INRL30340

The field of International Political Economy is broadly concerned with the interrelationship between political and economic processes in international relations. The course introduces this subfield of political science, analysing the politics of trade, development, international finance, and exchange rate regimes. We will analyse such important questions as: what drove the far-reaching liberalisation of international trade policies over the last half century? Why do some countries fail to develop economically? What happened during the financial crisis in Asia in the late 1990s and in the developed world in the late 2000s and during the COVID-19 economic collapse? The analysis of these and other questions will provide students with a better understanding of global economic relations.