Studies on Globalization
Code
722071128
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Formação ao Longo da Vida
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Teresa Rodrigues
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Develop capacity to understand, analyse and investigate themes and problems arising from the procedure (s) of Globalisation, inserted a logic security and securitization;
2. Acquire knowledge about response instruments for use in a global world increasingly characterized by the emergence of new risks, threats and conflicts inter and understates (diplomacy, development, cooperation, democracy…)
3. Develop capacity to perceive and analyze the positioning of Portugal, in terms of alliances and of international cooperation;
4. Gather information about current and future reality, enabling participation in processes of strategic analysis and decision-making support.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Module 1. Globalisation & Security-concepts and Dinamics
Globalization, Diplomacy and Security in the XXIst Century
Conceptual definitions of globalization.
Globalization and Society Risk
Population, Globalization and Environment
Module 2. A new World order: Actors and Challenges
Actors, Issues and Problems
Security and Defense
Globalization Crisis
The Sea. Options and Strategies for a global World
Module 3. States Power in a Global World
Team Work: Hard Power & Soft Power
Bibliography
BAYLIS, J., SMITH, S., & OWENS, P., The Globalization of World Politics, 6thed., Nova Iorque: Oxford University Press, 2013
COLLINS, Allan, Contempory Security Studies, 2nd ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
HELD, David; McGREW, Anthony, Globalization/ Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide, 2nd ed., Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007.
NYE, Joseph, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, PublicAffairs, Nova York, 2004
SCIUBBA, Jennifer Dabbs, The Future Faces of War. Population and National Security, California-Colorado-Oxford, Praeger, 2011
Teaching method
Presentation of the different subjects by the teacher and other invited specialists. Presentation and discussion of texts and of the students individual researches (case studies). And learn-by-doing Exercise.
Evaluation method
60% Individual Report (paper version and CD) with about 15 pages.
40% Work and Presentation of Team Group
Unjustified not attendance of the sessions will be subject to penalty up to a maximum of 2 points in the final classification