Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Геополитическая экономика
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course offers a reinterpretation of the historical development of the international system, challenging mainstream perspectives on US hegemony, globalization, and empire.
Building on alternative intellectual traditions, the course explores how class dynamics and national interests shape international economic relations. Students will critically assess the foundations of dominant theories in International Political Economy (IPE) and International Relations (IR) and analyze how past and present crises influence global governance and economic strategies.
Learning Objectives
- An understanding of geopolitical economy and its component concepts and arguments.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Understanding capitalism and its intimate relationship with imperialism and how development and socialism have resisted them.
- Understanding dominant and critical conceptions of the world order without splitting ‘geopolitics’ from ‘geoeconomics’ but uniting them in a geopolitical economy.
- Appreciating how and why economically cosmopolitan conceptions are both wrong and serve the interests of the dominant nations and why subordinate nations resist them.
- Appreciating the critical role of states in imperialism and anti-imperialism and the dynamic of uneven and combined development.
- Understanding key concepts such as free trade, protection, state-direction, hegemony, globalization, empire, geopolitical economy, and uneven and combined development, mulitpolarity.
- Understanding the key role of international monetary system in the organization of imperialism.
- Understanding the critical role of financializations in our time.
- Understanding why three decades after the original Cold War ended, we are witness to new ones.
- Understanding how the pandemic and war have changed our world and its balance of power and why it threatens capitalism.
- Learning to engage with a sophisticated argument in your Short Assignment.
- Learning to investigate a particular, very specific phenomenon – a dispute, a change, an act – of the international economy closely in your essay.
Course Contents
- Introduction
- Geopolitical Economy
- State and Imperialism
- Classical Theories
- Marx’s Geopolitical Economy
- The Imperial World
- Russia in Geopolitical Economy
- US Hegemony
- Neoliberalism and Financialization
- Multipolarity
- Review and Wrap-Up
Assessment Elements
- Discussion Question AssignmentsGUIDELINES FOR DISCUSSION QUESTION ASSIGNMENTS 1. Make sure to cover all the readings 2. You can expect to write about 300 to 500 words and raise at least 3 questions. 3. Separate the clarification questions from substantial discussion questions. The former are welcome, but not part of the DQA. 4. Engage with the whole argument of each work and raise questions in ways that demonstrate your understanding of them. Questions based on isolated points picked up through scanning the text are not appreciated. 5. Do not ignore the points made in the readings that relate to the points you are raising: part of the point of the questions is to demonstrate your understanding of the readings. 6. Show your understanding of the argument of reading, or at least your effort to understand it, before raising a question you believe is still outstanding. 7. Give page numbers for all points and quotes you refer to. 8. Think your questions through: do they make sense? What more do you need to say in order that others will understand what you are getting at? Sometimes
- Class quizzes (3-5)3 t0 5 times in the term, there will be short, 15 minute quizzes at the start of the class. Students will not know when they will take place.
- Class ParticipationThis grade will be based on the quality of students’ questions and comments in class. Ideally, they should reflect careful reading of the course material and relating them to the class lectures and your wider reading, of the news as well as scholarly materials.
- Final ExamWill cover readings and lectures of whole course. Guidelines are attached.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.2 * Class Participation + 0.2 * Class quizzes (3-5) + 0.3 * Discussion Question Assignments + 0.3 * Final Exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Eckes, A. E. (2011). The Contemporary Global Economy : A History Since 1980. Wiley-Blackwell.
- From economics imperialism to freakonomics : the shifting boundaries between economics and other social sciences, Fine, B., 2009
- Geopolitical economy : after US hegemony, globalization and empire, Desai, R., 2013
- Pandemic exposures : economy and society in the time of coronavirus, , 2021
- The rules of the game in the global economy : policy regimes for international business, Preston, L. E., 1997
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Geopolitics and the great powers in the twenty-first century : multipolarity and the revolution in strategic perspective, Walton, C. D., 2009
- Naroff, J. L. (2014). Big Picture Economics : How to Navigate the New Global Economy. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=746947
- The Evolving Global Economy : Making Sense of the New World Order, edited with preface by Kenichi Ohmae, 300 p., , 1995
- Topical issues of global economy : учебное пособие для аспирантов, обучающихся по специальности 08.00.14 - мировая экономика, Лучинина, Е. Н., 2009