POLST 362'3 The International Political Economy IPEof Biotechnology

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POLST 362.3 The International Political Economy
(IPE)of Biotechnology

• Introduction

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POLST 362 Introduction

• Peter Phillips
• Professor, NSERC/SSHRC Chair in Managing
  Knowledge-based Agrip-food Development
• Member of faculties of Agricultural Economics,
  Management, Political Studies and Biotechnology
• Member CBAC Sask Innovation Council Ch 13
  NAFTA Panel

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POLST 362 Introduction

• Diversity of Backgrounds
• Biotech Students
• Commerce
• Sociology
• Agriculture
• Natural Sciences
• Elective Students
• POLST
• Econ
• Other

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• Given this diversity we must find a delicate
  balance
• for Non-biotech students, we must introduce
  concepts of biotechnology, yet biotech students
  will find this repetitive
• for Non-POLST students, we must introduce the
  concepts/ideologies of POLST, which POLST
  students will find repetitive
• Please bear with us while we search for the
  appropriate balance!

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• Course Objective
• The course is designed to introduce the theory
  and application of International Political
  Economy (IPE) to the commercialization of
  biotechnology-based products

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• Required Text
• Gilpin, R. 2001. Global Political Economy
  Understanding the International Economic Order.
  Princeton University Press, Princeton.

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POLST 362 Course Overview

• What is IPE?
• Noun the international system(s)
• Verb the inter-disciplinary study of the
  structure, function and appropriate governance of
  the international system(s)
• Economics
• Politics
• Sociology

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• An important challenge to the structure and
  function of the international system (and,
  indeed, to economic, political and sociological
  theory) is technological change
• Biotechnology is an excellent case study of the
  challenges of technological change

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• Course Structure
• To examine IPE according to the structure of
  Gilpin 2001
• Yet, going into greater detail with respect to
  biotechnology
• New growth theory
• International trade

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• As mentioned
• IPE is the inter-disciplinary study of the
  structure, function and appropriate governance of
  the international system(s)
• Yet, significant debates exist

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• Structure (positive analysis)
• Is there an international system
• Or only international systems
• Trading system
• Financial system
• Security system
• Social development system

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• Structure
• What is the ideological basis of the
  international system(s)?
• Neoliberal market-oriented structure
• Marxist core-periphery structure

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• Structure (normative analysis)
• Should there be international integration?
• International economic integration (shallow)
• International social integration (deep)
• Or, should there be disintegration?
• Slow down or reverse integration/globalization

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• Function
• How does the international system(s) operate?
• What causes change?
• What are the dynamic change processes?

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• Appropriate Governance
• What is the role of the nation in the IPE?
• Increased power
• Decreased power
• What is the role of international governmental
  organizations in the IPE?
• Democratic deficit, accountability
• What is the role of NGOs in the IPE?
• Democratic deficit, accountability

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• In this course we will examine how IPE provides
  an understanding of the international system(s)