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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Globalization and International Organizations

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 120-0532/02
Abbreviation GMO
Course title Globalization and International Organizations
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of International Economic Relations
Course coordinator Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Part 1 – Globalization
1. Introduction to globalization of world economy
2. Globalization from the view of the developed regions and the developing regions
3. Globalization of the world economy
4. Globalization process participants (states, international organizations, transnational corporations)
Part 2 – Globalization and global issues
5. Population and satisfaction of its needs
6. Poverty and human development, global inequality and underdevelopment
7. Global security, human rights
8. Global environmental issue
Part 3 – International organizations
9. United Nations
10. World Bank, International Monetary Fund
11. Other selected international and regional organizations (governmental and non-governmentalorganizations)
12. Globalization, global issues and international organizations

E-learning

E-Learning course is accessible in CMS Moodle system.

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.