ESSAY 1: Is US hegemony being displaced by China?
ESSAY 1: Is US hegemony being displaced by China? Your answer must be linked to debates over the political economy of globalisation. [3,000 words] – MAKE SURE TO ARGUE A SIDE/STICK TO A SIDE BUT ALSO GIVE A CRITICAL PARA + CONCLUSION.
Please use (you must use) all of the 9 sources listed below and please add/use your own sources. Aim to use maximum of 15 sources. So 9 from here and like 5/6 your own. Use key concepts e.g. Globalisation, China, geopolitics and the BRICs, US hegemony.
1. Breslin, S. (2005) ‘Power and production: rethinking China’s global economic role’, Review of International Studies 31, pp.735-53 (QMPlus)
2. S. Hameiri and L. Jones 2018, ‘China challenges global governance? The case of Chinese international development finance and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’, International affairs 94(3). QMPlus
3. Jones, L. & J. Zeng (2019): Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: beyond ‘grand strategy’ to a state transformation analysis, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1559046, QM Plus
4. Layne, C. (2018) ‘The US-Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana’, International Affairs. Oxford University Press, 94(1), pp. 89–111. doi: 10.1093/ia/iix249.
5. Tooze. A. 2021 Has covid ended the neoliberal era?, The Guardian, Sept 2, available at https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/02/covid-and-the-crisis-of-neoliberalism
6. R. Kiely 2016 The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers, Palgrave, e-book
7. S. Starrs (2014) ‘The Chimera of Global Convergence’, New Left Review II/87
8. N. Bisley 2010 Global Power shift: The Decline of the West and rise of the Rest?, in M. Beeson and N. Bisley eds. 2010 Issues in World Politics, Palgrave, QMPLus
9. Altman, R. (2009) “The Great Crash, 2008: A Geopolitical Setback for the West”, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 88(1) pp. 2-14 QMPlus
ESSAY 2: What, if any, is the relationship between anti-colonial and decolonial forms of struggle? [2,500 word essay] MAKE SURE TO ARGUE A SIDE/STICK TO A SIDE BUT ALSO GIVE A CRITICAL PARA + CONCLUSION.
Please use (you must use) all of the sources below. But please add/use your own sources too. Aim for about 13 sources max. So 8 from here and 5 your own. Use key concepts e.g. : Modernity = the ‘colonial-modern’
The multiverse/pluriverse or a ‘World of Many Worlds’
Cosmology (transcends modern human/nature dualism): land, and human relationship to it
1. Mignolo, Walter D. ‘Delinking: The rhetoric of modernity, the logic of coloniality and the grammar of de-coloniality’, Cultural Studies, 21:2, 2007, 449 – 514
2. E. Tuck & K.W. Yang, ‘Decolonization is not a metaphor’ Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1: 1, 2012, pp.1-40
3. Grosfoguel, Ramón. ‘Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality’, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2011, available at: http://dialogoglobal.com/texts/grosfoguel/Grosfoguel-Decolonizing-Pol-Econ-and-Postcolonial.pdf
4. Nandy, Ashis. The Romance of the State and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp.61-82
5. Bhambra, Gurminder K. ‘Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues’, Postcolonial Studies, 17:2, 2014, 115-121
6. Robbie Shilliam, The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections (London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2015)
7. Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia. (2012) ‘Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 111(1): 95-109.
8. Kamala Kempadoo, ‘The white man’s burden revisited’, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/
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