Globalization, Poverty and Development

Graduate

This course provides a foundation for understanding the fields of Globalization and Development Studies, with special emphasis on the problem of persistent poverty and inequality on a global scale, and the relation of this condition to global political economy, global justice, and global politics. With a focus on the role of the state and market, the course combines expertise and perspectives from the fields of Politics, International Political Economy, and Sociology of Development to provide an interdisciplinary learning environment. It covers a range of relevant topics including the definitions of globalization(s); the definition(s) and measurement of poverty; the analysis of the relationship between globalization, development and poverty; global politics and development, global justice and global ethics; and the 2007 global crisis and its relation to global poverty and development.