Book Review

IPE 383                                                                                                                                                      Professor Van Inwegen

Globalization and the Politics of Development                                                                                                            Spring 2005

 

Directions:  

Each student will choose a book to review from the list below (or choose another book with instructor approval).  Write a 1,000 to 1,300 word review, summarizing the main points, comparing and contrasting the work with ideas from the required readings, and offering a critical analysis of the argument.  The review will be due at the end of the section that most relates to your book (modernization, dependency, state or globalization).  You will also give a ten minute presentation of your book review in class during that section.  The actual date of your presentation (before your paper is due) will be assigned dependent upon the book you choose.  We will choose the book to review early in the semester so that students can prepare in advance and to ensure that there is no duplication of the presentations.

 

Your grade for this assignment will be based on both the paper (80%) and the presentation (20%).

 

II. Foundations for the Gap: Culture & History 1-10 February

 

John Kay, Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets -- Why Some Nations are Rich but Most Remain Poor.  HarperBusiness 2004.

 

William Bernstein, The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created.  McGraw-Hill, 2004.

 

William Easterly. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2001.

 

David S. Landes. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: W.W. Norton Co. 1999.

 

Max Weber. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New York: Routledge. 1992.

 

World Bank. World Development Report 2004. World Bank Office of the Publisher. 2003

 

United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Report 2003. 2003.

 

II. Modernization: The Transition from Traditional to Modern 15-24 February

 

W.W. Rusow. The Stages of Economic Growth. London: Cambridge University Press. 1960.

 

Lucian W. Pye & Sidney Verba. Political Culture and Political Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1965

 

III. Dependency: The Hand that Holds You Down 1 – 10 March

 

Peter H. Smith. The Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996.

 

B. N. Ghosh. Dependency Theory Revisited. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2001

 

Ted C. Lewellen. Dependency and Development : an Introduction to the Third World. Westport: Bergin & Garvey. 1995

 

Euclid A. Rose. Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean: Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada, 1970-1985. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2002

 

Robert A. Packenham. The Dependency Movement: Scholarship and Politics in Development Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1992

 

Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto. Dependency and Development in Latin America. translated by Marjory Mattingly Urquidi. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1979

 

IV. State Oriented Policies 22 March – 7 April

Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger. Growth Theories in Light of the East Asian Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1995.

 

Stephan Haggard. Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.  1990.

 

Adam Przeworski. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in East Europe and Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991.

 

Fareed Zakaria. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2003.

 

Mancur Olson. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Staflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1982.

 

Paul Kennedy. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York: Vintage Books. 1987.

 

V. Globalization: Trade Not Aid 12 -28 April

 

Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization. Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works. Yale University Press, 2004.

 

Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties: a new history of the world's most prosperous decade. W.W. Norton, 2003

 

Theodore H. Moran, Beyond Sweatships: Foreign Direct Investment and Globalization in Developing Countries. Brookings Press, 2002.

 

Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization. Yale University Press, 2002.

 

Michael Mandelbaum, The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century. Public Affairs Books, 2002.

 

Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy. Ballantine Books, 2002.

 

Amartya Kumar Sen. Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press. 2001

 

Thomas Friedman. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. New York: Anchor Books. 2000.

 

Muhammad Yunus. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. New York: Public Affairs. 1999.

 

Julie Fisher. Nongovernments: NGOs and the Political Development of the Third World. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. 1998.

 

William Greider. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1997.

 

Julie Fisher. The Road from Rio: Sustainable Development and the Nongovernmental Movement in the Third World. Westport, CT: Praeger. 1993.