INTL 4530 - Globalization and Distributive Justice

Fall 2009

Aug. 20: Key concepts: lecture outline.
Aug. 25: Evidence on globalization, inequality, and poverty: lecture outline.

Aug. 27: Implications of globalization for justice: lecture outline.
Sept. 1: Strong cosmopolitanism: lecture outline.
Sept. 3: Movie: Life and Debt: The movie has a website with some additional information.
Sept. 8: Distributive justice: The history of an idea: lecture outline.
Sept. 10: Distributive justice: Key approaches: lecture outline.
Sept. 15: Does distance matter?: lecture outline.
Sept. 17: National borders and international justice 1: lecture outline.
Sept. 22: National borders and international justice 2: lecture outline.
Sept. 24: Rawls' Law of Peoples and Beitz's response: lecture outline.
Sept. 29: Some final considerations: lecture outline.
Additional reading: 2 excellent profiles in the New Yorker, available through Lexis/Nexis.
"The Gift", about Zell Kravinsky, who gave away all his money and then a kidney;
"The Good Doctor", about Paul Farmer, who has dedicated his life to providing healthcare to some of the neediest populations on earth.

Oct. 6: Justifying the welfare state: lecture outline.
Oct. 8: Welfare states and globalization: lecture outline.
Oct. 13: Welfare states and immigration in a globalized world: lecture outline.

Oct. 15: Background: Dependency & the New International Economic Order: lecture outline.
Oct. 20: Trade and the WTO: lecture outline.
Website of the WTO.
Public Citizen's website critiquing the WTO: Global Trade Watch
Oct. 22: Foreign aid: lecture outline.
The OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (the best source for aid statistics & info).
Oct. 27: Debt forgiveness & debt relief: lecture outline.
The IMF's debt relief program, HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Countries).
Website of the U.S. Jubilee Network, the successor organization to the Jubilee 2000 movement (with info on Vulture funds).
Greg Palast's BBC reporting on Vulture Funds: part 1, part 2, and follow-up story.
Oct. 29 Private foreign aid: lecture outline.
GiveWell, which assesses charity effectiveness (note their excellent blog).
Kiva, which promotes micro-finance on an individual project basis (note their revised "How Kiva Works" chart, which we discussed in class).
Nov. 3: Migration and labor: lecture outline.
Website of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Website with more information about the DREAM Act.
Nov. 5: International investment and governance: lecture outline.
Website of the UN Global Compact.
Websites of groups that attempt to monitor the Global Compact and MNCs more generally: Global Compact Critics and Corpwatch.

Nov. 12: Natural resources & pollution: lecture outline.
Nov. 17: Patenting life: lecture outline.
Nov. 19: Medicine & health: lecture outline.
Dec. 1: Reparations and global distributive justice: lecture outline.
Dec. 3: Wrap-up: Readings:
- Page, Edward. 2008. "Distributing the Burdens of Climate Change." Environmental Politics 17(4):556-575. (through the library's electronic journals function).
- Miniter, Richard. 1999. "The False Promise of Slave Redemption." Atlantic Monthly, July. (read both parts; the first part has a link to the second).
- Recommended: Chapter 1 in Bales, Kevin. 2007. Ending Slavery. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
lecture outline.

UGA writing center
See also the useful writing resources at Princeton's writing center, which has a number of helpful handouts on developing an argument, revising, writing an introduction, etc.

INTL 4530 - Globalization and Distributive Justice / maurits@uga.edu
Last updated 20 November 2009.