070313 VO Lecture Specialisaton 2 (2011S)

Es wird empfohlen, im Anschluss an die VO das Seminar zu besuchen, das 2x wöchentlich im Mai und Juni abgehalten wird.
It is highly recommended to attend the follow-up seminar "Comparing Catching-Up Development in Russia, Latin America und East Asia", which will be held bi-weekly in May and June.

Programme

1. Modernisations in Human History. The Historical Echelons of Modernisation and the Capitalist Development (2 lectures)
2. The Rise of Development Problem in the Global Scale (2 lectures).
3. The Success Stories and its Limits: The Concrete Case Studies (3 lectures).
A. The Soviet Modernization.
B. Latin America in the vicious circle of catching up development.
C. The East Asian Model of Development: A triumph of catching up modernisation?
4. Development in the Era of Globalisation (5 lectures).
Russia: fallout from the process of development. The social-economic mechanism of decline. Anti-liberalism under liberal slogans. A restoration of archaic social relationships. The Russian variant of "crony capitalism". Corruption as the form of structural adjustment to globalisation. Social consequences of "reforms". Political de-modernisation and the social problems. Is modernisation possible in Russia?
Latin America: achievements and blind-alleys of neoliberal transformations. The structural changes. Poverty and education. The limits of neoliberal policy. Alternative approaches to the Latin American reality. The new rise of populism or the continental revolution? The case study 1: Brazil and the general modernisation of society by resolving social problems. The case study 2: Argentina and attempts to move forward looking back. The case study 3: Mexico and degradation of the statist system (development in the conditions of the failed state?)
East/South East Asia: "tigers" in modernisation trap. The sources and causes of the 1997-1998 crisis. The post-industrial challenges and vulnerability of Asian economies. The sector of R&D and outward-looking development. The system of education and its inadequacy to new situation. The reforms after crisis. Liberalisation versus strengthening of statism. Adjustment of bureaucratic structures (Korea). The disappointment in modernisation and the aggravation of internal tensions (Indonesia, Malaysia). The attempts of technological breakthroughs and conservation of the authoritarian regime (Singapore).
New rising powers: China and India. Will China become the world leader after decliner of American hegemony? The undeniable achievements and the internal vulnerabilities of Chinese modernisation. India: the post-industrial breakthroughs and social spaces of archaic structures.
Africa as the failed continent. The growth of new global players and development of the least developed countries: new opportunities and new obstacles.