POLITICS 768

Economic Statecraft: Power, Politics and Resources

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for POLITICS 768.

Description

This course analyses how governments, particularly the United States, New Zealand and selected European and Asian states, decide upon and conduct their international economic policies. Topics are adapted to current events and will include bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations and disputes, national trade remedies and economic sanctions, intergovernmental controversies surrounding aid, investment, tourism and intellectual property and unilateral and multilateral reactions to financial crises, resource scarcity and natural and man-made environmental disasters.
 

Availability 2017

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Stephen Hoadley

Points

POLITICS 768: 15 points