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Jackson & Sørensen: Introduction to International Relations 3e

Chapter 07

  1. Are mercantilists right when they assert that the economy should be subordinated to the primary goal of increasing state power?

  2. Are the Japanese, the Koreans, and the Chinese thinking in mercantilist terms as claimed in box 7.2?

  3. What should be the role of the state according to economic liberalism?

  4. Is Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage confirmed when looking at today's international trade?

  5. Are the advanced industrialized countries characterized by class struggle as the Marxist view assumes?

  6. Discuss Lenin's view of 'uneven development' - is it a correct view?

  7. Does foreign investment in the Third World by the industrialized countries lead to exploitation as Gunder Frank claims?

  8. Discuss the pros and cons of Robert Cox's analytical framework as set out in box 7.9.

  9. Will the capitalist world-economy always be a hierarchy as Wallerstein says?

  10. Marxists maintain that economic power is the basis for political power. Discuss.