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A rapidly changing global economic and political system is a reality that our society is embedded in. The students of international area studies should understand the processes of globalization. The economic interests and political power of the actors that constitute the international system - sovereign national governments, multinational corporations, financial institutions, and international organizations - are crucial components to be examined in this course. After the first introductory classes focusing on conceptual and empirical foundations of the current trade, monetary and financial systems, lectures and discussions will follow up on economic, political, and social issues raised by deepening globalization and recent deglobalization - its impact on inequality, poverty, environment. The course heavily focuses on analyzing current debates. We do not advise taking this course as a first-year student.
Lecturer: Magdalena Firtova Email: magdalena.firtova@fsv.cuni.cz Classes: Thursday 9:30 – 10:50 Room: C322, Jinonice Campus Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 – 12:15, Thursdays 11-12:15, Room C418, or via Zoom. Please book your time slot at www.konzultace.fsv.cuni.cz Moodle page of this course: Introduction to International Political Economy", http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3416 Poslední úprava: Fiřtová Magdalena, Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (08.01.2025)
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The objective of the course is to: - Analyze and discuss the major problems facing the world today (including problems related to the economic development, trade) - Develop a solid understanding of the foundations of international political economy (with special focus on major founding institutions) - Assess the causes and consequences of accelerated globalization - Assess the policies and practices of multinational corporations raegarding ethics, social responsibility and the environment; Poslední úprava: Lochmanová Sára, Bc. (31.01.2024)
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1. Attendance 10%, 1 point per class, 10 points total per course, 8 points minimum in order to be graded 2. Active participation in class debates 10% 3. Pair oral presentation of news media article 25% 4. Midterm quiz on understanding mandatory readings 25%. Sit-in quiz, in the computer room, on April 17th, 2025. 5. Reflection paper 30%, due May 11, 2025. AI policy for this module is regulated by the Decree of the Director of IMS FSV UK 09/2023, para 17. 1) Use of tools of generative AI is generally permitted during the work on the essays but not for negeration of substantive parts of the text. However students need to be acutely aware of the risks: inaccurate information, fabulated bibliography etc. All pieces of information and resources suggested by chatbots need to be carefully verified; it is the student who is responsible for all mistakes in the submitted text. 2) Each essay must contain a truthful statement by the student on the use chatbots (not counted into the headline wordcount): whether they used them or not, at what stages of the work, and what were the questions and tasks asked from the chatbot. 3) Any parts of the text devised by AI tools (and not the students themselves) must be treated as quotations (ie. quotation marks, references..). Classification: Grading is based on the Dean's Measure Directive SO 002 17/2023. 91 % and up => A – Excellent Grading is based on the Dean's Measure no. 20/2019: https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-measure-no-20/2019
Poslední úprava: Fiřtová Magdalena, Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (08.01.2025)
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NOTE: All texts available in this syllabus are for the use in this course only. They are protected by the copyright and must not be further distributed. Mandatory readings are available online for each class. More in "Sylabus." Recommended books: John Ravenhill (ed.). Global Political Economy (Oxford 2016). Jeffry Frieden, David Lake, and J. Lawrence Broz (eds.), International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth(W.W. Norton, 6thedition, 2017). Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work (New York : W.W. Norton, 2006). Nicolas Stern, Why Are We Waiting: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change (2015, Mit Press) Cohen, Benjamin J., International Political Economy: An Intellectual History, Princeton University Press, 2008. Eichengreen, Garry. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System, 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 2008. Eichengreen, B. The European Economy since 1945. Princeton. 2007. Findlay, Christopher. Free trade agreements in the Asia Pacific, 2010. Findlay, Ronald and Kevin H. ORourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2007. Gilpin, Robert. Global Political Economy. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press. 2001. Hoekman, Bernard M. and Michel M. Kostecki, The Political Economy of the World Trading System: The WTO and Beyond, 2nd ed., New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. Maddison, Angus. The world economy. Paris: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006. Milanovic, Branko.World apart, measuring international and global inequality, Princeton Universtiy Press, 2005. Oatley, Thomas. Debates in International Political Economy. New York: Longman, 2009. Rodrik, Dani. The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy, 2012. Singer, Peter, One World: The Ethics of Globalization, 2nd ed., Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002. Stern, Nicholas. The Global Deal, Public Affairs, USA, 2009. In Czech: Krpec, O., Hodulák, Vladan. Politická ekonomie mezinárodních vztahů, Brno: Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2011. Krpec, O. a Pšeja, P. Mezinárodní politická ekonomie. Brno: Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2006. Jeníček V., Foltýn J.. Globální problémy světa v ekonomických souvislostech. Praha: C.H. Beck. 2010. Kubišta, V. a kol.: Mezinárodní ekonomické vztahy, Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2009. Rolný, I. a L. Lacina. Globalizace, etika, ekonomika. 2. vyd. Věrovany: Jan Piszkiewizc, 2004. Academic Journals and Newspapers: The Economist, The New York Times a International Organization a European Review of Economic History
Poslední úprava: Lochmanová Sára, Bc. (31.01.2024)
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Mandatory and recommended readings are available in the Moodle system, "Introduction to International Political Economy", http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3416, you have to enroll with your SIS login.
Poslední úprava: Fiřtová Magdalena, Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (08.01.2025)
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