Course Lecturer, Political Science, McGill University, Summer 2021

• POLI 243 - The Politics of International Economic Relations (syllabus)

  • Overall mean of students' formal end-of-course evaluation: 4.4/5

  • Lecture slides:

    1. Overview: the politics and the economics

SECTION I: THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF IER

• • 2. Idealism and realism

    3. Liberalism

    4. Institutionalism and constructivism

    5. Marxism

SECTION II: THE POLITICS OF IER BY LEVEL OF ANALYSIS

• • 6. The System level: states and IOs

    7. The domestic level: states and electorates

    8. The domestic level: firms and workers

SECTION III: THE POLITICS OF IER BY ISSUE-AREAS

• • 9. Trade

    10. FDI

    11. Finance

SECTION IV: THE POLITICS OF IER IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS

• • 12. Case: Britain’s Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846

    13. Case: The US trade policy in the 1930s

    14. Case: Bretton Woods Agreements & post-War economic order

    15. Case: The 2008 economic crisis and bailouts

    16. Case: Globalization backlash and populism

    17. Case: Pandemic and cooperation in 2020

    18. Review and conclusion

  • Sample Test

  • Research paper grading criteria and prompts