The Political Economy of Globalisation

Drawing on key theoretical concepts from the globalisation literature, this course explains the current form of globalisation as the spatial expression of capitalist accumulation and  examines the key features and changes in the global economy including the evolution of the global architecture of governance, the rise of neoliberalism, geographic reconfigurations of economic activity, the increasing dominance of financial capital, the changing distribution of wealth and poverty across the globe and the recent tendency for income inequality to rise in the majority of countries. After the course students will have a better understanding of the economic dimension of the globalisation process and a strong theoretical grounding to critically engage in the globalisation debate.

Assessment: 3000 word course paper