Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Economic Globalization
	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		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 implications of globalization on different segments of society in both developed and developing countries.
Course Description		Globalization concept, globalization debates, global trends on production, trade and direct investments, theoretical approaches on the power of the nation state vis-à-vis globalization, Variations in State Economic Policies in different country cases, transnational corporations, The Geography of Transnational Production Networks, the bargaining relationship between states and transnational corporations;the effects of globalization on the daily lives: the winners and losers within the developed and developing countries
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Textbook		P. Dicken, Global Shift-Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy 2011 (6th Edition), the Guildford Press: New York.
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