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Readings

Required Readings

Angell, Norman. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage. 4th ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1913. Chap. 1-4.

Berger, Suzanne, and Ron Dore, eds. National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. Introduction, Chap. 1, 2, 5, 11, 14, and 15.

Bhagwati, Jagdish. Protectionism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988.

Carson, Iain. "The World as a Single Machine." The Economist (18 June 1998). A Manufacturing Survey. Available at: http://www.economist.com/surveys/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=168615

Cassen, Bernard. "To Save Society." Le Monde Diplomatique, no. 5 (May 1997). Available at: http://mondediplo.com/1997/05/globalisation3156

"Citizen's Guide to the World Trade Organization." [Washington, D.C.]: Working Group on the WTO / MAI, 1999.

Crook, Clive. "Globalisation and its critics." The Economist (27 September 2001). A Survey of Globalisation. Available at: http://www.economist.com/surveys/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=795995

Daly, Herman. "Free Trade: The Perils of Deregulation." In The Case Against The Global Economy. Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1996, pp. 229-238.

"Fear of Finance." The Economist (19 September 1992). A Survey of the World Economy.

Frieden, Jeffry. "Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance." International Organization 45, 4 (1991): 425-451.

Garrett, Geoffrey. "Global Markets and National Politics: Collision Course or Virtuous Circle." International Organization 52, 4 (Autumn 1998): 787-824.

Gourevitch, P., R. E. Bohn, and D. McKendrick. "Who is Us? The Nationality Problem in Globalization of Production." The Data Storage Industry Globalization Project, Report 96-01, December 1996.

Graham, Edward M. Global Corporations and National Governments. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1996.

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 1999. Chap. 1, 2, 3, and 5.

Morris, David. "Free Trade: The Great Destroyer." In The Case Against The Global Economy. Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1996, pp. 218-228.

Nader, Ralph, and Lori Wallach. "GATT, NAFTA, and The Subversion of The Democratic Process." In The Case Against the Global Economy. Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1996, pp. 92-107.

Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957 [1944]. Chap. 3-6, 12, and 21.

Rodrik, Dani. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington, D.C.: The Institute for International Economics, 1997.

Rosenberg, Tina. "The Free Trade Fix." New York Times Sunday Magazine (18 August 2002): 28-33, 50, 74-75.

Sala-I-Martin, Xavier. "The Disturbing 'Rise' of Global Income Inequality." NBER Working Paper No. w8904, April 2002.

Strange, Susan. Casino Capitalism. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1986. Chap. 1, 2, and 6.

WSF International People's Tribunal on Debt. "Verdict." World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 1-2 February 2002.

Recommended Readings

Berger, Suzanne. "Globalization and Politics." Annual Review of Political Science 3 (June 2000): 43-62.

Dunning, John. Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1992. Chap. 1 and 2.

Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999. Chap. 1-6.

Greider, William. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Chap. 1, 2, and 14.

Ruggie, John. "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Order." International Organization 36, 2 (Spring 1982): 379-415.

World Bank. The East Asian Miracle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Chap. 1-3 (pp. 1-104). (Overview.)