Globalization and its Discontents
Course code
RIR7069.YK
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Üleilmastumine ja rahulolematus
Course title in English
Globalization and its Discontents
ECTS credits
5.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To develop a deeper understanding of the discussions and dimensions of the globalising world and ability to operate with chosen theories. Also, to understand resistance to globalisation and moves to retrench regionalism and nationalism.
Brief description of the course
Introduction. Objectives and organisation of the course. The concept and main domains of globalization. Globalisation as historical phenomenon. Economic dimension of globalisation till 1980ies. Economics of the new wave of globalizations. Sustainability of economic globalisation. Transformation of global order and power. The processes of social and cultural globalization. Global formations: social theories on the global condition Political globalisation: world system, states and citizens. The Push Back: the reseurgence of Regionalism and Nationalism.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- is acquinted with a multidisciplinary selection of globalisation theorists, covering economic, social, cultural and political globalisation;
- is capable of comparing and analysing the theories according to various schools of thought;
- can associate the theories with empirical developments and potentially apply them in empirical analysis.
- is acquinted with a multidisciplinary selection of globalisation theorists, covering economic, social, cultural and political globalisation;
- is capable of comparing and analysing the theories according to various schools of thought;
- can associate the theories with empirical developments and potentially apply them in empirical analysis.
Teacher
Terry McDonald
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