070513 SE Comparing Catching-Up (2005W)
Comparing Catching-Up Development in Russia, East Asia and Latin America (6 ECTS)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Donnerstag, 17.00-19.00 Uhr, Seminarraum des Instituts für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Beginn 27.10.2005
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
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Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
The lost decade and crisis of Latin American statism.
East Asian newly industrialising countries (NICs). The region in the context of cold war: how unfavourable conditions facilitated the regional modernisation (a story about the wonderful transformation of small kittens into tigers). Two generations of 'tigers'. A responsible attitude of local elites. Conservative modernisation and the developmental state in Asia: Confucius and Lenin versus Weber. The authoritarianism of development: cane and manual book. (The authoritarian regimes in East Asia and Latin America: similarities and differences). Japan as the pattern of successful development. 'Flying geese' model and outward-looking development. Mechanism and factors of the 'tigers' growth. Social security and mass education. The East Asian 'miracle': general features and the concrete case studies.
The accomplishments and objective deficiencies of the East Asian NICs' catching up development. The internal limits to growth: structural misbalance and contradictions. A vulnerability of success.
The crisis of 1997-1998: factors and causes (the 'enemies snares' or the reverse side of achievements?). The Asian crisis of 1997-1998 and the collapse of the USSR: what was common between two events?
The decline of catching up development (the case studies-2).
Russia and CIS. The crisis and decline of statism. A breakthrough to liberty or a revolt against modernity? (The social agents and mass base of the Russian anti-modernisation.) The market bolshevism against democracy, or triumph of anti-liberalism under liberal slogans. (Adam Smith as the principal enemy of Russian liberals). Privatisation of the state and privatisation of economy. The Russian (Ukrainian, etc.) bureaucratic capitalism.
Results of reforms: de-modernisation. The growth of economy without development. A restoration of archaic social relationships.
East Asian newly industrialising countries (NICs). The region in the context of cold war: how unfavourable conditions facilitated the regional modernisation (a story about the wonderful transformation of small kittens into tigers). Two generations of 'tigers'. A responsible attitude of local elites. Conservative modernisation and the developmental state in Asia: Confucius and Lenin versus Weber. The authoritarianism of development: cane and manual book. (The authoritarian regimes in East Asia and Latin America: similarities and differences). Japan as the pattern of successful development. 'Flying geese' model and outward-looking development. Mechanism and factors of the 'tigers' growth. Social security and mass education. The East Asian 'miracle': general features and the concrete case studies.
The accomplishments and objective deficiencies of the East Asian NICs' catching up development. The internal limits to growth: structural misbalance and contradictions. A vulnerability of success.
The crisis of 1997-1998: factors and causes (the 'enemies snares' or the reverse side of achievements?). The Asian crisis of 1997-1998 and the collapse of the USSR: what was common between two events?
The decline of catching up development (the case studies-2).
Russia and CIS. The crisis and decline of statism. A breakthrough to liberty or a revolt against modernity? (The social agents and mass base of the Russian anti-modernisation.) The market bolshevism against democracy, or triumph of anti-liberalism under liberal slogans. (Adam Smith as the principal enemy of Russian liberals). Privatisation of the state and privatisation of economy. The Russian (Ukrainian, etc.) bureaucratic capitalism.
Results of reforms: de-modernisation. The growth of economy without development. A restoration of archaic social relationships.
Prüfungsstoff
Dictatorship over needs and creeping counter-revolution. Premises of 'latinamericanisation' of Russia.
Latin American countries in a vicious circle of dependent development. The internal premises of capitalist development. The Great Depression and the rise of populism. 'Conservative modernisation' in the rhythm of samba. Import substitution industrialisation and Latin American version of statism. The cases of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. The reproduction of internal central-peripheral structure as inevitable result of rapid development.
The first crisis of import substitution industrialisation and decline of populism. The military-bureaucratic authoritarianism and attempts of new modernisation (the case of Southern Cone). Modification of Kondratiev-Schumpeter cycle and associated-dependent development, or new version of 'conservative modernisation'.
Latin America in modernisation trap. The growth of external indebtedness and inertia of import substitution industrialisation.
Latin American countries in a vicious circle of dependent development. The internal premises of capitalist development. The Great Depression and the rise of populism. 'Conservative modernisation' in the rhythm of samba. Import substitution industrialisation and Latin American version of statism. The cases of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. The reproduction of internal central-peripheral structure as inevitable result of rapid development.
The first crisis of import substitution industrialisation and decline of populism. The military-bureaucratic authoritarianism and attempts of new modernisation (the case of Southern Cone). Modification of Kondratiev-Schumpeter cycle and associated-dependent development, or new version of 'conservative modernisation'.
Latin America in modernisation trap. The growth of external indebtedness and inertia of import substitution industrialisation.
Literatur
Corruption as a form of structural adjustment to globalisation (implications of the Russian experience for other countries).
The transfer (transit) class and its purposes. 'A search for the Russian way' and imitation of 'the strong state'. A problem of the social agents of development. Prospects of Russia and CIS ("a window of opportunities").
Latin American countries. The neoliberal response to the new challenges and 'Washington consensus'. De-regulation, liberalisation, and privatisation.
Latin America: achievements and blind alleys of neoliberal transformations. The structural changes. Poverty and education. The limits of neoliberal policy. The case studies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela. Lessons of the Argentine tragedy (the crisis of 1998-2002). In search for the alternative approaches to Latin American reality. The new rise of populism? Is a restoration of the state capitalism possible?
Positions of Latin American countries in the world system. The prospects and problems.
East and Southeast Asian NICs. 'Tigers' after disease: ways to recovery. IMF policy and structural changes. A heritage of the developmental state: adjustment and mimicry of the corporate and state bureaucracy (old wine in new bottles). What are obstacles to the after-crisis restructuring? Were the East Asian miracle disproportions abolished? Social-cultural dimension of the post-crisis development in the region: old traditions and social relationships in the changed situation. Scientific-technological capacities of the Asian NICs. The problems of human resources development. Creativity and cultural heritage: allies or antagonists?
The new giants of Asia: China and India. The problems and prospects in light of the 'tigers' experience.
The transfer (transit) class and its purposes. 'A search for the Russian way' and imitation of 'the strong state'. A problem of the social agents of development. Prospects of Russia and CIS ("a window of opportunities").
Latin American countries. The neoliberal response to the new challenges and 'Washington consensus'. De-regulation, liberalisation, and privatisation.
Latin America: achievements and blind alleys of neoliberal transformations. The structural changes. Poverty and education. The limits of neoliberal policy. The case studies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela. Lessons of the Argentine tragedy (the crisis of 1998-2002). In search for the alternative approaches to Latin American reality. The new rise of populism? Is a restoration of the state capitalism possible?
Positions of Latin American countries in the world system. The prospects and problems.
East and Southeast Asian NICs. 'Tigers' after disease: ways to recovery. IMF policy and structural changes. A heritage of the developmental state: adjustment and mimicry of the corporate and state bureaucracy (old wine in new bottles). What are obstacles to the after-crisis restructuring? Were the East Asian miracle disproportions abolished? Social-cultural dimension of the post-crisis development in the region: old traditions and social relationships in the changed situation. Scientific-technological capacities of the Asian NICs. The problems of human resources development. Creativity and cultural heritage: allies or antagonists?
The new giants of Asia: China and India. The problems and prospects in light of the 'tigers' experience.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
MWG06; P2 (D530) (Modul Globalgeschichte; Magisterstudium Globalgeschichte)
Letzte Änderung: Fr 31.08.2018 08:49
The emergence of development problem (retrospective overview of German, Japanese, and Russian catching up development in the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XX century). Karl Marx and Max Weber controversy as theoretical expression of the XIX century capitalism's contradictions. The limits to capitalist expansion (inward- and outward-looking expansion).
Maturing of the great capitalist revolution. The rise of capital-function. Social and technological premises of the XX century.
The rise and accomplishments of catching up development (the case studies-1).
Russia as semi-periphery of the world system (What did idiom 'dressing-gown relation' mean?). Empire model of modernisation and its inevitable contradictions. The internal social-cultural split as essential feature of Russian development. "We shall undereat, but we will export" (costs of the rapid industrial growth). The capitalist development in Russia and failure of autocratic modernisation. The Revolution of 1917 as revolt against "modernisation from above". The anti-capitalist revolution and the Russian way to Modernity: the capitalist development without capitalists, or a triumph of capital-function over private property. What was 'conservative modernisation'? The Soviet system as the great compromise between Russian universe and the XX century capitalism. The Stalinist technology of power and self-constraints of the bolshevist modernisation.
Cold war and Pax Americana. The fall of Russian populism and counter-offensive of conservatism. The USSR in modernisation trap: new difficulties and contradictions. The central-peripheral structure of the Soviet society. Inner disintegration of the system and new social contradictions.