Syllabus    

I--25 August

Introduction 
Buzzanco blog, http://www.shafr.org/author/robertbuzzanco/
II--1 September
Background: Ideas and Theories (Buzzanco)

Common Readings: 

IMF, "Globalization: Threat or Opportunity,"http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200to.htm

World System Theory,  http://www.emory.edu/SOC/globalization/theories01.html    

World System Theory,  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/wallerstein.html   

Immanuel Wallerstein, "New Revolts Against the System"  

Immanuel Wallerstein, "The World System after the Cold War"   

Dependency Theory: An Introduction,  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/depend.htm  

Giovanni Arrighi,  "Globalization, State Sovereignty, and the 'Endless' Accumulation of Capital"

Andre Gunder Frank, http://rrojasdatabank.info/agfrank/research.html#DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20UNDERDEVELOPMENT 

Amartya Sen, "How to Judge Globalism," http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=how_to_judge_globalism  

Mark Weisbrot, "The Mirage of Progress," http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_mirage_of_progress

Walt Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth   (ch. 2)   

Walt Rostow, "The Stages of Economic Growth (1959 article)   

Thomas Friedman on Globalization    


Individual Readings:

Paul Baran, Monopoly Capital
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy 
Gabriel Kolko, Wealth and Power in America 
Nicolai Bukharin, Imperialism and World Economy, and Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, The Highest Stage of 
       Capitalism  
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy 
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System
William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Andre Gunder Frank, Crisis in the Third World
Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America

III--8 September
Background: Development of Capitalism and the Roots of Global Political Economy (Buzzanco)

Common Reading:

Marc Egnal and Joseph Ernst, "An Economic Interpretation of the Revolution"  
Edward Pessen, "How Different . . . Were the Antebellum North and South"    
William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History, section 1 (The Age of Mercantilism) and
      section 2 (The Age of Laissez Nous Faire)
Rosa Luxemburg and Imperialism   
Adam Smith and Mercantilism  
Karl Marx, "Trade or Opium"    
Mercantilism    
The Navigation Acts    
Alexander Hamilton, "Report on the Subject of Manufactures"  
Charles River Bridge Case   
Michael Merrill, "Putting 'Capitalism" in its Place . . ."  
Roundtable, "Transition to Capitalism"  



Individual Readings:

Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism      Travis    
Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy    Pete  
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power       Raevin    
Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism     Jennifer   
Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution
Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism

Allan Kulikoff, The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism 
Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution    Jessica   
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets and Wealth in Nineteenth Century America (Steve)
John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in Antebellum America
Eugene Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery

William Appleman Williams, The Roots of the Modern American Empire
Walter LaFeber, The New Empire
David Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Trade and Investment      
Bill Robbins, Colony and Empire

IV--15 September
Building the Empire, At Home and Abroad (Buzzanco)

Common Reading:

Thomas Ferguson, "From Normalcy to New Deal"   
William Appleman Williams, "The Imperialism of Idealism" in Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Parrini, Hearden, and McCormick essays in Lloyd Gardner, editor, Redefining the Past: Essays  . . . in Honor of William Appleman Williams.
Kindleberger on Bretton Woods   

Individual Readings:

Martin Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism
Carl Parrini, Heir to Empire
Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism
James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State
Scott Nearing, Dollar Diplomacy   Pete  
Charles Kindleberger, The World in Depression
Charles Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe


Georg Schild, Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks
Harold James, International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods
Richard Gardner, Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy
Fred Block, Origins of the International Economic Disorder
C. Fred Bergsten, Dilemmas of the Dollar
Thomas McCormick, America's Half-Century
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Decline of Great Powers    Andrew  


V--22 September
End of the Century Imperialism

James Carter, Inventing Vietnam
Patrick Renshaw, "Was There a Keynesian Economy in the United States between 1933-1945"   
"Rockefeller Internationalism"   
Buzzanco,  "The Vietnam War: Capitalism, Communism, and Containment" 

Paul Baran, The Political Economy of Growth
William Appleman Williams, The Great Evasion
Lynn Turgeon, Bastard Keynesianism
Joanne Gowa, Closing the Gold Window
Francis Gavin, Gold, Dollars, and Power
Jeffrey Helsing, Johnson's War/Johnson's Great Society    Jennifer       
Anthony Campagna, The Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War
Allen Matusow, Nixon's Economy
Andrew Rotter, The Path to Vietnam  Jessica  
Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations
David Calleo, The Imperious Economy
Thomas Zeiler, American Trade and Power in the 1960s
Sherman Maisel, Managing the Dollar
Walt Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto



VI--29 September

Empire  (Buzzanco)

Common Reading:
Arno Mayer, "Beyond the Drumbeat: Iraq, Preventive War, 'Old Europe'"
John Bellamy Foster, "The Rediscovery of Imperialism"   
Basic Statistics for U.S. Imperialism    
Gert Krell, "Capitalism and Armaments"    
John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson, "The Imperialism of Free Trade"  

William Appleman Williams, Empire as a Way of Life
Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival
Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire
Niall Ferguson, Empire
Andrew Bacevich, The American Empire  Brenda  
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire
David Harvey, The New Empire
Ellen Meiksins Wood, Empire of Capital   Raevin
Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire




VII--6 October

Latin America--Tom O'Brien

Required:  Tom O'Brien, Making the Americas


Individual Reading:


John Hart, Empire and Revolution
Morris Morley, Imperial State and Revolution
Morris Morley and James Petras, Latin America in the Time of Cholera
Tom O'Brien, The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America   Jessica  
Tom O'Brien, The Revolutionary Mission
Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop

VIII--13 October

Kairn Klieman

Common Reading:


Mahmood Mamdani,  Citizen and Subject (1996)
One  chapter from a current African history text that will help them understand how IMF Structural Adjustement Policies and NGO’s have been impacting Africa since 1970s….


Individual Readings:

Sachs, Jeffrey. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2006)  Andrew 

Easterly, William. The White Man’s Burden Why the West’s Efforts to Save Africa Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2007)

Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About it (2008)   Travis  

Hancock, Graham. The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business (1994)






IX--20 October

Middle East

Common Reading:

Rashid Khalidi, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
John Esposito, The Islamic Threat [skim]

Individual Reading:

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism
Alan Richards and John Waterbury,  The Political Economy of the Middle East
Mary Ann Heiss, Empire and Nationhood
Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire


X--27 October

Resources and Conflict

Common reading:  Daniel Yergin, The Prize [skim--it's a big book]

Individual Readings:

Michael Klare,  Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy

Michael Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global conflict

David Painter,  Oil and the American Century

Charles Bergquist, Labor in Latin America

Nathan Citino,  From Arab Nationalism to OPEC

Abiodun  Alao,   Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

Nurit Kliot,  Water Resources and Conflict in the Middle East

Ian Bannon and Paul Collier, Natural Resources and Violent Conflict

Thomas Homer-Dixon,  Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
XI--3 November

Militarism and Military-Industrial Complex  (Buzzanco)

Benjamin Fordham,  "Domestic Politics, International Pressure, and Policy Change: The Case of NSC-68" 
William Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca, "The Military-Industrial Think Tank Complex . . ."   
Frida Berrigan and William Hartung, "US Arms Transfers and Security Assistance to Israel" 
Michelle Ciarrocca, "Too Much is Never Enough: Bush's Military Spending Spree"  


H.C. Engelbrecht and F.C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry
Benjamin Fordham, Building the Cold War Consensus
Michael Hogan, The Marshall Plan
Frank Kofsky, Harry Truman and the War Scare of 1948 
Chester Pach, Arming the Free World
Irving Bernstein, Guns and Butter
Seymour Melman, Pentagon Capitalism
John Tirman, Spoils of War
Lewis Sorley, Arms Transfers Under Nixon
Michael Klare, American Arms Supermarket



XII--10 November
Bruce Cumings, "The Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Policy"    
Job Loss to China    
China Labor Watch report on Merton    
China Labor Watch report on Nike, Adidas, etc.  
William Greider, "Global Agenda"
China and the Open Door, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1094/is_n4_v28/ai_14604469






XIII--17 November



The "New" Globalism  (Buzzanco)

Mark Rupert, "Globalization and the Reconstruction of Common Sense . . ."   
William Tabb, "Mr. Bush and Neoliberalism"    
Job Loss Overseas   
Charles Schumer on Free Trade 


William Greider, One World, Ready or Not
William Greider, Secrets of the Temple
Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism
Edward Luttwak, Turbo Capitalism (Eduardo)
Thomas Frank, One Market Under God (Ben)
David Harvey, Spaces of Hope
Susan Strasser, Commodifying Everything
Ellen Israel Rosen, The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry
Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalization and the Postcolonial World
Ranjit Sau, Unequal Exchange, Imperialism and Underdevelopment
Doug Henwood, After the New Economy
Robert Pollin, Contours of Descent
Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital  


XIV--24 November


Consequences of and Resistance to Capitalism and Globalization  (Buzzanco)

Common Reading:

Oxfam Report, "Rigged Rules and Double Standards"  
Monthly Review, "Behind the War on Iraq,"

Individual Reading:

Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents
Noreena Hertz,  The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Amy Chua, World on Fire
Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy
Kevin Danaher, Fifty Years is Enough
Pat Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Decline of American Power 

James Green, Grass Roots Socialism
Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America 
Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo, Steeltown U.S.A., and Staughton Lynd, The Fight Against Shutdowns
Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America
Gregg Andrews, Shoulder to Shoulder, and Beth Sims, Workers of the World Undermined 
Frederico Romero, The United States and the European Trade Union Movement
Susan George, A Fate Worse Than Debt 
Kevin Bales, Disposable People
XV--1 December

Overviews:   To be determined