Programme

City University

Year 2 Specialism

  • Module 1: Global Political Economy
  • Location: City University London
  • Professor: Professor Roger Tooze
  • Duration: 10 weeks
  • Credits: 10 ECTS

Overview

Global political economy is taught by Professor Roger Tooze. Roger has taught international relations at universities all over the world and has written or edited some of the key books in the field including: Global Political Economy: The Role of Power and Knowledge; Technology, culture and competitiveness: Change and the world political economy; Understanding the World Economy: Theory and Practice; and Authority and markets: Susan Strange’s writings on political economy.

The module provides key concepts and theoretical understanding necessary for any critical analysis of business and finance, in particular the economic and political context of globalization.

Indicative Syllabus

  1. ‘Political Economy’ and ‘Global Political Economy’ [GPE] – concepts, understanding, values, interpretations and ontologies.
  2. The embedded complex state system.
  3. Varieties of states. States and the GPE, the EU in the GPE.
  4. Complexity and analysis – the ‘New Cold War’, ‘Commodity Power’?
  5. The nature and dimensions of ‘globalization’: spatial, temporal and functional. The key debates and interpretations.
  6. The European Union and globalization.
  7. The ‘new’ globalization: post-2000 and global platforms.
  8. The BRICs, Friedman’s ‘Triple Convergence’.
  9. The challenges to globalisation… What next for global production and markets?
  10. Key issues of 21st century global political economy and global business: global financial structures tec.

Student feedback

  • “Excellent Professor and excellent teaching style!”
  • “The class was intense and inspiring. A real jewel of a class.”
  • “Overall, I thought this module was great”
  • “Prof Tooze is one of the most knowledgeable people I have ever met. He can provoke heated discussions, offer an intelligent insight on almost any subject and has a sense of humour too.”
  • “I benefited from the framework given by Professor Roger, which will be useful whatever I do in the future. I am really grateful for that.”
  • “Roger is a really dynamic lecturer with a lot of knowledge.”
  • “Prof Tooze was open to having his ideas challenged and I think an ability to do that is the sign of a great teacher.”

Learning Outcomes

Subject Knowledge & Understanding

  • Understand the economic and political context of globalisation, contemporary trends, including the movements towards localism and political devolution, state policies, and the global flows of people, products and capital; the broad perspectives and background information necessary to understand and report on a changing Europe.
  • Have knowledge of regional and global production and commodity chains; core sectors and ‘national champions’ – strategic industries.
  • Have an understanding of the structure, balance and narrative in political economic stories, and of the kinds of information which need to be acquired and included by the proficient journalist. Understand the role of journalism and the journalist in the context of political economy.

Subject Specific Skills

  • Produce copy in English to publishable standard.
  • Develop interviewing skills with a wide range of stories and covering complex issues.
  • Manage the implications of practical, operational and ethical dilemmas in the specific area and work to produce solutions.

Typical Methods of Assessment

  1. Researching and constructing an ANNOTATED RESOURCE FILE in TWO parts: [i] a general resource file relating to the overall analysis of Global Political Economy, [ii] a specialised resource file for the student’s dissertation subject.
  2. A PRESENTATION on an aspect of the course.
  3. Three pieces of ANALYTICAL JOURNALISM. The pieces will be at the intellectual level of a Masters degree and will be rigorous, self-aware and conceptually sophisticated. Topics and further guidance will be given.

Indicative Reading List

  1. Emmott, Bill, 20:21 Vision: The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st, Penguin Books, 2004
  2. Cooper, Robert, The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century, Atlantic Books, 2004
  3. Seib, Phillip, The Global Journalist, New York, 2002
  4. Williams, Kevin, Fundamentals of Media Research, UK, 2003
  5. Held, David and McGrew, Anthony, Globalization/Anti-Globalization, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002
  6. Golding, Peter, and Thomas, Pradip N., Zaharom Nain (Editors) Who Owns the Media?: Global Trends and Local Resistance Zed Books, 2005.
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