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Globalization and International Organizations

Summary

Subject is concentrated on the process of globalization, in its wide implications; the description of the main participants of the process of globalization; status and function of the most important international organizations; selected global issues, their causes and elimination of the results, possible solving of them and status of international organizations in this solving. The access is interdisciplinary with the aim to cover up whole social implications of the process of globalization and global issues.

Literature

CLEAVER, T. Understanding the World Economy: 4th ed. London: Routledge, 2013. 978-0-415-68131-5.
HURD, Ian. International organizations: politics, law, practice. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-61261-7 .
JENÍČEK, Vladimír a SRNEC, Karel. Fundamental problems of developing countries. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7380-375-9.
SEITZ, J. and K. A. HITE. Global Issues: an introduction. 4th ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN 978-0-470-65564-1.

Advised literature

COLLIER, Paul. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-531145-7 .
HIERONYMI, Otto. Globalization and the Reformo f the International Banking and Monetary System. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-23530-4.
WILLIAMSON, Jeffrey G. Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011. 314 s. ISBN 978-02-6201-515-8.


Language of instruction angličtina, angličtina
Code 120-0532
Abbreviation GMO
Course title Globalization and International Organizations
Coordinating department Department of International Economic Relations
Course coordinator Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D.