Geopolitics of Finance

Global financial crises, increasing social divides worldwide, and deepening mistrust between business and government require a holistic multi-stakeholder approach that builds bridges among various research fields. This track explores the intersection of financial markets, politics, and the recent confluence of new technological, environmental, and geopolitical developments that has fundamentally altered the global operating environment. Its companion courses will help students grapple with fundamental questions of globalization. What are the social, political, cultural and economic impacts of globalization? Where are the fault lines in the financial world that could precipitate another crisis, and possible realignments, in the global monetary order?

This track will be offered at least through the 2023-24 academic year.

Courses

Faculty Team

HNUH239T: Geopolitics of Finance: Causes and Consequences of Globalization

Instructor: Gerald Suarez

In this course, we explore the recent confluence of new technological, environmental, and geopolitical developments that has fundamentally altered the global operating environment. Students will learn the major pressures facing the global economy: rising nationalism and protectionism, diverging growth paths of emerging markets, and accelerated digital integration. They will meet advocates of globalization who applaud the increased flow of goods, services, and capital across borders, and critics heralding threats to trade, migration, job security, etc. Students take on this thorny debate to prepare for leadership roles in a century brought about by current trends in the global economy. This course is self-contained but paired with HNUH239P in the Geopolitics of Finance Theory & Practice Track, which explores how globalization has brought about fundamental changes to our daily lives by making the world more interdependent.

GenEd: TBA
Offered: Every Fall semester
Required/Optional: Required

HNUH239P: Geopolitics of Finance: A Simulation of the Roller Coasters of Capitalism

Instructor: Behzad Gohari

In this course, we explore the intersection of money, markets, politics, and power; and the periodic financial crises that leave a lasting, sometimes devastating impact on the global landscape. Students will examine the detritus of 200 years of crises in the United States, from 19th-century booms and busts, to early 20th-century crashes. They will take the roller coaster ride of the 2008 financial crisis, reliving events that left the world reshaped. Students will be primed to examine the ripple effects of financial crises and the role they have played in changing the global socio-economic landscape over the last two centuries. This course is self-contained but paired with HNUH239T in the Geopolitics of Finance Theory & Practice Track, which explores how globalization has brought about fundamental changes to our daily lives by making the world more interdependent.

GenEd: DSSP
Offered: Every Fall semester
Required/Optional: Required

Associate Fellow

Behzad Gohari

Associate Fellow