Geoeconomics in theory and practice 2100-MON-GETP-OG

Classes are to answer the question what geoeconomics is and how it differs from geopolitics. In addition, during the classes we will analyze examples of modern geoeconomics in relation to the activities of the USA, the PRC, the Russian Federation and the EU.

Type of course

general courses

Prerequisites (description)

Course coordinators

Tomasz Grosse

Assessment criteria

Preparation of the presentation and its delivery during our meetings on the canvas of the given readings as well as group discussion on that presentation.

Practical placement

No.

Bibliography

Theory:
TG Grosse, Wprowadzenie, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 7-83.
Luttwak, Edward N., “From Geopolitics to Geo-Economics: Logic of Conflict, Grammar of Commerce.” National Interest, No. 20, summer 1990, pp. 17-24.
Sparke, Matthew, “From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics: Transnational State Effects in the Borderlands.” Geopolitics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1998, pp. 62-98.

China:
TG Grosse, Geoekonomia Chin, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 131-171.
TG Grosse, Umiędzynarodowienie juana jako przykład strategii geoekonomicznej Chin, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 173-202.
Yu, Hong. “Motivation behind China’s One Belt, One Road’ Initiatives and Establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 105, 2017, pp. 357-357, 359, 361-362, 365-366.

USA:
Seung-Ook Lee, Joel Wainwright, Jim Glassman, Geopolitical economy and the production of territory: The case of US–China geopolitical-economic competition in Asia, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2018, Vol. 50(2) 416–436.
Crister S. Garrett (2018): Constructing narratives of global order: The Obama presidency, TPP, TTIP, and the contested politics of geoeconomics, Atlantic Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2018.1434107.
Morrissey, John. “Geoeconomics in the Long War.” Antipode, Vol. 49, No. S1, 2017, pp. 94-113.
TG Grosse, Bretton Woods jako reżim geoekonomiczny, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 365-397.

Russia:
Stulberg, Adam N., Moving Beyond the Great Game: The Geoeconomics of Russia’s Influence in the Caspian Energy Bonanza, Geopolitics, 10:1–25, 2005.
Vihma, Antto and Mikael Wigell. “Unclear and present danger: Russia’s geoeconomic and the Nord Stream II.” Global Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2016, pp. 377-388.
Wigell, Mikael and Antto Vihma. “Geopolitics versus geoeconomics: the case of Russia’s geostrategy and its effects on the EU.” International Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 3, 2016, pp. 605-627.

EU:
James Wesley Scott (2005) The EU and ‘Wider Europe’: Toward an Alternative Geopolitics of Regional Cooperation?, Geopolitics, 10:3, 429-454.
Andreas Nölke, Arjan Vliegenthart (2009): Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe, World Politics 61, no. 4, 670–702.
TG Grosse, Rozwój polityki obrony i przemysłu zbrojeniowego w Unii Europejskiej, [w:] Paliwo dla dominacji. O ekonomicznych podstawach supremacji geopolitycznej, (red.) T.G. Grosse, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademia Nauk, Warszawa 2020, s. 233-287.

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