University of Sussex
MA option
Spring-Summer 2000
This outline is provisional. Final course contents and full reading list will be published later in autumn term. Sociology of global politicsTutor: Professor Martin Shaw E504 (office hours), 678032, m.shaw@sussex.ac.uk Secretary, Shirley Stay, E412, 678892, s.a.stay@sussex.ac.uk |
Part I: Introducing global politics
Introduction: the global and the national-international |
Global politics vs. globalization: myths of the powerless state |
Part II: Origins of global politics
Crisis of inter-imperial state system - origins of Western and global state integration
Democratic revolution versus the Cold War system: 1956, 1968 and all that
Crisis of the Cold War bloc-system: countdown to 1989
Part III: The global democratic revolution and its contradictions
1989-91: Revolution and counterrevolution in the Soviet bloc, China, Yugoslavia |
1985-2000 in Asia, Latin America and Africa: conflicts of the democratic revolution |
Global democracy and hegemony: expansion and limits of Western power |
Universal order and international failure: contradictions of the global layer |