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Economic Nationalism in Liberal Markets (17 - 26 May 2010)

Faculty
Ben Rosamond, Leonard Seabrooke and Cornelia Woll

Course Coordinator
Leonard Seabrooke

Prerequisite/progression of the course

The course only applies to PhD students

Aim of the course

This initiative will bring together academic staff from Europe, North America, East Asia and Australasia, some of whom will be present at the 2009 Summer School. The Summer School will bring together a number of world-class scholars in the fields related to comparative and international political economy, as well as organisational sociology, to maximise interdisciplinary insight. The courses will be held at the International Centre for Business and Politics (CBP), and PhD students can take one or both of the two offered courses (subject to fees). Theoretically and methodologically, the PhD network does not seek to champion a singular approach. The two courses will expose PhD students to a range of theories, methods and perspectives.

The courses will follow a seminar format and will run over two four-day periods. The title of the first course is ‘Crisis and Change in State and Economies’. It will run from 17-20 May. The second course, entitled ‘Economic Nationalism in Liberal Markets’, will run on 19, 20, 25 and 26 May.

Course content, structure and teaching

This course is concerned with applying comparative institutional analysis to the processes of globalisation and regionalisation. Participants will compare how different approaches favour interests either as self-evident or as driven by ideas, and how different approaches prefer to focus on agency while others prefer to focus on structural constraints. The course will also discuss the role of discourse and political framing in how we understand globalisation and regionalisation. The academic staff and students will discuss whether globalisation is a result of economic competition or of political manipulation, and whether regionalisation reflects political coalitions and interests or whether it fosters new forms of identity association.

The academic staff will discuss a range of cases that draw upon their published works, including the creation of a European economic space (Rosamond), constructing business interests in Europe (Woll) and the social sources of financial globalisation (Seabrooke). The course will be organised to facilitate as much discussion among participants as possible. An extensive set of references to relevant scholarly work will also be made available to students prior to the course.

Learning Objectives

Both courses are designed to enhance PhD students’ knowledge of comparative institutional analysis as studied in political economy and organisational and economic sociology.

Lecture plan
Time/period    Faculty    Title   
Wednesday May 19           
10:00 -11:30    Professor Leonard Seabrooke, University of Warwick    Keynote speech: Embedded Liberalism is Dead, Long Live Embedded Liberalism: National Regulation, Everyday Politics, and International Markets”.   
11:30 – 12:00         Questions and Answers.   
12:00 – 13:00        Lunch   
13:00 -16:00        Presentation of Papers by PhD Students   
18:30 – 21:00        Dinner   
Thursday May 20           
10:00 – 11:30    Dr. Cornelia Woll    Seminar speech: “Business Lobbying and Economic Patriotism   
11:30-12:00         Questions and Answers   
12:00 – 13:00         Lunch   
13:00 – 16:00         Presentation of Papers by PhD Students   
Tuesday May 25           
10:00 – 11:30    Dr. Ben Clift    Seminar speech: “Comparing Economic Patriotisms within Europe”.   
11.30 - 12.00        Questions and Answers   
12.00 - 13.00        Lunch   
13:00 – 14:00        Seminar discussions   
14:00 – 16:00         What have we learned? Reflections on the debates.   
Wednesday May 26           
10:00-11:30    Professor Ben Rosamond    Seminar speech: “National Interests and European Discourses of Globalization”.   
11.30- 12.00        Questions and answers   


Teaching methods

Within both courses, PhD students will be expected to read and comment on the required texts, to actively participate in seminars, and also to provide written and oral feedback on their theoretical and methodological reflections. In particular, students must submit a five-page document discussing the relationship between institutional theory and their research topic, which should also locate the student’s research topic within current debates on globalisation and regionalisation. Using these documents as a foundation, students will have an opportunity to discuss their research topics at greater length in the courses, including brief oral presentations, and will receive feedback from the academic staff and their peers.

The Summer School will also feature a series of keynote seminars from the attending academic staff which are provided without cost

Course literature

Blyth, Mark 2001: The Transformation of the Swedish Model: Economic Ideas, Distributional Conflict and Institutional Change, World Politics 54 (1): 1-26.

Blyth, Mark 2003: Structures do not Come with an Instruction Sheet: Interests, Ideas and Progress in Political Science, Perspectives on Politics 1 (4): 695-703.

Gourevitch, Peter A. 1986: Politics in Hard Times (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

Hay, Colin and Ben Rosamond (2002) Globalisation, European Integration and the Discursive Construction of Economic Imperatives, Journal of European Public Policy 9 (2): 147-167.

Jabko, Nicola (2006) Playing the Market (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Katzenstein, Peter J. 1985: Small States in World Markets (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Katzenstein, Peter J. 2005: A World of Regions (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Parsons, Craig 2003: A Certain Idea of Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Ravenhill, John (2001): APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Ravenhill, John (2001): A three bloc world? The new East Asian regionalism. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2:167-195

Rosamond, Ben (2005) Conceptualising the EU Model of Governance in World Politics, European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 10, No. 4: 463-478.

Ruggie, John Gerard 1998: “What Makes the World Hang Together?” Neo-Utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge, International Organization, 52 (4): 855-885.

Seabrooke, Leonard (2006) The Social Sources of Financial Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Widmaier, Wesley W. 2004: The Social Construction of the “Impossible Trinity”: The Intersubjective Bases of Monetary Cooperation. International Studies Quarterly, 48 (2): 433-453.

Woll, Cornelia (2008) Firm Interests (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Other

During the courses there will be a number of keynote speeches on topics relevant to comparative institutional analysis, institutional theory, and globalisation and regionalisation. The exact titles will be announced at a later date, but the following speeches have already been arranged:

John L. Campbell on ’National Identity and the Political Economy of Small States’

Leonard Seabrooke on ’The Politics of Expectation and the Global Credit Crunch’


Sidst opdateret af Julie Siezing 09.02.2010