cooke, and U. Kothari, eds., 2001, Participation: The New Tyranny?
P. Evans, ‘Government Action, Social Capital and Development: reviewing the
evidence on Synergy’, World Development Vol. 24 No. 6
Ben Fine, 2001, Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at
the Turn of the Millennium, London: Routledge.
Ben Fine, 2001, ‘The social capital of the World Bank’, in B. Fine, C. Lapavitsas and J.
Pincus (eds) Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century: Beyond the Post-
Washington Consensus, London: Routledge.
J. Fox, 1997, ‘The World Bank and Social Capital: Contesting the Concept in
Practice’ Journal of International Development, Vol. 9 No. 7
Christiaan Grootaert and Thierry van Bastelaer, eds., 2002, The Role of Social Capital
in Development: An Empirical Assessment, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
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J. Harriss and P. De Renzio, 1997, ‘Policy Arena: “Missing Link” or Analytically
Missing? The Concept of Social Capital – An Introductory Bibliographic
Essay’, Journal of International Development Vol. 9 No. 7
Linda Mayoux, 2001, ‘Tackling the Down Side: Social Capital, Women’s
Empowerment and West African Micro-Finance’ Development and Change,
Vol. 32, No. 3
Erika McAslan, 2002, ‘Social capital and development’, in V. Desai and R.B. Potter,
eds., The Companion to Development Studies, London: Arnold.
A. Portes, 1998, ‘Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology’
Annual Review of Sociology, 24
Robert Putnam, 1993, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy,
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan, 2000, ‘Social capital: Implications for
development theory, research, and policy’, The World Bank Research Observer,
15(2), pp. 225-250.
Week 15: Theories of Global Governance
Robert Cox, 1996, ‘Globalization, Multilateralism and Democracy’, in Robert W.
Cox with T. Sinclair Approaches to World Order.
Chris Farrands, 1998, ‘The Globalization of Knowledge and the Politics of Global
Intellectual Property: Power, Governance and Technology’ in Eleonore
Kofman and Gillian Youngs, eds., Globalisation: Theory and Practice
Matthias Finger and Ludivine Tamiotti, 2002, ‘The Emerging Linkage between the
WTO and the ISO: Implications for Developing Countries’ in Peter Newell,
Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott, eds., Development and the Challenge of
Globalisation
Emilie Hafner-Burton, Mark A. Pollack, 2002, ‘Mainstreaming Gender in Global
Governance’ European Journal of International Relations, Volume 8, Number 3,
September, pp. 339-373.
Martin Hewson and Timothy J. Sinclair, 1999, Approaches to Global Governance Theory,
chapters 2, 3 and 13.
Giles Mohan, 1998, ‘Globalization and Governance: The Paradoxes of Adjustment in
Sub-Saharan Africa’ in Eleonore Kofman and Gillian Youngs, eds., Globalisation:
Theory and Practice
Robert O’Brien et al., Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions
and Global Social Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heikki Patomäki, 2003, ‘Problems of Democratizing Global Governance: Time, Space
and the Emancipatory Process’, European Journal of International Relations,
Volume 9, Number 3, September, pp. 347-376.
E. Prugl, and M. Meyer, 1999, ‘Gender Politics in Global Governance’ in Meyer, M
and Prugl, E., eds., Gender Politics in Global governance
Volker Rittberger, ed., Global Governance and the United Nations System chapters 1, 4,
and 5
James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel, eds., 1992, Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics
Jan Aart Scholte, 2000, Globalisation, a critical introduction, chapter 6
Paul Stubbs, 2003, ‘International Non-State Actors and Social Development Policy’,
Global Social Policy, Volume 3, Number 3 December, pp. 319-348.
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Caroline Thomas, 2000, Global governance, development and human security: the
challenge of poverty and inequality
Alexander Wendt, 2003, ‘Why a World State is Inevitable’, European Journal of
International Relations, 9(4), pp. 491-542(52).
Week 16: Reading Week
Week 17: Globalisation and the Nation-State
Alice Amsden and W-W Chu, 2009, Beyond Late Development; Taiwan’s Upgrading
Policies, London, MIT Press. Phillip Cerny, 1997, ‘Paradoxes of the Competition State: The Dynamics of Political
Globalization’ in Government and Opposition, Vol. 32, No. 2
Peter Evans, 1995, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation,
Princeton, Princeton University Press. Andrew Gamble, 2000, ‘The End of the Nation State in Politics and Fate Gary Gereffi and D. Wyman, eds., 1990, Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of
Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia, Princeton: Princeton University
Press.
David Held and Andrew McGrew, 2000, The Global Transformation Reader chapters
by Keohane, Mann and Strange
R.J. Holton 1998, Globalization and the Nation-state
K. Jayasuriya, 2005, ‘Beyond Institutional Fetishism: From the Developmental to the
Regulatory State’, New Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 3.
C. Johnson (1982) MITI and the Japanese Miracle, Stanford, Stanford University
Press.
Michael Mann, 2000, ‘Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?’
in Richard Higgott and Anthony Payne, eds., The New Political Economy of
Globalization, Vol.1
Leo Panitch, 1997, ‘Rethinking the Role of the State’ in James Mittleman, ed.,
Globalization: Critical Reflections
I. Pirie, 2005, ‘The New Korean State’, New Political Economy, Vol. 10, No. 1
Frances Fox Piven et al., 1998, ‘Globalization and the Welfare State Debate’ in
Monthly Review, Vol. 49, No. 8
Jan Aart Scholte, 2000, Globalization, chapter 6
Steven C. Topik et al., eds., 1999, States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy
chapters by Saskia Sassen and Immanuel Wallerstein
Robert Wade, 1990, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of
Government in East Asian Industrialization, Princeton, Princeton University
Press.
David Waldner, 1999, State Building and Late Development, New York, Cornell Linda Weiss (ed.), 2003, States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic
Institutions Back In, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. World Bank, 1997, World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World
World Bank, 2003, World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets
Woo-Cumings (Ed) (1999) The Developmental State, New York, Cornell
Richard Stubbs (2009) ‘What ever happened to the East Asian Developmental State?
The Unfolding Debate’, Pacific Review, Vol 22, No. 1: 1-22.
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Week 18: Supra-State Governance: International Institutions
See also readings for Week 15 for general background.
The IMF and the World Bank:
G. Bird, 2001, ‘IMF programmes: Do they work? Can they be made better?’, World
Development, 29(11).
David Craig and Doug Porter, 2003, ‘Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A new
convergence’, World Development, 31(1), pp. 53-69.
G. Harrison, 2004, The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Goverance States,
London: Routledge
Journal of International Development, Volume 13, Number 3 (April 2001), special issue
“Focus on World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty “ M.S. Khan and S. Sharma, 2003, ‘IMF conditionality and country ownership of
adjustment programs’, The World Bank Research Observer, 18(2), pp. 227-248.
J. Pender, 2001, ‘From ‘structural adjustment’ to ‘Comprehensive Development
Framework’: Conditionality transformed?’, Third World Quarterly, 22(3), pp.
387-411.
M. Williams, 1994, International Economic Organisations and the Third World (See
chapter 5 on the World Bank, and chapter 4 on the IMF)
Washington Consensus and post-Washington Consensus:
Javed Burki and Guillermo E. Perry., 1998, Beyond the Washington Consensus:
Institutions Matter, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. (Available online at:
http://go.worldbank.org/PS9K1ZDY10)
Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas and J. Pincus, eds., 2001, Development Policy in the Twenty-
first Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus, London: Routledge.
Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski and John Williamson, eds., 2003 After the Washington
Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America, Washington D.C.:
Institute for International Economics. (Available online at:
http://bookstore.piie.com/book-store/350.html)
Oxfam, 1995, ‘A Case for Reform: Fifty Years of the IMF and the World Bank’,
Oxford: Oxfam.
T.N.Srinivasan, 2000, The Washington Consensus a Decade Later: Ideology and the
Art and Science of Policy Advice’ The World Bank Research Observer, Aug.
Joseph Stiglitz, 1998, More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the post-
Washington Consensus. The 1998 WIDER lecture, Helsinki, Finland January 7.
(Available online at: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/annual-
lectures/en_GB/AL2/)
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General Literature on the WTO:
K Alter, 2003, ‘Resolving or Exacerbating Disputes? The WTO’s New Dispute
Resolution System’, International Affairs, 79, 4, pp. 783-800.
G Gagne, 1999, ‘International Trade Rules and States: Enhanced Authority for the
WTO?’, in R. Higgott, G.R.D. Underhill and A. Bieler, eds., Non-State Actors
and Authority in the International System, pp. 226-40.
M Hart, 1997, ‘The WTO and the Political Economy of Globalization’, Journal of
World Trade, 31(5): 75-93.
N Haworth, S Hughes and R Wilkinson, 2005, ‘The International Labour Regime: a
case study in global regulation’ Environment and Planning A, 31 (11)
R Howse, 2002, ‘From Politics to Technocracy – and Back Again: The Fate of the
Multilateral Trading Regime’, American Journal of International Law, 96(1): 94-
117.
K Kufuor, 1997, ‘From the GATT to the WTO: The Developing Countries and the
Reform of the Procedures for the Settlement of International Trade
Disputes’, Journal of World Trade, Journal of World Trade, 31(5): 117-45. P Kuruvila, 1997, ‘Developing Countries and the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement
Mechanism’, Journal of World Trade, 31(6): 171-208.
P Lloyd, 2001, ‘The Architecture of the WTO’, European Journal of Political Economy,
17: 327-53.
A Nadkarni ‘World Trade Liberalization: National Autonomy and Global Regulation’,
in J. Michie and J. Grieve Smith, eds., Global Instability: The Political Economy of
World Economic Governance, pp. 134-50.
J Mah, 1997, ‘Reflections on the Trade Policy Review Mechanism in the World Trade
Organization’, Journal of World Trade 31(5); 49-56.
G Marceau, 1997, ‘NAFTA and WTO Dispute Settlement Rules: A Thematic
Comparison’, Journal of World Trade, 31(2): 25-81.
A Prakash, 2001, ‘Grappling with Globalisation: Challenges for Economic
Governance’, The World Economy, 24: 543-65.
W Sandholtz, W., 1999, ‘Globalization and the Evolution of Rules’, in A. Prakash and
J.A. Hart, eds., Globalization and Governance, pp. 77-102.
L. Wallach and M. Sforza, 1999, Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and
the Erosion of Democracy
R Wilkinson, 2002, ‘The World Trade Organization’, New Political Economy, 7(1):
129-41.
W. Sandholtz, 1999, ‘Globalization and the Evolution of Rules’, in A. Prakash and J.A.
Hart, eds., Globalization and Governance, pp. 77-102.
Multilateral Agreement on Investment:
S.J Kobrin, 1998, ‘The MAI and the Clash of Globalizations’, Foreign Policy, 112, 97-
109.
A Walter, 2001, ‘Unravelling the Faustian Bargain: Non-State Actors and the
Multilateral Agreement on Investment’, in D. Josselin and W. Wallace, eds,
Non-State Actors in World Politics, pp. 150-168
T.L. Brewer, and S. Young, 1998, ‘Investment Measures at the WTO: The Architecture of Rules and the Settlement of Disputes’, Journal of International
Economic Law, 1, 3: 457-70.
E.H. Leroux, 2002, ‘Trade in Financial Services under the World Trade
Organization’, Journal of World Trade, 36, 3, pp.413-42.
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S. Picciotto, 1999, ‘A Critical Assessment of the MAI’, in S. Picciotto and R. Mayne,
eds., Regulating International Business: Beyond Liberalization, pp. 82-108.
D Price, A Pollock and J Shaoul, 1999, ‘How the World Trade Organisation is
shaping domestic health care’, Lancet 354: 1889-92.
E Smythe, 2000, ‘State Authority and Investment Security: Non-State Actors and the
Negotiation of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment at the OECD’, in
R.A. Higgott, G.R.D. Underhill and A. Bieler, eds., Non-State Actors and
Authority in the International System, pp. 74-90.
TRIPs:
F. Abbott, 2002, ‘The TRIPs Agreement, Access to Medicines, and the WTO Doha
Ministerial Conference’, Journal of World Intellectual Property, vol. 5(1), pp.15-
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M. Blakeney, 1996, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide
to the TRIPs Agreement C. Correa, 2000, Intellectual Property Rights: The TRIPs Agreement and Policy Options
C. Correa, 2002, Implications of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public
Health, WHO/EDM/PAR/2002.3 (Available online at:
http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/policy/WHO_EDM_PAR_2002.3.pdf)
P. Drahos, 1995, ‘Global Intellectual Property Rights in Information: The Story of
TRIPS at the GATT’, Prometheus, vol.13(1), pp.6-19.
P. Drahos, 2002, ‘Developing Countries and International Intellectual Property
Standard-Setting’, Journal of World Intellectual Property, vol.5(5), pp.765-789
D. Gervais, 1998, The TRIPs Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis
E Hoen, 2002, ‘TRIPs, pharmaceutical patents and access to essential medicines’,
Chicago Journal of International Law, vol.3, pp.27-46
D. Matthews, 2002, Globalising Intellectual Property Rights
C. May, 2000, A Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: The New
Enclosures?
S. Patel, 1999, ‘Intellectual property rights in the Uruguay Round: A disaster for the
South?’, Economic and Political Weekly, XXIV(18), 978-93.
D. Rangnekar, 2003, ‘Implementing the Sui Generis Option in the TRIPs Agreement: A
Framework for Analysis’, in H Katrak and R Strange, eds., The WTO and
Developing Countries
S. Sell, 2000, ‘Big Business and the New Trade Agreements: The Future of the
WTO?, in R. Stubbs and G.R.D. Underhill, eds., Political Economy and the
Changing Global Order, pp. 174-83.
S. Sell, 1999, ‘Multinational Corporations as Agents of Change: The Globalization of
Intellectual Property Rights’, in A. Claire Cutler, V. Haufler and T. Porter,
eds, Private Authority and International Affairs, pp. 170-97.
Week 19: Human Rights, Civil Society and Social Movements
Human Rights: Sharon Anderson-Gold, 2001, Cosmopolitanism and human rights
Upendra Baxi, 1986, Inconvenient forum and convenient catastrophe : the Bhopal case
prepared under the auspices of the Indian Law Institute
Upendra Baxi, ed., 1988, Law and poverty : critical essays
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Wolfgang Benedek, Esther M. Kisaakye and Gerd Oberleitner, eds., 2002, The human
rights of women : international instruments and African experiences
Tom Campbell, K.D. Ewing, and Adam Tomkins, eds., 2001, Sceptical essays on
human rights
David Chandler, 2002, From Kosovo to Kabul : human rights and international intervention
Diane Elson, 2002, ‘Gender Justice, Human Rights and Neo-liberal Economic Policies’
in Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi, eds., Gender Justice, Development and
Rights
Paul Farmer with a foreword by Amartya Sen, 2003, Pathologies of power : health,
human rights, and the new war on the poor.
Matthew Gibney, ed., 2003, Globalizing Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tom Hadden and Colin Harvey, 2003, Local conflict, global intervention : a handbook of
human rights, armed conflict and refugee law
Bob Hepple, ed., 2002, Social and labour rights in a global context : international and
comparative perspectives
Christof Heyns and Frans Viljoen, 2002, The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level
Cecelia Lynch, 1994, E.H.Carr, International Relations Theory and the Societal
Origins of International Legal Norms, in Millennium, Vol. 23, No. 3
Paul J. Magnarella, 1999, Middle East and North Africa : governance, democratization,
human rights
Oliver Mendelsohn and Upendra Baxi, eds., 1994, The Rights of subordinated peoples
Ranjani K. Murthy and Lakshmi Sankaran, 2002, Denial and distress : gender, poverty
and human rights in Asia
Thomas W. Pogge, 2002, World poverty and human rights : cosmopolitan responsibilities
and reforms
Bertrand G. Ramcharan, 2002, Human rights and human security
Anthony Woodiwiss, Globalisation, human rights and labour law in Pacific Asia
Civil Society and Social Movements:
Louise Amoore and Paul Langley, 2004, ‘Ambiguities of global civil society’, Review of
International Studies, 30, pp. 89-110.
G. Baker, 2002, ‘Problems in the Theorisation of Global Civil Society’, Political Studies
50(5), pp. 928-943.
Neera Chandhoke, 2001, ‘The “Civil” and the “Political” in Civil Society’,
Democratization, 8: 2, pp. 1–24.
Alejandro Colás, 2002, International Civil Society: Social Movements in World Politics
Cambridge: Polity Press
Robert W. Cox, 1999, ‘Civil society at the turn of the millennium: Prospects for an
alternative world order’, Review of International Studies, vol. 25, pp. 3-28.
Richard Falk, 1992, The Global Promise of Social Movements: Explorations at the Edge of
Time
Richand Falk, 1995, On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics
Jonathan A. Fox, and L. David Brown, eds., 1998, The struggle for accountability: the
World Bank, NGOs, and grassroots movements S. Gill, ‘Toward a Postmodern Prince? The Battle in Seattle as a Moment in the New
Politics of Globalisation’, Millennium, 29 (1)
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Global Civil Society Yearbook (various years), Centre for the Study of Global
Governance, LSE. (Available online at:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/yearbook.htm)
Jean Grugel, 2002, Democratization: A Critical Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave
(chapter ‘Democratization and civil society’).
F. Halliday, ‘Getting Real About Seattle’ , Millennium, 29 (1)
D. Held, 2004, Global Covent: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington
Consensus, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Richard Higgott and Richard Devetak, 1999, ‘Justice unbound? Globalization, states
and the transformation of the social bond’ International Affairs, Vol. 75, No. 3
J. Holloway, 2005, Change the World without taking Power: The Meaning of
Revoultion Today, London: Pluto Press.
Stephen Hopgood, 2000, ‘Reading the Small Print in Global Civil Society: The
Inexorable Hegemony of the Liberal Self’, Millennium: Journal of International
Studies, 29: 1, pp. 1–25.
Mary Kaldor, 2003, Global Civil Society, Cambridge: Polity. Sangeeta Kamat, 2004, ‘The privatization of public interest: theorizing NGO
discourse in a neoliberal era’, Review of International Political Economy, 11:1,
February, pp. 155-176.
J. Keane, 2003, Global Civil Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, 1998, Activists beyond Borders: Transnational
Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Y.F. Lee and A. So, 1999, Asia’s Environmental Movements : Comparative Perspectives
Cecelia Lynch, 2000, ‘Social Movements and the Problem of Globalization in the
International Policy Process’ in Richard Higgott and Anthony Payne (eds.) The
New Political Economy of Globalization, Vol. 1
Robert O’Brien, et al., 2000, ‘Contesting Global Governance: Multilateralism and
Global Social Movements’ in O’Brien, et al 2000, Contesting Global Governance:
Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements
Mustapha Kamal Pasha and David L. Blaney, 1998, ‘Elusive Paradise: The Promise and
Peril of Global Civil Society’, Alternatives, 23:3, pp. 417–50.
Jan Aart Scholte, 1999, ‘Global Civil Society: Changing the World?’, CSGR Working
Paper No. 31/99. (Available online at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/workingpapers/1999/wp319
9.pdf)
Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, eds., 1997, Transnational social
movements and global politics :solidarity beyond the state
B. Thirkell-White, 2004, ‘The International Monetary Fund and Civil Society’, New
Political economy, 9 (2)
S. Yearly and J. Forrester, 2000, ‘Shell, a Sure Target for Global Environmental
Campaigning?’ in R. Cohen and S. Rai, eds., Global Social Movements