地缘政治动荡时代的全球南方经济发展
课程教师
Shiping Tang
教师简介
Prof. Shiping Tang is one of Asia’s most influential and innovative social scientists. He was elected as one of the three vice-presidents (2025-26) of the International Studies Association (ISA). He is the first Chinese scholar to be elected to this position. He has published five single-authored volumes so far. In 2024, he was honored as one of the three Distinguished Scholars at the Global IR Section (GIRS) at the ISA Convention in San Francisco, along with Barry Buzan and Cristina Rojas. He has published five single-authored volumes so far. His more recent two books include: The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development, (Princeton University Press, 2022) and On Social Evolution: Phenomenon and Paradigm (Routledge, 2020).
Prof. Tang has a very broad research interest and has published widely, covering international relations, comparative politics, institutional economics, methodology, philosophy of the social sciences, political theory and sociology. He has also developed powerful platforms for complex decision making based on Computational Social Sciences (CSS).
课程内容
Since 2008 (perhaps even since 2001), the world has entered a long period of international (or “geopolitical”) volatility or upheaval. It is a thirty-years crisis: since 2001-2030, perhaps beyond. We had 9.11, the Iraq War, the Russia-Georgia War, the Arabic Spring and its aftermath, the Crimean crisis, the Brexit, Trump, the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the Israel-Hamas war, and of course, the US-China rivalry. And we now have a second Trump presidency in the US.
Meanwhile, even if we believe that economic development has been mostly driven by domestic developments, international political situations constrain states’ actions, including pursuing economic development. This is perhaps even more so for developing countries (roughly the Global South). In other words, all developing countries (roughly the Global South) have to develop under the enormous constraint imposed by globalization and international system. Thus, when international volatility goes up, the Global South faces even more challenges in sustaining economic development. We focus on their potential impact on economic development in the Global South.
These are all pressing questions faced by the Global South. Our short course will contribute to a better understanding of these pressing questions.
预期目标
Two students (from each region) form a group and do a presentation, 20 mins, 10 PPTs.
Students’ presentations should deploy the frameworks taught in the course and compare the economic development of two countries within a region.
课程安排
Lecture | Topic (2.5 teaching hours) |
1 | Introduction: Why hasn’t the whole world developed (as Modernization)? |
2 | A Critique of Existing Explanations (Tang 2022, chap. 1)/ |
3 | The New Developmental Triangle (Tang 2022, chap. 8) |
4 | An Outline of the Institutional Foundations (Tang 2022, chap. 2) |
5 | Three Waves of Modernization and The New Landscape of IPE (Lectures) |
6 | Regional focus-1: East Asia |
7 | Regional focus-2: Africa |
8 | Regional focus-3: Latin America |
9 | Break (before roundtable discussion: students should digest and prepare) |
10 | Roundtable discussion: examining economic development in your own country (and hopefully, also a neighboring country in your own region) |
Specific Note on “Roundtable discussion”: please use the New Developmental Triangle as an analytical framework to examine economic development in your own country (and hopefully, also a neighboring country in your own region). Each student should speak about 8 minutes or so and then we have discussion.
Reading List
Required
Shiping Tang, 2022. The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
High Recommended
Pranab Bardhan. 2016. “State and Development: The Need for a Reappraisal of the Current Literature.” Journal of Economic Literature 54 (3): 862-892.
Recommended
William Easterly, 2001. The Elusive Quest for Growth. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Jared Diamond, 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Norton.
John M. Hobson (2012): Part 1 – Revealing the Eurocentric foundations of IPE: A critical historiography of the discipline from the classical to the modern era, Review of International Political Economy, 20 (5), 1024-1054; DOI:10.1080/09692290.2012.704519
John M. Hobson (2012): Part 2 – Reconstructing the non- Eurocentric foundations of IPE: From Eurocentric ‘open economy politics’ to inter-civilizational political economy, Review of International Political Economy, 20 (5), 1055-1081; DOI:10.1080/09692290.2012.733498
Student Assessment
Participation in Discussions and Presentations
