Global Development
Course code
RIR7071.YK
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Globaalne areng
Course title in English
Global Development
ECTS credits
4.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Toni Cerkez (language of instruction:English)
lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
1. Understand global development conceptually.
2. Explore different approaches to and challenges of global development and globalization.
3. Understand how global developments fits with IR thought and practice.
4. Engage with case studies across various sub-disciplines to explore real world instances, opportunities and challenges in the political economy of development.
5. Explore challenges to hegemonic economic models in regional and international cooperations and contextualize economic development debates.
6. Discuss the potential future(s) of global development, bearing in mind challenges of, inter alia, class, race, gender, climate change, power asymmetries and political systems.
2. Explore different approaches to and challenges of global development and globalization.
3. Understand how global developments fits with IR thought and practice.
4. Engage with case studies across various sub-disciplines to explore real world instances, opportunities and challenges in the political economy of development.
5. Explore challenges to hegemonic economic models in regional and international cooperations and contextualize economic development debates.
6. Discuss the potential future(s) of global development, bearing in mind challenges of, inter alia, class, race, gender, climate change, power asymmetries and political systems.
Brief description of the course
The course explores the profound impact of global development and globalization on the global order, emphasizing its main characteristics, challenges, and the transformation it has brought to the world economy. The course analyzes global development from the perspective of political economy, treating development as a historically, socially and politically constituted process, rather than an economic inevitability. The course further analyzes how interconnected economic and political processes have shaped global relations. Students will also examine the dynamics of de-development, considering how global integration is challenged and redefined in contemporary times.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- is introduced to the concepts of global development and world capitalist economy.
- understands global development conceptually and draw linkages between this concept to IR as a field of study.
- is expected to grasp the historical trajectory of global development as well as its impact on some key areas such as environment, world politics (including class, race, nation), global civil society and technology.
- is acquainted with a multidisciplinary selection of global development, globalization theorists and thinkers of political economy. They can identify some key concepts and ideas from these thinkers.
- can associate the theories with empirical developments and apply them in an empirical analysis.
- is introduced to the concepts of global development and world capitalist economy.
- understands global development conceptually and draw linkages between this concept to IR as a field of study.
- is expected to grasp the historical trajectory of global development as well as its impact on some key areas such as environment, world politics (including class, race, nation), global civil society and technology.
- is acquainted with a multidisciplinary selection of global development, globalization theorists and thinkers of political economy. They can identify some key concepts and ideas from these thinkers.
- can associate the theories with empirical developments and apply them in an empirical analysis.
Teacher
Toni Cerkez
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