The course examines the dramatic changes in work and employment practices, new production processes and increased capital mobility against the background of the emerging global economy. Special emphasis is given to the future of women's employment, state policy, and collective bargaining.
The course examines theoretical debates concerning the political economy of industrialization in post-colonial countries through examination of specific case studies.
This course explores the development of global city regions in a comparative perspective, including a critical assessment of state restructuring processes and how globalization is anchored in urban politics and the ways in which city-regions constitute sites of global contestation.
The fall of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1990's was hailed by many observers as a triumph of freedom. Building new politico-economic systems, however, remains a daunting challenge. The experiments with transplanting Western models of market economics and liberal democracy into East European societies have so far produced only limited successes […]
The changes taking place in the world capitalist system have had their roots in advanced capitalist societies. But these changes have also produced profound restructuring of these societies, undermining the political arrangements that emerged in the postwar period, while putting all manner of new items on the political agenda. This course explores the key aspects […]
CROSSLISTED COURSES: AP PPAS 3300 & AS SOCI 3030 This course provides a basic understanding of the statistical reasoning and fundamental statistical techniques frequently used to analyze social data. It introduces students to the uses of computers and statistics in the social sciences. It helps develop critical skills necessary to evaluate empirical research.
This course examines Canada's foreign and defence policy interests in the post-cold war era, and the domestic and international forces, processes, interests and actors which interact in the formulation, and pursuit, of these interests. In both theoretical and empirical contexts, the course analyzes Canada's bilateral and multilateral relationships within the global environment, focusing on issues […]
CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP REI 3275 This course focuses on issues and problems related to the post-1945 global political economy. It explores topics such as the globalization of production and the associated movement of labour, commodities and capital; the nature of global money and finance; and the relationship between capitalism, development and underdevelopment. Discussion focuses on […]
CROSSLISTED COURSE: AP REI 3270 The course provides students with some key conceptual tools with which to understand the global political economic processes that shape our world today. We begin with a brief discussion of contemporary theoretical perspectives and then analyze the primary forces (e.g. capital and information) and processes (colonialism, global production, and migration) […]
Our common ideas about international politics present a reified world of diplomats, heads of state, military officers or, more abstractly, of states 'acting' in some way. This course asks: What can we learn about international politics from popular culture? The common notions of international politics are certainly found in many of the expressions or contemporary […]