Syllabus/achievement requirements

* Amin, S. 1996. On development: For Gunder Frank. Chew, S.C. & R.A. Denemark (Eds). The underdevelopment of development. Sage, London. 59-86. 27p.

* Amin, S. 1997. Capitalism in the age of globalization. Zed, London. 1-11. 11p.

Bhagwati, J. 2004. In defense of globalization. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 265p.

Callinicos, A. 2003. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto. Polity Press, London. 192p.

* de Soto, H. 2003. The mystery of capital: Why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else. Basic Books, New York. 207-228. 22p.

* Edwards, M. 1994. Rethinking social development: the search for ‘relevance’. Booth, D. (Ed.). Rethinking social development. Longman, Harlow. 279-297. 19p.

* Etounga-Manguelle, D. 2000. Does Africa need a cultural adjustment program? Harrison, L.E. & S.P. Huntington (Eds). Culture matters: How values shape human progress. Basic Books, New York. 64-76. 12p.

* Fridman, J. (1992): The end of history and the last man. Penguin, London. P. 39-51, 98-108. 27p.

* Fukuyama, F. 1992. The end of history and the last man. Penguin, London. 39-51, 98-108. 27p.

Hardt, M. & A. Negri. 2000. Empire. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 3-1, 114-136, 183-204, 221-236. 59p. (http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/negri/)

* Harrison, L.E. 1998. Underdevelopment is a state of mind. (1985). Selgison, M.A. & J.T. Passé-Smith. Development and Underdevelopment. The political economy of global inequality, Second edition. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder. 231-239. 9p.

Harvey, D. 2003. The new imperialism. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 253p.

* Hirst, P. & G. Thompson. 1999. Globalization in Question. The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. Second Edition. Polity Press, London. 1-18. 18p.

* Knutsen, H.M. 1998. Globalization and international division of labour. Two concepts – one debate? Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 52, No. 3. 151-163. 12p.

* Lall, S. 1996. Paradigms of development: The East Asian debate. Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2. 111-131. 19p.

* Landes, D. 2001. Culture makes almost all the difference. Harrison, L.E. & S.P. Huntington. (Eds). Culture matters: How values shape human progress. Basic Books, New York. 2-13. 12p.

* Lipietz, A. 1982. Towards global Fordism? New Left Review, Vol. 32. 33-47. 14p.

* McDowell, L. 1995. Understanding diversity: the problem of/for “theory”. Johnston, R.J. et al. (Eds). Geographies of global change. Blackwell, Oxford. 280-294. 15p.

* Milanovic, B. 2003. The two faces of globalization: Against globalization as we know it. World Development, Vol. 31, No. 4. 667-683. 16p.

* Ocampo, J.A. 2001. Raúl Prebish and the development agenda at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Cepal Review, Vol. 75. 13p.

* Radcliffe, S.A. 2005. Development and geography: towards a postcolonial development geography? Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 29, No. 3. 291-298. 7p.

* Routledge, P. 2005. Convergence Space: Process geographies of globalizing resistance. (Draft). Department of Geography & Topographic Science, University of Glasgow. www.geog.gla.ac.uk/olpapers/proutledge001.pdf 21p.

* Schuurman, F.J. 2000. Paradigms lost, paradigms regained? Development studies in the twenty-first century. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1. 7-20. 14p.

* Sen, A. 1999. Development as freedom. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 111-145. 35p.

* Sunkel, O. (Ed.). 1993. Development from Within. Toward a Neostructuralist Approach for Latin America. Lynne Tienners Publishers, Boulder. 5-59. 51s.

* Suthcliffe, B. 1999. The place of development in theories of imperialism and globalization. Munck, R. & D. O’Hearn (Eds). Critical development theory – a contribution to a new paradigm. Zed Books, London. 113-134. 18p.

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