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Globalization

Author/Instructor: Andrey Makarychev

Credits: 8

• To understand causes, history, and basic definitions of globalization and its impact in the areas of governance, economics, culture, and environment.
• To discuss the effects of globalization regarding their consequences for global equality, conflict and security, as well as economic and social stability.
• To analyze the consequences (for Eastern Europe and other regions of the world) of this all-encompassing phenomenon.

• Concepts and definitions, history and causes
• Governance and the nation state
• A global economy?
• Cultural globalization
• Globalization and the environment
• Consequences for (in)equality, (in)security and global (in)stability
• Outlook

Example tasks from the Globalization Module

1) Go to one of the websites of international non-governmental organizations (“Transparency International” – www.transparency.org, “Amnesty International” – www.amnesty.org, “Publish What You Pay” – www.publishwhatyoupay.org, “Global Witness” – www.globalwitness.org, “Greenpeace” – www.greenpeace.org) and write a 500 word essay answering the following questions:

• What kind of institutional changes do these global actors bring?
• How do networking actors facilitate globalization?
  
  

2) Go to the websites of the Association of European Border Regions (www.aebr.net) and Euroregions (www.mcrit.com/espon_scenarios/visions_euroregions.htm) and write a 500 word essay answering the following questions:

• How does cross- and transborder cooperation contribute to the dynamics of globalization?
• What are the most significant fields of politics where subnational units are represented?
• What are the most meaningful mechanisms of regional actors’ influence upon the global agenda?

Module abstract
Please find a reading example here: Globalization.