The Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Richard Westra, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan, as our visitor for Winter 2016.
Professor Westra has a PhD from Queen’s University, and an Master’s and BA Honors from York University.
Dr. Westra’s recent publications include Exit from Globalization: Frontiers of Political Economy Series (London, Routledge, 2014), and
The Evil Axis of Finance: The US- Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future (Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2012).
Professor Westra will teach the following two courses at Carleton University:
PECO 5502W/PSCI 5502W/SOCI 5505W
The Political Economy of Social Change
This course moves from questions of theory to those of practice on the building of future progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable societies in the here and now. Course readings and discussion includes Marxists, economic historians, feminists, anthropologists, environmentalists and social activists.
Thursdays, 2:35-5:25
PSCI 5915
China and East Asia in the Global Political Economy
The course explores the rise of China in the global economy with an eye to United States anticommunist policies, China in the East Asian regional economy, and the role of transnational capitalist forces.
Tuesdays, 11:35-2:25