Economic globalization is one of the most powerful drivers of social change in the contemporary world. Global economic integration has been underway for at least 500 years, but that process took a new turn in the 1980s. In this course, we’ll focus on the causes and consequences of this new turn, which we’ll call the neoliberal model of economic globalization. We’ll also ask what it would take to change that model, and with it, the dynamics of economic globalization. The course is divided into three parts. In Part 1, we’ll begin with the international institutions and rules -- above all, the neoliberal free trade agreements of the 1990s -- that shape neoliberal globalization. We’ll look at the origins of these agreements, with particular attention to the prototypical North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the political struggles surrounding it. We’ll also examine the process by which other countries – particularly France and Germany -- in which corporate cultural and political power was less unbalanced than it is in the USA nevertheless agreed to participate in the neoliberal model of global economic regulation. Part 2 of the course will assess three debates about the consequences of neoliberal globalization: (1) has it created a “race to the bottom” for the wages, working conditions, and levels of organization of workers in the global North and the global South? (2) has it eroded the capacity of democratic national governments to regulate and redistribute? (3) has it exacerbated global climate change? In Part 3 of the course, we’ll ask two questions about alternatives to neoliberal globalization. First, can economic globalization be made just and sustainable through changes to the rules and institutions of international trade, and if so, how? Second, what are the prospects for the shift in the balance of political power – in the United States in particular -- that would be necessary to bring about the required changes in institutions and policy?