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070215 SE Seminar - The "Socialist World System" (2020W)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Hybrid course with a mixture of presence and online teaching on the dates specified above. Notify us in advance if you can only participate online (because you are away from Vienna)!

  • Wednesday 07.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 14.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 21.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 28.10. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 04.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 11.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 18.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 25.11. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 02.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 09.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 16.12. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 13.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 20.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Wednesday 27.01. 10:45 - 12:15 Hybride Lehre
    Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

"Socialist World System" was the self-definition of the national state planned economies constituting the area of the socialist world economy (Sozialistischer Wirtschaftsraum). Immanuel Wallerstein in his World System Analysis considers this world of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) not as an economic system of its own, but as a "semi-periphery" dependent of the single capitalist world system. Recent authors like Sanchez-Sibony follow grosso modo this assessment. In this seminar, we shall discuss which degree of economic, social and political coherence was achieved by the "Socialist World System", especially in the light of its task to integrate extra-European members by achieving economic convergence. This inter-continental extension may serve as a test case for discussing that question. Can this self-designation as an alternative world economy ("world system") purposefully be used today as an analytical category in a Global History approach?

Basic Schedule:
7.-21.10.: Thematical Introduction and assignment of seminar paper topics
4.11.: Literature Abstracts
From 11.11..: Individual presentations by students
20. and 27.1.: Final discussion/Workshop

The basic internal communication is in English. Knowledge of English is therefore a basic requirement for participation. If all participants understand German, part of the communication will be in German. Seminar papers can also be written in Spanish or French.

Assessment and permitted materials

- Writing and Presentation of literature abstracts (3-4 pp.)
- Writing and Presentation of the draft of the Seminar Paper
- Writing and Presentation of the Seminar Paper (ca. 65.000 signs), integrating critique and proposals for modification
- Permanent participation in discussion
- Structured intervention into the final discussions

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Continuous assessment; personal or online presence required

Examination topics

Essential Common Literature plus Seminar Paper and assignments
Active Participation

Reading list

Essential Literature:

Chase-Dunn Christopher (ed.), Socialist States in the World-System, Beverly Hills-London-New Delhi 1982

Gorin Zeev, Socialist Societies and World System Theory: A Critical Survey, in: Science & Society 3/1985, 332-366

Müller Uwe/Jajesniak-Qast Dagmara (Hg.), Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy, Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 5/6/2017

Sanchez-Sibony Oscar, Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushev, Cambridge-New York 2014

Stone Randall, Satellites and Commissars. Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-Bloc Trade, Princeton 1996

Trecker Max, red money for the Global South. East-South Economic Relations in the Cold War, London-New York 2020

Unfried Berthold, A Cuban Cycle of developmental socialism? Cubans and East Germans in the Socialist World System, in: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 3/2017, 69-90

Wallerstein Immanuel, The Capitalist World-Economy. Essays, Cambridge u.a. 1979

Association in the course directory

MA Geschichte: Globalgeschichte

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