After completing this course the students will be able to:
- define basic concepts of IPE
- define main theories of IPE along with other critical approaches and compare & contrast them
- explain important issues and debates shaping international economic policy
- identify tensions that exist between states and markets
- compare free trade with protectionism and their affects on international economic relations
- critique the role of the multinational corparations as global actors and agents of economic development
- identify how international finance and global money movements affect states and other actors
- critique the current international system and its effects on developing states
- identify the different models of economic development employed by developing states
- critique the role of economic growth on environment and whether sustainable development is possible
- discuss the importance of world's scarce resources such as oil and food and how politics and economics interact over those resources
- discuss the major trends in global political economy and the possible future developments
- provide thoughtful and coherent arguments regarding IPE issues in both oral and written form