Bevat de aantekeningen van college 1 tot en met 4. De inhoud wordt aangevuld met de overige collegeaantekeningen. De colleges worden aangeboden in het Engels, en daarom de aantekeningen ook.
During this first lecture (which lasted only for one hour) is an introduction and welcome to this course. We’ll discuss the question ‘What is IPE?’, the course overview (the manual is available on Blackboard) and the requirements and preparations.
What is IPE?
IPE is ’’concerned with the interaction between the state and the market’’ (Cohn, 3). It’s all about the interaction between politics and economics, treated as if these two are on a balance. We’ll look into questions like: ‘To what extent can states intervene in the markets?’ ‘Why and how can states interfere?’ And, ‘can this lead to market failure?’. Interdependence is an important issue in this, especially in the current age of globalisation. Does this necessarily lead to global welfare? Can we reverse these processes?
IPE today
IPE is relatively new as an academic discipline, scholars responded to the failing of the Post-War system on finance and economics. This has been critical to the mutual neglect of politics and economics. IPE is unique as it’s inherently interdisciplinary. In other words: IPE is a notoriously diverse field of study.
Course overview: theories
First we’re going to look to the theoretical foundations of IPE. We use the following order: mercantilism, liberalism and critical perspective. They all evaluate the tension between politics and economics (between the state and the market).
The themes that we will cover are listed below:
1. Money – Key currencies, crypto currencies (bit coin etc.)
2. Finance – Who is regulating the global finance market?
3. Trade – How are the trade relations established? We’ll discuss the history of free trade. How do we explain the variations in free trade versus protectionism?
4. Regionalism – The tendency to create regional trade blocks (like the EU) in a world of globalisation
5. Emerging markets – What are the roles of the BRICS countries?
6. Transnational corporations (TNC’s) – What are their roles? What kinds of factors attract or detract businesses to emerge?
7. Energy and the environment – Environmental regulations in issue of trade
8. Debt and crises – What are the lessons learnt?
9. Alternative IPE’s – Illicit global economy for instance drugs trafficking and the role of the internet in this
What you will do and how to do it well…
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