The aim of the lecture is to provide tools that will enable students to understand and explain developments in the global political economy. Students will gain a thorough understanding of recent developments as well as the history of globalization.
The course will aim at understanding the relationship between politics and economic policies, how globalization has evolved over the last decades and how economic policies have assumed their present shape under global neoliberalism. It will describe the structure of globalization and analyze the role of economic policies within the global economy. We will examine key features of globalization policies, case studies and recent debates on the global economy. A special emphasis will be on Neoliberalism’s stance toward globalization and policies that occurred after the global financial and economic crisis.