Introductory description

PO9B1-20

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Module aims

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

1. The IMF and crisis management
2. The World Bank and the good governance agenda
3. The UN and global development goals
4. The WTO and deadlocks in global trade negotiations
5. The OECD and tax havens
6. Global environmental governance
7. Global benchmarking
8. Global labour standards
9. Moral hazard in the world econom

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• A critical understanding of contemporary challenges in global economic governance.
• An ability to critically analyse and explain the core problems and possible solutions in select case studies of global economic governance.
• Enhanced oral and written communication skills to understand, summarize, and discuss how the governance of the world economy is undertaken in specific issue areas.
• An ability to critically analyse and evaluate future developments in global economic governance.

Indicative reading list

• Broome, André. 2014. Issues and Actors in the Global Political Economy. Basingstoke:
  Palgrave Macmillan.
• Drezner, Daniel W. 2007. All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory
  Regimes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.
• Park, Susan and Antje Vetterlein. 2010. Owning Development: Creating Policy Norms in the
  IMF and the World Bank. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Sinclair, Timothy J. 2012. Global Governance. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Woods, Ngaire. 2006. The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers.
  Ithaca: Cornell UP.

Subject specific skills

TBC

Transferable skills

TBC