DEBATES ON GLOBALIZATION

Don Kalb
This is a four credit course that consists of weekly lectures and seminars (2 x 2 hours). It aims to
give a wide introduction to ‘the great globalization debate’, with a special focus on issues of
development and inequality, the world system, governance, differing regional experiences and
regionalism, global civil society, the new wars, social movements and resistance. The emphasis
will be on confronting global structures and assumptions with local outcomes and realities.
Throughout, the implications for anthropology and sociology will be discussed. Lectures will
supplement the readings as well as introduce scientific context and history; seminars will be
prepared and organized by the students.
Requirements:
Class participation/assignments/presentations 30%
Exam 30%
Research paper (3000 words) 40%
Basic literature:
We will use (parts of) the following books, supplemented with journal articles mentioned in the
class assignments.
Bayart, Jean Francois ; Stephen Ellis ; Beatrice Hibou, The Criminalisation of the State in Africa,
(Oxford, James Currey), 1999
Duffield, Mark, Global Governance and the New Wars, (London, Zed Books), 2001
Hoogvelt, Ankie, Globalization and the Postcolonial World. The New Political Economy of
Development, (Basingstoke, Palgrave), 2001
Kalb, Don et. al. (eds.) The Ends of Globalization: Bringing Society Back In, (Boulder and
London; Rowman and Littlefield), 2000, pp. 1-32
Lechner, Frank; John Boli (eds.), The Globalization Reader, (Oxford, Blackwell), 2000
Mittelman, James H., The Globalization Syndrome, (Princeton, Princeton U.P.), 2000
Nazpary, Joma, Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan, (London, Pluto),
2002
Sklair, Lesley; Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives, (Oxford, Oxford U.P.), 2002
Stiglitz, Joseph; Globalization and its Discontents, (London, NY; Penguin), 2002; pp. 3-88
Vincent, Joan (ed.), The Anthropology of Politics. A reader in ethnography, theory and critique,
(Oxford, Blackwell), 2002

Week 1
The (old) New World Order between Chaos, Clash, Calculation and Creativity
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? In Lechner and Boli, pp. 27-34
Robert D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy, pp. 3-58 (New York, Random House), 2000
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Globalization as Hybridization. Lechner and Boli, pp. 99-109
Martin Wolf, Why this Hatred of the Market?, Lechner and Boli, pp. 9-12
Peter Martin, The moral case for globalization, Lechner and Boli, pp. 12-14
Bernard Cassen, To save society, Lechner and Boli, 14-17
Kenichi Ohmae, The end of the nation state, Lechner and Boli, pp. 207-12
Week 2
Globalization as current Capitalist Transformation
Don Kalb, Localizing Flows: Power, Paths, Institutions and Networks, Don Kalb et. al. (eds.)
The Ends of Globalization: Bringing Society Back In, (Boulder and London; Rowman and
Littlefield), 2000, pp. 1-32
Göran Therborn; Dimensions of Globalization and the Dynamics of (In)equalities, Kalb et. al.,
ibid. pp. 33-48
Michael Hanagan, States and Capital: Globalizations Past and Present, Kalb et. al., ibid. pp. 67-
86
Paul Hirst; The Global Economy: Myths or Reality?, Kalb, et. al. ibid, pp. 107-24
Giovanni Arrighi; Globalization, State Sovereignty, and the ‘Endless’ accumulation of Capital,
Kalb et. al. ibid., pp. 125-50
Week 3
Global Divisions of Labor and Power
James Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome, (Princeton, Princeton U.P.), 2000, intro and
chaps 1-5, pp. 3-108
Week 4
Debating the Washington Consensus
Stiglitz, Joseph; Globalization and its Discontents, (London, NY; Penguin), 2002; pp. 3-88
Friedman, Benjamin; Globalization: Stiglitz’s Case; New York Review of Books, volume XLIX,
no. 13 (august 15, 2002), pp. 48-53
Easterly, William; The Lost Decades: Developing Countries’ Stagnation in Spite of Policy
Reform 1980-1998, Journal of Economic Growth, no. 6 (June 2001), pp. 135-57
Mahmood Mamdani; Uganda: Contradictions of the IMF Programme and Perspective,
Development and Change, vol. 21, (1990), 427-467
Week 5
Globalization, Development and the Postcolonial experience in Major World Regions
Ankie Hoogvelt, part 3, chapters on Africa, the middle East, East Asia, and Latin America, pp.
165-268
Week 6
Regionalism, Resistance and Global Social Movements
James Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome, 2000, chaps. 6-9, pp. 109-179

Week 7
Global Civil Society, “the global Western State”, and the new Wars I
Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor, Introducing Global Civil Society, in ibid.
Global Civil Society, (Oxford, Oxford u.p), 2001, pp. 3-23
John Keane, Global Civil Society?, in Ibid., pp. 23 – 51
Mary Kaldor, A decade of humanitarian intervention: The role of global civil society, in Ibid. pp.
109-145

Week 8
Global Civil Society, “the global Western state”, and the new Wars II
Mark Duffield, Global Governance and the new wars, (London, Zed Books), 2001, chaps.
1,2,5,6,7 (pp. 1-44; 108-202)
S.P. Reyna, Deadly developments and Phantasmagoric Representations, in Joan Vincent (ed.),
The Anthropology of Politics, (Oxford, Blackwell), 2002, pp. 301-313
Week 9
Globalization and state fragmentation
Jean Francois Bayart, Stephen Ellis and Beatrice Hibou, The Criminalisation of the State in
Africa, (Oxford, James Currey), 1999, pp. 1-49
Joma Nazpary, Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan, (London, Pluto
Press), 2002, chaps. 3, 5, pp. 33-63, 90-127

Week 10
Theory of the Transnational Class
Selections from Lesley Sklair, Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives, (Oxford, Oxford
U.P.), 2002
Week 11-12
Tutorials for paper writing
Exam