120-0332/01 – Globalization and International Organizations (GMO)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of International Economic RelationsCredits5
Subject guarantorIng. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorIng. Naděžda Antošová, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year2Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2005/2006Year of cancellation2009/2010
Intended for the facultiesEKFIntended for study typesBachelor
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LAN075 Ing. Eva Kovářová, Ph.D.
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Full-time Credit and Examination 2+1

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

1.To explain the process of globalization in its wide implications in the world economy and other part of the world society. To interpret status of main participants of the globalization. 3.To identify selected global issues. 4.To analyse the causes and results of global issues. 5.To explain the status of international organizations in the process of globalization and in solving of global issues. 6. To apply the knowledge on actual events in the world and new developing trends in the world.

Teaching methods

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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.

Compulsory literature:

BAYLIS, John, Steve SMITH and Patricia OWENS. The globalization of world politics: An introduction to international relations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-929777-1. EICHENGREEN, Barry. Globalizing capital: a history of the international monetary system. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-691-13937-1. KEGLEY, Charles W. and Gregory A. RAYMOND. The Global Future : A Brief Introduction to World politics. 2nd ed. USA? Thomson Wadsworth, 2007. ISBN 0-495-00748-X.

Recommended 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.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Other requirements

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

Osnova přednášek: 1.Úvod do problematiky globalizace a globálních problémů. 2.Účastnící globálních vztahů. 3.Populační problematika. 4. Chudoba a lidský rozvoj. Problematika zaostalosti. 5. Chudoba a lidský rozvoj. Problém hladu. 6. Chudoba a lidský rozvoj. Zdraví a jeho sociálně-ekonomické souvislostí. 7. Mezinárodní společenství a boj s chudobou a zaostalostí. Rozvojová pomoc. Humanitární krize a humanitární pomoc. 8. Mezinárodní společenství a boj s chudobou a zaostalostí. Působnost Světové banky při řešení problému chudoby, zaostalosti a zadluženosti rozvojových zemí.. 9. Mezinárodní společenství a boj s chudobou a zaostalostí. OSN a její působnost v oblasti lidského rozvoje. 10. Globální bezpečnost a mezinárodní organizace působící v oblasti bezpečnosti. 11. Globální bezpečnost a mezinárodní organizace působící v oblasti bezpečnosti. 12. Globální zátěž životního prostředí, mezinárodní úmluvy a organizace zabývající se ochranou životního prostředí. Cvičení: 1.Úvodní cvičení 2.Lidský rozvoj a různé náhledy na jeho hodnocení 3.Rozvojová pomoc: ano či ne? 4.Humanitární krize a reakce mezinárodního společenství 5.Humanitární pomoc a obnova oblastí zaostalých a postižených humanitární krizí I 6.Humanitární pomoc a obnova oblastí zaostalých a postižených humanitární krizí II

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