GOVT 3549 - [Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict in the Global Economy]

(crosslisted) AMST 3549, ILRIC 3349, SOC 3540
(SBA-AS)

Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

P. Katzenstein.

Unemployed auto workers in Detroit and the wood stoves in New England signal an important change in America’s relation to the world economy. This course characterizes these changes in a number of fields (trade, money, energy, technology), explains them as the result of the political choices of a declining imperial power that differs substantially from the choices of other states (Japan, Germany, Britain, France, the small European states, and Korea), and examines their consequences for America and international politics.