Economic Powers in the Contemporary International Relations

The aim of the course is to shape student’s competence in analyzing the basic logic of contemporary international relations based on the role and form of activity of economic powers.

I.Introductory lecture: course description and organization, analytical concept.

II.Concept of power in IR

Literature:

1. D. Drezdner, Power and International Relations: a temporal view, Journal of International Relations, 2021,27/1/,p.29-52

III. The Power of Nations.

Literature:

1.M. Beckley, The Power of Nations .Measuring What Matters, International Security 2018,43/2/,p7-44.

IV.Concept of Economic Power in IR Literature.

Literature:

1.R. Cooper, Is “Economic Power” a Useful and Operational Concept? Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, No.04-02,2004

2. Sonmez Atesoglu, Economic Power and International Security, Insight Turkey,2019,21/3/

V.US Economic Power

Literature:

1.D. Julius, US Economic Power. Waxing or Waning?, Harvard International Review.Winter 2005

2. Gelb, GDP Now Matters More than Force., Foreign Affairs 2010,89/6/ .

VI .Economic Hegemony

Literature:

1.C. Noroff, Dollar Hegemony: Power Analysis, RIPE, 2014, 5, p. 1042-1070.

2. W. Winecoff, „The Persistent myth of lost Hegemony” revisited: structural power as a complex network phenomenon, European Journal of International Relations, 2020, 26, p.209-252.

VII. Economic Statecraft. Part I

Literature:

1. D. Baldwin, Economic Statecraft, Princeton 2020, p. 6-98.

VIII. What is Geoeconomics?

Literature:

1. E. Luttwak, From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics, The National Interest, 1990, 20, p. 17-12.

2. R.Blackwill, J. Harris, War by Other Means .Geoeconomics and Statecraft, 2016, s.19-93.

IX. Future of Global Economic Power Structure

Literature:

1. S. Benzell and others, The Future of Global Economic Power, National Bureau of Economic Research,2023, www.nber.org/papers/w30556

X. Economic Powers and International Order.

Literature:

1. The Long View. How will the global economic order change by 2050? Pwc The World 2050, www.pwc.com

2. Nana de Graaf, China’s rise in a Liberal world order transition, RIPE, 2020, 1, p.191-207.

Required reading:

2. David Baldwin, Economic Statecraft, Princeton Univ. Press,2020

3. R. Blackwill,J. Harris, War by other means. Geoeconomics and Statecraft, Harvard University Pres. Cambrigde 2016

Form of classes:

Lecture, student’s presentation, analysis of recommended text, discussion.

Final grading course requirements:

Class presentation; presence ,active participation