Course Lecturer, Political Science, McGill University, Summer 2021

• POLI 243 - The Politics of International Economic Relations  (syllabus) 

  • Overall mean of students' formal end-of-course evaluation: 4.4/5 

  • Lecture slides:

    1. Overview: the politics and the economics

SECTION I: THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF IER 

• • 2. Idealism and realism

    3. Liberalism

    4. Institutionalism and constructivism

    5. Marxism

SECTION II: THE POLITICS OF IER BY LEVEL OF ANALYSIS 

• • 6. The System level: states and IOs 

    7. The domestic level: states and electorates 

    8. The domestic level: firms and workers 

SECTION III: THE POLITICS OF IER BY ISSUE-AREAS 

• • 9. Trade

    10. FDI

    11. Finance 

SECTION IV: THE POLITICS OF IER IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS 

• • 12. Case: Britain’s Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 

    13. Case: The US trade policy in the 1930s 

    14. Case: Bretton Woods Agreements & post-War economic order

    15. Case: The 2008 economic crisis and bailouts 

    16. Case: Globalization backlash and populism 

    17. Case: Pandemic and cooperation in 2020 

    18. Review and conclusion

  • Sample Test

  • Research paper grading criteria and prompts