globalization

Part 1. 50 percent. (4 pages - suggested)
You are the advisor to an international commission that is tasked with revamping the global
economy. Your job is to draw up a memo to inform the commission about issues of international
trade, something that about which they know very little.
In the memo, explain: 1. The arguments for trade, including the principle of comparative
advantage; 2. What is the existing neoliberal global order; 3. Critiques of that order; and
4. Whether China might be an alternative model of development.
In your memo you must explicitly draw on the following readings and their arguments:
• Mingst (“Int'l Political Economy”)
• Rosecrance (“The Virtual State”)
• Friedman (“The World is Flat”)
• Barnett (“The Pentagon’s New Map”)
• Chang (“The Lexus and the Olive Tree Revisited” )
• Gray (“The World is Round”)
• Pilger (film, New Rulers of the World)
• Jacques (excerpts from When China Rules the World)
• Manuel (“China is quietly reshaping the world”)
• Yan (“The Age of Uneasy Peace”)