Lecture 4

Question 1

What are the four main points of structuralism in IPE?

Answer 1

Question 2

What is the main ideas of historical materialism? To who can this be linked?

Answer 2

Question 3

How is history seen by structuralists?

Answer 3

Ignore the Feudalism and capitalism part

Question 4

What is Feudalism?

From a structuralist perspective

Answer 4

Question 5

What is capitalism?

From a structuralist perspective

Answer 5

Question 6

How do structuralist look at private property and market exchange?

Answer 6

Question 7

How do structuralists think about the concept of freedoms regarding labor?

Answer 7

Question 8

What do structuralist stress about the economy?

Maybe economy is not the right word

Answer 8

Question 9

What is the end stage of capitalism according to Lenin?

Answer 9

Question 10

What does contemporary mean?

Answer 10

Current; in the present

Question 11

What is contemporary theory of imperialism?

Answer 11

Question 12

What is the World Dependency Theory? By who was it created?

Name four main points

Answer 12

Question 13

What is a Neo-Gramcian theory?

Answer 13

Question 14

Who was Gramci? What were his three main beliefs?

Answer 14

Question 15

What is the focus of Neo-Gramcian IPE?

Answer 15

Question 16

What does Robert Cox believe about hegemony?

Name three main points

Answer 16

Question 17

How does Neo-Gramcian IPE look at the rise of neoliberalism?

Answer 17

Question 18

What is technology determinism? To which theory is it connected?

Answer 18

The idea that changes in technology determine changes in the social system.

Connected to the structuralist perspective.

Question 19

What is the law of the falling rate of profit? To which theory is it connected?

Answer 19

Over time capitalists replace workers with machines.

Linked to the structuralist perspective.

Question 20

What is the law of disproportionality? To which theory is it connected?

Answer 20

Capitalism is prone to instability, this causes recessions.

Linked to the structuralist perspective

Question 21

What is the law of concentration? To which theory is it connected?

Answer 21

Capitalism becomes increasingly inequal.

Structuralist perspective

Question 22

What is Capital according to Marx?

Answer 22

The means of production, e.g. factories.

Question 23

What Class according to Marx?

Answer 23

The ownership, or lack, of capital

Question 24

Why does Marx believe workers are oppressed?

Answer 24

• The rich can just survive of their capital, their workers cannot
• The rich try to limit workers unionizing, though the state, which they can control since they have more capital
• The rich also use low wage foreign workers to negociate even lower wager here

Question 25

How do Marxists believe that legitimacy is created? Who theorized this idea?

Answer 25

Though manufacturing consent, since the powerful are able to write the history.

Chomski, Gramci & Cox are a few of these creators of this idea.

Question 26

What is dependency theory?

Answer 26

Core, semi- & periphery.

Question 27

What did Andra Gunder Frank argue with respect to his development & underdevelopment thesis?

Answer 27

Underdeveloped nations were not underveloped, however they became it by colonization.

Question 28

What is the Modern World System (MWS)? By whom was this created?

Answer 28

Core, semi- & periphery, created by Wallerstein

Question 29

What are critisims of the MWS?

Answer 29

1. It it too simple, it is too deterministic and rejects choice of countries
2. It has capitalism as it final stage

Question 30

What is neoimperialism?

Answer 30

A newer, subtler version of imperialism (also used by the US)

Question 31

How do liberals and structualist attribute the rise in inequality?

Answer 31

Liberals: increased automation
Structualists: Capitalist tendencies