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POEC 393: Canada and the Global Political Economy (Rev. C3) Report a Broken Link

The overall aim of Political Economy 393 is to enable you to understand the workings of International Political Economy while introducing you to Canada's relationship with the North American geo-political and economic space, as well as the global economic system. The course draws on specific issues, institutions, and trends within the global political economy and examines their impact on the evolution of Canadian political economy.

Unit 1

Introduction: Globalization and Neo-Liberalism in the Global Political Economy
Required Readings
Brodie, Janine. “Reforming Social Justice in Neoliberal Times.” Studies in Social Justice 1, no. 2 (2007): 93–109.
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Brodie, Janine. “Citizenship and Solidarity: Reflections on the Canadian Way.” Citizenship Studies 6, no. 4 (2002): 377–394.
Moore, Michael, producer. Capitalism: A Love Story. 2010.

Recommended Readings
Rupert, Mark. “The Hegemonic Project of Liberal Globalization,” in Ideologies of Globalization: Contending Visions of New World Order, 42–64. (London: RIPE/Routledge, 2000).
Norcliffe, Glen. “Canada in a Global Economy.” The Canadian Geographer 45, no. 1 (2001): 14–30.
Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times. Boston: Beacon Press, 1944.

Unit 2

From Bretton Woods to Neoliberalism

Section 1: Bretton Woods and National Policy Autonomy
Required Readings
Davidson, Adam, and Alex Blumberg. “Obama Gives Keynes His First Real-World Test.” From Chicago Public Radio’s “This American Life”.
Ruggie, John Gerard. “International Regimes, Transactions and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order.” International Organization 36, no. 1 (1982): 379–415.
Thompson, Grahame. “‘Financial Globalisation’ and the ‘Crisis’: A Critical Assessment and ‘What is to be Done?’” New Political Economy 15, no. 1 (2010): 127–145.
Recommended Readings

Rupert, Mark,  and M. Scott Solomon. “A Brief History of Globalization,” in Globalization and International Political Economy: The Politics of Alternative Futures, 25–52 (Toronto: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).

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Head, Keith, and John Ries. “Regionalism within Multilateralism: The WTO Trade Policy Review of Canada.” The World Economy 27, no. 9 (2004): 1377–1399.
Van Elteren, Mel. “Neoliberalization and Transnational Capitalism in the American Mold.” Journal of American Studies 43, no. 2 (2009): 177–197.

Section 2: The Making of Neoliberalism in Canada
Required Readings
CBC Digital Archives. “1988 Leaders’ Debate.” October 25, 1988.
Hart, M. “Canada-U.S. Relations after Free Trade: Lessons Learned and Unmet Challenges.” American Review of Canadian Studies 34, no. 4 (2004): 603–619.
Soederberg, Susanne. “Political Restructuring of Exploitation: An Historical Materialist Account of the Emergence of Neoliberalism in Canada.” Cultural Logic 3, no. 2 (2001).
Recommended Readings
Luxton, Meg. “Feminist Political Economy in Canada and the Politics of Social Reproduction,” in Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism, 11-44 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).
Ilcan, Suzan. Privatizing Responsibility: Public Sector Reform under Neoliberal Government. Canadian Review of Sociology 46, no. 3 (2009): 207–234.

Unit 3

Regionalism and Integration

Section 1: Initiating Integration
Required Readings
Stoller, Matt. “Gore-Perot debate over NAFTA”. CNN. 1993.

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Weinstein, Bernard L., and Michael Seman. “Has the North American Free Trade Agreement Fulfilled Its Promise? An Assessment after 15 Years.” Regional Science Policy & Practice 1, no. 2 (2009): 177–86.
Recommended Readings
Hartman, Stephen W. “NAFTA, the Controversy.” The International Trade Journal 25, no. 1 (2011): 5–33.
Aspinwall, Mark. “NAFTA-ization: Regionalization and Domestic Political Adjustment in the North American Economic Area.” Journal of Common Market Studies 47, no. 1 (2009): 1–24.
Inwood, Gregory J. Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Marchak, M. Patricia. The Integrated Circus: The New Right and the Restructuring of Global Markets. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993.
Carranza, Mario E. “Neighbors or Partners? NAFTA and the Politics of Regional Economic Integration in North America.” Latin American Politics and Society 44, no. 3 (2002): 141–157.

Section 2: Security and Prosperity Partnership - Technocratic Integration
Required Readings
Gilbert, Emily. “Leaky Borders and Solid Citizens: Governing Security, Prosperity and Quality of Life in a North American Partnership.” Antipode 39, no. 1 (2007): 77–98.
Barlow, Maude. Barlow, Maude. "The Darker Side of Free Trade Between Canada and the U.S." Huff Post Business Canada, 10/05
Recommended Readings
Bélanger, Louis. “Governing the North American Free Trade Area: International Rule Making and Delegation in NAFTA, the SPP, and Beyond.” Latin American Policy 1, no. 1 (2010): 22–51.
Sparke, Matthew B. “A Neoliberal Nexus: Economy, Security and the Biopolitics of Citizenship on the Border.” Political Geography 25, no. 2 (2006): 151–180.

Section 3: Accelerating Integration - A (neo)constitutional form of Integration?
Required Readings
Gill, Stephen, “Constitutionalizing Inequality and the Clash of Globalization.” International Studies Review 4, no. 2 (2002): 47-65.
Dewi Oka, Cynthia, and Alison J. Ayers. “At the Gates of Fortress North America: Race-ing the SPP and its Political Subject.” Studies in Political Economy 86, Autumn (2010); 23–53.
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Recommended Readings
Clarkson, Stephen, and Maria Banda, “‘Community of Law:’ Proposals for a Strategic Deal with the United States,” in Whose Canada? Continental Integration, Fortress North America and the Corporate Agenda, eds. Richard Grinspun and Yasmine Shamsie, 129–153 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007).
Gilbert, Emily. “The Inevitability of Integration? Neoliberal Discourse and the Proposals for a New North American Economic Space after September 11.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95, no. 1 (2005): 202–222.

Unit 4

Financial Integration and Investment
Required Readings
Helleiner, Eric. “Explaining the Globalization of Financial Markets: Bringing States Back In.” Review of International Political Economy 2, no. 2 (1995): 315–341.
Glass, Ira, host. Episode 355. This American Life, The Giant Pool of Money (radio program), 2008.
Recommended Readings
Helleiner, Eric. “A Bretton Woods Moment? The 2007–2008 Crisis and the Future of Global Finance.” International Affairs 86, no. 3 (2010): 619–36.
Panitch, Leo, and Sam Gindin, “Finance and the American Empire,” in Socialist Register 2005: The Empire Reloaded, eds. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, 57-92 (London: Merlin Press, 2005).

Porter, Tony.   “The Emerging Regime for Regulating Global Finance,” in Globalization and Finance, 31–45 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005).

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Unit 5

New Issues on the North American Agenda

Section 1: Culture and Integration
Required Readings
Goff, Patricia M. “Invisible Borders: Economic Liberalization and National Identity.” International Studies Quarterly 44, no. 4 (2000): 533–62.
Graber, Christoph Beat. “The New UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: A Counterbalance to the WTO?” Journal of International Economic Law 9, no. 3 (2006): 553–74.
Recommended Readings
Davis, Wade. “Endangered Cultures.” Talks at TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. 2003.

Section 2: Environment and Integration
Required Readings
VanNijnatten, Debora. “The Security and Prosperity Agreement as an “Indicator Species” for the Emerging North American Environmental Regime.” Politics & Policy 35, no. 4 (2007): 664–82.
Meilke, Karl, James Rude, and Steven Zahniser. “Is ‘NAFTA Plus’ an Option in the North American Agrifood Sector”? The World Economy 31, no. 7 (2008): 925–46.
Recommended Readings
Coff, Christian. “The Storylessness of Food,” in The Taste for Ethics: An Ethic of Food Consumption, 61–92 (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2005). 
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Pieterse, Jan Nederveen. “Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalisation the American Way.” New Political Economy 8, no. 3 (2003): 299–319.
Rockstrom, Johan. “Let the Environment Guide Our Development.” Talks at TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. 2010.

Unit 6

Conclusion: Beyond Neo-liberalism
Required Readings
Hay, James, and Mark Andrejevic. “Introduction: Toward an Analytic of Governmental Experiments in These Times; Homeland Security as the New Social Security.” Cultural Studies 20, no. 4–5 (2006): 331–348.
Conway, Janet. “Citizenship in a Time of Empire: The World Social Forum as a New Public Space.” Citizenship Studies 8, no. 4 (2004): 367–81.
Curtis, Adam, producer. The Power of Nightmares. BBC, 2004.
Recommended Readings
Brown, Wendy. “American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservativism and De-Democratization.” Political Theory 34, no. 6 (2006): 690–714.
Smith, Timothy. “From Miami to Quebec and Beyond: Opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas” Peace & Change 29, no. 2 (2004): 221–49.