INTL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fixed Exchange-Rate System, Fungibility, Class Conflict
28 Feb 2016
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Week ten part ii: trade and investment (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) April 9th, 2015 due assignment: explain why things happened. Pick on one perspective and choose one. Choose one of the questions and do analytical explanation. The international political economy: historical background, contemporary institutions, where are we now. Analytical perspectives and ipe(realism focuses on state) Actors and interests in ipe: multinational corporations. The politics of money: exchange rates, the monetary system. Because the states create the favorable environment for globalization and corporation can do well in. Constructivism: what is blyth"s question and how does he answer it: things that other perspective does not recognize, the different kinds of actors are keeping the world in place. The role of ideas, the ideas of free markets. Ideas : the non-material thing, that provides solution to the government"s problem. They, the state actors/ government actors get something out of it.
