STATE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES IN KONIN
Course title
Global Politics
Field of study
Internal Security
Year of study
I-III
Semester
Spring
Language of
instruction
Number of
contact hours
English
Teaching methods
Lecture
30
ECTS credits
6
Name of lecturer
dr hab. Radosław Fiedler
Objectives of the course (expected learning outcomes and competences to be acquired)
ANALYSIS OF CHOOSEN ASPECTS OF GLOBAL POLITICS, EXPLORING
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF GLOBAL POLTICS EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE ON
CORELATIONS OF POLITICS, ECONOMY, INFORMATION WITHIN THE GLOBAL
FRAMEWORK
Course contents
1) Introduction to Global Politics
2) Global Politics – historical context
3) Economy, state, nation and culture within Global Politics
4) Power and its attributes in XXI century
5) Proliferation weapon of mass-destruction after cold war
6) Global terrorism
7) War and peace In Global Politics
8) Human rights and humanitarian intervention
9) Regional politics and regionalism
10) Environment and natural resources
11) Gender in Global Politics
12) Global media and its credibility
13) Organisations and NGO-s
14) Global management
15) Scenarios in Global Politics
Assessment methods
Participation in course and discussion on chosen topics and preparing accepted by lecturer
presentation on chosen course topic.
Recommended readings
1) Global Politics in a Changing World. A Reader, New York 2009;
2) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, ed.
John Baylis,Steve Smith,Patricia Owens, Oxford University Press 2011;
3) P. Hayden, Cosmopolitan Global Politics, New York 2005.
STATE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES IN KONIN