Global Economics and Security Syllabus, Winter Quarter

Global Economics and Security Syllabus International Studies Program, INTL ST 111C School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine January ­ March 2018, Winter quarter Instructor: Jacqueline Siapno E­mail: [email protected] Website: https://uci.academia.edu/JacquelineSiapno Office Hours for Dr. Siapno: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 1.30­3pm Office: Social Science Tower # 541. Class Times and Venues: Class time : Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30pm­4:50pm Classroom : IAB 131 Course Description What are some of the pressing global issues that can only be solved by countries working together? What are the links between natural resources, economics, and security? What are the links between oil/ petroleum and gender inequality? What do global indigenous peoples around the world have in common? What do Mary Kaldor and Shannon Beebe mean by “The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon”? What is the impact of states on the organization of markets? And what is the impact of markets on states? Is international cooperation without domination possible (especially when it comes to climate change)? Why is global studies important? What are the local­global connections between labor and capital? What does nation­state sovereignty mean in an increasingly globalized world? Does globalization contribute to peace or does it exacerbate conflict? What are the consequences of super­hyper­nationalisms? What does it mean to be a `global citizen’ in an era of climate change? How can Californians contribute and produce new knowledges to make our world a kinder, more equitable, sustainable, peaceful place? Students are expected to familiarize themselves through their own independent research on historical and current events with a broad literature review on these topics. We shall draw upon a wide range of sources including analytical frameworks on global economics, security, and international relations, applied research, ethnography, and global South and feminist critiques of security and global economics. Assessment/ Student Grades: 1. 30% Attendance and Class Participation: weekly reading and discussions of books and articles, in class and online. Find current articles related to thematic topics each week and share/ post them for the class. 2 2. 30% ­ Group Oral Presentation (in­class), chosen from weekly Thematic Topics. Sign­up for presentation topics during the first and second weeks of the course. The class will be divided into 5 groups in the first week. The course is a journey in cooperation without domination and survival of the kindest (not the fittest). 3. 10% ­ Mid­Term Exam: due February 20, Tuesday. 5 Questions, Essay Form. Take Home Exam. 4. 30% ­ Group final research paper. Students, as a team, are to produce a creative project, based on thematic topics and materials covered in class, on how to solve a specific problem. Written work must be 15 pages (double­spaced, including rhetoric of the bibliobraphy/ literature review), due March 20, Tuesday, by 5pm, via e­mail to the Instructor. Other creative work (not written, e.g. producing a short film) is encouraged. Students will be graded on capacity to cooperate, collaborate, and do team work. Class Processes 1. Students are required to complete the readings before or during the week they are assigned. Materials will be made available online, on Reserve at the Library, or in a Reading Pack. Students are expected to have read thoroughly for each class and to have developed critical questions to raise during class, based on careful readings of assigned texts. 2. No laptops or phones in class; too distracting. 3. Do not plagiarize: see UC Irvine guidelines: "Learning, research, and scholarship depend upon an environment of academic integrity and honesty. This environment can be maintained only when all participants recognize the importance of upholding the highest ethical standards. All student work, including quizzes, exams, reports, and papers must be the work of the individual receiving credit. Academic dishonesty includes, for example, cheating on examinations or any assignment, plagiarism of any kind (including improper citation of sources), having someone else take an examination or complete an assignment for you (or doing this for someone else), or any activity in which you represent someone else’s work as your own. Violations of academic integrity will be referred to the Office of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct. Please familiarize yourself with UCI’s Academic Integrity Policy (https://aisc.uci.edu/policies/academic­ integrity/index.php) and speak to your instructor if you have any questions about what is and is not allowed in this course." Week 1 January 9, Tuesday. Introduction to the course. Explanation of the Syllabus. What are some of the pressing global issues that can only be solved by countries working together? 3 Homework: brainstorm and submit answers to class on Thursday, Jan. 11. Jan. 11, Thursday: Readings: Saskia Sassen: Is Rohingya persecution caused by business interests rather than religion? https://www.theguardian.com/global­development­professionals­ network/2017/jan/04/is­rohingya­persecution­caused­by­business­interests­ rather­than­religion Naomi Klein: How power profits from disaster https://www.theguardian.com/us­news/2017/jul/06/naomi­klein­how­power­ profits­from­disaster Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel: “Innovation is overvalued; Hail the maintainers”: https://aeon.co/essays/innovation­is­overvalued­maintenance­often­matters­more Sheila Coronel: “I will kill all the druglords”. Who produces the drugs? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/rodrigo­duterte­ philippines­manila­drugs­davao/500756/ G. John Ikenberry https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in­theory/wp/2016/01/27/american­ leadership­is­in­crisis­but­the­world­order­is­not/?utm_term=.b02020698cfa Week 2: What are the links between natural resources, economics, and security? Jan. 16, Tuesday Readings: Jared Diamond, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies,” W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. Read Chapter 17: “Speedboat to Polynesia” and “Afterword”. Forest Peoples Programme: http://www.forestpeoples.org/en What we can learn from traditional societies, Jared Diamond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLuaf7low4 Why societies collapse, Jared Diamond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis Eve Darian­Smith and Philip C. McCarty, “The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies,” University of California Press, 2017. Read Chapter 1: “Global Studies as a New Field of Inquiry”. 4 Jan. 18, Thursday: on so­called “Fragile and failed states”. Readings: Daniel Bertrand Monk and Jacob Mundy, “The Post Conflict Environment: Investigation and Critique,” The University of Michigan Press: 2014. Read Chapter 1, “Introduction: The Post­Conflict Environment: A Genealogy”. Michael L. Ross, “The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations,” Princeton University Press: 2012. Read Chapters 1 “The Paradoxical Wealth of Nations” and 4: “Petroleum Perpetuates Patriarchy”. World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2017.pdf UNDP: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data World Bank. Gender Data Portal: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/gender/topic/economic­opportunities Week 3: State Power and World Markets Jan. 23 Readings: Joseph M. Grieco and G. John Ikenberry, “State Power and World Markets,” W.W. Norton & Company: 2003. Read Chapter 1: “Introduction”; Chapter 4: “The Political Foundations of the World Economy”. Davos, World Economic Forum: http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/23/news/economy/trump­snow­davos/index.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald­trump/davos­trump­looks­sell­america­ first­global­elite­n840821 Eric Tagliacozzo, “Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865­1915,” Yale University Press, 2005. Read Chapters 8 and 10. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/even­the­prime­minister­of­norway­ has­been­mansplained­to https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/angela­merkel­at­davos­we­need­ global­cooperation­not­walls http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/world­economic­forum­davos­matter­ 180122135244445.html 5 Jan. 25: Reading: Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty,” New York: Currency, 2012. Read Chapter 2: “Theories that don’t work”; Chapter 13: “Why nations fail today”. Joseph Stiglitz: “The Great Divide” https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/stiglitz­inequality/479952/ Read: Thomas Piketty: “Capital in the Twenty First Century” https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_piketty_new_thoughts_on_capital_in_the_twe nty_first_century Paul Krugman: Review of Piketty’s book: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/05/08/thomas­piketty­new­gilded­age/ William Easterly: “The White Man’s Burden”: https://www.amazon.com/White­Mans­Burden­Efforts­Little/dp/0143038826 http://www.economist.com/topics/william­easterly Paul Collier: “The Bottom Billion”: https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_shares_4_ways_to_help_the_bottom_billi on Week 4: Is Global Governance Feasible and Desirable? Jan. 30 Readings: Dani Rodrik, “The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy,” W.W. Norton & Company: 2011. Read: Chapter 3: “Why doesn’t everyone get the case for free trade?”; Chapter 10: “Is Global Governance Feasible? Is it Desirable?”. Feb. 1st The Economist. 2016. April 2nd. “Trade, at what price?” The Economist. Dec. 2017. “In 2018, the world will watch as two of the world's most hot­headed leaders play out a game of nuclear brinkmanship. Could the heated rhetoric spiral into nuclear catastrophe?” https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6344232145833336832 Student film: “Where is North Korea?” (This was produced by Dr. Siapno’s students). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr4HEumRl_Q Xi Jinping’s “Belt and Road Initiative”; and China on Global Economic Governance: https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/the­belt­and­road­initiative­and­the­future­of­ globalization/ 6 https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/a­chinese­model­for­global­leadership/ https://thediplomat.com/2016/11/chinas­domestic­debate­on­global­governance/ Week 5: What do global indigenous peoples have in common? Feb. 6 Readings: Benjamin Madley, “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe,” Yale University Press: 2017. Read Chapter 1: “Introduction” and Chapter 2: “Gold, Immigrants, and Killers from Oregon: March 1848­May 1850.” Interview with David Archambault II at Cornell Univ.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qumC­0tROU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmarnR8sgNE Feb. 8 Eben Kirksey, “Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power,” Duke University Press: 2012. Read Chapter 3: “Entangled Worlds at War” and Chapter 4: “Don’t Use Your Data as a Pillow”. Mama Yosepha Alomang, West Papua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO299RAt­NM https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/yosepha­alomang/ https://www.engagemedia.org/Members/numbaymedia/videos/mamayosepha.m4 v/view Human Rights Watch: “Something to hide”: https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/11/10/something­hide/indonesias­restrictions­ media­freedom­and­rights­monitoring­papua Week 6: On Human Security and Military Security Feb. 13 Readings: Mary Kaldor and Shannon Beebe, “The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace,” Public Affairs: 2010. Read Chapter 7: “Hard versus Soft Security”. Terence Lee, “Defect or Defend: Military Responses to Popular Protests in Authoritarian Asia,” ISEAS and John Hopkins University Press, 2015. Read Chapter 2: “Authoritarian Institutions: Power Sharing, Personalism, and Military Defection.” Mary Kaldor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgaETSdNpBw 7 Shannon Beebe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVhhAjbdbGI Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces: https://www.dcaf.ch https://www.dcaf.ch/being­and­effective­advisor­senior­advisor­piet­biesheuvel https://www.dcaf.ch/monitoring­ukraine­security­sector­governance Feb. 15: Mid­Term Exam. Take home. 5 questions. Answer in Essay­form. Due Feb. 20. Labor and Capital: Film: “Dolores” (about Dolores Huerta). Cosmopolitan Militaries: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137032263 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2016/05/01/book­review­the­cosmopolitan­ military­armed­forces­and­human­security­in­the­21st­century­by­jonathan­ gilmore/ UN Peacekeeping: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en Engendering Security Sector Reform: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13533311003625142?src=recsys UN Security Council Resolution 1325: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13533311003625043?src=recsys Film: This Changes Everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBfJ1vf9Xqw Week 7: Climate Change and Global Security Feb. 20 Readings: Daniel Moran, editor. “Climate Change and National Security: A Country­Level Analysis,” Georgetown University Press: 2011. Read Chapter: “Climate Science and Climate Politics”; and Chapter 4: The Philippines. Robert Paarlberg, “The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism,” Oxford University Press: 2015. Read Chapter 5: “America’s Response to Excess”; and Chapter 6: “America’s Excess and the World”. Feb. 22: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation 8 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch https://www.ipcc­wg3.ac.uk UNFCC http://unfccc.int/2860.php http://unfccc.int/focus/mitigation/items/7169.php REDD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reducing_emissions_from_deforestation_and_forest _degradation Film: “Before the Flood”: https://grist.org/briefly/leonardo­dicaprios­new­climate­change­film­is­now­ streaming/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqBduQIx­Q An Inconvenient Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZUoYGAI5i0 Sustainable: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80134814?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2C02 b0c4d0c49d812e3a00647a3cad288df751f857%3Ab54f88805b0b0898256e9f89a 60a41e45be57fbc Week 8: The Economics of International Trade Feb. 27 Readings: Pietra Rivoli, “The Travels of a T­Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 2009. Read Chapter 2: “Made in China” (Cotton Comes to China; The Long Race to the Bottom; Sisters in Time; The Unwitting Conspiracy). Grieco & Ikenberry, “State Power and World Markets”. Read Chapter 2: “The Economics of International Trade”. March 1: Student Presentation Group 1. Week 9: Critical Studies on Humanitarianism, Economic Development, and Security March 6 Readings: G. Shabbir Cheema, William Ascher et.al., “The Evolution of Development Thinking: Governance, Economics, Assistance, and Security,” Palgrave Macmillan: 2016. Read Chapter 10: “Complementarity of Security and Development Doctrines: Historical Cases and Aftermaths”; and Chapter 11: “Linkages and Challenges” 9 Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi, “Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions,” Zone Books: 2013. Read Craig Calhoun, “The Idea of Emergency: Humanitarian Action and Global (Dis) Order,” pp. 29­58. Student Presentation 2. March 8: Student Presentation 3. Week 10: March 13, Tuesday: Student Presentation 4. March 15, Thursday: Concluding Remarks: Global Movements Music and Performance Art in Conflict Environments. Reading,visuals, and listening: Bassam Youssef,“The Joke is Mightier than the Sword”. Jacqueline Siapno, “Dance and Martial Arts in a Conflict Environment”. Final Exam/ Final Group Research Paper due: March 20, Tuesday, by 5pm, via e­mail to Instructor. Some Resources: World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org The Economist: https://www.economist.com Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS): https://www.iseas.edu.sg Read current reports from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, World Bank, UN organizations, Asia Foundation, and many more. Other readings, articles, and resources will be shared by the Instructor throughout the quarter.