NS4710 Eur-Asia in the Global Economic Order

This course surveys the integrative and disintegrative processes at work in northern Eurasia, emphasizing the European Union, the Russian Federation and China. The overarching frame for the discussion of Eur-Asian dynamics is the transformation underway in the post-Cold-War global economic and political order. Re-centering attention on the Eurasian landmass allows us a different lens through which to understand changes in the economic power and interdependence of the EU, Russia and China, on the one hand, and the emerging contours of the post-Covid, post-Ukraine global order.

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Describe the impact of economic ideas on European and Russian economic and political development since the 19^th century.
• Understand the diverging views of global political and economic order among European, Russian and Chinese elites.
• Understand European integration, the Eurasian Economic Union and China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative.
• Understand European, Russian and Chinese economic power and competitiveness and their political and economic interests in Eurasia.
• Describe how economic ideas and instruments can be used as a tool of statecraft and order-generation and degeneration.
• Demonstrate a knowledge of European countries’ and Russia’s economic priorities in dealing with each other, the United States and China.