WEEKLY PRESENTATIONS - INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

WEEK 2	HILAL NUR HALDAN 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). ANDREW ALEXANDER 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).
WEEK 3	ZEYNEP OZGULEC 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). DAVID PEREZ-DES ROSIERS 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).
WEEK 4	LE THI DIEM HUONG 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). MIRAS TOLEPBERGEN 8 World Systems. 28 The Modern World-System: Theoretical Reprise (Immanuel Wallerstein). 29 Competing Conceptions of Globalization (Leslie Sklair).
WEEK 5	ASMAA ABUSAMAK 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). KATHLYN JUANITA CHRYSTAL PAUL  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).
WEEK 6	TATIANA GONCALVES MATIAS 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). AONE GOITSEONE GUMBO 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). FACUNDO OLMEDO 40 Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda (Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider). 41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism (Craig Calhoun).
WEEK 7	FRANCISCO GIL SUAZO DEBERNARDI 12 McWorld and Jihad. 42 Jihad vs McWorld (Benjamin R. Barber). 43 Paris Is Burning: Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber (Fareed Zakaria). NAO SOKSAMNANG 44 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism (Bryan S. Turner). 45 On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism (Benjamin R. Barber).
WEEK 8	OLGA GORYUNOVA Part II Culture. 46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms (Jan Nederveen Pieterse). 13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization. 47 The World in Creolisation (Ulf Hannerz). VOEURN VINICHHAI  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).
WEEK 9	LOEUN CHHANY 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). MOHAMMED SAIF 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). AHMED TAAJIR 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).
WEEK 10	SUY BUNLAY 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). SOEUNG SEYHAK 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).