Uri Dadush
The National Interests - September 22, 2014
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Bretton Woods institutions—the
IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization
(WTO)/GATT—appeared invincible. Orchestrated by the United States as the
sole superpower, they seemed set to durably underpin a universal
economic order. But they are now in rapid and unmistakable decline,
which can only be reversed by a major shift in approach by their
political masters.
As the Cold War receded, all three institutions felt a strong wind in
their sails. Hundreds of millions of Chinese, Russian and Vietnamese
workers became part of the global market economy. The Eastern Europeans
became enthusiastic joiners of the European Union. China, Russia, and
dozens of other countries embarked on comprehensive negotiations to
become members of the WTO, not only adopting the totality of the rules
that govern trade, but accepting even tougher disciplines than applied
to existing members. Previously planned economies became active members
and users of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, eagerly
adopting the tenets of the Washington Consensus. Meanwhile, economic
growth in the developing world surged, democracy spread, and
international conflicts declined in frequency and intensity.
READ MORE....
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Haredim refuse to sit next to women on El Al flight, causing '11-hour-nightmare'
El Al passengers on New York-Israel flight claim Haredi men refused to sit next to women, even offering secular passengers money to switch seats, delaying flight's departure.
Itay Blumenthal
Ynet - 09.25.14
Passengers aboard an El Al flight from New York's JKF airport to Israel claim that hundreds of ultra-Orthodox passengers demanded that they trade places with them before takeoff, saying they cannot sit next to women.
"It was an 11-hour long nightmare," one of the passengers summed up her experience.
On Wednesday morning, the eve of Rosh Hashanah, thousands of Israeli and Jewish passengers landed in Israel, including scores of ultra-Orthodox Jews who decided to celebrate the Jewish New Year in the Holy Land. However, things didn't go so smoothly on one El Al flight carrying a large group of haredim, as well as secular Jews, that departed from New York's JFK and landed in Israel at 5 am Wednesday. According to the passengers who were on the plane, their fellow ultra-Orthodox travelers refused to sit next to women prior to the takeoff, which not only delayed the flight, but caused actual chaos to ensue on the plane.
READ MORE.....
Itay Blumenthal
Ynet - 09.25.14
Passengers aboard an El Al flight from New York's JKF airport to Israel claim that hundreds of ultra-Orthodox passengers demanded that they trade places with them before takeoff, saying they cannot sit next to women.
"It was an 11-hour long nightmare," one of the passengers summed up her experience.
On Wednesday morning, the eve of Rosh Hashanah, thousands of Israeli and Jewish passengers landed in Israel, including scores of ultra-Orthodox Jews who decided to celebrate the Jewish New Year in the Holy Land. However, things didn't go so smoothly on one El Al flight carrying a large group of haredim, as well as secular Jews, that departed from New York's JFK and landed in Israel at 5 am Wednesday. According to the passengers who were on the plane, their fellow ultra-Orthodox travelers refused to sit next to women prior to the takeoff, which not only delayed the flight, but caused actual chaos to ensue on the plane.
READ MORE.....
Curses, Fooled Again!
By PETER FUNT
The New York Times - SEPT. 26, 2014
READ MORE.....
The New York Times - SEPT. 26, 2014
I
SPENT the summer producing new “Candid Camera” shows, and among the
many things I observed after a 10-year hiatus was that people are more
easily fooled than ever.
That
may seem counterintuitive, but I’m certain it’s true. Much has to do
with multitasking. When my dad, Allen Funt, introduced the show over six
decades ago, he had to work at distracting people. Nowadays they do it
to themselves.
Many
people we now encounter are fiddling with cellphones and other devices,
tackling routine activities with less-than-full focus. That makes them
easier targets for our little experiments, but also more vulnerable to
personal mishaps and genuine scams.
I
worried briefly that people are now so tech-savvy that some of our
props and fake setups wouldn’t be believed. Instead, we found that the
omnipresence of technology has reached a point where people will now
accept almost anything.
READ MORE.....
What do the Americans want from U.S. foreign policy?
Survey Says The Chicago Council's new report might have answers as to what Americans want when it comes to Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. The only problem is, it asked the wrong questions.
BY Stephen M. Walt
Foreign Policy - SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
What do the American people want from U.S. foreign policy? If you're a die-hard neoconservative, a committed liberal interventionist, or somebody who thinks the solution to most global problems should be Made-in-America, then you're probably worried that the American people are becoming disenchanted with the costly and mostly unsuccessful foreign policy of the past couple of decades. But if you seek reassurance and would enjoy reading a "glass half-full" analysis of that issue, then I commend to you the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' recent survey of U.S. public opinion, titled "Foreign Policy in the Age of Retrenchment." It is important to recognize that a key mission of the Chicago Council, like that of many other nonpartisan membership organizations, is "educating the public" about contemporary global issues. The purpose of such education, of course, is to encourage greater U.S. engagement in world affairs and to counter any tendency toward "isolationism." The people who support the organization -- and especially some of its biggest donors -- also tend to be committed internationalists who support using American power to advance various foreign-policy goals. Chicago Council President Ivo Daalder (a co-author of the report) is a card-carrying liberal internationalist who was a prominent advocate of NATO expansion and has repeatedly proposed creating a global "league of democracies." Back in 2012, he hailed the toppling of Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi as a great victory for NATO and as a "model intervention" (sadly, this so-called victory actually spawned a dangerous failed state). Neither the Chicago Council nor its current leaders are likely to be anything about enthusiastic about active U.S. leadership on the world stage.
READ MORE....
BY Stephen M. Walt
Foreign Policy - SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
What do the American people want from U.S. foreign policy? If you're a die-hard neoconservative, a committed liberal interventionist, or somebody who thinks the solution to most global problems should be Made-in-America, then you're probably worried that the American people are becoming disenchanted with the costly and mostly unsuccessful foreign policy of the past couple of decades. But if you seek reassurance and would enjoy reading a "glass half-full" analysis of that issue, then I commend to you the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' recent survey of U.S. public opinion, titled "Foreign Policy in the Age of Retrenchment." It is important to recognize that a key mission of the Chicago Council, like that of many other nonpartisan membership organizations, is "educating the public" about contemporary global issues. The purpose of such education, of course, is to encourage greater U.S. engagement in world affairs and to counter any tendency toward "isolationism." The people who support the organization -- and especially some of its biggest donors -- also tend to be committed internationalists who support using American power to advance various foreign-policy goals. Chicago Council President Ivo Daalder (a co-author of the report) is a card-carrying liberal internationalist who was a prominent advocate of NATO expansion and has repeatedly proposed creating a global "league of democracies." Back in 2012, he hailed the toppling of Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi as a great victory for NATO and as a "model intervention" (sadly, this so-called victory actually spawned a dangerous failed state). Neither the Chicago Council nor its current leaders are likely to be anything about enthusiastic about active U.S. leadership on the world stage.
READ MORE....
A Course Syllabus: Introduction to International Studies (Fall 2014)
Introduction to International Studies
Classroom:
Ondine 218
Instructor: Tugrul
Keskin
Office: 333
East Hall
Google Phone: 202-630-1025
Office Hours: Monday
and Wednesday 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM or by appointment
E-mail: tugrulkeskin (at) pdx.edu
Teaching Assistant: Rosie David
Office: East Hall 333 Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00
– 6:00 PM or by appointment
(PLEASE include “International Studies”
in the subject line)
The free man will ask neither what his
country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. ~ Milton Friedman
While the State exists, there can be no
freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, "State and
Revolution", 1919
Course Description and Objective
The focus of this course is the state, society and economy in the
context of globalization. Therefore, the major themes of the course relate
directly to international studies. In order to understand transformations
taking place in the world today, we need to explore the social, political and
economic underpinnings of the past. Today’s paradigms were created in relation
to specific events in the past, and now fuel current events. At the beginning
of the 20st century, there was a modern and bureaucratic state in
Europe, which emerged as a consequence of the industrialization of the late 18th
century. The 18th and 19th century’s patterns of
industrialization then fueled domestic migration and the migration of rural
populations to the big cities, which led to mass urbanization.
The modern city was then born under a capitalist economic order, and
this has created a more secular-oriented and disciplined individual. This new
individual is the product of the modern city and consumes more, works more, is
more educated than his or her predecessor, and is less interested in community
or religion. In this context, the state becomes the center of political debate,
and the life of the “modern” and secular individual is regulated by the state
for the sake of modern economic conditions. This
is what Neoliberalism today looks like.
During and after the industrialization process, the emergence of the
nation-state led to the formation of nationalism and national identities, as we
know them today. This was also a product of the domestic market, and was used
in order to develop and expand capitalist interests. The decline of religious
identities has thus been replaced with an increase in national identities.
According to Karl Marx, the state and nationalism were necessary mechanisms of
exploitation, used to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie – or upper
classes. Nationalism became a new ‘religion’ or collective consciousness.
At the time of the 20th century economic revolution, we
witnessed rapid social changes, such as women’s participation in the workforce,
an increase in education across all sectors of the population, popular use of
visual and print media, and the emergence of the nuclear family, among numerous
other trends. Changes such as this led to a flourishing multi-party system
democracy. However, the new economic system was also the engine of these
changes and has continued to reproduce itself for the sake of the free market
economy.
Today, capitalism has moved to a new
stage in its development in the second part of the twentieth century, which can
be characterized by the dehumanization of the social and political system. The
political system of the nation-state changed, because old style bureaucratic structures
created obstacles for the new free market economy. Therefore, the role of the
nation-state has since weakened and this has led to the formation and
predominance of powerful corporations.
In this course, we will observe, analyze, and understand the
consequences of this transformation within a comparative perspective. Every
concept and phenomenon will be explored within the discipline of International
Studies. As an introduction to the discipline, the purpose of the course is to
develop a foundational knowledge of international studies, enhanced analytical
skills, and to develop a terminology that is relevant to a broad understanding
of the economic, social and political transformations of our time.
International Studies
Themes
State/Politics Society/Culture Economy
Nation-state Nationalism/ethnic
groups Capitalism
Bureaucracy Tradition/Modernity Socialism
Colonialism/Imperialism McDonaldization Welfare State
Ethnic Conflicts/Wars Religion/secularism Neoliberalism
Think-tanks/NGOs Social Movements The Corporations
Learning Outcomes (Tugrul Keskin):
By
the end of the course, you will have enhanced your:
§
Critical
thinking in relation to international studies
§
Ability
to question dogmas and taboos in today’s societies
§
Consciousness
of differing perspectives and diversity
§
Understanding
of world issues and trends
§
Understanding
of the impact of colonialism and imperialism in developing
nations
You also will have increased your
knowledge concerning:
§
Resources
in your potential discipline
§
Resources
specific to your region
§
Traditional
information sources
§
Alternative
information sources
§
Knowledge
of relevant methodologies
Learning Outcomes (Shawn Smallman)
Core Learning Outcome: Students
will demonstrate an understanding of world cultures, politics, and economics,
within the context of globalization, as well as developing the skills and
attitudes to function as “global citizens.”
Specific Outcomes:
- Demonstrates knowledge of global issues, processes, trends and systems (i.e. economic and political interdependency among nations; environmental-cultural interaction; global governance bodies).
- Can articulate an understanding of her/his culture in global and comparative context; that is, recognizes that her/his culture is one of many diverse cultures and that alternate perceptions and behaviors may be based in cultural differences.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the meaning and practice of political, military, economic, and cultural hegemony within states and within the global system.
- Demonstrates an understanding of how her/his field is viewed and practiced in different international contexts.
- Uses diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference, including those of the media, to think critically and solve problems.
- Uses information from other languages and other countries to extend their access to information and experiences.
- Interprets issues and situations from more than one cultural perspective.
- Can articulate differences among cultures; demonstrates tolerance for the diverse viewpoints that emerge from these differences.
- Demonstrates a critical understanding of the historical origins of the nation-state, and its current role in the global system.
- Can apply the key theoretical concepts in the field to interpret global issues.
- Exhibits an ongoing willingness to seek out international or intercultural opportunities.
Please
visit Professor Shawn Smallman’s website: http://introtoglobalstudies.com/blog/
Required Readings:
- Shawn Smallman and Kimberley Brown. 2010. Introduction to International and Global Studies. The University of North Carolina Press. http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=2561
- Readings in Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates By George Ritzer (Editor), Zeynep Atalay (Editor) 2010. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405132736.html
Recommended Readings:
- John J. Macionis and Ken Plummer. 2012. Sociology: A Global Introduction. Prentice-Hall.
- Leslie Sklair. 2004. Globalization: Capitalism and its alternatives. Oxford University Press.
- Sheila L. Croucher, 2004. Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of Identity in a Changing World, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
- John Mearsheimer. 2003. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W.W.
Norton &
Company.
5. Judith Blau and Mark Frezzo. 2011. Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century. Sage. http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235439
- David Harvey. 2006. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/PoliticalTheory/ContemporaryPoliticalThought/?view=usa&ci=9780199283279
- Jeffry A. Frieden. 2007. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. W.W. Norton. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=8193
- J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite. 2007. The Globalization and Development Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- J. R. McNeill. 2011. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
- Naomi Klein. 2007. The Sock Doctrine. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.
- William I. Robinson. 2004. A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press.
- Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson. 2005. Critical Globalization Studies. New York, NY: Routledge.
13. Samuel Martinez. 2009. International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy. University of California Press.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520258211
Readings:
Other Readings will be posted on D2L and you will find them
under the course news.
Recommended Movies and documentaries:
- The War On Democracy - John Pilger
- The Secret Country by John Pilger
- The New Rulers of the World John Pilger
- Ten Canoes (2007)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- The Fountainhead (1949)
· Death of a Salesman (1985)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Pleasantville (1998)
- American Beauty (1999)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- The Corporation (2003)
- Treble Army – Lullabomb
- Animal Farm - George Orwell - 1954
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Brazil - 1985
- 12 Monkeys - 2009
Course Philosophy:
The goal of this course is to
become familiar with the social, political and economic underpinnings of
International Studies. The success of this course depends on your continued and
sustained reading and participation. The course will be based on a
four-dimensional method of learning, and this includes inquiry and critical
thinking; communication; and will draw on the diversity of human experience;
and ethics and social responsibility. First, I would like you to critically
analyze what you learn in this class or have learned so far through the media
and your education, because in today’s world, truth is a relative concept.
Throughout human history, critical thinking is one of the most important
factors that have contributed to human development. In order to become
active, self-motivated, and empowered learners and future leaders, you will
need to have the ability to think critically, and therefore your criticism,
feedback and suggestions are necessary. Second, I would like for you to enhance
your writing and oral communication skills in this course. Therefore, it is
important to clearly elaborate your arguments in class discussion as well as in
the written assignments.
Third, we are each part of the
human mosaic, and all have different experiences based on our unique social,
political and economic differences. We can all learn from and respect each
other and benefit from our diversity. Please try to learn from and understand
those with different perspectives from your own. Lastly, we need to learn that
we are all part of this intellectual community and part of a larger society,
and all have social and ethical responsibilities to our family, community,
classmates, and humanity. We live in a globalized world and therefore, we need
to be aware of events in our community, and the world today. In order to
enhance our knowledge, we must critically examine our social, political and
economic environment in order to apply this knowledge to our experience.
Course Requirements
To prevent confusion later,
please read the following information:
Grades: Your grade for
this course will be based on your performance on the following components,
shown below with their dates and respective weights.
Item Date Weight (%)
Online Quizzes (6) Sunday
(9-10 PM) 48.0
Short Analytical Paper November 30 20.0
Class Participation/Attendance
5.0
Newspaper Articles
3.0
The grading system in this class is as follows:
A 95-100
A- 90-94
B+ 86-89
B 85
B- 80-84
C+ 76-79
C 75
C- 70-74
D+ 66-69
D 65
D- 60-64
F (Failure)
Final Exam: You will take the final exam on Sunday, December
7th (8:00 – 10:00 PM). I will ask 48 multiple-choice/true and false
questions and you will have two hours to finish the exam. If you have any
questions or concerns, please let me know as soon as possible.
Online Quizzes: You will have 6 quizzes. The quizzes will
have 16 questions from each week’s class readings and discussions. Each Quiz is
worth 8 points and each question is worth 0.5 point. You will find the schedule
of quizzes below. Please carefully review the online quiz schedule. If you have
schedule conflict, drop the class. If you have any questions or concerns,
please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Online Quiz Schedule:
October 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9 and 16 (Sunday
9 - 10 PM)
Analytical Paper: In this requirement, you will select a
book written by a famous international novelist, and will review (summarize and
critique) the novel based on our textbooks. This paper should be at least
1500 words in length. You will find a list of recommended novelists on
You must provide a word count at
the end of your paper. The paper is due on Saturday November 30th.
Some recommended well-known novelists include John Steinbeck, Orhan Pamuk, Leo
Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Naguib Mahfouz, Azar Nafisi,
Chinua Achebe, Arundhati Roy, and etc. You will find detailed information and
recommended novels on D2L. Everyone will select a different novel. No one will
read the same novel. Your selection must be approved and registered by a
teaching assistant, Rosie David rosa@pdx.edu; therefore you must
contact her directly regarding your selection. The deadline for
selecting/registering your novel with teaching assistant, Rosie Davis is Sunday, October 27. The deadline for submitting
your review is Sunday November 30. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Attendance: Regular
attendance is one of the most important parameters to successful completion of
the course requirements. If you miss more than 4 classes, you will not receive
an attendance grade. Excuses will not be
permitted for any reason.
Class
Participation: Each student must read the course materials before they
attend class and I expect them to participate in class discussion. Class
participation in the form of informed questions and comments will be taken into
consideration when determining your final grade. Additionally, the class
participation grade also depends on class attendance.
Newspaper Articles: During the semester, you can bring 3
newspaper articles related with our class subjects. You cannot bring more
than one article in the same week. You will have to summarize these
articles in class and will find the recommended newspapers listed on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.it/,
under the external links section.
Newspaper articles sent by email will not be accepted. Please bring it to
class, the first page of the printed/hard copy of the article. You can only
bring an article from the selected newspapers, posted on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot
and you will find them under links section. Some of the recommended newspapers
are The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Democracynow.org, Financial Times, The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pravda, Haaretz, China Daily, and the
Economist. Please do not bring articles from local newspapers!
Extra Credit: For this extra credit option, you will build your resume based on one
of the samples on D2L. The first sample resume is for academic job
applications, and the second one is for general job applications. You will only
build a resume based on your interests, Please select only one. For your
resume, please use Times New Roman, 12 font size. Please submit your hard copy
of your resume/vita/cv to Rosie Davis. The last day to submit your resume and/or internship proof letter is
Sunday, November 30.
You
will find the two sample resumes on D2L.
For
this second extra credit option, you will find an organization, NGO, government
agency or a corporation based in Portland, Washington DC or anywhere in the US
or the World and you will apply for an internship for the spring or summer 2015.
Please bring a print copy of your proof of your internship application to Rosie
Davis. In the internship application,
if you are asked for a recommendation, you may include my name as your
reference. You can find recommended agencies, corporations, organization or think
tanks on http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.
PLEASE
READ CAREFULLY!
Coming late to class: Late comers will not be accepted to class, so
be on time. If you are late for a class, please do not disturb your classmates
and me and do not come at all. Please also do not send an email or call me regarding your class
attendance. If there is a medical need, bring an official letter from a doctor.
Whatever the reason is, if you cannot come to class, this is your
responsibility. If you miss more than 4 classes, you will not receive an
attendance grade.
PLEASE
READ CAREFULLY!
Laptop and
cell phone policy: No laptops or cell phones will be allowed in this
class. Please turn your cell phone off before you come to class. If you use
the Internet/laptop or your cell phone during class, you will be asked to
leave.
Responsibility: You and/or your parents pay tuition for this
class; therefore, you have responsibility to yourself and/or your parents.
Passing or failing the class is not the main objective, rather that you learn
and improve your knowledge. Please read and try to understand the main concepts
of this class. If you are having difficulty, please do not hesitate to see me
and discuss your concerns!
Each year, almost half a million
people graduate from American public universities (see http://collegecompletion.chronicle.com/).
As you will see from the statistics, the job market is very competitive;
therefore, students need to improve their knowledge, skill, and experience in
order to find a job they want. Learning is a lifelong process. An academic
institution like Portland State University will provide you with an educational
discipline and methodology; everything else is up to you. You should study and
improve your skills, in order to compete with the rest of the graduates. While
you are in the program, you should apply for internships to obtain relevant
experiences before you graduate. Therefore, if you need a letter of
recommendation for an internship or job, please do not hesitate to ask me, if
you receive at least an A, A- or B+ grade from my class. Please also remember
that an undergraduate degree might not be enough to find the job you want;
therefore, you might need to apply to graduate school. In order to apply to graduate
school, you will also need to have a letter of recommendation. I am also happy
to advise you on graduate school or provide a letter of recommendation if you
receive an A, A- or B+ grade.
General:
-You are expected to follow PSU’s student code of
conduct, particularly 577-031-0135 and 577-031-0136, which can be found at
Violations of the code will be reported to the Office
of the Dean of Student Life.
-You are encouraged to take advantage of instructor
and TA office hours or email communication for help with coursework or anything
else connected with the course and your progress.
-If you are a student with a documented disability
and are registered with Disability Resource Center (503.725.4150 or TDD
725.6504), please contact the instructor immediately to arrange academic
accommodations.
-Make sure you have an ODIN account; this email will
be used for D2L and important emails from the instructor and TA. DO NOT
USE THE INTERNAL D2L mail function to contact us. If you do not typically use
your PSU ODIN account, figure out how to get your mail from this account
forwarded to the account you usually use.
*FOR ALL ACADEMIC
CORRESPONDENCE FOR OBSERVING AND CONTACT WITH TEACHERS YOU WISH TO OBSERVE USE
YOUR ODIN ACCOUNT*
No Laptops and cell phones
will be allowed in this class.
Course Timeline
First Week
September 29
October 3
|
Introduction to
International Studies and Syllabus
Orientalism,
Neo-Orientalism, International Studies and Sociology
The Origins of
Modern Capitalism: Industrialization by Tugrul Keskin
Major Themes in
international studies: State, society and economy by Tugrul Keskin
Introduction and
History – Smallman and Brown
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
1 Introduction to Globalization
Debates.
1 Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive
or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature
(Mauro F. Guillén).
Documentary: Serving Humanity Without any Discrimination
Documentary: China Rising -
Episode 1: The Dramatic Rise
Documentary: China Rises. Getting Rich
(2006)
|
Second Week
October
6 - 10
|
Economic
Globalization – Smallman and Brown
Documentary: The Corporation (2003)
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
Part I Political
Economy.
2 Civilizations.
2 The Clash of
Civilizations? (Samuel P. Huntington).
3 Global Utopias and
Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the Present (John Gray).
4 Can Civilizations
Clash? (Jack F. Matlock, Jr).
5 History Ends,
Worlds Collide (Chris Brown).
6 If Not
Civilizations, What? Paradigms of the Post-Cold War World (Samuel P.
Huntington).
The case of Africa by Tugrul Keskin
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
3 Orientalism,
Colonialism, and Postcolonialism.
7 Orientalism:
Introduction (Edward W. Said).
8 Orientalism and Orientalism
in Reverse (Sadik Jalal al-'Azm).
9 Postcolonialism
and Its Discontents (Ali Rattansi).
10 Said’s
Orientalism: A Vital Contribution Today (Peter Marcuse).
Documentary: Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death - Peter
Bate, Belgium, 2003 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUZLtkLA0VE
|
October 12
Sunday 9-10 PM
|
Quiz-1 Online: D2L
|
Third Week
October
13 - 17
|
Political
Globalization – Smal]lman and
Brown
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
4 Neoliberalism.
11 Freedom versus Collectivism in Foreign Aid
(William Easterly).
12 The Great Transformation: The Political and
Economic Origins of Our Time (Karl Polanyi).
13 Freedom’s Just Another Word . . . (David
Harvey).
14 Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to
Neoliberalism (Aihwa Ong).
5 Structural Adjustment.
15 Structural Adjustment in East and Southeast
Asia: Lessons from Latin America (Jim Glassman and Pádraig Carmody).
16 The Social Consequences of Structural
Adjustment: Recent Evidence and Current Debates (Sarah Babb).
17 The Human Rights Effects of World Bank
Structural Adjustment, 1981–2000 (M. Rodwan Abouharb and David L.
Cingranelli).
18 How International Monetary Fund and World Bank
Policies Undermine Labor Power and Rights (Vincent Lloyd and Robert
Weissman).
19 Who Has Failed Africa?: IMF Measures or the
African Leadership? (Gerald Scott).
Documentary: The story of India - BBC documentary
|
October 19
Sunday 9-10 PM
|
Quiz – 2 Online: D2L
|
Fourth Week
October
20 - 24
|
Cultural
Globalization - Smallman and Brown
The Case of the Middle East by Tugrul Keskin
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer and
Atalay
6 Nation-State.
20 Sociology and the Nation-State in an Era of
Shifting Boundaries (Donald N. Levine).
21 The Westfailure System (Susan Strange).
22 Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless
State (Linda Weiss).
23 Globalization and the Resilience of State Power
(Daniel Béland).
24 Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization,
Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational Studies (William I.
Robinson).
7 Transnationalism.
25 Transnational Practices (Leslie Sklair).
26 Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a
Transnational State (William I. Robinson).
27 Revisiting the Question of the Transnational
State: A Comment on William Robinson's "Social Theory and
Globalization" (Philip McMichael).
Documentary: Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/
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October 26
Sunday 9-10 PM
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Quiz – 3 Online: D2L
Short
Analytical Paper
In this requirement, you will select a book written
by a famous international novelist, and will review (summarize and critique)
the novel based on our textbooks. This paper should be at least 1500 words in
length. You will find a list of recommended novelists on D2L. You must
provide a word count at the end of your paper. The paper is due on Saturday
November 30th. Some recommended well-known novelists include John
Steinbeck, Orhan Pamuk, Leo Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera,
Naguib Mahfouz, Azar Nafisi, Chinua Achebe, Arundhati Roy, and etc. You will
find detailed information and recommended novels on D2L. Everyone will select
a different novel. Your selection must be approved and registered by a teaching
assistant, Rosie David rosa@pdx.edu; therefore you must
contact him directly regarding your selection. The deadline for
selecting/registering your novel with teaching assistant, Rosie Davis is
Sunday, October 27. The deadline for submitting your review is Sunday
November 30. Late submissions will not be accepted.
You must select your novel by October 27th.
The paper is due on
November 30th by midnight.
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Fifth Week
October
27 - 31
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Development -
Smallman and Brown
The Case of the US by Tugrul Keskin
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
8 World Systems.
28 The Modern World-System: Theoretical Reprise
(Immanuel Wallerstein). 29 Competing
Conceptions of Globalization (Leslie Sklair).
9 Empire.
30 Empire (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri).
31 The Global Coliseum: On Empire (Michael Hardt
and Antonio Negri interviewed by Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman).
32 Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and
International Relations (Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey).
33 Africa: the Black Hole at the Middle of Empire?
(David Moore).
34 The New World Order (They Mean It) (Stanley
Aronowitz).
35 Adventures of the Multitude: Response of the
Authors (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri).
Documentary: UP/Fedex: Inside the package wars
Documentary: Kids with Cameras » Born into Brothels
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November 2
Sunday 9–10 PM
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Quiz – 4 Online: D2L
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Sixth Week
November
3 - 7
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Food - Smallman and
Brown
The Case of China (PRC) by Tugrul Keskin
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
10 Network Society and Informationalism.
36 Toward a Sociology of the Network Society
(Manuel Castells).
37 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism
to the Network Society of Manuel Castells (Peter Marcuse).
11 World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism.
38 The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society
Revisited (Ulrich Beck).
39 Risk, Globalisation and the State: A Critical
Appraisal of Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis (Darryl S. L.
Jarvis).
40 Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social
Sciences: A Research Agenda (Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider).
41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism (Craig
Calhoun).
Documentary: The Light
Bulb Conspiracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbbF3oxf-E
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November 9
Sunday 9-10 PM
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Quiz – 5 Online: D2L
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Seventh Week
November
10 - 14
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November 11 - No Class
Health - Smallman
and Brown
The Case of European Union by Tugrul Keskin
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
12 McWorld and Jihad.
42 Jihad vs McWorld (Benjamin R. Barber).
43 Paris Is Burning: Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin
R. Barber (Fareed Zakaria).
44 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology,
Islam and American Conservatism (Bryan S. Turner).
45 On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism
(Benjamin R. Barber).
Documentary: The Power of Nightmares: Part I: Baby It's Cold
Outside
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November 16
Sunday 9-10 PM
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Quiz – 6 Online: D2L
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Eighth Week
November
17 - 21
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Energy - Smallman
and Brown
The Case of Latin America by Tugrul Keskin
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
Part II Culture.
46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms (Jan
Nederveen Pieterse).
13 Creolization, Hybridity, and
Glocalization.
47 The World in Creolisation (Ulf Hannerz).
48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in
Transnational Anthropology (Ulf Hannerz).
49 Globalization as Hybridization (Jan Nederveen
Pieterse).
50 Glocalization: Time–Space and
Homogeneity–Heterogeneity (Roland Robertson).
14 Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, and
Glocalization.
51 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash
and the Riddles of Recognition (Jan Nederveen Pieterse).
52 The Global, the Local, and the Hybrid: A Native
Ethnography of Glocalization (Marwan M. Kraidy).
53 Globalization and Trinidad Carnival: Diaspora,
Hybridity and Identity in Global Culture (Keith Nurse).
54 Mapping the "Glocal" Village: The
Political Limits of "Glocalization" (William H. Thornton).
55 Rethinking Globalization:
Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing (George Ritzer).
56 Dialectics of Something and Nothing: Critical
Reflections on Ritzer’s Globalization Analysis (Douglas Kellner).
Documentary: Cuba 2012 (BBC Documentary)
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Ninth Week
November
24 - 28
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Environment - Smallman and Brown
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
15
McDonaldization.
57 An Introduction
to McDonaldization (George Ritzer).
58 McDonaldization
and the Global Culture of Consumption (Malcolm Waters).
59 The McDonald’s
Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity (Bryan S. Turner). 60 Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast
Foods in East Asia (James L. Watson).
61 Global
Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization (Alan Bryman).
62
Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local – McDonald's in Israel
(Uri Ram).
Documentary: Inside the
Saudi Kingdom (BBC Documentary)
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November 30
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The paper is due
on November 30th by midnight.
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Tenth Week
December
1 – 5
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Global Citizenship and Careers in the International Arena - Smallman
and Brown
CHINA 2013 , Samir Amin
Readings in Globalization By Ritzer
and Atalay
16
World Culture.
63
World Culture: Origins and Consequences (Frank J. Lechner and John
Boli).
64
Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology's
Institutionalism (Martha Finnemore).
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ONLINE FINAL EXAM
Sunday – December 7th
Between 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM
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