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”)