INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
General Links
Alan Deardorff’s Glossary of
International Economics. This site
defines a large number of terms in international trade and finance. The
coverage is more thorough for trade, but quite broad for finance as well. The glossary includes definitions, links to definitions, and
wherever appropriate links to other sites and documents that may provide
additional information. There also are bibliographies for some of the
definitions; a picture gallery of diagrams from international economics; and
lists of types of terms that occur frequently.
News Sources
BBC News - World
Edition
CNN World News
Economist
Financial Times
The New York Times
Reuters Forum: Critical Issues in Global Economics. Each year’s
Reuter’s Forum addresses important issues in the global economy. The 2001
forum looked atht the globalization backlash, and the
resulting calls for a “third way,” one that steers between a capitalist
agenda and more people-centered development. The 2002 forum considered the
implications of
UN
Human Development Report
U.S. Global Trade Map
& Information
Interactive map of the world
with statistics on
where this and other data can be
found.
Intergovernmental
Organizations
United
Nations - Economic and Social Development
The World Bank
World Bank Database
Library
European Union
The International Labor Organization – This site provides information regarding international labor standards.
Research Institutes
Roubini's
Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site
A
comprehensive site with academic articles, news stories, op-ed and analyses
articles, speeches, economic
reports, conferences, and sites
on "hot topics." Such hot topics include: current global
financial issues,
and the Euro, dollarization, the debate on globalization, debt relief for
Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), and IMF and
World Bank Reform. This is
a good starting place for information on potential research paper topics.
Global Development Network, North American Hub
A site for
research on economic development, run by the Center for Global Development. The site offers current events news about economic development, as well as academic
and policy research on development issues.
Institute for Policy Studies
"At a time when other think
tanks celebrate the virtues of unrestrained greed, unlimited wealth, and
unregulated markets,
IPS is striving to create a more
responsible society - one built around the values of justice, nonviolence,
sustainability, and decency...
IPS has core programs on Peace
and Security, the Global Economy, and Paths for the 21st Century, supplemented
by several
projects that address specific
issues. "
* IPS on the
Global Economy
Global Exchange
Homepage
A critical look at the World
Bank, IMF, and WTO. As proponents of fair trade rather than free trade,
Global Exchange
emphasizes that
"globalization" is not an inevitable, natural phenomenon but an
organized movement characterized by non-transparent,
un-democratic rule making in
constructing a particular global economy.
National Bureau of Economic Research
The NBER is a private,
nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater
understanding of how the
economy works. Search their
publications database for recent research from more than 500 university
professors around the country.
Southeast Asia Research Centre,
Working Papers Database
Contains recent working papers from the City University of Hong Kong's
Southeast Asia Research Centre. Topics include financial
sector reform in
Part I - Overview and Key Concepts
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
homepage
The Global
Fix: A Plan to Save the World Economy...by Dani Rodrik
Part II - The Political Economy of International Trade
(A) Global Trade Institutions and Statistics:
World Trade Organization
The Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference
(Cancun Ministerial), Sept 10-14, 2003
Link to WTO coverage and WTO’s
background materials.
Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development This organization
provides statistical information on economic and social issues such as trade
and development.
United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development. Contains
useful links to UN trade development programs and strategies through the UN
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
United Nations -
Economic and Social Development .UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC)
(B) Criticisms and
Assessments of the Global Trade Regime:
The
Global Exchange provides the “Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the World Trade
Organization” and the WTO
response.
WTO - 10 misunderstandings about...
An official WTO response to
common criticisms. It addresses
those arguments stating the WTO dictates policy, the WTO is for
free trade at any cost, commercial interests take priority
over development …, and over the environment, and over health and
safety, the WTO destroys jobs, worsens poverty, small countries
are powerless in the WTO, the WTO is the tool of powerful
lobbies, weaker countries are forced to join the WTO, and
that the WTO is undemocratic.
Global Citizen's Global Trade Watch.
This site provides a critical perspective of the
World Trade Organization.
“What’s
New about Global Trade?” . Tech
Central Station column by Daniel Drezner,
Online “Globalization and World Capitalism” debate, sponsored by the CATO Institute. “This debate is between Cato and the Institute for Humane studies on the "pro" side, and the Nation and The America Prospect on the "anti" side. There's also an ongoing email debate for the course of the WTO talks between Johan Norberg and Bob Kuttner.” (from www.danieldrezner.com/blog/)
Institute for International Economics' "Fifty Years of the GATT/WTO: Lessons from the past for strategies for the future". Also see the Institute for International Economics’ "The World Trading System: Challenges Ahead"
Search:
Free versus Fair Trade. A
search engine query on sites addressing this debate. The first two pages are good. Follow up with
similar searches on
Google.
(C) Regional Trade Institutions and Statistics:
European Union.
Main page of the European
Union’s official website. This
site has links to all EU institutions, as well as to current and proposed EU
treaties, and quick facts on the EU.
EU Trade Policy. The official website of the European
Commission’s Directorate General for trade.
Information
on the EU’s Nice Treaty.
Noam Chomsky on NAFTA
"The trade agreements
override the rights of workers, consumers, and the future generations who
cannot "vote" in the market on
environmental issues. They help keep the public "in its
place." These are not necessary features of such agreements, but they are
natural consequences of the great successes of the past
years in reducing democracy to empty forms, so that the vile maxim of the
masters can be pursued without undue interference."
Public Citizen on NAFTA
A site highly critical of NAFTA. It includes such articles and items as: "The
Coming NAFTA Crash," "NAFTA at Five Years
Report Card," "NAFTA's
Broken Promises," and "Charts on NAFTA."
United Steel Workers of America on NAFTA
A site
highly critical of NAFTA. It includes such sections as: "NAFTA fails
families and communities," "Public Safety at Risk,"
"Fast Track expansion of NAFTA," "USWA
challenges NAFTA's unconstitutional adoption,"
and "The Devastating impact on
North American Workers."
Global Citizen's Global Trade Watch – This site provides a general overview of NAFTA from a critical perspective.
OAS's Foreign Trade
Information System (SICE) The Organization of American States (OAS) Trade Unit's
Foreign Trade Information System makes available information about hemispheric
integration (
Free Trade Area of the Americas, Official Website.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
This page contains information regarding
APEC, which is the premier forum for facilitating trade and investment in the
Asia-Pacific region
(D) National Trade Policies:
Japan's
Trade Policy . This site provides information regarding international
trade and Japanese national trade policy.
METI . Ministry of
Economy, Trade, and Industry of
The United States
Trade Representative. The official USTR web page. This site
includes useful information regarding the WTO and multilateral affairs.
The International Trade
Administration (ITA). Provides useful information and links regarding the
National
trade policies and information concerning NAFTA: The United States,
Mexico
(The Mexican embassy in
Part III - The Political Economy of International Money and Finance
Barry Eichengreen homepage
Includes links to policy papers,
research papers, reviews, comments, etc. written by Barry Eichengreen.
Euro Server Homepage
The
official website for the Euro. A comprehensive site with information about members and "how
to prepare."
Euro - Key Internet
Websites
European Central Bank
The official website for the European Central Bank with press releases,
speeches, publications, statistics, and other useful links.
European Investment Bank
This is the EU's long-term lending institution.
This site offers an overview, objective, structure, projects, loans, resources,
press releases, and publications.
See also the European Investment Fund.
Standard & Poor's Emerging
Markets Database
The International Monetary Fund
The
site of the International Monetary Fund. For country-specific information, use
the pull-down list of countries on the front page. This provides
a reverse chronological list of
all documents relating to a particular nation. The semi-annual World
Economic Outlooks also can be accessed from
the IMF site, as can many other
publications.
The World Bank.
The official web site of
the World Bank. Offers searches by
topic and electronic access to publications and press releases.
The HIPC Initiative
(World Bank site). Provides
information on the debt relief initiative for Highly Indebted Poor Countries,
including progress reports and
country
information.
PBS
Frontline, "The Crash"
Website
for the
the episode, as well as links to
sites critical of the IMF and World Bank, and links to media responses to the
episode.
"Did the
Malaysian Capital Controls Work?"
In
this paper (February 2001), Ethan Kaplan and Dani Rodrik examine the impact of capital controls on Malaysia's
performance
and recovery from the Asian
financial crisis.
The Global
Compact Home Page
"United
Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
first proposed the Global Compact in an address to the World Economic Forum on
31 January 1999. He challenged
world business leaders to help build the social and environmental pillars
required to sustain the new
global economy and make
globalization work for all the world's people."
Part IV - New Issues in IPE
Full WTO
Report on Trade and the Environment, October 1999
