• Introduction to International Relations
  • About
  • 1 Introduction (Week 1)
    • 1.1 Discussion questions
    • 1.2 What this course will and will not cover
    • 1.3 Assignments
      • 1.3.1 Structure of the essays
    • 1.4 Optional presentations
    • 1.5 Appointment
    • 1.6 Resources
    • 1.7 How to search and download research articles
    • 1.8 How to submit your work on Blackboard
  • 2 Three “isms” (Week 2)
    • 2.1 Discussion questions
    • 2.2 In class activity
      • 2.2.1 Structural/Offensive realism and the current Russia-Ukraine war
    • 2.3 Additional resources
  • 3 Wars (Week 3)
    • 3.1 Discussion questions
    • 3.2 Bargaining
    • 3.3 What are the theoretical and empirical limitations of the bargaining theory?
    • 3.4 Additional resources
  • 4 Liberal peace (Week 4)
    • 4.1 Discussion questions
    • 4.2 Democractic peace
    • 4.3 Commercial and capitalist peace
    • 4.4 Additional resources
  • 5 Institutions (Week 5)
    • 5.1 Discussion questions
    • 5.2 Causal logic of offensive realism
    • 5.3 Relative gains vs. absolute gains
    • 5.4 Additional resources
  • 6 Civil war and terrorism (Week 6)
    • 6.1 Discussion questions
    • 6.2 Why do we discuss the two together?
    • 6.3 Civil war
    • 6.4 Terrorism
    • 6.5 Resources
  • 7 Trade (Week 8)
    • 7.1 Discussion questions
    • 7.2 Additional resources
  • 8 Economic statecraft (Week 9)
    • 8.1 Discussion questions
    • 8.2 Are sanctions effective?
    • 8.3 Weaponized interdependence
    • 8.4 Additional resources
  • 9 Development and Environment (Week 10)
    • 9.1 Discussion questions
    • 9.2 Development
    • 9.3 Environment
    • 9.4 Additional resources
  • 10 Future (Week 13)
    • 10.1 Discussion questions
    • 10.2 LIO
    • 10.3 China
    • 10.4 Additional resources
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Introduction to International Relations

Chapter 7 Trade (Week 8)

7.1 Discussion questions

  • What is the future of the international economic order?

G7 summit: Is western influence waning in a multipolar world? | DW News

Jeffry Frieden - The Backlash Against Globalization

‘Unfair’: EU criticizes Washington over planned subsidies for US-made electric cars | DW Business

EU Companies Seek ‘Fairness’ in US Business: Dombrovskis

7.2 Additional resources

Standardized World Income Inequality Database

What global trade deals are really about (hint: it’s not trade) | Haley Edwards | TEDxMidAtlantic

Populist vote share in the national elections of selected European Union (EU) countries as of March 2018*

Politics and Populism, by Stephen Harper

Ending the WTO Dispute Settlement Crisis: Where to from here?

Mark Blyth: Globalization and the Backlash of Populism