POLS 2940 Study Guide - Final Guide: Structural Adjustment, Modernization Theory, Neoliberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Prof. Monika Thakur

Document Summary

Key debates: debate: competing approaches to understand foreign policy (hill; schweller; klare, debate: cognitive, leadership factors in fp decision-making (neack; klare) in contrast to bureaucratic approaches, role of domestic contexts. Terms: foreign policy, bureaucratic politics, learning in foreign policy analysis, operational code. Key debates: debate: compare the major approaches to ipe (phillips; fagan, debate: who wins and who loses from globalization impact of globalization inequality, labour exploitation, migration (phillips; hickel; delle) Terms: economic nationalism/realist perspective on ipe, embedded liberalism, modernization theory, underdevelopment/dependency theory. Term: structural adjustment programs, orthodox view of poverty, entitlement explanation of hunger, sustainable development goals (sdgs, overseas development assistance (oda) Key debate: debate: compare perspectives on poverty (orthodox vs critical), hunger (orthodox vs entitlement), development (orthodox vs alternate) (evans/thomas; undp; un, can neoliberalism deliver on its promise of development (opposing opinions 29. 1); is development assistance (aid) helpful.