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ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age

Andre Gunder Frank

Syllabus for Fall, 1999

TENTATIVE SYLLABUS / READING LIST

Note: paper means to be supplied by instructor for fotocopying for students foto means chapter/pp possibly to be fotocopied for students [ 6] means chapter 6 is optional


Florida International University

Dept. of  International Relations        Fall 1999:

Instructor          Andre Gunder  Frank



INR 5935   Graduate Seminar-Special Topic: 

" Re-Orient : Social Theory and World History in Asian Age" 

INR 4931  Topics: 

" Re-Orient: Social Theory and World History in Asian Age"

  1. INTRODUCTORY QUESTIONS & SEMINAR OUTLINE
    
    Intro to the Instructor
    
    	Frank ReORIENT Preface
    
    Intro to the History=Theory Seminar
    
    Frank - ReOrient World History and Social Theory   [paper]
    
    Intro to the [relevance to] the Future
    
    Frank -  Preface to Chinese Edition of ReORIENT        [paper]
    
    Suggested paper topics  [paper]
    
    
  2. RECEIVED WISDOM TODAY
    
    Landes,D - Wealth & Poverty of Nations, chpts 2,3,4,6,9,10,12,13,14,15,29
    
    Fukuyama, F. - Trust  chpt. Xx  [foto?]
    
    
  3. RECEIVED CLASSICAL THEORY
    
    A. Marx ,K.- Communist Manifesto  [ narrower but original horse's mouth]
    
    and/or
    
    Marx, K.- Capital [Moscow 1962 ed] Vol.III,chpt. 20,[Vol.I,chpts 26,31-33]
    
    Zeitlin - Ideology & Devpmnt. of Socological Theory, Part III on Marx
    
       [ broader in scope but secondary]   [foto?]
    
    
    
    B. Weber, M.- Protestant Ethic & Spirit of Capitalism, [horses mouth]
    
    and/or
    
    Werber, M - General Economic History, [Free Press 1950 ed.]
    
    chpts.  [3],22,23,26,29,30
    
    and/or 
    
    Zeitlin - Ideology & Sociological Theory, chpt 15 on Weber [broad/secondr]
    
    
    
    C. Modernization Theory
    
    Rostow, WW -- Stages of Economic Growth [horses mouth ] or  any of a
    
    thousand other versions & secondary summaries  thereof] including
    
    Shannon,TR - Intro to World-System Perspective [secondary], chpt 1
    
    
  4. SOCIOLOGICAL CRITIQUES OF SOCIAL THEORY
    
    Blaut,JM-Colonizers Model of World,chpt 2 Myths of EuropeaMiracle'foto
    
    Goody, J - East in the West, Introduction & chpts 3,8 [foto?]
    
    Lewis,MW & KR Wigen, Myth of Contienents,  Introduction & Chpt 3
    
    Frank, - ReOrient ,  chpts 1 & 4
    
    
  5. THE EUROPEAN WORLD -ECONOMY/SYSTEM ALTERNATIVE
    
    Braudel, F -Civilizatn &Cap. Vol II  Perspective of World, pp 441-535
    
    foto?
    
    Wallerstein, I. - Historical Capitalism [horse's mouth]
    
    Wallerstein, I - Modern World-System I, chpt 2  [original or text edition]
    
    and/or [secondary]
    
    Shannon,TR - Intro to World-System Perspective [secondary]
    
    Sanderson, S. [ed]  Civilizations & World Systems,  chpts. 6 & 7
    
    	Frank-Modern W-S Revisited, Re-reading Braudel & Wallerstein foto
    
    . 	Bergesen - Lets Be Frank about World History  foto
    
    
  6. THE 'REAL WORLD' ALTERNATIVE
    
    Frank - ReOrient, chpts 2,3,5,
    
    Wong, R. Bin - China  Transformed  chpts xx foto
    
    and/or 
    
    Wong, R. Bin "The Search For European Differences and Domination in the
    
    Early Modern World. A View from Asia  [Manuscript]   paper
    
    Pomeranz, K - New World of Growth [manuscript chpt xx]  paper
    
    
  7. FALL OF THE EAST / RISE OF THE WEST / INDUSTRIAL REVOLTION
    
    Frank- ReOrient chpt 6
    
    Pomeranz, K. - New World of Growth [manuscript chpt xx] paper
    
    Landes - Wealth & Poverty of Nations, chpts 16,17,18,
    
    Snooks, G. R. - Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary? 
    
    	 Chpt. 1 "New Perspectives on Industrial Revolution" Foto?
    
    
  8. WHAT SOCIAL THEORY?
    
    Frank - ReOrient chpt 7
    
    Wallerstein  [Gulbenkian Commission] - Open the Social Sciences foto?
    
    Landes, Wealth & Poverty of Nations, chpt, 29 [again]
    
    
  9. TERM PAPER DISCUSSION [not necessarily only at end]

ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Since this is a School of International Relations with many experts to teach it, there is no good reason for a non IR person like me to do so also. However, there may be some merit in trying to lay out some bridges [set out some international relations?] between the concerns of IR and those of social theory and history in this seminar. To that end, I here list the following readings to start with and invite anyone [including myself] to add others:


Mangasarian, L. & H.C. Dryer [eds]  The Study of International Relations.

The State of the Art [1989], espec. Chpts 

1. Paradigm Development, IR as Social Science  [Smith]

2. IR Theory &  World History [Gills]



Gill,S. & James Mittleman  [eds] Innovation and Transformation in

International Studies [1997], espec. Editors individually & jointly



Frank,"Neither Innovation Nor Transformation"  Critique] Millennium 1997



Wallerstein, I. The Politics of World-Economy [1984]

  chpts, 1,2,3,4 [states,patterns & three hegemonies in world economy]



Goldstein, J  Long Cycles  1988, espec. Chpts. 1,2,7



Modelski, G. & WR Thompson , Leading Sectors and World Powers [1996] 

 Part Two.: State of the Field, Confused State and Critique of Literature



Arrighi, G. The Long Twentieth Century [1994]

	Introduction & Chpt 1-Three Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism


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