05-036 Understanding Globalisation: Management and Crisis
first cycle professional study programme (Professional bachelor's degree) Management
Content
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Definition of globalization; manifesting forms; most important characteristics.
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The Westphalian paradigm of sovereignty and impact of globalization on it; global governance and increasing influence of private agencies (bond rating agencies)
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The historical development of the modern international order; duality of the unification of the world and the division of the world into the core and the periphery.
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Institutional development after World War II: the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the GATT, the OECD.
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Developments after the end of the Cold War: globalization of capitalism and domination of the neoliberal socio-economic model; the outbreak of the global financial crisis (2008).
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Developments after the end of the Cold War: the unipolar international system and military, political and economic domination of the United States of America.
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Transformation of the unipolar international system into the multipolar international system; role of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China; geopolitical and geoeconomic developments; rise of the BRICS.
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Global trade and global finance.
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Relations between the West and the Muslim World; developments in the Middle East and consequences for Europe.