Programme Structure for 2024/2025
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Global Challenges
6.0 ECTS
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Global Challenges
When successfully completing this Course, the students will be able to:
LO1. Understand geopolicy, development and globalisation as the drivers and pillars of the architecture of the international system;
LO2. Identify and analyse the major international dynamics that shape geopolicy, development and globalisation;
LO3. Identify and understand the strategic interests of key actors in the international sphere;
LO4. Explain the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to understand the main topics of the course.
S1. Geopolitics & Global Economy
S2. Energy Transitions & Climate Change
S3. Growth Models & Development Challenges
S4. Global Security Threats
S5. The EU between Integration and Nationalism
The assessment of knowledge learning and skills acquisition includes:
a) Participation and discussion in seminars (10%)
b) Individual Written Essay of 2/3 thousand words (90%)
Title: Keohane, N.O. & Olmstead, S.M., 2007. Markets and the Environment, Island Press
Meer, Nasar (2014): ?Economy, Politics and Sense of Belonging?, Sense of Belonging:11
Rist, Gilbert (2010): The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith, (3rd Ed.) Zed Books
Félix Ribeiro, José Manuel (2014): ?Globalisation, Crisis and Security: What Will Be the Map of Global Rivalries in the Horizon 2030? in Globalisation and Security: An Overview, Nova Science Publishers Inc, New York
Chris Alden (2008): China in Africa, London, Zed Books
Michael Common & Sigrid Stagl (2005): Ecological Economics: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Valladão A. (2006): Democratic Hegemony and American Hegemony, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 19, Number 2, June
Robert Kappel (2014): Global Power Shifts and Germany?s New Foreign Policy Agenda, Strategic Analysis, 38:3, 341-352, DOI: 10.1080/09700161.2014.895237
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Title: Daniel Yergin (2011): The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, Penguin Books
Andrew Mumford & Bruno C. Reis (Eds.) (2013): The Theory and Practice of Irregular Warfare: Warrior-Scholarship in Counterinsurgency, London, Routledge
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