[S] Global Political Economy - SoSe 26

Dozent: Dr. George Lambie

Module: MA-IB-GPE (PFLICHT), Powi: POL-WO-Forschung, POL-GAM-IB, POL-WP

Termine:

Einführungsveranstaltung:

20. April 2026, 4. DS, online, via Zoom; 

https://tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/69777606364?pwd=sEPiqdhb4PCmdi2DcuqzwLLUUg5PC7.1

Meeting-ID: 697 7760 6364
Kenncode: hN=k5#.H

Part One: 4. bis 6.05.2026; 

Part Two: 8. bis 10.06.2026, genaue Uhrzeiten siehe Veranstaltungsankündigung

Kursbeschreibung: 

The seminar will combine a study of IPE theory with its application in both historical and contemporary contexts.

(A) - The theoretical section will focus on the role of theory building in IPE/GPE. After a brief examination of the ideational roots and development of IPE as a subject, two major theoretical approaches to understanding IPE as an academic discipline will be explored.  The first approach views IPE as a potentially interdisciplinary endeavor to bridge the – academic – divide between politics and economics (as sometimes favoured in Britain, Canada and the Netherlands, among other places). The second approach, which is partly an offshoot of the first, will examine how the Gramscian theory of hegemony is applied to IPE by the theorists of the ‘New Italian School’ or ‘Neo Gramscian School’ – with the main theorists coming from Canada, the US and Britain. Finally, in the theoretical section some consideration will be given to the view of IPE as a specific sub-discipline of International Relations (as it is understood e.g. in the United States and, by and large, in Germany).

(B) - This section will apply a version of the 'British School' approach to IPE to analyse the background to globalisation and its current context and a mixture of the ‘British School’ and ‘Neo-Gramscian School’ to interpret the formation of globalization and its impact on the ‘state’, multinational to transnational corporations and such issues as the unipolar/multipolar global divide.