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Course Name	Turkish	Ekonomik Küreselleşme
	English	Economic Globalization
Course Code	ECO 305	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Derya Gültekin
Course Objectives		This course aims to give an understanding of what economic globalization refer to. To this end, students are introduced with the corporate strategies and state policies at the local, regional and global levels which shape the actual processes of globalizaton .
Course Description		This course will explore the new global economy, and the processes driving it. Firstly, there will be an introduction to the concept of globalization and the debates on it. Secondly, global shifts in production, trade and investment will be discussed. Then, the course will mainly focus on the two interrelated sets of processes: the strategies of TNCs and, the strategies of national governments. On the basis of these discussions, the impact of globalization on developed as well as developing countries will be the issue to explore.
Course Outcomes		At the end of the semester, students can identify the underlying processes of economic globalization and see the interconnectedness between the strategies of the two main actors of globalization that are TNCs and national states. They can also distinguish different effects of globalization on developed and developing countries, the environment, employment and income inequality.
Pre-requisite(s)		--
Required Facilities		--
Other		--
Textbook		P. Dicken, Global Shift-Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, 2015 (7th Edition), Sage: London.
Other References		G. Gereffy (1999) “A Commodity Chains Framework for Analysing Global Industries” https://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/pdfs/gereffi.pdf P. Jacques, R. Thomas, D. Foster, J. McCann and M. Tunno (2003) ‘Wal-Mart or World-Mart? A Teaching Case Study’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 35, pp. 513-533.

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