Dynamics of International Economic Order: Law, Politics, and Power Law

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Dynamics of International Economic Order examines the cross-cutting relationship between political power and global governance. To this end, the course considers three inter-related sets of issues: first, how nation-states define international economic order through the creation of legal frameworks and rules-based regimes for cross-border trade, investment, and monetary relations; second, how shifts in the international distribution of economic and political power impact these frameworks and regimes; and third, how great powers-in the contemporary context more specifically, the United States (the emblematic established power) and China (the paradigmatic rising power)--approach global economic governance as part of their grand strategies to advance their interests and enhance their international position.