POL HC 4036 Global Politics

Course Name: POL HC 4036 Global Politics

About the Course:

Course objective:

This course introduces students to the key debates on the meaning and nature of globalization by addressing its political, economic, social, cultural and technological dimensions. In keeping with the most important debates within the globalization discourse, it imparts an understanding of the working of the world economy, its anchors and resistances offered by global social movements while analyzing the changing nature of relationship between the state and transnational actors and networks. The course also offers insights into key contemporary global issues such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological issues, international terrorism, and human security before concluding with a debate on the phenomenon of global governance.

Course Outcomes:

• To enable students to understand how to approach a wide range of important global political and economic policy problems and participate in public policy debates on the crucial issues facing the world today.

• To have knowledge of the essential theoretical assumptions underlying globalisation’s conceptual frameworks and their relationships to policy interventions.

• To demonstrate elementary knowledge of major issues and subject matters surrounding globalisation that decides the international relations- political, economic and security relations- among the nations.

Course Plan: POL HC 4036 Global Politics

Session Plan:

Unit I. Globalization: Conceptions and Perspectives

a. Understanding Globalization and its Alternative Perspectives

b. Political: Debates on Sovereignty and Territoriality

c. Global Economy: Its Significance and Anchors of Global Political Economy: IMF,

d. World Bank, WTO, TNCs

e. Cultural and Technological Dimension

f. Global Resistances (Global Social Movements and NGOs)

Unit: II. Contemporary Global Issues

a. Ecological Issues: Historical Overview of International Environmental Agreements, Climate Change, Global Commons Debate

b. Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

c. International Terrorism: Non-State Actors and State Terrorism; Post 9/11 developments

d. Migration

e. Human Security

Unit: III. Global Shifts: Power and Governance

European Union and ASEAN