SP52098: Global political economy
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 75%, CWOG 25% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Group presentation (CWOG 25%)
- Essay (CWES 75%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
- Recognise the role of external dynamics in determining development processes and outcomes.
- Adopt a political economy perspective to explain the nature and evolution of international institutions and their impact on development.
- Critically evaluate the position of developing countries in international institutions and the sources of economic power in the global political economy.
- Discuss key concepts such as commodity dependence, policy space, industrial policy, and their role in development processes within the global context.
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| Synopsis: | Develop an economic understanding of the evolution of patterns of world production, trade, regional integration, and inequality.
Adopting a political economy perspective, you'll explore and question theoretical debates of the concept of globalisation to explain the role of external constraints on development.
You'll gain insights into the role of institutions at national, regional, and global levels, and how they shape development policies and outcomes.
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| Content: | This unit will introduce students to key economic approaches to globalisation and development. Based on a theoretical framework to understand international institutions and their evolution, the unit will introduce students to a range of topics to understand the global political economy landscape. These topics include the global trading regime and its impact on development; regional and bilateral trade agreements; global intellectual property rights and their impact on access to knowledge and medicine. We will also cover several recent debates, such as, public and private labour standards and their relationship to working conditions in the developing world.
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| Course availability: |
SP52098 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- THSP-AFM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
- THSP-AWM44 : MSc International Development with Economics
SP52098 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- THPL-AFM52 : MRes Politics and International Studies
- THPL-AFM53 : MRes Politics and International Studies
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- THSP-AFM54 : MRes Global Challenges: geopolitics, inequalities and mobilities
- THSP-AFM55 : MRes Global Challenges: geopolitics, inequalities and mobilities
- THSP-AFM46 : MRes International Development
- THSP-AFM47 : MRes International Development
- THSP-AFM41 : MSc International Development
- THSP-AWM41 : MSc International Development
- THSP-APM41 : MSc International Development
- THSP-AFM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-AWM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-APM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
- THSP-AFM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-AWM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
- THSP-APM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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