International Relations

  1.Explain the evolution of the international political economy since the end of WWII, including its underlying assumptions and central institutional pillars. Why did the Bretton Woods system rise and fall? What has replaced it, and why? 2.Evaluate the significance of the UN today. To what extent does it enhance or undermine state sovereignty? How, and why? 3.The world is bedeviled by what might be called the “5 p’s”: poverty, pollution, pestilence, the proliferation of weapons, and population (including migration). What is the cause of these problems - to what extent are they independent or interconnected? Are they fundamentally independent or interconnected? What are the main obstacles impeding the development of poor countries, and to what extent are they endogenous or exogenous?