UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

ECTS INFORMATION PACK

GLOBAL STUDIES – A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE

Erasmus Mundus Program

WROCŁAW 2009/2010

Contents

1 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................5

2 GENERAL INFORMATION....................................................................................................6

2.1 ECTS Co-ordinator at the University of Wrocław........................................................6

2.2 ECTS Co-ordinator at the Institute of International Studies.......................................6

2.3 European Credit Transfer System...............................................................................6

2.4 ECTS credits................................................................................................................7

2.5 Students in the ECTS system.......................................................................................7

2.6 Wrocław..................................................................................................................... 7

2.7 University....................................................................................................................8

3 STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW....................................................................11

3.1 Address.....................................................................................................................11

3.2 International Office...................................................................................................11

3.3 Library.......................................................................................................................12

3.4 Visa...........................................................................................................................13

3.5 Reception Service and contact.................................................................................13

3.6 Orientation...............................................................................................................14

3.7 Accommodation.......................................................................................................14

3.8 Living expenses.........................................................................................................15

3.9 Residence permit......................................................................................................15

3.10 Temporary residence card........................................................................................15

3.11 Degree legalization...................................................................................................15

3.12 Student card.............................................................................................................16

3.13 Health care............................................................................................................... 16

3.14 2Wrocław................................................................................................................. 16

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3.15 School of Polish Language and Culture.....................................................................16

3.16 Student societies......................................................................................................17

3.17 Sports and Free Time................................................................................................17

4 INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES..........................................................................18

5 EMGS – GENERAL INFORMATION AND ADMISSION.........................................................19

5.1 Consortium Co-ordinator Contact............................................................................19

5.2 Wrocław Co-ordinator Contact.................................................................................19

5.3 Structure and EU Policy of the Erasmus Mundus programme..................................20

5.4 Visiting scholar scheme............................................................................................20

5.5 Admission criteria.....................................................................................................21

5.6 The application.........................................................................................................22

5.7 Tuition fees...............................................................................................................25

6 EMGS PROGRAMME.........................................................................................................27

6.1 Degree......................................................................................................................27

6.2 ECTS..........................................................................................................................27

6.3 Global Studies- A European Perspective- Study Program (Consortium)...................27

6.4 Common standards of the Global Studies Consortium.............................................34

6.4.1 Essays....................................................................................................................34

6.4.2 Master thesis (topics, training, supervision, co-supervision and external supervision, expose guidelines)........................................................................................35

6.4.3 Internships............................................................................................................37

6.5 Global Studies- A European Perspective – Concept of the Wroclaw Program..........37

6.6 Global Studies- A European Perspective- Study Program in Wrocław......................39

7 THE EMGS-COURSES (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER).............................................................47

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Cold war processes of political systems’ transformation in the countries of the Eastern a Central-Eastern Europe....................................................................................................47

Communication in the age of globalization......................................................................49

Development economics..................................................................................................52

Economic transformation in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic............................54

European economic integration.......................................................................................58

European Identity.............................................................................................................61

European Union and the constitutional transformation in Europe..................................62

Europe-India relations......................................................................................................64

Global and regional governance - introduction................................................................65

Governing Europe: mechanism of regional cooperation..................................................68

International economic transactions................................................................................70

International financial markets.........................................................................................74

International forecasts and simulations...........................................................................75

International human rights protection.............................................................................79

International protection of environment.........................................................................82

International relations......................................................................................................83

Master thesis....................................................................................................................85

Politics in Russia...............................................................................................................86

Property and freedom: fundamentals of global prosperity..............................................89

Research methods in social sciences................................................................................91

Security problems of Poland.............................................................................................92

The Networked Information Economy: political and economic consequences of the Internet and blogosphere.................................................................................................93

Theories of international relations...................................................................................96

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Theory and politics of foreign aid.....................................................................................97

The politics of mass media...............................................................................................98

Transitional justice and international criminal tribunals in a comparative perspective (L)........................................................................................................................................101

Transitional justice and international criminal tribunals in a comparative perspective (S)........................................................................................................................................103

Transition of power: concepts, approaches and empirical findings...............................104

Varieties of capitalism and institutional change.............................................................105

Welfare economics.........................................................................................................107

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1 INTRODUCTIONThis information package provides crucial information about the University of Wrocław,the conditions of study at the University and study program with description of courses (together with a number of ECTS credits allocated to each course unit) offered by the Institute of International Studies in the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies – A European Perspective Program (abbreviation: EMGS). The information is addressed to both native and foreign students (also scholars- see 3.4) who would like to start their studies at the Institute of International Studies within the framework of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System.

The interdisciplinary Master Program is offered by a Consortium of five European universities: University of Wrocław, University of Leipzig, University of Vienna and London School of Economics and Political Science. The composition of the EMGS consortium will change. Starting with 2010 Roskilde University (Denmark) will join it. The Coordinating Istituion of the Consortium is the University of Leipzig.

The European Commission is supporting this Master Course with a generous grant scheme for non-European students and a mobility scheme which links the consortium to four non-European partners: Dalhousie University (Canada), Macquarie University (Australia), University of California at Santa Barbara (USA), University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). Starting with 2010 the consortium will gain new partners: Fudan University (China) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India).

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2 GENERAL INFORMATION

2.1 ECTS Co-ordinator at the University of Wrocław

dr Maria MisiewiczUniwersytet Wrocławski50-137 Wrocławpl. Uniwersytecki 1Polandtel.: 0048/71/3752255fax: 0048/71/3436712e-mail: mami@adm.uni.wroc.pl

2.2 ECTS Co-ordinator at the Institute of International Studies

dr Bartosz MichalskiInstytut Studiów MiędzynarodowychUniwersytet Wrocławskiul. Koszarowa 351-149 WrocławPolandTel./fax: 0048/71/3261004e-mail: bartosz.michalski@ism.uni.wroc.pl

2.3 European Credit Transfer System

The European Credit Transfer System [ECTS] was developed by the European Commission to provide common procedures in order to guarantee academic recognition of studies done at other home and foreign institutions when they form part of students’ regular program. Thereby the European Commission promotes the cooperation between institutions of higher education concerning an exchange of students.

ECTS makes teaching and learning more transparent and facilitates the recognition of studies (formal, non-formal and informal). The system is used across Europe for credit transfer (student mobility) and credit accumulation (learning paths towards a degree). It also informs curriculum design and quality assurance.

The European Credit Transfer System has been successfully implemented in many schools of higher education in Poland and Western Europe alike. Its overriding purpose is to create legal and organizational framework concerning curriculum structures, which will enable students to commence or further studies abroad. Moreover, the ECTS enables access to

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other Polish institutions of higher education which have implemented the system. It is also thanks to the ECTS that foreign students may commence their studies at a Polish institution. The ECTS program, which is part of the Socrates-Erasmus program, aims at the unification of studying in Europe, thereby leads to full academic recognition of studies done in Poland and abroad.

2.4 ECTS credits

ECTS credits are a value allocated to course units to describe the student workload required to complete them. They reflect the quantity of work each course requires in relation to the total quantity of work required to complete a full year of academic study at the institution, that is, lectures, practical work, seminars, private work- in the laboratory, library or at home and examinations or other assessment activities.

In ECTS, 60 credits represent one year of study (in terms of workload); normally 30 credits are given for six months (a semester) and 20 credits for a term (a trimester). ECTS credits are also allocated to practical placements and to thesis preparation when these activities form part of the regular programme of study at both the home and host institutions. ECTS credits are allocated to courses and are awarded to students who successfully complete those courses by passing the examinations or other assessments. Institutions prepare and exchange transcripts of records for each student participating in ECTS. A copy of the transcript is given to the student and exchanged between the home and the host institutions before and after the period of study abroad.

2.5 Students in the ECTS system

ECTS guarantees academic recognition of studies abroad. ECTS enables access to regular courses alongside local students, with the benefit of full participation in the academic life of the host institution. This characteristic of ECTS distinguishes it from many other student mobility programmes. ECTS enables further studies abroad; a student may prefer not to go back to the home institution after the study period abroad, but rather to stay at the host institution- possibly to gain a degree- or to move to a third institution. The institutions themselves decide whether or not this is acceptable and what conditions the student must fulfil in order to get a diploma or transfer registration.

2.6 Wrocław

Wrocław the fourth biggest city in Poland, is the economic, cultural and intellectual capital of Lower Silesia. It is one of the largest university centers in the country. The city’s intellectual life is focused around 13 academic schools. Wrocław is situated on the Odra (Oder) River,

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just north of the Sudety Mountains. It is close to both Germany and the Czech Republic. It is cut through by the river and its many tributaries and canals. Within the city there are 12 islands and 112 bridges. The city of Wrocław boasts fascinating architecture, many rivers and bridges, and a lively metropolitan cultural scene. It is a city with a troubled past, having seen much violence and devastation, and it was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War. However, it has been restored and now is one of the highlights of Poland, and the entire central European region.

Wrocław’s historical center is surrounded by abundance of greenery, parks, good restaurants, hotels and friendly people making the city a pleasant place to live and study in. It is also a crossing point of three international routes, has two large railway stations, two river ports and an international airport, ensuring easy connection with the whole world. The Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska) is located in East-Central Europe. It extends over the plain between the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea for about 650 km from south to north, and about 690 km at its widest from west to east. With an area of about 312,000 square km, the country ranks in sixth place on the continent. It has a population of 38,8 million. Poland borders in the north along the Baltic Sea, in the north-east with Russia and Lithuania and in the east with Belarus and Ukraine. In the south, the border follows the ranges of the Carpathian and Sudeten Mountains, which separate Poland from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, while to the west, the border with Germany is defined by the rivers Nysa and Odra.

Poland is divided into 16 voivodeships (provinces) and each province is divided into districts and into smaller units-gminy (communes). Each voivodeship has a capital city. The biggest cites of Poland are: Warsaw, Poznań, Kraków, Łodź, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk and Szczecin. Since 1 May 2004 Poland has become a EU member and on 21st December 2007 Poland joined the Schengen area – a territory with no checks at internal borders.

2.7 University

The University of Wrocław has a rich history of more than three centuries. Founded by Leopold I Habsburg the university evolved from a modest school run by Jesuits into one of the biggest academic institutions in Poland. At the beginning of the 19th century the university had five Faculties: philosophy, catholic theology, evangelical theology, law and medicine. Later it was expanded by numerous sections, laboratories and a natural museum, which exists until today. After World War II a group of Polish professors, formerly from Lvov (now in Ukraine), started teaching and research activities at the University of Wrocław. Initially they created the Faculties of law and administration, arts, natural sciences, agriculture, veterinary, medicine, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Some of these Faculties were soon transformed into other universities.

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Since the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Wrocław has produced 9 Nobel Prize winners, such as Theodore Mommsen, Phillip Lenard, Eduard Buchner, Paul Ehrlich, Fritz Haber, Friedrich Bergius, Erwin Schrodinger, Otto Stern and Max Born. Today, the first and foremost focus of the University of Wrocław is scientific research. Our scholars have numerous links with their fellow researchers from other higher education institutions in Poland and throughout the world. The success of our researchers has been recently recognized by Polish authorities, who significantly increased funding for both equipment and research at our University by 80% compared to previous years. As in most countries, in Poland the national quality assessment system is part of a national strategy for improving the quality of education. Every four years the Ministry of Education evaluates Faculties of all Polish universities. Last year 9 out of 10 of our Faculties qualified in the highest category and one was in the second highest category.

The Academic Incubator of Entrepreneurship is a new unit of the University of Wrocław designed to aid students in starting their own businesses by providing free entrepreneurial advice, organizing conferences, seminars, subsidizing selected investments and offering office space. The Academic Incubator of Entrepreneurship cooperates with the Wrocław Technology Park, a technological centre with laboratories, office space, a conference centre and modern multimedia equipment. The objective of the Technology Park is to create conditions for the use of the scientific and industrial potential of Wrocław and the region and to stimulate the advanced technologies industry. The University of Wrocław is proud to be one of its shareholders.

Today the University of Wrocław is the largest university in the region and teaches over 40,000 students and around 1300 doctoral students at 10 Faculties. 9000 students graduate from the University every year. The University offers a broad range of courses taught in Polish and English in over 70 areas of study offered by 10 Faculties: philology, history and pedagogy, social sciences, law, administration and economics, mathematics and computer science, chemistry, physics and astronomy, biotechnology, biological sciences, and earth science and environmental management.

All courses have three stages, according to the EU wide Bologna process: a three-year Bachelor program, a two-year Master program and an optional 4-year doctoral program. There is also a wide range of continuing education programs.

International students proficient in Polish are welcome to enroll in courses taught in Polish. Each Faculty, however, offers a number of programs taught in English. Detailed information

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can be found at www.international.uni.wroc.pl or by contacting the International Office at international@uni.wroc.pl.

The University of Wrocław employs highly qualified and experienced academic staff who represent both Polish universities, and schools from USA, Germany, Austria, France, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Japan, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine and Belarus. There are over 400 professors, 1000 doctors, and almost 300 expert teachers.

The University of Wrocław offers 30 different fields of studies at 10 faculties. Each faculty is usually divided into several departments, details of which may be found on the University website. Each department has a special coordinator to whom you may address all questions concerning your studies in Wrocław, e.g. which courses are offered in English, and the details on ECTS-points for your classes. The University of Wrocław is not only a set of regular buildings and institutes where professors teach and students learn. There are also some other extraordinary scientific “sites” the variety of which may surprise you. One of these is the Botanical Garden (Wrocław) – a beautiful place abounding with greenery, a perfect spot for anyone in need of relaxation or biological or botanical inspiration. The University has also very interesting and well – equipped museums.

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3 STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW

3.1 Address

University of Wrocławpl. Uniwersytecki 150-137 WrocławPoland

3.2 International Office

www.international.uni.wroc.plHead of International Office: Urszula BrodaUniversity of Wrocławpl. Uniwersytecki 1, room 10950-137 Wrocławtel.: 0048/71/3752703 lub 05fax: 0048/71/3752211e-mail: urszula.broda@uni.wroc.pl

2.3. Academic Calendar

Winter semesterInauguration of academic year: October 1Teaching period: October 2 – 29 JanuaryChristmas break: December 24 – January 2Examinations: January 30 – February 12Re-sit examinations: February 13 – February 20Winter break: February 21 – February 27Days off: October 1, November 2, November 16

Summer semesterTeaching period: February 28 – June 23Easter break: March 21 – March 25Examinations: June 24 – July 4Re-sit examinations: September 3 – September 23Days off: May 2, May 8, May 23

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Public HolidaysNew Year’s Day: January 1Easter: March 23-24Labour Day: May 1Constitution Day: May 3Corpus Christi: May 22All Saints Day: November 1Independence Day: November 11Christmas: December 24-26

NOTE: Please consult university web page for future dates.

3.3 Library

There are two main university libraries in Wrocław. General collections are held in the building at ul. Szajnochy, and special collections are stored in the building of the former Augustian monastery in ul. Św. Jadwigi. General collections include books and journals published after 1800 as well as a constantly growing collection of e-books. The building also houses the departments of collection cataloguing, the computer section with the main server room, the director’s and administration offices, and exhibition halls which are available to the public. Special collections include books on Silesia and Lusatia, the biological section, manuscripts, old prints, graphics collection, cartographic collection, and music collection. The building also houses a conservation laboratory and a reprographic studio. Apart from the main libraries, each Faculty has its own branch library. The newly designed, state-of-the-art University Library is currently under construction close to the city centre.

The university library with over 7000 items online offers services which may be accessed through a specially designed web site (www.bu.uni.wroc.pl). Services include an internet store, online registration, online query, interlibrary loans, ordering photographic and digital copies of library materials, and online access to the Digital Library of University of Wrocław. The Digital Library of the University of Wrocław provides access to the most interesting collection of historical writings, educational works and exhibitions. Also their historical value, content, form and origin render them the cultural heritage of Europe and the region. The Cultural Heritage collection spans the whole Europe and the regions of Silesia and Lusatia. Collections are available 24 hours a day seven days a week through the Internet. Some collections are available only via Library computers due to copyright law limitations.

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3.4 Visa

An EU student can enter Poland with ID document (a valid travel document e.g. passport) or another document certifying identity and citizenship. If a student intends to visit Poland’s neighboring countries (not all of them are EU Member States), a passport is recommended. For stay up to 3 months no legalization of stay is necessary. For stay exceeding 3 months an EU student has to register the residence. In case of students the registration is issued for one year (possibility to prolong). The document is issued by the Department of Citizens Affairs of the Voivodeship Office (province administration, Urząd Wojewodzki). Students of a non−EU/ EEA country can enter Poland on the basis of a valid travel document (passport) and a visa (if required). A student of a non−EU country has to obtain a visa from the Polish Consulate. A short−term visa entitles the holder to stay in Poland for up to 3 months, a long−term visa up to 1 year. Prolongation of a visa in Poland is possible only in cases of force majeure or situation impossible to foresee while applying for the visa in the consulate. The visa can be prolonged only once.

The Schengen Visa

Poland is now member of the Schengen Area (membership since 21st of December 2007) – so you can apply for the Schengen Visa in the Polish Consulate in your country. If you have a Schengen Visa you can freely travel around in the Schengen Area (most countries of the European Union).

3.5 Reception Service and contact

The University of Wrocław provides valuable help and support for all international students. Services include arrival reception, orientation programs and academic and welfare guidance during your studies. Reception is organized for international students. Depending on their needs, students will be met at the airport, train or bus station and transported to designated accommodation. All the students after the arrival should contact as soon as possible the University in order to facilitate issue of documents.

Barbara PietrzkiewiczUniversity of WrocławInternational Officepl. Uniwersytecki 1, room 10950-137 Wrocławtel.: 0048/71/3752703 lub 05fax: 0048/71/3752211e-mail: barbara.pietrzkiewicz@uni.wroc.pl

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Marta DobrzyńskaInstitute of International StudiesErasmus Mundus Global Studies Officeul. Koszarowa 351-149 WrocławTel.: 0048/71/3755253e-mail: em@gs.uni.wroc.pl

3.6 Orientation

Orientation programs are offered for all new international students at the University of Wrocław. Information provided in these programs includes university rules, student services, social and recreational activities, government regulations, specific information for international students, and university and community contacts. Enrolment and ID Card forms are completed and processed during the orientation program. All incoming students are welcome to take part in orientation days organized by the International Office.Orientation days include:

• Official Welcoming Ceremony• Traditional Polish Breakfast• Two-week Course of Polish Language• Integration Evenings• Information Session• Meeting with Faculty Coordinators• Welcoming Party• Trips Around Wrocław• Sightseeing Tour• The City Game

3.7 Accommodation

The University of Wrocław accommodation consists of two halls of residence. Both of them are situated within easy travelling distance from the city center and provide a friendly and safe study environment. Students live in shared modules with two bedrooms and a shared bathroom and kitchen. Kitchens are equipped with a refrigerator and an electric cooker. Each room has Internet access. Students may use the common room, the club, the study room and the laundry.Monthly rent per person is approximately:

• 702 PLN (188 EUR) – single room15

• 390 PLN (104 EUR) – double roomRenting a flat can cost from 1000 to 3000 PLN depending on the number of rooms.A cheaper option is to rent a room or shared room (from 250 to 350 PLN). For detailed information on accommodation options and the costs of transport, food, sports and entertainment: www.junglebook.uni.wroc.pl.

3.8 Living expenses

Approximate expenses per month Lodging PLN 300-702/€87-202 Food PLN 400-500/€115-144 Transportation PLN 60-90/€17-26 Other PLN 200-500/€58-144 TOTAL PLN 960-1792/€277-516

3.9 Residence permit

For a stay up to 3 months no legalization of stay is necessary. If a longer stay is planned, students have to apply to the Department of Citizens Affairs of the Voivodeship Office (province administration, Urząd Wojewodzki) for a residence permit. For students the residence permit is issued for one year (possibility to prolong).

3.10 Temporary residence card

Notwithstanding the visa, after the arrival to Poland students should legalize their stay by applying for the temporary resident permit (TRP). All international students staying in Poland longer than three months need to obtain TRP. The permit is issued for the period of stay in Poland, but not longer than two years (usually for one year). It can be prolonged. Evidence of the permit is the Temporary Residence Card (TRC) - an identity card for foreigners in Poland and it (with a passport included) allows passing the border without having a visa.

3.11 Degree legalization

On October 5, 1961 the several nations joined to create the simplified method of legalizing documents through the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents. If your country accept the Apostille (also called Apostille Certificate or Certificate) as a form of international document legalization your degree must be certified by Designated Competent Authorities. On the bases of this certification you will get an APOSTILLE STICKERS affixed by the Polish Consulate in your country. An Embassy Legalization is required, when your country is a non-member of the Hague Convention.

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Different rules apply to recognition of certificates issued in the countries which have signed a bilateral agreement on the recognition of educational credentials with Poland.

3.12 Student card

All students receive a student identity card entitling them to a 50% discount on public transport in the city and a 37% discount on national railways (only when they are under age 26). The card also entitles the student to the use of the university library, sports and other facilities, but also to discounts on tickets to Wrocław’s cinemas, theatres and museums.

3.13 Health care

Health services in Poland are available for students from the EU or EFTA member countries, provided that they have valid medical insurance in the national insurance system of any EU or EEC member country. A valid passport, student Identity Card or doctoral student Identity Card and a valid Medical Insurance European Card entitles its holder to medical care services free of charge. If possible it is recommended that students purchase their own international medical insurance prior to arrival in Poland. Otherwise students from non-EU or non-EFTA countries are required to sign a voluntary health insurance agreement with the National Health Fund and pay their own insurance fees.

3.14 2Wrocław

2wrocław is a students' volunteers group, which is registered by the International Office. The whole idea of the group is to guide you in the very beginning of your stay in Wrocław by helping to register in the dorm, find a flat or obtain a residence permit. 2wrocław also organizes different kinds of events such as theme parties, trips or movie evenings. Before your arrival to Wrocław you will get an email from a member of 2wrocław, offering to pick you up from the airport, railway or bus station. You will also get an invitation to join the mailing list wroclaw2@yahoogroups.com.

3.15 School of Polish Language and Culture

International students who wish to learn Polish have access to the resources of the School of Polish Language and Culture. The School organizes a one year preparatory Polish course for international students. It also offers semester courses, intensive summer courses, teaching trips, on-demand courses, Polish proficiency examination oriented courses and courses for prospective lecturers. The teachers on courses offered at the School are mainly researchers

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from the Institute of Polish Philology. They have many years of experience teaching Polish as a second language in national and international institutions.

Students may also participate in internships at cultural and social institutions in Wrocław. It is a great opportunity to start using Polish in real life situations, gain experience, and study the various aspects of working in local and national representative institutions. Interns most often work in the offices of members of parliament, arts festival offices, different departments of the City Office, the Jewish community, museums, the office of promotion of the University and the Collegium of Eastern Europe. The Institute also comprises the Jewish Culture and Language Study and the Lithuanian Language and Culture Study.

3.16 Student societies

There are over 130 student societies at the University of Wrocław which offer a wide range of activities. Students can organize and participate in conferences, workshops, field trips, and take advantage of advice services. The latter include the Legal Advice Center which is managed by students of the Civil Law Institute and supervised by its teachers. The Centre provides legal advice free of charge. For students it is a great opportunity to learn and master their future profession.

3.17 Sports and Free Time

The University of Wrocław offers a wide variety of sports and physical activities. The sports program allows all students to engage in a sport they like. The programme is adapted to class schedules so that studies are not compromised. Basic activities include aerobics, aqua aerobics, aikido, badminton, body styling, callanetics, gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, cross- country running, Hatha Yoga (Hata Yoga Iyengara), horse-riding, karate, basketball, football, volleyball, swimming, step, Tai Chi Chuan, ballroom dancing, lawn tennis, table tennis, floorball, climbing, rowing. Weekend activities include bicycle tourism, montain tourism, canoeing, mountain biking, skiing and snowboard. Students may also paticipate in a sailing camp. Additionally every student can participate in the sport sections. The list of activities is the same as basic activities. In the section classes are more professional, they are adjusted to each person.

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4 INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

The Institute of International Relations offers the BA and MA courses in Polish and MA program in English. The head of the institute is: Prof. Beata Ociepka.

The aim of the Institute is to conduct research in such areas as politics, contemporary history and development of the institutional system and economic structures of the EU, the nature of relations between the EU and Central Europe or the processes of Central European integration with particular attention directed towards the role of Germany in them. Now, the focus of our research and education is the problem of European Integration. Another main research field is still connected with Germany and Polish-German relations. Since 1997 we have begun to develop the field of East European Studies. New research and interest areas in the Institute are Global and Regional Studies and Security Studies. Recently the member of the Institute have been strongly involved in the African studies.

The Institute of International Studies is divided in sections:

European Studies, Eastern Europe and Asia, German Studies, International Communication, International Economy Relation, Polish Foreign Policy, Geopolitics

University of WrocławFaculty of Social Science

Institute of International Studiesul. Koszarowa 3 tel./fax. 071 326 10 04

51-149 Wrocław tel. 071 375 51 37Poland

www.ism.uni.wroc.pl

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5 EMGS – GENERAL INFORMATION AND ADMISSION

5.1 Consortium Co-ordinator Contact

Konstanze Loekeem@uni-leipzig.deErasmus Mundus European Master in Global StudiesGlobal and European Studies InstituteEmil-Fuchs-Str. 104105 LeipzigGERMANY

5.2 Wrocław Co-ordinator Contact

Erasmus Mundus Global Studies OfficeInstitute of International StudiesUniversity of WroclawKoszarowa 351-149 Wrocław

room 30tel. +48 71 375 52 53fax: +48 71 326 10 04e-mail: em@gs.uni.wroc.pl

Sebastian Płóciennik, PhD(courses)room 221tel. +48 601 58 78 79e-mail: sebape@onet.eu

Marta Dobrzyńska(office)room 30tel. +48 513 024 764e-mail: filomarta@wp.pl

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5.3 Structure and EU Policy of the Erasmus Mundus programme

Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education that aims to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through cooperation with Third-Countries. In addition, it contributes to the development of human resources and the international cooperation capacity of Higher education institutions in Third Countries by increasing mobility between the European Union and these countries. The Erasmus Mundus programme provides support to:

higher education institutions that wish to implement joint programmes at postgraduate level (Action 1) or to set-up inter-institutional cooperation partnerships between universities from Europe and targeted Third-Countries (Action 2);

individual students, researchers and university staff who wish to spend a study / research / teaching period in the context of one of the above mentioned joint programmes or cooperation partnerships (Action 1 and Action 2);

any organisation active in the field of higher education that wishes to develop projects aimed at enhancing the attractiveness, profile, visibility and image of European higher education worldwide (Action 3).

The Erasmus Mundus programme 2009-2013 comprises three concrete actions:

Action 1: Erasmus Mundus joint programmes of outstanding quality at masters (Action 1 A) and doctoral (Action 1 B) levels including scholarships/fellowships to participate in these programmes;Action 2: Erasmus Mundus Partnerships between European and Third Country higher education institutions including scholarships and fellowships for mobility at all academic levels;Action 3: Promotion of European higher education through projects to enhance the attractiveness of Europe as an educational destination and a centre of excellence at world level.

5.4 Visiting scholar scheme

The European Commission grants scholarships to highly qualified third-country scholars to carry out teaching and research assignments and scholarly work in the institutions of an Erasmus Mundus Consortium. The 'Global Studies' consortium is interested in hosting third-

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country scholars at any of the participating universities. Eligible beneficiaries are nationals of a so-called third country.According to the definitions on the EU-website of Erasmus Mundus, nationals coming from third countries are: Nationals coming from all countries other than the 27 EU Member States, the EEA-EFTA states (Island, Liechtenstein and Norway) and the candidate countries for accession to the EU (presently Turkey), who are not residents of any of the above countries, and who have not carried out their main activities (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the above countries.

Candidates should have outstanding academic record and a keen interest in Global Studies.

The grant totals €1,200 per week. The maximum duration is three month. Interested scholars who want to apply should submit the following documents: a curriculum vitae, the application form - to be found at: http://www.unileipzig.de/gesi/emgs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29,three recent publications on topics related to the study programme, and a proposal describing the teaching and research activities to be carried out during the stay at one of the institutions of the Erasmus Mundus Consortium.

Applicants for the academic years 2010/12 are invited to send their application by February 28th, 2010 via e-mail to: em@uni-leipzig.de

5.5 Admission criteria

Please note that the application is through the University of Leipzig only.

Applicants should fulfil the following requirements: A bachelors degree or recognised equivalent from an accredited institution in Social

Sciences or Humanities A sufficient undergraduate training to do graduate work in chosen field Very good academic performance Excellent English skills

Furthermore it is appreciated if applicants have at least a basic knowledge of German.

Admission decisions are made by the EMGS Selection Committee upon the following criteria:

very good/professional study results (= academic excellence) academic potential and recommendation

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level of language skills quality/recognition of home institution having awarded the first degree motivation work experience/professional qualifications

Deadlines and timetable:The deadline for non-European (third country) applicants, that want to apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship (category A) is 15 December of each year for the next cycle of the programme starting in fall of the following year.

For European (including German) applicants as well as those non-European applicants, that do qualify for the (category B) Erasmus Mundus scholarship the application deadline is1 April of each year for the programme starting in fall of the same year.

Applications arriving by the deadline at the Global Studies office in Leipzig (address see below) will be automatically taken into consideration for the Erasmus Mundus grant. Therefore please send only one application to apply for the Master's course in Global Studies and the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. For applicants that do not want to apply for the Erasmus Mundus grant or that missed the above indicated deadlines it is possible to apply by 30 June of each year for the next cycle of the programme starting in fall of the same year.

Meeting the application deadline will be established by the date of arrival of the hardcopy application at the Leipzig office.

Approximately 3 weeks after the application has arrived in our offices the student will receive a confirmation of receipt via e-mail. The final decision on the admission to the programme and the award of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship will be made in June, only.

The final decision on the admission to the programme for those students having applied in June will be made at the end of July of the same year.

The students will be informed via e-mail soon after a decision taken.

5.6 The application

The application should be sent to the following address:

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Erasmus Mundus European Master in Global StudiesGlobal and European Studies InstituteEmil-Fuchs-Str. 104105 LeipzigGERMANY

The application needs to include: Application form including home address, date and place of birth, e-mail address,

prefered mobility track (preference since final decision on the study places is made by the consortium) to be found at:

http://www.unileipzig.de/gesi/emgs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=50

The application form for EU and non-EU students is the same.

A Curriculum Vitae Motivation letter which explains why you are interested in this particular Master course

(1-2 pages) Proof of nationality (copy of passport) Certified copy or original hard copy (and certified translation if the document is not

issued in English/German or French) of high school leaving certificate (secondary school diploma)

Certified copy or original hard copy (and certified translation if the document is not issued in English/German or French) of university diplomas (if you you graduate after the application deadline please send us the degree as soon as you receive it, the decision on the admission will in this case be made on the grades indicated on the transcript of records )

Certified copy or original hard copy (and certified translation if the document is not issued in English/German or French) of official transcript of study results from your university

Certified copy or original hard copy of English (and German) language test results. Applicants whose native language is not English must provide test scores for one of the following standardized English proficiency tests: TOEFL (international): minimum score of 550 paper-based (or 213 computer-based or 80 internet-based). Please notice that the code number for the Master's course in Global Studies is: 4688.IELTS: minimum score of 6,5

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CPE: Grades A, B, C (Certificate of Proficiency in English)CAE: Grades A, B (Certificate in Advanced English)Applicants who have studied for more than one year in, or received a degree from, a college or university where English is both the language of instruction and the native language are not requested to take one of the above-mentionend proficiency test. An official certificate from the applicants' school/university is required to confirm that English is medium of instruction.

Two recommendation letters by academic teachers or employers (in a separate envelope, sealed by the persons recommending the candidate) including the reference names and e-mail addresses

A passport size photo The use of plastic/paper files and staples should be avoided.All applications are in English and in paper. As indicated some documents must be included as certified copies and certified translations in German or English or French and in the original language. All documents issued in English, German or French must be included as certified copies only.

A certification can be made by any authority that does have an official seal with national coat of arms (in Germany these are town hall, police, courts, rectory and notaries).

In case all documents requested haven’t been submitted by the date of the application deadline, the missing documents might effect in a lower score point during the selection procedure and thus might lead to a reduced change to receive an admission for the programme and/or to be nominated for an Erasmus Mundus grant.

Electronic pre-application may be sent to indicate an interest especially in those cases where air mail systems are operating under difficult conditions. Along with the electronic pre-application to em@uni-leipzig.de should be sent: application form, copy of the first degree, including completed and official certificates and transcripts of all previous university studies must be submitted (all academic records which are not in English must be accompanied by certified English translations), a letter of motivation (1-2 pages), a statement regarding English proficiency, a curriculum vitae in English.

The applicants from China are requested to submit an additional certificate from 'Akademische Prüfungsstelle Peking' (APS). Further information:

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http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/studium/studium-international/auslaenderstudium/bewerber-vr-china.html?PHPSESSID=dg40jeothn6i8o4eo6olia9rb4

http://www.deutschebotschaft-china.org/de/kultur/studieren/akademische_pruefstelle.html

The applicants from Mongolia are requested to submit an additional certificate from Akademische Prüfstelle Ulan-Bator (APS). Further information:

http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/studium/studium-international/auslaenderstudium/bewerber-mongolei.html

The applicants from Vietnam are requested to submit an additional certificate from Akademische Prüfstelle Hanoi (APS). Further information:

http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/studium/studium-international/auslaenderstudium/bewerber-vietnam.html

Note: all self-paying students will be charged with a processing fee of €50 for the application. They will be informed about the payment details when sending the admission letter. Note: the documents submitted will be not returned no matter what will be the decision regarding admission to the Master course.

5.7 Tuition fees

The consortium charges a common tuition fee of currently € 5,000 a year. Additionally all students will be charged € 100 in the first year for their participation in summer school.The tuition fee covers for the participation of all classes offered within the European Master in Global Studies including support in administrative and organisational issues by a local co-ordinator.

Scholarships, grants and fee waiver Erasmus Mundus grants:

Under Action 1 of Erasmus Mundus, the EU Commission offers scholarships to selected highly qualified students. This scholarship covers for the complete tuition fees. Category A scholarships include a travel allowance of € 8,000 and living allowance of € 1,000 per month whereas Category B scholarships include a travel allowance of € 3,000 and living allowance

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of € 500 per month. For the academic year 2010/11 there will be 8 category A scholarships for third country students and additional 2 category A grants for nationals from the Western Balkan and Turkey available as well as 6 Category B grants. All applications arriving by the deadline (category A: December 15th, category B: April 1st) at the office in Leipzig are automatically taken into consideration for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Erasmus scholarships for European students: European students studying at the universities of Leipzig, Vienna and Wroclaw can also apply for one year for an Erasmus grant.

Fee waiver: The Consortium of the European Master in "Global Studies" is pleased to provide applicants from around the world the opportunity to apply for partial waivers of tuition that reduces the amount of the tuition fee to pay to the Consortium.

The number of waivers is limited (20 waivers à € 2,500 per year and 10 à € 4,000 per year); however we encourage all applicants to the EM European Master in "Global Studies" to apply using the following guidelines:

Eligibility: These waivers are open to all students who applied for the European Master "Global Studies" and wish to study at the University of Leipzig, the University of Vienna or the University of Wroclaw.

Selection criteria:

Academic purposeMust apply and be accepted for admission Waivers will not exceed the amount of tuition. Waivers do not include application fees, books, student fees, board, room or other costs of attendance or living costs.Partial waivers may be awarded.Recipients shall be limited to a maximum of two years as Master students

Basically the waivers are granted for the entire period of studies. However students must re-apply each year for consideration.

Application is to be found under: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gesi/emgs/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=51

One copy of the completed application needs to be send (together with the other application documents) by air or surface mail to the University of Leipzig

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Global and European Studies InstituteEmil-Fuchs-Straße 104105 LeipzigGermany

6 EMGS PROGRAMME

6.1 Degree

A Master of Arts in Global Studies

Successful students of the European Master 'Global Studies' will receive depending on their mobility track a joint degree or a double degree. The degree will be accompanied bya diploma supplement, which contains further information about the educational university systems used in the Consortium, the qualifications gained by the student during the participation in the programme and her/his mobility track. Each student will also receive a transcript of records that list all the courses the student has attended and the grades she/he has received.

6.2 ECTS

The European Master in Global Studies is a two year's Master and divided into four phases (two winter and two summer terms). The programme has a modular structure according to the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), as initiated by the Bologna Process. It is made up of 120 credits (30 credits each term), that is equivalent of a study workload of 900 hours per term or 1,800 hours a year).

6.3 Global Studies- A European Perspective- Study Program (Consortium)

Mobility track

The Course is modularised and integrated: All students are supposed to study at year one at one of the European partner universities (London School of Economics, University of Leipzig, University of Vienna, University of Wroclaw) and for the second year at a different European partner university.

Furthermore European students have the possibility to spend one semester at the non-European partner universities. European students that choose London School of Economics

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as their second year study place will be limited in the selection for the non-European partner universities.

A preference for the study places can be made by the applicants in the application form (second page), but the Consortium takes the final decision with respect to the preference, qualification and specialisation of the applicant but also with respect to the criteria ofa common policy of the consortium concerning the balance between the participating institutions

The study programme at Leipzig, London, Vienna, Wrocław.

According to the emphasis upon certain fields within the participating universities and its already existing Master programmes - which the MA in 'Global Studies - a European Perspective' is drawing upon -, students can specialise in particular areas of globalisation research:

at the University of Leipzig on comparative analysis of global entanglements, focusing on Eastern Europe, Western Europe, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa and the Middle East, Latin America and Northern America

at the London School of Economics on the economic and social history and analysis of globalisation

at the University of Vienna on methods of global history, as well as the cultural and social history and analysis of East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe and Latin America

at the University of Wrocław on the analysis of transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on economics, security, communication and legal aspects.

All modules comprise history, cultural, area studies, social or political based approaches upon historical and contemporary patterns of globalisation and different societal responses, towards these processes.

Language Policy

Knowledge of two modern languages is a precondition for applying for this Master Course.

German and English are used throughout the consortium as official languages. English will be accepted at all four universities for presentations, assignment and the Master thesis. The mediums of instruction of this Master Course are English and German at the University of Leipzig and Vienna. Whereas in London and Wrocław English is the language of instruction.

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Additional languages courses in the local language of instruction (i.e. German and Polish respectively) are offered at all four partnering institutions of the consortium.

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First Study Year:

Leipzig London Vienna Wroclaw

Modul 1

Introduction to Global History (10 ECTS)

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th century or

Empire, Colonialism and Globalization (10 ECTS)

Theories of Global History (10 ECTS) Aspects of globalization and regionalization (10 ECTS)

Global and regional governance, EU-constitution, transitional justice, international crime tribunals, human rights, environment protection

Modul 2 Introduction to Social Science Theories of Globalization (10 ECTS)

Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis (10 ECTS)

Topics of Global History (10 ECTS) Concepts of transformation (10 ECTS)

Transition of Power, property and freedom, development economics, Politics in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

Modul 3 Introduction to Methods of Globalization Research (10 ECTS)

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, 1000-1800 (10 ECTS)

Methods of Global History (10 ECTS) Economic systems of the world and in CEEC (10 ECTS)

Varieties of capitalism, economic transformation in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, welfare economics, economi integration, financial markets

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Modul 4 First elective from the following modules:

Regions in Globalization: Africa

Regions in Globalization: The Americas

Regions in Globalization: Asia

Regions in Globalization: Europe

Regions in Globalization: Middle East

(10 ECTS)

One elective from the following modules:

Scientific, technical and useful knowledge from Song China to the industrial revolution

International Migration , 1500-2000: from Slavery to Asylum

International economic institutions since World War I

India and the world economy

(10 ECTS)

One elective from the following modules:

World regions of Global History: Africa

World regions of Global History: East Asia

World regions of Global History: America

World regions of Global History: Europe

(10 ECTS)

International relations

(10 ECTS)

International relations, theories of international relations, security problems, foreign aid, international economic transactions

Modul 5 Second elective from the following courses:

Regions in Globalization: Africa

Regions in Globalization: The Americas

Regions in Globalization: Asia

Regions in Globalization: Europe

Regions in Globalization: Middle East (10 ECTS)

Dissertation in Global History (10 ECTS)

On elective from the following modules:

Global History 1450-1620

Global History of the 18th Century

Global History of the 19th century

Global History of the 20th century

(10 ECTS)

Society and politics in CEEC

(10 ECTS)

Communication in the age of globalization, Internet and blohosphere, Migration in Central and Eastern Europe,

Modul 6 Global Studies Colloquium 1 (3 ECTS) - - Research seminar (4 ECTS)

Modul 7 Summer School (7 ECTS) Summer School (10 ECTS) Summer school (10 ECTS) Summer school (6 ECTS)

 

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 Second study year:

Leipzig London Vienna Wroclaw

Modul 8

First elective from the following courses:(10 ECTS)

Regions in Globalization: Africa

Regions in Globalization: The Americas

Regions in Globalization: Asia

Regions in Globalization: Europe

Regions in Globalization: Middle East

One elective from the following courses:(10 ECTS)

Scientific, technical and useful knowledge from Song China to the industrial revolution

International Migration , 1500-2000: from Slavery to Asylum

International economic institutions since World War I

On elective from the following modules:(10 ECTS)

World regions of Global History: Africa

World regions of Global History: East Asia

World regions of Global History: America

World regions of Global History: Europe

Transformation of economic and political systems (10 ECTS)

Varieties of capitalism, institutional change, transition of power, Political transformation in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Economic transformation in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, welfare economics

Modul 9 Second elective from the following courses:(10 ECTS)

Regions in Globalization: Africa

Regions in Globalization: The Americas

Regions in Globalization: Asia

Regions in Globalization: Europe

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th century (10 ECTS)

One elective from the following modules:(10 ECTS)

Global History 1450-1620

Global History of the 18th Century

Global History of the 19th century

Integration of Europe

(10 ECTS)

European Union and its constitution, economic integration, governing Europe

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Regions in Globalization: Middle East

Global History of the 20th century

Modul 10

Research internship (3 ECTS) - Theories of Global History (10 ECTS)

Globalization: selected problems(10 ECTS)

Transitional justice and international crime tribunals, protection of human rights, property and freedom, protection of environment, international financial markets,

Modul 11 Research Colloquium (7 ECTS) - - -

Modul 12

Cultural Dimensions of the Globalization (5 ECTS)

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, 1000-1800(10 ECTS)

Theories of Global History (10 ECTS)

Challenges for security (6 ECTS)

International relations, theories, security

Modul 13

Economic and Political Dimensions of Globalization (5 ECTS)

Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis (10 ECTS)

Methods of Global History (10 ECTS)

Society in transformation (4 ECTS)

Communication in the age of globalization, Internet and blogosphere, migration in CEEC

Modul 14Global Studies Colloquium 2 (5 ECTS)

- - Research and Master thesis seminar (4 ECTS)

Master thesis Master thesis (15 ECTS) Master thesis (10 ECTS) Master thesis (20 ECTS) Master thesis (16 ECTS)

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6.5 Common standards of the Global Studies Consortium

The intercultural environment of our master’s course is part of the concept of the “Global Stiudies” programme. It is a great source of inspiration for both students and lecturers and is thus definitely an important premise for the further development of the global studies programme. In the meantime the different learning cultures from the world regions where our students come from determine their very different skills in and approaches to scientific writing. In order to help our students to make the best use of their previous studies and to further improve their writing skills the Consortium worked out some common standards for essays and master thesis within the Master’s course “Global Studies – A European Perspective”.

6.5.1 Essays The Essay is the main examination form within this master’s course. This is a relatively new examination form for some world regions and many students come from universities with no tradition in essay writing. Additionally to that there are many understandings of the term “essay” and many approaches to style and format. Taking all this into account the Consortium worked out a style sheet for essays, which serves as a benchmark for both students and lecturers.

In order to help students to better understand the standards of scientific writing and to further develop their skills at all study places sessions on essay writing will be offered during the introductory programme and at the end of the first semester (before the start of the examination time). One of the goals of these sessions is also the education about plagiarism (of facts, words, ideas) and about the benefits of honest writing for proving insights into the subject, but also for the development of skills (thinking and analysing, organizing, writing, planning and time management, etc.).

Additionally to these sessions students will be offered consultations for essay writing and will be informed about all the opportunities to attend workshops on scientific writing. The lecturers will be asked to provide students with feedback to their first essays.

If lecturers suspect plagiarism after having read the essays, they might invite students to an oral exam on the essay’s topic. If plagiarism will be detected students will be given a “fail” and will be invited to a meeting with the respective lecturer, the co-ordinator and the study director. During this meeting the concrete problems will be discussed and an individual solution will be worked out. Students might be given the chance to submit within four weeks a new essay on the same or on another topic. The final grade will constitute the average of the “fail” and the grade for the second essay. In case of a repeated plagiarism students will get a “fail” for the respective course and will need to repeat the course or to replace it with

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another course in the next term. These arrangements will be agreed with the co-ordinator, fixed in the study contract and communicated to the second year university. In these cases the Consortium might also decide to remove the fee waiver, to suspend the payment of the scholarship or, in extreme cases, even to exmatriculate students.

6.5.2 Master thesis (topics, training, supervision, co-supervision and external supervision, expose guidelines)

Topics

The topics of the master thesis have to be in line with the Global Studies research agenda of the second year university. Students have to prepare a master thesis proposal by the end of the first study year year and to submit it to the co-ordinator of the second year university. The co-ordinators will provide feedback to students with regard to the supervision possibilities during or immediately after the summer school. If a certain topic can not be supervised at the respective university another topic will be suggested.

Training

In order to help students to work out a good exposé for their master thesis at all study places workshops on “Master thesis” will be offered. The local coordinators will inform students about the deadlines for the exposé submission. Students are recommended to start to write the master thesis only after the official approval of the exposé. In the last semester at all study places graduate colleges or colloquia for second year students will be offered. During these classes students will present chapters of their master thesis and will be offered a feedback on the progress of their work by the respective professors and/or supervisors.

Supervision, co-supervision/external supervision

After the official approval of the exposé students will be officially informed about their supervisor. In exceptional cases, when the chosen professor can only partially supervise the master thesis (for example –outstanding specialist in the respective region, but only little experience in working with the pertinent theories for the respective research topic) a co-supervision of the master thesis can be accepted. In idea cases these arrangement have to be made during the summer school. If these cases couldn’t be identified and discussed during the summer school a co-supervision scheme can be worked out also immediately after the submission of the exposé. In these cases the respective co-ordinators agree with the professors concerned the parts of the thesis which will be externally supervised and the workload for the supervision. It is recommended that the external supervisor offers a consultation (or a detailed feedback if student can’t travel to the respective study place) after the submission of the exposé and a second one after the submission of the first draft of the thesis (or of the respective part of the thesis). After the submission of the master thesis

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the two supervisors will write their references to the master thesis. Both grades will count equally. If a defence is foreseen by the examination regulations, the external supervisor doesn’t need to attend it, but the grade from his reference will count equally for the final grade of the master thesis.

Guidelines: Exposé for the Master thesis

- Length: 10 – 12 pages (Times New Roman, type size 12, 1,5 line space).

Strukture1. Research problem (elaborate, with arguments)- Which (theoretical, practical, social) series of questions is the starting point of your work?

- What is the concrete research question to which your work should provide a scientific answer?

- Why did you choose this topic, what motivates you for this research work?

2. State of the Art (drafted)

-Which research into your topic has already been done and how will your own contribution relate to it?

3. Methodology (elaborate)

- Which working steps and which approaches should lead to the desired results? Which methods are available within the discipline or inter-disciplinary?

4. Sources (in detail)

- Which sources are available and which do you want to work with?

- How are you going to evaluate the sources?

- In which form are they available to you?

- Which limits do you want to set for your research of literature and sources?

Comment: Only few topics in Global Studies can be treated under the assumption that one could gain an overview over the whole worldwide available literature. Therefore a reflected delimitation is necessary.

5. Timetable

Until when should the most important steps of your research work be completed? Which external factors could cause a delay?

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6. Bibliography

6.5.3 InternshipsWhile all the members of the Consortium are fully aware of the importance of the internships for your future career, and sometimes also for the empirical research related to students’ master thesis, the following rules with regard to internships must be respected:

1. There are compulsory modules at all the participating universities of the Consortium (for European students – also at the non-European partner universities of their choice) and a summer school, which must be attended by you. At other times internships are, of course, very welcome and they will be also mentioned in your graduation documents (provided you submit the internship reports to us).

2. In exceptional circumstances, internships as substitutes for certain semesters (terms) may be allowed, but there must be a strong connection to the content of the modules being replaced. Secondly they must be approved by the Consortium before the start of the Master’s course or, in exceptional cases related to personal situations, at least one semester before (the planed internship).

3. All internships undertaken during the semesters (terms) are regarded by the Examination Office of the University of Leipzig (as co-ordinating institution of the consortium) as deviations from the approved study programme within this Master’s course. Therefore, students should be aware that delays may occur in the process of issuing the graduation documents.

4. Students who decide to take internships during the semesters (terms) without official approval from the Consortium should be aware of the possible academic (problems with the graduation documents) and financial (scholarship or fee waiver denial) consequences.

6.6 Global Studies- A European Perspective – Concept of the Wroclaw Program

Over the past few decades, social and political life has undergone some dramatic developments connected with the melting of its national and international level into a global one. These changes should be considered from three perspectives.

Firstly, from the circulation of goods, services, information, knowledge, labor, capital, ideas, cultural values, etc. While the mobility, in particular its economic notion, is not itself a new phenomenon, it is certainly more widespread, intensive, productive than it was in the past. Today welfare cannot be assured without access to this circulation.

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Secondly, new conceptions of power have emerged to explain the complex reality of globalized politics. Nation-states and supra-national organizations are just among a number of different actors, who has a say. Power is now exercised by a growing number of NGOs, the media, transnational companies, as well as influential individuals who take advantage of global communication channels. A natural environment of the power is now network: it affects all actors involved and raises questions on effectiveness of traditional policy instruments. Metaphorically, policy it is no longer a game of chess, but rather a snooker game where the reactions of all the factors are hardly predictable.

This "new deal" of power is connected with the third point: how to produce and distribute public goods within the global sphere. Societies are unable to develop without assured internal and external security, a sustainable environment, adequate infrastructure, education, or a stable and enforceable legal regime. However, production and consumption of the goods in national borders and in isolated functional fields (e.g. education separated from security) hast lost its effectiveness. Also the balance of costs and benefits between the providers and the receivers of these goods can be questioned. Therefore, a new approach - a system of global public goods delivered by networked power - would be a demanded solution.

The aim of the program is to explore the three aforementioned themes from within the context of the post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This process started in 1989 with the collapse of the communist regime. Importantly, this regime largely excluded the region from participating in the rapidly expanding globalization. After the former power's institutional system was dismantled, three important questions emerged: (1) How to access the global economic sphere without further threatening an already shaky social system?; (2) How to join the global power structure, including where to look for new allies, how to exert power in the new environment, and how to preserve (or else re-define) the newly acquired sovereignty?; and (3) How to find new ways to produce and consume public goods?

Most countries in the region opted for a "fast track" of an integration into the global framework through radical adjustments and national policy reorientations without necessarily ensuring protection against new risks. But not all of them chose this way. Many lagged behind in unsuccessful attempts to develop a "third way". Some of them were just not able to go forth and integrate, some even deepened their isolation. There is much to be learned from these efforts, experience, successes and failures. All in all they can be considered as a poll of diversified reactions on globalization.

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6.7 Global Studies- A European Perspective- Study Program in Wrocław

The goal of the program is to introduce students to the issues by focusing on three crucial areas: (1) economic inclusion within the global economy, (2) transition of power, and (3) security issues.

Economic inclusion. The first goal of the post-communist states was to participate within the global circulation of goods, services, labor, capital and knowledge. This step was intensely ideological: particularly neo-liberalism shaped the methods of inclusion at the time. With this in mind, this area begins with a theoretical, as well as a historical introduction to the notion of economic freedom. The courses will then focus on case studies comparing the different ways in which selected CEE-countries chose to access the global economy.

Modules: 710, 730, 930

Transition of power and society. This area of the program will look at the new forms of power and social interrelations which emerged in the CEE-countries during the transformation period. It will begin with a series of lectures on global governance, legal and political aspects of globalization, as well as on the transfer of sovereignty from the nation-state to the authority of supranational organizations. This was particularly a challenge for those countries which have joined the EU. This perspective can also be useful to analyze the "transitional justice": how the post-communist societies have dealt with the difficult heritage of dictatorships. The program provides a course on the relation between globalization and development of new media in CEE-countries

Modules: 720, 910, 920, 1020

Security. The third area will offer an introduction to international relations theory as it concerns the notion of security- defined as a global public good. Poland's experience will be used to illustrate this; it is the biggest new member of the enlarged EU and has been deeply committed to the development of a new security system in Europe. Particular attention will be devoted to its relationship with the Eastern neighbors: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. This represent an opportunity to look into the actual development of these countries.

Modules: 810, 1010

Students of the program can also take part in the research seminars, which make up direct support for master thesis efforts.

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Program overview

Term Module Module Module

1

710Concepts of

transformation

720Aspects of

globalization and regionalization

730Economic systems in

CEEC

Winter school

ECTS 10 10 10 10

2810

International relations

820Society and politics in

CEEC

830Research seminar

Summer School

ECTS 10 10 3 10

3910

Integration of Europe

920Globalization:

selected problems

930Transformation of

economic and political systems

ECTS 10 10 10

41010

Challenges for security

1020Society in

transformation

1030Research and Master

seminar

Master Thesis

ECTS 5 5 20

Detailed overview:

Usually there are 10 ECTS to be collected by students. The ony excepction concerns the fourth semester, where courses modules has a complementary character to the master thesis and contain no leading courses.

Courses numbers ended with -1 mean leading courses graded with 6 ECTS points. Courses numbers ended with -2 mean supplementary courses graded with 4 ECTS (seminar) or 2 ECTS (workshop). Course numbers ending with -3 mean additional courses graded with 0 ECTS points, however, the courses will be added to the final record of participating student.

Students are allowed to combine freely all courses from the modules -2, e.g. replace the course from 730-2 with a course from 720-2. This flexibility does not concern the courses numbered with -1.

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PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

No. Modules and courses ECTS

FIRST SEMESTER

710 Concepts of transformation

710-1 Transition of power: concepts, approaches, and empirical findings, Dr. habil. Paweł Karolewski 6

710-2

One elective from

A. Property and freedom: Fundamentals of global prosperity, Prof. Witold Kwaśnicki

B. Development economics, Dr. Wioletta Niemiec (IR)C. Politics in Russia, prof. Andrey Zagorski (visiting lecturer, MGIMO,

Russia, 10.10-10.11.2009)

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720 Aspects of regionalization and globalization

720-1

One elective from:

A. Global and regional governance: introduction, Prof. Elżbieta Stadmueller

B. European Union and the constitutional transformation in Europe, Prof. Krzysztof Wójtowicz

C. Transitional justice and international criminal tribunals in a comparative perspective (Lecture), Prof. Klaus Bachmann

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720-2

One elective from:

A. Governing Europe: mechanisms of regional cooperation, prof. Elżbieta Stadtmueller

B. International human rights protection, dr. David Nieto-RasińskiC. International protection of environment, Dr. Jarosław KotasD. Transitional justice and international criminal tribunals in a

comparative perspective (Seminar), Prof. Klaus Bachmann

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730 Economic systems of the world and Eastern Europe

730-1 One elective from:

A. Varieties of capitalism and institutional change, Dr. Sebastian Płóciennik

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B. Economic transformation in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, Dr. Sebastian Jakubowski

730-2

One elective from:

A. Welfare economics, Dr. Konrad CzernichowskiB. European economic integration, dr. Sebastian Płóciennik C. International financial markets, dr. Dominik Kopiński

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ADD Winter School (Samotnia mountain hostel, Karpacz)

SECOND SEMESTER

810 International Relations

810-1One elective from:

A. Theories of international relations, Prof. Paweł KarolewskiB. International economic transactions, Prof. Marek Wróblewski

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810-2

Elective from seminars (4 ECTS) and workshops (2 ECTS):

A. International relations, Dr. Andrzej DybczyńskiB. Cold War and processes of political system’s transformation in the

countries of Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe, Dr. Jarosław Jarząbek

C. Theory and politics of foreign aid, Dr. Dominik KopińskiD. Workshop: India-EU relations, visiting lecturer, Prof. Jyotirmoy

Benerjee, Colcatta University, India, 15.4.2010-15.5.2010E. Workshop: Security challenges: a case of Poland, Dr. Sebastian

Płóciennik, in cooperation with the Center for International Relations in Warsaw

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810-3A. African integration, Dr. Konrad CzernichowskiB. International Security in Asia-Pacific, Dr. Łukasz Fijałkowski 0

820 Society and politics in Central and Eastern Europe

820-1

One elective from:

A. Communication in the age of globalization, Prof. Beata OciepkaB. Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Dr. Patrycja Matusz-

Protasiewicz

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820-2 Elective from seminars (4 ECTS) and workshops (2 ECTS): 4

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A. The Networked Information Economy: political and economic consequences of the Internet and blogosphere, Dr. Rafał Próchniak

B. European Identity, Prof. Norbert KapfererC. Workshop: The politics of mass media, visting lecturer, prof. Nissim

Mannathukaren, Dalhousie University, Canada, May 2010.

820-3 A. The culture and religion of Tibet, Dr. Jarosław Kotas 0

830 Research seminars

830-1Both obligatory:

A. Research methods in social sciences, prof. Paweł Karolewski (4 ECTS)B. Summer School (6 ECTS)

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830-2 - 0

820-3Optionally:

International forecasts and simulations: dr. Andrzej Polus0

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PROGRAM FOR THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS

No. Modules and courses ECTS

FIRST SEMESTER

910 Integration of Europe

910-1 European Union and the constitutional transformation in Europe, Prof. Krzysztof Wójtowicz 6

910-2

One elective from:

A. European economic integration, dr. Sebastian Płóciennik B. Governing Europe: mechanisms of regional cooperation, prof.

Elżbieta Stadtmueller

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920 Globalization: selected problems

920-1 Transitional justice and international criminal tribunals in a comparative perspective, Prof. Klaus Bachmann (Lecture) 6

920-2

One elective from:

A. International Protection of Human Rights, Dr. David Nieto-RasińskiB. Property and freedom: Fundamentals of global prosperity, Prof.

Witold Kwaśnicki C. International financial Markets, Dr. Dominik KopińskiD. International protection of environment, Dr. Jarosław Kotas

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930 Transformation of economic and political systems

930-1

One elective from:

A. Varieties of capitalism and institutional change, dr. Sebastian Płóciennik

B. Transition of power: concepts, approaches, and empirical findings, Dr. habil. Paweł Karolewski

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930-2

One elective from:

A. Politics in Russia, prof. Andrey Zagorski (visiting lecturer, MGIMO, Russia, 10.10-10.11.2009)

B. Transformation in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, Dr. Sebastian Jakubowski

C. Welfare economics, Dr. Konrad Czernichowski

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ADD

Obligatory research workshops/seminars:

A. Research methods in social sciences, prof. Paweł Karolewski

B. Master Thesis Seminar in Global Studies , prof. Klaus Bachmann

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SECOND SEMESTER

1010 Security challenges

1010-1 - 0

1010-2

Elective from lectures and seminars (6 or 4 ECTS) and workshops (2 ECTS):

A. Theory of international relations, prof. Paweł Karolewski (6 ECTS)B. International economic transactions, Prof. Marek Wróblewski (6

ECTS)C. International Relations, dr. Andrzej Dybczyński (4 ECTS)D. Cold War and processes of political system’s transformation in the

countries of Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe, Dr. Jarosław Jarząbek (4 ECTS)

E. Workshop: Security challenges: a case of Poland, Dr. Sebastian Płóciennik, in cooperation with the Center for International Relations in Warsaw (2 ECTS)

F. Workshop: India-EU relations, visiting lecturer, Prof. Jyotirmoy Benerjee, Colcatta University, India (2 ECTS)

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1010-3C. African integration, Dr. Konrad CzernichowskiD. International Security in Asia-Pacific, Dr. Łukasz Fijałkowski 0

1020 Society in transformation

1020-1 - 0

1020-2

Elective from lectures and seminars (6 or 4 ECTS) and workshops (2 ECTS):

A. Communication in the age of globalization, Prof. Beata Ociepka (6 ECTS)

B. Migration in Central and Eastern European Countries, Dr. Patrycja Matusz-Protasiewicz (6 ECTS)

C. The Networked Information Economy: political and economic consequences of the Internet and blogosphere, Dr. Rafał Próchniak (4 ECTS)

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D. European Identity, Prof. Norbert Kapferer (4 ECTS)E. Workshop: The Politics of mass media, Prof. Nissim Mannathukaren,

Dalhousie University, Canada (2 ECTS)

1020-3 A. The culture and the religion of Tibet, Dr. Jarosław Kotas 0

1020 Research and master thesis seminar

1030-1A. Master thesis seminar (4 ECTS)

B. Master thesis (16 ECTS)

201030-2 -

1030-3Optionally:

International forecasts and simulations: dr. Andrzej Polus (0 ECTS)

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7 THE EMGS-COURSES (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Cold war processes of political systems’ transformation in the countries of the Eastern a Central-Eastern Europe

SeminarDr. Jarosław Jarząbekjaroslaw_jarzabek@op.pl

DescriptionThe aim of the seminar is to familiarize the students with the modern history of Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe and the processes of transformation of political systems occurring in this area after 1989. Students will be able to gain knowledge about the political, economic and social situation of the countries of this region and the mechanisms of functioning of the communist system in the years 1945-1989. The seminar will then concentrate on the reasons and process of collapse of the communist system in Central-Eastern Europe and disintegration of the Soviet Union. The subsequent part of the seminar will concern the course of transformation, development and changes in the region’s states as well as their present situation political, economic and social situation.

Program1. Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe – description and explanation of basic of concepts,geography and geopolitics of the region.2. The post-war order in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe – the communist takeover andconsolidation of power.3. The nature of communist society and the communist economic model in Central Eastern andEastern Europe.4. Regional economic and military co-operation – Council for Mutual Economic Assistance andWarsaw Pact.5. Political instability in Central Eastern Europe – Hungarian revolution, Warsaw Pact’sintervention in Czechoslovakia, Poland’s permanent crises.6. The end of communism and break up of the Soviet Union – regional and global perspective.7. Transition to democracy in the post-communist states – review of political systems in theCentral Eastern Europe.8. Political systems of the post=soviet states – autocracy, democracy, oligarchy.9. Transition of economies – different approaches.10. Integration of the region’s states with the west-European international structures –

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European Communities and NATO.11. Forms of regional co-operation Central Eastern and Eastern Europe.12. The issue of regional security in the XXI century13. Perspectives of the Central Eastern and Eastern Europe

Recommended textsSnyder, Timothy, The reconstruction of nations.Prażmowska, Anita J., Eastern Europe and the origins of the Second World War.Witnesses to the origins of the cold war, ed. by Thomas T. Hammond.Berend, Tibor Ivan, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993.The future of East-Central Europe, ed. by Andrzej Dumała and Ziemowit Jacek Pietraś.In pursuit of Europe : transformations of post-communist states 1989-1994, ed. by Bogdan Goralczyk,Wojciech Kostecki, Katarzyna Żukrowska.Political culture and political change in post-communist societies, ed. by Vladimir Goutorov,Alexander Koryushkin and Gerd Meyer ; [avt. S. A. Lancov et al.].Levesque, Jacques, The Enigma of 1989 : the USSR and the liberation of Eastern EuropeEast Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, ed. by David TurnockBorneman, John, Settling accounts : violence, justice, and accountability in postsocialist EuropeDemocratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. Vol. 1 and 2, Institutional engineering, ed. by JanZielonka.Transformations of post-communist states, ed. by Wojciech Kostecki, Katarzyna Żukrowska andBogdan J. Goralczyk.Jeffries, Ian, Eastern Europe at the turn of the twenty-first century : a guide to the economies intransitionThe changing geopolitics of Eastern Europe, ed. by Andrew H. Dawson and Rick Fawn.Nagle, John D., Democracy and democratization : post-communist Europe in comparative perspective.Offe, Claus, Varieties of transition : the East European and East German experience.Hyde-Price, Adrian., The international politics of East Central Europe.Archer, Clive., International organizations.NATO and South Eastern Europe, ed. by Dimitris Keridis and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff.

Introductory readingEast Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, ed. by David TurnockHyde-Price, Adrian., The international politics of East Central Europe.Central Europe Since 1945, Paul G. Lewis.

Advanced readingDemocratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. Vol. 1 and 2, Institutional engineering, ed. by JanZielonka.Berend, Tibor Ivan, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1993.The changing geopolitics of Eastern Europe, ed. by Andrew H. Dawson and Rick Fawn.

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Communication in the age of globalizationLectureProf. Beata Ociepkabociepka@uni.wroc.pl

Description

The objective of the course on ‘Communication in the Age of Globalization' is firstly the introduction of the theory and practice of global communication. The concepts of cultural imperialism, global public opinion (flow and contraflow of news), and hybridization will be discussed. On the one hand the question of geo-linguistic or geo-cultural regions will be asked to explain the differences in stories societies tell themselves. On the other hand, the cultural factor, having impact on coverage, will be confronted with media policy and international media enterprises' logic. Special attention will be given to the EU and to the situation of CEE countries - as Poland - in the global flow of messages. Apart from considering the role of media conglomerates and the main issues of media policy in this countries, also a structure of media systems will be shortly discussed.

In the second part of the course, the participants will also analyze the coverage of political events by mass media of communication (press, radio, television) and Internet in different countries (including the CEE countries) in order to depict main patterns of coverage and main factors contributing to them. The analysis will be conducted on the cases of mass media coverage and the content of Internet and will be focused on tensions and conflicts in international relations in Europe.

Reference to Global Issues in the Course: During the course ‘Communication in the Age of Globalization', the role of CEE countries in global information flow will be discussed. First of all, several approaches to the global communication will be presented. On the basis of the theory and empirical data, the position of CEE countries in the global flow will be presented.

Program

1. Globalization of the international communication;

-introduction to the studies of global communication;

-historical background of global communication;

2. The theoretical framework of the global communication; several different theoretical approaches to global communication will be discussed.

3. Centre and periphery in the global communication; the concept of flow and contraflows of information in global system.

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4. The global public opinion; does the global public opinion exist? The similarities and differences in perceiving news stories of different news services.

5-6. The cultural factor and its impact on global communication: syncretism, transculturation as different aspects of hybridization. The global and the local in media culture.

7. International media actors; global news and information networks.

8. Media policy in the global dimension; the normative aspects of international communication policy

9. Global communication in the age of Internet

10-11. The influence of globalization of the CEE countries - scenarios of future media development.

12-13. The position of the CEE countries in the global flow of information - the content analysis of different media outlets.

14. Essay

15. Final meeting. Evaluation

Reading

C1. Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006;,chapter 1.

Armand Mattelart, An archaelogy of the global era: constructing a belief, Media, Culture, Society 2002; vol. 24; pp. 591-612

C2. Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006, chapter 2

Anthony Giddens, The globalizing of modernity, In: Media in global context. A reader, ed. by A. Sreberny-Mohammadi, D. Winseck, J. McKenna, O. Boyd-Barret, London: Hodder Arnold 1997, pp. 19-26

C3. Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006, chapter 6

Gholam Khiabany, De-westernizing Media Theory or Reverse Orientalism: `Islamic Communication' as Theorized by Hamid Mowlana, In: Media Culture Society 2003; vol. 25; pp. 415-422

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Prasun Sonwalkar, News Imperialism: Contra View from the South. In: International news in the twenty-first century, ed. By Ch. Paterson and A. Sreberny, Luton: John Libbey Publishing 2004, pp. 111-125

C4. Gurevitch M., Levy M. R., Roeh I., The global newsroom: convergences and diversities in the globalization of television news. [in] Communication and Citizenship. Journalism and the Public Sphere. Ed. By Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks, Routledge, London 1997, p. 195 - 216

C5. Marwan M. Kraidy, Hybridity or the cultural logic of globalization, New Delhi: Pearson Longman 2005, chapter 5

C6. Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006, chapter 5

C7. Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006, chapter 4

Naomi Sakr, Al-Jazeera Sattelite Channel: Global Newscasting in Arabic. In: International news in the twenty-first century, ed. By Ch. Paterson and A. Sreberny, Luton: John Libbey Publishing 2004

C8. Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006, chapter 3

Dwayne Winseck, Marlene Cuthbert, From communication to democratic norms: reflections on the normative dimensions of international communication policy. In: Media in global context. A reader, ed. by A. Sreberny-Mohammadi, D. Winseck, J. McKenna, O. Boyd-Barret, London: Hodder Arnold 1997, pp. 162-176

C9. Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006, chapter 7

C10. Karol Jakubowicz, Civil Society and Public Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe. A Case of Poland; www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/27_JAKUBO.pdf

Karol Jakubowicz, Musical chairs? The three public spheres in Poland. In: Communication and Citizenship. Journalism and the Public Sphere. Ed. By Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks, London: Communication and Citizenship. Journalism and the Public Sphere. Ed. By Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks, Routledge, London 1997, chapter 7.

C11. Comparing Media Systems in Central Europe. Between Commercialisation and Politization, ed. by B. Dobek-Ostrowska and M. Glowacki, Wroclaw: WUWr 2008, selected articles.

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C12.-13. H. Denis Wu, The World's Windows to the World: An Overwiew of 44 Nations' International News Coverage, International news in the twenty-first century, ed. By Ch. Paterson and A. Sreberny, Luton: John Libbey Publishing 2004, chapter 5.

Introductory Reading

Media in global context. A reader, ed. by A. Sreberny-Mohammadi, D. Winseck, J. McKenna, O. Boyd-Barret, London: Hodder Arnold 1997.

Advanced Reading

International news in the twenty-first century, ed. By Ch. Paterson and A. Sreberny, Luton: John Libbey Publishing 2004.

Marwan M. Kraidy, Hybridity or the cultural logic of globalization, New Delhi: Pearson Longman 2005.

Daya Kishan Thussu, International Communication. Continuity and change, 2nd ed., London: Hodder Arnold 2006.

Development economicsSeminarWioletta Niemiec, Ph.D.wioletta.niemiec@ism.uni.wroc.pl

Description

Economy of development seminar program will be an extension of issues connected with economic growth and development, which will be partly raised by other lectures. The first part of the lecture is intended to be theoretical foundation in order to define the subject of analysis in the field of economy of development and to construct a framework of elemental concepts and measures used in this field. Next part of the lecture will present theories concerning ways of decreasing the differences in economic development of particular countries and reaching the economic level of developed countries. Finally, the activities which are being undertaken to help the least developed countries to overcome their economic delay will be evaluated.

Students will be competent in identification of the main reasons for poor economic development of particular countries and in potential means of elimination or overcoming of those reasons.

Students will be able to indicate countries on different levels of economic development and present the reasons for delay in development of some of the countries. Students will be able to indicate general guidelines of plans to counteract the differences and construct their own

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project to speed up the development of the poorly developed countries. Students also possess the ability to evaluate contemporary solutions implemented in this area and formulate conclusions concerning probability of the solutions to be successful.

Program

1. The nature and meaning of development and underdevelopment

2. Characteristic of developing country

3. Models of development and underdevelopment

4. Measures of economic growth and development

5. Poverty and Income Inequality

6. Population Growth and Development

7. Education, Health and Human Capital

8. Sustainable Development: The Environment and Development

9. Millennium Development Goals - Targets and Their Implementation

10. Free Trade or Fair Trade: Controversies and Opportunities

11. Foreign Investment and Aid: Controversies and Opportunities

12. Research and Technological Innovation: a way of development?

Recommended reading

M.P. Todaro, S.C. Smith: Economic Development, Addison Wesley, Pearson Education

E.W. Nafziger: Economic Development, Cambridge University Press

Human Development Report, UNCTAD, Geneva

Statistical Profiles of the Least Developed Countries, 2005, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva

Trade and Development Report, UNCTAD, Geneva

The Least Developed Countries Report, 2006 - Statistical Annex: Basic Data on the Least Developed Countries

Introductory reading:

P. Krugman, R. Wells, K. Graddy, Economics, WH Freeman

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D. Begg, S. Fischer, R. Dornbusch, Macroeconomics,

A.P. Thirlwall, Growth and Development, Palgrave Macmillan

Human Development Report

World Development Report

Advanced reading:

J.E. Stiglitz, A. Charlton, Fair Trade for All. How Trade Can Promote Development, Oxford University Press

J.E. Stiglitz, Knowledge for Development: Economic Science. Economic Policy and Economic Advice, The World Bank

J.E. Syglitz, The Roaring Nineties. A New History of the World`s Most Prosperous Decade, W W Nrton & Co

J. Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization, Oxford University Press

M. Friedman, Lao-Tzu, The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu and Milton Friedman, Free Press

Economic transformation in Poland, Hungary and the Czech RepublicSeminarSebastian Jakubowski, Ph.D.sebjak@interia.pl

Description

The purpose of this seminar is to describe the way Central European Economies have covered in the global economy from the collapse of communism till now. The seminar touches upon a wide spectrum of decisions of post-communist governments taken in the last two decades, which have transformed Central European Economies into emerging markets.

Special attention will be paid to the case of Polish, Czech and Hungarian economic transformation. In 1990 in Poland first begun the "shock therapy". It was known as the Plan of Balcerowicz. The seminar concentrates on significant connections between this packet of radical reforms and the neo-liberal Washington Consensus. The next step on the way to global market was solving the problem of polish debts, which restrained foreign investments in the country during the first transition period. The way of transforming the Polish economy will be contrasted with more gradual reforms applied in the Czech Republic and Hungary.

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Reference to Global Issues in the Course: In the second part of the 90's Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary became a classical "emerging markets" challenged by currency crisis, resources access, migrations, trade competition etc. Therefore, following points of the seminar will be: opening the domestic market for foreign trade and financial investments, than transition of the local currencies to exchangeable currencies with a low inflation rate. The last part of the seminar concentrates on benefits and threats of the European integration for Central European Economies, in the light of the so-called integration circles theory or hard-core theory.

Program

1. Introduction

2. Heritage of Central Planning

3. Mechanisms and Forms of Economic Transformation - Shock Therapy vs. Gradual Reforms

4. Privatization

5. Labor Market Policies during Transformation

6. Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investments in CEE

7. Building Up of Financial Systems

8. Social Reforms - Health Care Reforms I

9. Social Reforms - Health Care Reforms II

10. Social Reforms - Pension Reforms I

11. Social Reforms - Pension Reforms II

12. Fiscal Challenges of Transformation

13. Monetary Policy and Inflation

14. Economic Transformation in Russia

15. Summary

Reading

Błaszczyk B., R. Woodward, Privatization and Company Restructuring in Poland, CASE, Warsaw 1999.

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Błaszczyk B., R. Woodward, Secondary Privatization: The Evolution of Ownership Structures of Privatised Enterprises, CASE, Warsaw 2001.

Bozyk P., Globalization and the Transformation of Foreign Economic Policy, Ashgate Publishing 2006.

Gros D., Steinherr A., Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Cambridge 2004.

Traser J, Venables, Report on the free movement of workers. Who is afraid of the EU-enlargement, European Citizen Action Service 2005.

Kwiatkowski E., Socha M., Sztanderska M., Labour Marker Flexibility and Employment Security, International Labour Office, Geneva 2001.

Christiansen H., Goldstein A., Trends and recent developments in foreign direct investment, OECD 2007.

Milan Sedmihradsky, Stanislav Klazar, TAX COMPETITION FOR FDI IN CENTRAL-EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, CESifo Working Paper No. 647 (1), Munich January 2002.

Foreign Direct Investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe 2007-2008: decline to follow uneven growth, Vienna 2008

European investment monitor, Ernst & Young 2008

Lansbury M., Pain N., Katerina Smidkova, Foreign Direct Investment in Central Europe since 19990: An econometric study, NIER, May 1996.

Thomas Reininger, Franz Schardax, Martin Summer, The Financial System in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland after a Decade of Transition, Deutsche Bundesbank, December 2001.

Stability and Structure of Financial Systems in CEC5, National Bank of Poland (ed.), may 2002.

Buiter W., Taci A., Capital account liberalization and financial sector development in transition countries.

Barr N., Reforming Pensions: Myths, Truths, and Policy Choices, IMF Working Papers, WP/00/139

Mihalyi P., De-integration and disintegration of health care in post - communist economies, Budapest 2005.

Introductory Reading

Kornai Janos; The Socialist System; Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press; 1992.

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Kornai Janos; Economics of Shortage, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1980.

Wilczynski, Josef: The Economics of Socialism , George Allen & Unwin, London, 1982.

Balcerowicz Leszek, The Various Roads to a Private Economy; The Carnegie Fundation; New York; 1993.

Balcerowicz Leszek, Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparison and Lessons; IFC Annual Lecture; Washington; 1993.

Blanchard, Olivier; The Economics of Post-Communist Transition, Oxford University Press; New York; 1997.

Sachs Jeffrey D., Poland's Jump to the Market Economy; MIT Press, 1993.

Winiecki, Jan, Post-Soviet-Type Economies in Transition, Aldershot: Avebury, 1993.

Advanced Reading

Berend, I.T, Transformation and Structural Change: Central and Eastern Europe's Post Communist Adjustment in Historical Perspective;http://src-home.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/96summer/berend.pdf

Drazen, A., Political Economy in Macroeconomics, Princeton University Press, 2000.

Kowalski, A., Preconditions to structural changes of Poland's agriculture, http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/ERD/net/pdf/kowalski_1.pdf

Landesmann, Structural change in the transition economies 1989-1999, http://www.unece.org/ead/pub/002/002_4.pdf

R. Dobrinsky, D. Hesse, R. Traeger, Understanding the long term growth performance of the East Europeans and CIS Economies, "Discussion Paper Series", nr 9, March 2006, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. http://www.unece.org/ead/misc/Dobrinsky_Hesse_Traeger.pdf

World Economic and Social Survey 2006. Diverging growth and development, chapters 1, 2: Growth and development trends 1960-2005, Structural change and economic growth http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wess2006files/chap2.pdf

Błaszczyk B, The Lisbon Strategy: a Tool for Economic and Social Reforms in the Enlarged European Union, "Studies and Analysis" nr 310, 2005, http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/8442581_sa310.pdf

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Dąbrowski M., A strategy for the EMU Enlargement, CASE, "Studies and Analysis", nr 290/2005, http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/4199675_Studies_and_Analyses_290.pdf

Gros D., How to increase the competitiveness of the European economy, "Studies and Analysis" nr 308, 2005, http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/5823019_SA_308.pdf

European economic integrationSeminarSebastian Płóciennik, Ph.D.sebape@onet.eu

Description

Europe has come a long way from the disaster of the WW2 to the very advanced level of integration, which is today the monetary union. It is a success story written by ideas, political consequence of the European leaders, involvement of societies and - the power of economic cooperation. The goal of the seminar is to present to the students how economic mechanisms contributed to the development of Europe and how it was possible to keep the balance between progress of the integration and coherence of the whole organization. The seminar starts with a theoretical perspective ranging from neoclassical theories of integration to institutional theories of Europeanization. It is supplemented by the history of integration in Europe presented through the deepening and enlargement processes. The second part is devoted to some the market integration process including mobility of capital and labor and the monetary integration. The third part focuses on policies, which prop up sustainability of integration: the regional policy, the Common Agricultural Policy and the social policy. The goal of the last part is to examine some current, controversial issues, like comparison of prospects for economic integration with America and the consequences of the financial crisis.

Program

1. Theories of economic integration

2. Economic Europeanization

3. History of the European integration: deepening and enlargement

4. Capital and labor mobility

5. The monetary integration I.

6. The monetary integration II.

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7. Fiscal integration

8. Will the Eurozone crack? Public debate

9. The Lisbon Strategy

10. The common agricultural policy

11. The regional and structural policy

12. Social policy and the welfare state

13. The crisis and the EU

14. Transatlantic economic integration

15. Final exam

Reading

Jovanović, Miroslav N., The economics of European Integration, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, 2005.

Tanja A. Boerzel, Thomas Risse, Conceptualizing the domestic impact of Europe, The Politics of Europeanization, June 2003 , pp. 57-81(25)

Kenneth Dyson, EMU as Europeanization: convergence, diversity and contingency, in: Journal of common market studies, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2000, pp. 645-666.

Simon Tilford, Will the Eurozone crack? London: Centre for European Reform, 2006.

Steven J. Silvia, Is the Euro working? The Euro and European labor markets, in: Journal of Public Policy, No. 24/2, 2004, pp. 147-168.

Silke Bothfeld, Labour Market Institutions in Germany: Current Status and Ongoing Reforms, WSI – Discussion Papers, No. 152, 2007.

Julia S. Connor, Policy coordination, social indicators and the social-policy agenda in the European Union, in: Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 15(4) 2005, pp. 345–361.

Jean Marc Boussard, The future of the European Common Agricultural Policy : a new philosophy ? Working paper Académie d’Agriculture de France, 2007

Philip Whyte, Narrowing the Atlantic. The way forward for EU-USA trade and investment, Center for European Reform, London 2009.

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Waltraud Schelkle, The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy Co-ordination in EMU: From Disciplinarian Device to Insurance Arrangement, JCMS 2005 Volume 43. No. 2, pp. 371-91.

Dana Zadrazilová, The Lisbon Strategy - Revision of the European, Social Market Model?, CAP Working Papers, August 2007.

Beyond banking: What the financial crisis means for the EU, Policy Brief, Center for European Reform, October 2008.

Additional sources on the EU:

Agiomirgianiakis, George, Argiros, George, Zervoyianni, Athina, European Integration, Palgrave Macmillan 2006.

Chua, Amy, How Hyperpowers rise to global dominance – and why they fall, Doubleday, New York, 2007.

Cini, Michelle, European Union. Politics, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Dinan, Desmond, Ever Closer Union. An introduction to European Integration, The European Union Series, 2005.

Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette, Debates on European Integration, The European Union Series, 2006.

Funkck, Bernard, Pizzati Lodovico (ed.), European Integration, Regional Policy and Growth, The World Bank, 2003.

Gillingham, John, European Integration 1950-2003. Super-state or New Market Economy?, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Hix, Simon, The political system of the European Union, The European Union Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Judt, Tony, Postwar. A history of Europe since 1945, Penguin Books, 2006.

McCormick, Jack, Understanding the European Union. A concise Introduction, The European Union Series, 2005.

Milward, Alan S., The European Rescue of the Nation State, London, New York 2000. - The Europeanization of agricultural protection, 224-317.

Moravcsik, Andrew, The Choice for Europe. Social Purpose & State Power from Messina to Maastricht, Cornell University Press 1998.

Robert, J.M., The Penguin history of Europe, Penguin, London 199762

Rosamond, Ben, Theories of European Integration, The European Union Series, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2000.

European IdentitySeminarProf. Norbert Kapferernorkapf@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Description of the courseIntention of this seminar is to analyze different terms of “identity” : “Identity itself” (philosophical, psychological, sociological aspects), “ethnical identity”, “cultural identity”, “regional identity”, “national identity” in order to ask for the possibility of an “European Identity”. Is “European identity” an artifical construction, a political illusion or this there a chance to develop such a transnational identity? Does European integration need a “European identity” ?

Program of the course1. Lecturers introduction in philosophical, psychological, sociological aspects of the term“Identity”;2. Lecturers introduction into relevant controversial theories of “Identity”;3. Personal identity and group identity (paper presentation of students)4. Ethnical identity (paper presentation of students)5. Cultural identity I. : Language, dialects, traditions (paper presentation of students)6. Cultural identity II : Religion, folklore, arts, sports (paper presentation of students)7. Political identity I. : Regional identity (paper presentation of students)8. Political identity II. : History of nationbuilding (paper presentation of students)9. Political identity III.: Nationalism versus patriotism (paper presentation of students)10. Political identity IV. : Europe in the age of world-wars (paper presentation of students)11. Political identity V.: Europe after II. World war and European integration (paperpresentation of students)12. European identity I : Indicator: European parliament elections (paper presentation ofstudents)13. European identity II. : Indicator: EU – economy and currency (paper presentation ofstudents)14. European identity III : Indicator : Public opinion polls (paper presentation of students)15. European identity IV : EU activities and results (paper presentation of students and finaldiscussion)Recommended textsC. Joyce: Questions of Identity, London 2002G. Schopflin: Nations, Identity, Power, New York University Press 2000;P.Drulak (ed) National and European Identities in the EU enlargement, Prague 2001

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J.Bain: European Union Identity, Baden-Baden 2007;

Introductory readingOwn course reader

Advanced readingIan Craib: Experiencing Identity, London 1998J.Carl: European Identity, Berlin 2005

European Union and the constitutional transformation in EuropeLectureProf. Krzysztof Wójtowiczkwojtowicz@prawo.uni.wroc.pl

Description

The course will deal with the political and legal aspects of relationship between integration and constitutional transformation in Europe, including the sovereignty question, the institutional structure of the European Union, sources of EU law and the relationship between European Union law and the constitutional law of the member states, EU citizenship and fundamental rights, the EU in international relations, and possible scenarios of further integration in Europe.

Reference to Global Issues in the Course: It is now evident that the European Union has begun to emerge as a significant global actor. The success of the European Union in establishing a functioning integration arrangement, based on the transfer of sovereign rights by the Member States, may serve as a model of regional integration.

Early sessions will be held in a lecture format but later lectures will become interactive. Students are expected to participate actively in class discussion, to be prepared to respond to questions and hypothetical situations.

Evaluation & Completion: Final paper 8-10 pages, due at the end of the semester or oral presentation (20 minutes) of the assigned topic. Grades will be weighted on the basis of class participation (25%) and a final paper/presentation (75%).

Program

1. Political background of the process of integration in Europe.The historical foundations for European integration; developments in Europe after World War II: economic reconstruction (Marshall Plan, OECD); strengthening defense (NATO); protection of Human Rights (Council of Europe, European Convention on Human Rights); collapse of the communist system in Central and Eastern Europe.2. From the European Comunities to the European Union.

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Schuman's Plan, functional and neo-functional concepts of integration; creation of the Coal and Steel Community (1951), European Economic Community, EURATOM (1957), European Union (1992); Free Trade Area, Custom Union, Common Market; pillar structure of EU. 3. Principles of the modern European constitutionalism.National sovereignty, division of powers, rule of law, protection of individual freedoms.4. ‘European clauses' in national constitutions.Transfer of state competences to an international organization; procedural safeguards. 5. Principles underlying the EUSubsidiarity; solidarity; democracy and ‘democratic deficit' in EU; the concept of the ‘communauté de droit'; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. 6. Institutions of EU European Parliament, its legitimacy and functions; Council's power of decision and methods of voting; Commission, its independent status, power of initiative and role as a guardian of the treaties; Court of Justice, its composition, functions and problem of judicial activism.7. EU in international relations.Europe's new role in a globalised world; international legal personality; external EU powers; Common Foreign and Security Policy. 8. Sources of the European Community law and constitutional law of the member states Primary and secondary Community law; constitutional system of sources of law.9. Primacy of EC law and supremacy of the constitution Primacy from the perspective of the European Court of Justice; reservations of national constitutional tribunals.10. Application of EC law in internal legal order Direct effect; harmonious interpretation.11. Enforcement actions against Member States. Infringement procedure; types of violations of Community Law, penalties12. The principle of State liability for breach of EC law. Origins of the principle; national remedial framework; conditions for state liability.13. Protection of Fundamental Human Rights in EU. European citizenship; development of general principles; role of international human rights treaties; relationship between different systems of human rights protection; EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.14. Principle of non-discrimination in EU. Equal treatment for men and women; gender reassignment and sexual orientation; positive action.15. Future of Europe. Convention; Constitutional treaty; Lisbon treaty and problems with its ratification. Recommended Reading: P. Craig, G. de Burca, EU Law. Text, Cases and Materials, 4th ed., Oxford 2008,Principles of European Constitutional Law, ed. by A. von Bogdandy and J. Bast, Oxford 2006.

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Reading

Chalmers D., Hadjiemmanuil C., Monti G., Tomkins A., European Union Law, Cambridge University Press 2006,K. Lenaerts, P. Van Nuffel, ed. R. Bray, Constitutional Law of the European Union, 2nd ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2004.Advanced Reading: Arnull A., The European Union and its Court of Justice, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2006.Claes M., Constitutionalizing Europe at its Source: The ‘European Clauses' in the National Constitutions: Evolution and Typology, Yearbook of European Law, 24, 2005, Oxford 2006.

Europe-India relationsWorkshopJyotirmoy Banerjee, Ph.D.joyarjun1@yahoo.de

Description and program

1.Early historical contact: Initial lectures will deal with Europe’s early contact with Asia with focus on India as specific case study (Megasthenes, Alexander et al. onwards to the age of discovery, Vasco da Gama, Colombus, Sir Thomas Roe in Mughal court, The Jesuits and Akbar the Great Mughal, other missionaries and many others). The purpose here is not to deal exhaustively with the history of Indo-European relations per se but rather to selectively introduce key historical events. These lectures would deliver a sense of ‘globalization’ at earlier times and provide insight into the significance of current issues which cross national boundaries and academic disciplines.

More specifically, introduction in a nutshell to:The Predators: East India Company, Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, Dupleix, Lord Lytton, Lord Curzon, Winston Churchill et al.The Orientalist Gurus: William Jones, Romain Rolland, the Schlegel brothers, Franz Bopp, Max Müller, Hermann Hesse;Other Benefactors: Alan Octavian Hume, Sir Francis Younghusband (Himalaya mystic), C.F. Andrews et.al

2. Next lectures: Select concepts of political theories of communication and modernisation (e.g. as expounded by Lucian W. Pye, Karl W. Deutsch, David Easton, Almond and Powell, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Clifford Geertz)- for better understanding of the nature of impact of modernized societies on traditional ones. The rise of a modern, European-educated class and its socio-political impact on tradition.

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3.Next series: Role of Europe in India's freedom struggle (19-20th. centuries). Initial post-World War I and -World War II disillusionment of Asian nations with the European colonial powers

4.Final series of lectures (the longest): The present scene. EU as inspiration for ASEAN , SAARC and other regional groupings.Bilateral relations between modern India and Europe in technical, economic, educational, defense and counter-terror fields.Special features of an enhanced degree of political and economic cooperation. Europe's defense on the Hindukush.

Global and regional governance - introductionLectureProf. Elżbieta Stadtmullerelstadt@wr.onet.pl

Description

The aim of the course is to present the concept of global and regional ‘governance' on the background of the main contemporary trends (globalization, regionalization, integration, fragmentisation). The seminar will focus on interdependency and the challenges to the international order (political, economic, cultural, military) and on the actors in governance processes at global level. We shall also to look at regionalism and regionalization (‘the old' and ‘the new' regionalism, theories of regionalism); regions and their participation in the processes of regionalization and governance (Europe, North America, Asia and Pacific, Latin America, Africa and Middle East) because it is a more ‘realistic' level of governance. Specific aspects of governance will be included: governance and international security (including the economic dimension of security); issues of identity and culture in the processes of global and regional governance; a new multipolarism.

Reference to Global Issues in the Course: The course deals with global issues in almost every session. It stems from fact that also regionalization and regional governance are interconnected with the global level of politics as well as with the main contemporary trends in international relations.

Program

0. The opening lecture of academic year is simultaneously an element of this course. Its topic is: European Union and regional and global order - towards efficient governance?1. The emergence of the contemporary international/global order (in theoretical approaches and practice): introduction to the course Reading:

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Baylies J., Smith S. (eds), The Globalization of World Politics. An Introduction to International Relations, Oxford 20032. Regionalism and regionalisation - in theory and practice Reading:Farrell M., Hettne B., Van Langenhove L. (eds), Global Politics of Regionalism. Theory and Practice, Pluto Press, London 2005 3. Global and regional governance: theoretical aspectsReading:Söderbaum F., Shaw T., (red.) Theories of New Regionalism, Palgrave 2002.Smouts M-C., The proper use of governance in international relations, UNESCO 155/1998Thomas C., Global governance ,development and human security: exploring the links, The World Quarterly ,Vol. 22, no 2, 2001 4. Governance in action at the regional level - regional arrangements and their approaches towards security, global problems and inter-regional cooperation.

Reading

Farrell M., (ed.) EU external relations. Exporting the EU model of governance? European Foreign Affairs Review Vol. 10, No 4, 2005

Higgott, R., The Theory and Practice of Global and Regional Governance: Accommodating American Exceptionalism and European Pluralism, European Foreign Affairs Review, nr 10/2005;

Telo Mario, Europe: a civilian Power? EU, Global Governance and World Order, Palgrave 2005

5. Globalisation, regionalisation, governance and the international order of the 21st century - a new multipolarism?

Reading:

Ougaard M., Higgott R. (eds), Towards a Global Polity, Routledge 2002

Our Global Neighborhood: The Report of the Commission on Global Governance, 1995

6-12. Debate on the pros and the cons of global and regional governance - evaluation.

Introductory Reading

Baylies J., Smith S. (eds), The Globalization of World Politics. An Introduction to International Relations, Oxford 2003

Farrell M., Hettne B., Van Langenhove L. (eds.), Global Politics of Regionalism. Theory and Practice, Pluto Press, London 2005

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Fawcett L., A.Hurrell (eds), Regionalism in World Politics. Regional Organizations and International Order, Oxford 1997

Ougaard M., Higgott R. (eds.), Towards a Global Polity, Routledge 2002

Söderbaum F., Shaw T., (eds.) Theories of New Regionalism, Palgrave 2002.

Advanced Reading:

Buzan B., Waever O., Regions and Powers. The structure of International Security, Cambridge 2003

Dervis K. Özer C., A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform, 2005, http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2808

Farrell M., (ed.) EU external relations. Exporting the EU model of governance? European Foreign Affairs Review Vol. 10, No 4, 2005

Our Global Neighbourhood, Report of the Commission on Global GovernanceOxford University Press, 1995. A Summary Analysis by Henry Lamb,http://www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/gganalysis.htm

Rosenau J. and E.O Czempiel, Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge 1992

Scharpf F., Governing in Europe: Effective and Democratic? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999

Smouts M-C., The proper use of governance in international relations, UNESCO 155/1998

Tavares R., Understading Regional Peace and Security. A Framework for analysis, School of Global Studies, Goeteborg University 2006

Thomas C., Global governance, development and human security: exploring the links, The World Quarterly ,Vol. 22, no 2, 2001

Internet sources on websites:

http://www.cris.unu.edu/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/workingpapers/

Governing Europe: mechanism of regional cooperationLectureProf. Elżbieta Stadtmuller

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elstadt@wr.onet.pl

Description

The program will include knowledge on: European space, European identity, integration and its political, economic, cultural aspects as well as on place of Europe in world processes. Students will be introduced briefly to the history of European ideas, aspirations and integration. Institutions and law of the EC/EU; main political and economic problems of the EC/EU and its member states and debates on the Constitutional Treaty will be presented by students. An important aspect will be connected with “Governing East”, hence: challenges of Eastern enlargement; EU-Russia co-operation; Borders of Europe, borders of the EU, the ENP. The main question considered during lectures concerns how far the EU can go towards United Europe (in the context of deepening and enlarging)?

Contents: Students should be able to describe the socio-political, economic and cultural European space with the special focus on the European Union and its ‘governing activity' concerning own area as well as the neighbourhood. They should also be aware that the EU's current policy is an element of the broader processes like globalisation, regionalisation, integration and fragmentation.

Students learn how to analyse the factors which influence the EU's activity and policy, such as history, legal/institutional norms, various interests of the member states etc.

Program

1. Main world processes and trends ( co-operation, integration, competition, fragmentation, conflict). Meaning of global and regional governance

2. Place of Europe in world processes. Regional and global arrangements and agencies in the world .

3. Europe divided: subregions, nations, minorities, economic and social disparities.

4. History of European ideas and aspirations - input of different nations. Who are we? Europe, European identity, integration - political, economic, cultural aspects.

5. History of Integration until 90s: Division of Europe and beginning of European unity after 1945; Emergence and development of the EEC to the end of the 70s; Intensification of integration processes in the 80s: towards the Maastricht Treaty.

6. New European landscape in the 90s .: Processes of disintegration and integration; Eastern Europe in transition and transformation; New regionalism in Eastern-Central Europe.

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7. European integration in the 90s: Ideas and consequences of the Maastricht Treaty and its revision in Amsterdam; Nice Treaty; Main problems of integration inside EC/EU; Challenges of foreign and security policy; Institutions and law of the EC/EU- process of rebuilding.

8. Eastern enlargement and further enlargements?: Process, negotiations; Challenges of Eastern enlargement; EU-Russia co-operation.

9. Institutional reform of the EU: European Convention and Constitution; Policy of the EU (towards international and social problems, ecology, culture etc.); Debates about integration and united Europe; Public opinion about European integration and the EU in European countries.

10. Governing Europe? The EU towards regional and global order: Approaches to the construction of a new European political, economic and security architecture; The ENP; Transatlantic relationships; Next enlargement? Balkans, Turkey.

Recommended reading

Farrell M, S.Fella, M.Newman (eds.), European Integration in the 21st century. Unity in Diversity?, London 2002

Farrell M., Hettne B., Van Langenhove L. (eds.), Global Politics of Regionalism. Theory and Practice, Pluto Press, London 2005

Telo M. , Europe: a civilian Power? EU, Global Governance and World Order, Palgrave 2005

Youngs R., The European Union and the promotion of democracy, Oxford 2001

Gowan P., P.Anderson (eds.) The question of Europe, London 1997

Stadtmüller E., Regional Stabilisation and Security: The European Union as a Model, S.Wojciechowski (red.), Współczesna Europa, Poznań 2004

As well as documents and materials available at the EU's website.

International economic transactionsLectureMarek Wróblewski, Ph.D.marek.wroblewski@ism.uni.wroc.pl

Description

Format and methodology of the course: Due to the subject matter and form of the course the fundamental points will be case study analysis, enterprises simulations, presentations

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and formal analysis of different business tasks. The course involves also elements of lectures, study on texts and strategic games.

Evaluation & completion: Components of evaluation includes: a presentation, an export plan project, an activity and a test.

Description of the course: The course on content-related level concerns main concepts connected with international economic transactions and includes a wider context of an enterprise activity in the world’s economy. In particular the course focuses on thorough presentation of all forms of international economic transaction and kinds of markets available for the importers and exporters and methods of analysis of such markets. Moreover, the course presents all stages of preparation and realization of transactions with foreign entities. Most importantly it focuses on the accurate construction of the agreement, accounting techniques, and available financial sources of activities on the foreign markets. All issues analyzed also take into consideration global and regional law regulations. The main purpose of the course is also to supply a practical knowledge of all stages of activity on foreign markets from the point of view of importers and exporters. The analysis will be devoted to evaluation of typical mistakes one may come across in this area of international economic transactions. Furthermore, the exercises will be creative thinking practice in solving specific business problems.

Program

Topic 1. International economic transaction: an introductionTopic 2. International economic transaction – types and featuresTopic 3. Export planTopic 4. Cultural differences and international businessTopic 5. Legal contract & international transactions – part ITopic 6. Legal contract & international transactions – part II Topic 7. Trade customs & rules Topic 8. Transport and logistics Topic 9. Transport documents in international transactionsTopic 10. Trade documents in international transaction Topic 11. Foreign exchange and international transactions Topic 12. Rick management in international transaction Topic 13. Finance & payments of international trade – part ITopic 14. Finance & payments of international trade – part IITopic 15. Finance for export (short, medium and long)

Reading

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Topic 1. International economic transaction: an introduction

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 1.

Brakman, S., Garretsen H., Marrewijk Ch., 2006. Nations and firms in the global economy, an introduction to international economics and business, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

Topic 2. International economic transaction – types and features

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 2 and 3.

Topic 3. Export plan

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapters 16, 17, 18.

Topic 4. Cultural differences and international business

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 6.

Topic 5. Legal contract & international transactions – part I

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 10.

Topic 6. Legal contract & international transactions – part II

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 10.

Topic 7. Trade customs & rules

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 14.

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapter 10.

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Topic 8. Transport and logistics

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 19.

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapter 8.

Topic 9. Transport documents in international transactions

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 19.

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapter 8.

Topic 10. Trade documents in international transaction

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition, Chapter 19.

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapter 9.

Topic 11. Foreign exchange and international transactions

REUTERS, 1999. Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, John Willey & Sons Ltd, Chapters 1-2.

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapter 3.

Grath, A, 2005. International Trade Finance: the complete guide to risk management, international payments, guarantees, credit insurance and trade finance, The Institute of Export, Peterborough, Chapter 1.

Topic 12. Rick management in international transaction

REUTERS, 1999. Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, John Willey & Sons Ltd, Chapters 7-9.

Grath, A, 2005. International Trade Finance: the complete guide to risk management, international payments, guarantees, credit insurance and trade finance, The Institute of Export, Peterborough, Chapter 4.

Topic 13. Finance & payments of international trade – part I

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Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapters 11-14.

Grath, A, 2005. International Trade Finance: the complete guide to risk management, international payments, guarantees, credit insurance and trade finance, The Institute of Export, Peterborough, Chapters 2 and 8.

Topic 14. Finance & payments of international trade – part II

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapters 11-14.

Grath, A, 2005. International Trade Finance: the complete guide to risk management, international payments, guarantees, credit insurance and trade finance, The Institute of Export, Peterborough, Chapters 2 and 4.

Topic 15. Finance for export

Grath, A, 2005. International Trade Finance: the complete guide to risk management, international payments, guarantees, credit insurance and trade finance, The Institute of Export, Peterborough, Chapter 6.

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition, Chapters 15-18.

Introductory reading

Ball, D.A., McCulloch, W.H., Geringer, M.J., Minor, M.S., McNett, J.M., 2007. International Business: the challeng of global competition, McGraw-Hill, International Edition.

Grath, A, 2005. International Trade Finance: the complete guide to risk management, international payments, guarantees, credit insurance and trade finance, The Institute of Export, Peterborough.

Brakman, S., Garretsen H., Marrewijk Ch., 2006. Nations and firms in the global economy, an introduction to international economics and business, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

Watson, A., 1998. Finance of International Trade, Financial World Publishing; 5Rev Edition.

Advanced reading

Krugman, P., Obstfeld, M., 2006. International Economics: theory and policy, Pearson International Edition.

Pilbeam, K., 2006. International finance, Third Edition, Palgrave MacMillan, New York.

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REUTERS, 1999. Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, John Willey & Sons Ltd.

Moosa I.A., 2004. International Finance: an analytical approach, McGraw-Hill, Australia.

International financial marketsSeminarProf. Dominik Kopińskidominik.kopinski@wp.pl

Description

The course is aimed to introduce students to various aspects of financial markets in the international/global setting. Students will be offered a working knowledge of financial market operations and key financial instruments. The course will begin with an introduction to banking with special emphasis put on modus operandi of investment banks. Next, financial players (investors and institutions) and different types of financial markets (foreign exchange markets, bond and equity markets, money markets, derivative markets etc.) will be presented and discussed. In the second part, the course will overlap with issues related to open economy macroeconomics and international monetary system. The course will give an understanding of the European Economic and Monetary Union, the origins and consequences of the debt crisis, modern financial crises and the role of international financial markets in developing countries. The most recent global financial crisis and its implications for different financial actors will be broken down and investigated. The course is designed to put the emphasis both on theoretical and practical issues. Its overarching objective is to help students to understand the changing global financial landscape and its growing complexity.

Program

1. Introduction, sign up for class presentation

2. Introduction to financial market

3. Banking background

4. The role of the central bank

5. Commercial banking

6. Investment banking

7. The money and bond markets

8. Stock exchanges

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10. Trade finance

11. Derivative products

12. European Economic and Monetary Union

13. Debt crisis

14. Modern financial crisis

15. Summing up, grades

Reading

Valdez, S., An Introduction to Global Financial Markets, 5th Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Levinson, M., Guide to financial markets, 4th edition, Bloomberg Press, New York 2006.

Hallwood, C.P., MacDonald, R., International Money and Finance, Wiley-Blackwell 2000.

Kidwell, D.S, Blackwell, D.W., Whidbee, D.A., Peterson, R.L., Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money, Wiley 2008.

Levich, R., International Financial Markets, Prices and Policies, 2nd edition, Irwin McGraw-Hill, Boston 2001.

Mishkin, F.S., Eakins, S.G., Financial Markets and Institutions, 6th Edition, Addison Wesley 2008.

Pilbeam, K., International finance, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, New York 2006.

Shapiro, A.C., Multinational Financial Management, 8th edition, Wiley, 2006.

International forecasts and simulationsSeminarAndrzej Polus, Ph.D.andrzej.polus@gmail.com

Program

Contents: The aim of the course is to give students the ability to prepare forecasts and simulations regarding international affairs. Having become familiar with the basis of the theoretical framework students will be participating in the discussion leading to the creation of their own forecasts. Apart from that, they will be analysing existing forecasts in order to assess them and learn from this experience. First part of the course is devoted to present students an overview of what forecasting is, what is its historical background and why it is

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important for studying. Furthermore, students are exposed to a variety of techniques (forecasting methods) in order to obtain relevant knowledge enabling them to anticipate future with reference to IR. As a result, they are able to prepare their own forecast using forecasting methodology. This course enables students to analyse and anticipate the evolution of international system and its components, including issues like global political, economic, social trends, possible resolution of conflicts and the behaviour of international actors (states, international organisations etc.)

Program

1. Introduction to the course. Presentation of literature and overview of the basic ideas and concepts.

2. Basic terms of forecasting. Types and divisions of prognoses. Deductive and inductive approach. Forecasting and planning.

3. System approach as a method of predicting events (incl. brainstorming).

4. The role of experts and Delphi method in predicting events..

5. Analogy as a tool in forecasting. Forecasting using structured analogies

6. Extrapolation models in forecasting. Neural networks for time-series forecasting.

7. Scenarios: how to create them?

8. Expert Systems for Forecasting. Use of Delphi to Select a Forecasting Method.

9. Simulated interaction. Role playing - a method for forecasting decisions in conflicts

10. Game theory as a tool of predicting actors behaviour in the conflict

11. How to predict political risk? Case study: political risk assessment in Russia.

12. "Europe 2010" - critical analysis

13. Preparing scenario and finalizing Delphi Method research.

14. Forecasting in practice: creating a case study. Causal models approach: key to success?

15. Course completion and summary

Reading

MEETING 2:

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J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 1-11.

J. Scott Armstrong (1985), Long-Range Forecasting. From Crystal Ball to Computer, pp. 1-11.

Additional reading (optional):

John R. Freeman; Brian L. Job, (Mar., 1979), "Scientific Forecasts in International Relations: Problems of Definition and Epistemology", International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1., pp. 113-143.

MEETING 3:

J. Scott Armstrong (1985), Long-Range Forecasting. From Crystal Ball to Computer, pp. 13-22.

MEETING 4:

J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 57-76, 125-141.

Additional reading (optional):

Gene Rowea , George Wright (1999), The Delphi technique as a forecasting tool: issues and analysis, "International Journal of Forecasting" 15, pp. 353-375.

MEETING 5:

Kesten C. Green, J. Scott Armstrong (2007), "Structured analogies for forecasting", International Journal of Forecasting 23, pp. 365-376.

J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 193-211.

MEETING 6:

J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 215-239, 245-253.

MEETING 7:

J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 809.

MEETING 8:

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J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 285-298.

MEETING 9:

J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 15-28.

MEETING 10:

Roger B. Myerson (2007), Force and Restraint In Strategic Deterrence: A Game-Theorist's Perspective, available at: http://www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil/

MEETING 11:

D. W. Bunn; M. M. Mustafaoglu (Nov., 1978), "Forecasting Political Risk", Management Science, Vol. 24, No. 15., pp. 1557-1567.

MEETING 12:

Scenarios Europe 2010. Five Possible Futures For Europe, Gilles Bertrand (Coord.), Anna Michalski, Lucio R. Pench, European Commission, Forward Studies Unit, Working Paper, July 1999.

MEETING 13:

(no reading envisaged as students are expected to work on their forecasts and therefore they should make reference to course literature in general)

MEETING 14:

J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia, pp. 679-725.

Introductory reading

J. Scott Armstrong (ed.) (2001), Principles of Forecasting. A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners, Springer. Philadelphia.

J. Scott Armstrong (1985), Long-Range Forecasting. From Crystal Ball to Computer, available on-line at: http://www.forecastingprinciples.com

Complex information including links to complete articles on forecasting, glossary etc. http://www.forecastingprinciples.com

Advanced reading

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D. W. Bunn; M. M. Mustafaoglu (Nov., 1978), "Forecasting Political Risk", Management Science, Vol. 24, No. 15., pp. 1557-1567.

John R. Freeman; Brian L. Job, (Mar., 1979), "Scientific Forecasts in International Relations: Problems of Definition and Epistemology", International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1., pp. 113-143.

Kesten C. Green, J. Scott Armstrong (2007), "Structured analogies for forecasting", International Journal of Forecasting 23, pp. 365-376.

Roger B. Myerson (2007), Force and Restraint In Strategic Deterrence: A Game-Theorist's Perspective, available at: http://www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil/

Gene Rowea , George Wrightb (1999), The Delphi technique as a forecasting tool: issues and analysis, "International Journal of Forecasting" 15, pp. 353-375.

Scenarios Europe 2010. Five Possible Futures For Europe, Gilles Bertrand (Coord.), Anna Michalski, Lucio R. Pench, European Commission, Forward Studies Unit, Working Paper, July 1999.

Complex information including links to complete articles on forecasting, glossary etc. http://www.forecastingprinciples.com

International human rights protectionSeminarDavid Nieto-Rasiński, Ph.D.davidnr@poczta.onet.pl

Description

The aim of the seminar is a presentation of the main issues connected with international human rights protection and its impact on international relations. The following points will be discussed during the seminar: • History and present of human rights protection • International human rights protection law • Differences in human rights protection between countries • Institutions involved in human rights protection on international, regional and state level • The role of NGO’s in human rights protection • Human rights protection and international relations.

Program

1. “What Human Rights are?” During the first meeting students will learn what is the object of regulation and who is the subject of this rights

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2. “History of HR”. During this meeting students will learn the historical context of the evolution of HR and the main philosophical theories which created the fundament for its development.

3. “Relation between Human Rights, the national legal order and international law”. During this meeting students will learn how HR are protected in different levels of regulation and what are the most important legal acts, institutions and organizations.

4. “Prohibition of discrimination”. After an introduction to general aspects related with the understanding of what HR are the second part of the course is dedicated to study specific rights collected in regional and universal conventions. Every seminar is divided in two parts.

5. During the first part students will learn about the subject of regulation and all theoretical and political aspects connected with specific right and during the second part they will explore examples of real cases analyzed by international courts.

6. “Prohibition of torture”

7. “Right to life”

8. “Right to a fair trial”

9. “Right to respect for private and family life.”

10. “Freedom of expression.”

11. “Everybody is equal” Students will see a film produced by the Helsinki Foundation of HR where the concept of equality is explored from different perspectives (sociology, law, philosophy, etc.)

12. “Three generations of HR. New challenges” During this meeting students will learn about new challenges in the field of HR protection in a globalised and interdependent world.

13. “HR and international relations”. Student will learn how HR can be used as a political instrument of pressure in IR.

14. “Regional and universal system of HR protection”. Students will learn about the Council of Europe and the European Court of HR in Strasburg and the system of the United Nations.

15. Test

16. Evaluation.

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Reading

Marek Antoni Nowicki, What are Human Rights?, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw 1990

Wiktor Osiatyński, Human Rights and Their Limits, Cambridge 2009 (to be published in December)

Charter of the UN

Universla Declaration of Human Rights

Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

International Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.

European Social Charter.

European Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Introductory reading

Human rights in international law : basic texts / Council of Europe. Directorate of Human Rights., Strasbourg 1985

Concepts and Strategies in International Human Rights; ed. George J. Andreopoulos New York 2002.

Dictionary of international human rights law; Gibson S. John; London 1996.

The European Convention on Human Rights : cases and materials : a reader for students and practitioners; Herbert Petzold ; International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg.Koln1984

Advanced Reading

Fundamental rights in Europe : the European Convention on Human Rights and its member states, 1950-2000; ed. by Robert Blackburn and Jörg Polakiewicz, Oxford, New York 2001.

The EU and human rights, ed. by Philip Alston ; Oxford 1999.

Human Rights in the 'War on Terror', ed. by Richard Ashby Wilson, Cambridge 2005.

S. Power, G. Allison, Realizing human rights. Moving from inspiration to impact, Palgrave

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2006.

J. Symonides, Human Rights: New Dimensions and Challanges, Aldershot 1999.

United Nations Actions in Field of Human Rights, UN 1994 Bulletin of Human Rights

International protection of environmentSeminarJarosław Kotas, Ph.D.jahrek@poczta.fm

Description

We are all facing the ecological thread on a global scale and that`s why this topic is extremely important today. It provides the students with knowledge on the destruction of environment in different parts of the world and on the interactive character of that process. The next part of the course is a clarification of the possible policies, means, and actions towards the defense of environment together with deliberation over legal instruments aiming to spare our planet. The last part of the course will introduce to students so called rights of the III rd generation.

Program

1. The notion of ecology

2. The deep ecology versus official ecology

3. Methods implemented in environmental protection – individual actions, NGOs, Citizens actions, civil disobedience

4. Stages of the creation of environmental international law

5. Sustainable development

6. Environmental Protection within the framework of European Union

7. Policies of EU on the field of environment

8. Anthropopressure on environment and its results

9. Biodiversity

10. Climate changes

11. Ecological disasters

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13. Indian environmental thought – V.Shiva and K. Spivak

14. Cultural environment as a component of a healthy life

15. Summary

Reading

Mendes Ch., Fight for the Forest, Latin America Bureau 1989

Gillies D., A Guide to Environmental Law, London 1999

Birnie P., Boyle A.E., International Law and Environment, Oxford 2002

Introductory reading:

Johnson S.P., Corcelle G., The Environmental Policy of the European Communities, London 1995

Advanced reading:

Batchelor M., Brown K., Buddhism and Ecology, Delhi 1994

International relationsSeminarAndrzej Dybczyński, Ph.D.adybczynski@uni.wroc.pl

Description

The aim of the course is to introduce students to basic categories and processes in international relations. The structure of the course is build on the principle, that every phenomenon presented and analyzed theoretically during the lecture (e. g. power, war, alliance and so on) should be illustrated by a case study. Students are expected to apply more general knowledge to the analysis of the real international events. Also, the attention will be paid on universal character of international processes. Since the list of the topic may exceed the time f the course, students will be able to choose the topics they are especially interested in.

Reference to Global Issues in the Course: All the cases presented and analyzed during the course ( case study lectures) are influenced by long term, structural international processes. Also, the theoretical aspects of the course focus on historical and contemporary global phenomenon.

Program

1. Power and international relations

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2. Case study: Bosnia 1995

3. Actors in international relations

4. Case study: Chechnya 1994 - 1996

5. Crisis in international relations

6. Case study: Iraq 2003

7. Interdependence in world politics

8. Case study: 1973 oil crises

9. Alliances in world politics

10. Case study: Europe in 1930s

11. Causes of wars

12. Case study: The Great War 1409 - 1411

13. Privatization of war

14. Assymetric warfare

15. Case study: Poland, Palestine, Afghanistan

Reading

Aggestam, K., Jönsson, Ch. (1997) ‘(Un)Ending Conflict: Challenges in Post-War Bargaininig‘, Millennium. Journal of International Studies 26, 3, ss. 771-793

Keohane, R. O., Nye, J. S. (1989) Power and Interdependence Harvard: Harper Collins

Krasner, S.D. (red.) (1995) International Regimes. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press

Milner, H. (1991) 'The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A Critique', Review of International Studies, 42, ss. 67-87

Nation, R. C. (2002) War in the Balkans 1991-2002: Strategic Studies Institute, 2003, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubid=123

Snyder, G. H. Diesing, P. (1977) Conflict among Nations, Bargaining, Decision Making, and System Structure in International Crises Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press

Vasquez, J. A. (1996) ‘The Causes of the Second World War in Europe: A New Scientific Explanation', International Political Science Review, 17, 2, ss. 161-178

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Additional Reading

Baylis J., Smith S., (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics, Oxford University Press (v.editions)

Buzan, B. (1991) People, States and Fear. An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Frankel, B. (ed.) (1996) Realism: Restatements and Renewal London: Frank Cass

Waltz, K. N. (1979) Theory of International Politics USA: McGraw-Hill

Master thesisSeminarProf. Klaus Bachmannklabachmann@web.de

Description

During the winter semester, Prof. Bachmann offers a special Master seminar for second year students of Global Studies, which deepens issues dealt with during the methodological seminar of Prof. Karolewski. The seminar is thematically connected to the Transitional Justice lecture, Prof. Bachmann will be conducting at the same time, however, since the course addresses issues of general methodology in Social Sciences and the Humanities, it may also be useful for students preparing their theses on other issues than Transitional Justice (except for students of economics, since their methodology is too different).

Organization: After a short theoretical introduction, the seminar very quickly goes practical: Students will have to analyze a limited amount of data during a special game, then develop their own research design and criteria of analysis, later on, they will have to build hypotheses and operationalize them during short presentations. The course is extremely interactive and requires active participation of everyone, however, there is practically no homework connected to it.

Evaluation; A short oral test at the end of the semester.

Reading

The same as indicated in the methodological seminar of Prof. Karolewski. Since the course is very practical, no specific reading is required.

Politics in RussiaSeminar

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Prof. Andrey Zagorskizagorski@iair.ru

Description

The course seeks to respond to the main question of whether the reality of Russian politics supports the theory of a resurgent Russia returning into the World politics as global (great) power. Does Russia emerge as an eventual revisionist power seeking to replace the ”unipolar” world with the “multipolar” one, of which it would be one of the poles, or is it, rather, a status quo power unable to keep the existing status quo.

The symbols and manifestations of a great power performance are discussed against the background of remaining structural weaknesses of Russia.

Russian politics are discussed against the background of the yet open question of an appropriate participation of Moscow in the new European order, the continued differentiation and erosion of its immediate neighbourhood, and Russia’s mixed record as a partner in addressing modern global security challenges.

Program

1. Colloquium: Russian History and Politics (the foreign policy discourses, the status of the transformation and the foreign policy landscape of Russia)

2. Russian Foreign Policy Outlook (the doctrine of a multipoar world; multilateralism, unilateralism, and revisionism in Russian policy

3. Russia’s standing in the Global World (do available resources support the great power ambition; is Russia best described as a status quo power)

4. Russia in Europe (why is Russia unhappy with its status in the new European order; uneasy partnership with the European Union)

5. Russia and the United States (the asymmetry in US-Russian relations which are no longer central to the international order; the US-Russia agenda)

6. Russia and the Newly Independent States (the failure of the promise of new integration; erosion and differentiation of the Russian neighbourhood)

7. Russia in Asia (the challenge of the Russo-Chinese relations; Afghanistan at the core of cooperation with the West; a Russo-Chinese-Indian axis?)

8. Russia in the global world: does the reality match the ambition? (is Russia a revisionist or a status quo power, opportunities and limits of a partnership with the West in Europe and beyond)

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Reading

Roy Allison and Christoph Bluth (eds), Security Dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia. – London: RIIA, 1998.

Aurel Braun (ed), NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century. – London; New York: Routledge, 2008.

Cooperation between the European Union and Russia: A Matter of Mutual Interest. – The Hague: Advisory Council on International Affairs, 2008.

The Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation approved by Dmitry A. Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation on 12 July 2008, available at http://www.mid.ru/ns-osndoc.nsf/0e9272befa34209743256c630042d1aa/cef95560654d4ca5c32574960036cddb?OpenDocument

Dale R. Herspring (ed.), Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain. – Lanham, MD: Rawman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, 3rd edition.

Andrew Kuchins, Vyacheslav Nikonov, Dmitri Trenin, U.S.-Russian Relations: The Case for an Upgrade. – Moscow: Moscow Carnegie Center, 2005.

Sergei Lavrov, Russia and the World in the 21st Century, in: Russia in Global Affairs, No 3, July–September 2008, available at: http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/region-rfp/numbers/24/1210.html.

Atis Leiņš (ed.), The EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Towards Russia: The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement as a Test Case. – Riga: Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2006.

Mark Leonard, Nicu Popescu, A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations. – The European Council on Foreign Relations, 2007.

Roderic Lyne, Russia and the West: Is Confrontation Inevitable? In: Russia in Global Affairs, No 1, January–March 2008, available at: http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/region-rfp/numbers/22/1177.html

Roderic Lyne, Strobe Talbott, Koji Watanabe, Engaging with Russia: The Next Phase. A Report to the Trilateral Commission. – Washington; Paris; Tokyo: The Trilateral Commission, 2006.

Jeoffrey Mankoff, Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics. – Washington, D.C.: Council on Foreign Relations, 2009.

Rajan Menon, Alexander J. Motyl, The Myth of Russian Resurgence, available at: http://the-american-interest.com/ai2/article.cfm?Id=258&MId=8

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National Security Concept of the Russian Federation Approved by Presidential Decree No 24 of 10 January 2000, available at: http://www.mid.ru/ns-osndoc.nsf/0e9272befa34209743256c630042d1aa/b8d88f7503bc644fc325752e0047174b?OpenDocument.

Jeronim Perovic, Robert W. Orttung, Andreas Wenger (eds), Russian Energy Power and Foreign Relations. – London; New York: Routledge, 2009.

Prospects for a new EU–Russia Agreement, spotlight Europe, no 2008/08, July 2008.

Gilbert Rozman, Mikhail G. Nosov, Koji Watanabe (eds), Russia and East Asia: The 21st Century Security Environment. – Armonk; New York; London: M.E.Sharpe, 1999.

Russian Foreign Policy. – Brussels, The EU-Russia Centre Review, issue eight, October 2008.

Richard Sakwa, ed. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917–1991. – London: Routledge, 1999.

Hanna Smith, A Decade of Russian Membership of the Council of Europe, Helsinki, September 2006.

Text of the US-Russia Strategic Framework Declaration, April 6, 2008, available at: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/06/america/US-Russia-Text.php.

Georgy Toloraya, Russia’s East Asian Strategy: The Korean Challenge, in: Russia in Global Affairs, No 1, January–March 2008, available at: http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/region-rfp/numbers/22/1184.html

Andrey Tsygankov, Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity. – Lanham, MD: Rawman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

Elana Wilson Rowe, Stina Torjesen (eds), The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy. – London; New York: Routledge, 2009.

Andrey Zagorskiy, The CIS Model and its Relevance to the GCC, in: Dynamic Alliances: Strengthening Ties Between the GCC and Asia. – Dubai: The Gulf Research Center, 2006, pp. 113–132.

Advanced reading

Dale R. Herspring (ed.), Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain. – Lanham, MD: Rawman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, 3rd edition.

Russian Foreign Policy. – Brussels, The EU-Russia Centre Review, issue eight, October 2008.

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Richard Sakwa, ed. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917–1991. – London: Routledge, 1999.

Andrey Tsygankov, Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity. – Lanham, MD: Rawman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

Property and freedom: fundamentals of global prosperitySeminarProf. Witold Kwaśnickikwasnicki@prawo.uni.wroc.pl

Description

The main goal of the course is to discuss the role of property and economic freedom in civilization development (particularly to wealth of societies and their prosperity). The discussion will be focused on the long-term (historical) perspective. The course is partitioned into six interrelated blocs. First introductory lectures deal with overview of market economy and capitalism. It is followed by the second block on global issues focused on liberal view of globalization process. Next block consists of a series of lecture on general remarks concerning understanding of property, property system and the role of private property in the civilization development. Important question discussed is: ‘Are there alternatives to property system?'. The fourth block deals with the meaning of economic freedom and different measures of freedom (so called indices of economic freedom). The problems of mutual influences of freedom and property are also discussed. In the next block the problems of heterogeneity and diversity on the rate and course of economic development are discussed. It is accompanied by a discussion of revival of liberal ideas in the last three decades and its influence of globalization. This block ends with the description of neo-liberalism reforms in selected countries. The last block deals with description of evolution of financial and banking systems from the global perspective and description of possible social crisis caused by current trends of demographic structure changes of modern societies.

Reference to Global Issues in the Course: In general all problems of economic development will be discussed in a context of globalization process of the last decades. This is clearly seen in the content of the course - see below (‘Program of the course').

Program

1. Fundamentals of market economy (capitalism).

2. Statism versus liberalism: historical perspective.

3. Globalization (liberal view of globalization process; proponents and critics).

4. Globalization and poverty.

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5. Property and its role in economic development (property law, property and civilizations, entrepreneurship and property). Are there alternatives to property system? (interventionism and socialism's meanders).

6. Rule of law and socio-economic development.

7. Meaning of economic freedom. Relationship between economic and political freedoms.

8. Indices of economic freedom, entrepreneurship and innovativeness.

9. Economic freedom, property respect, economic development and wealth of nations

10. Diversity (of social behaviour, of income, etc) and economic development - global, national and regional perspectives.

11. Neo-liberalism - pros and cons.

12. Washington, Brussels and Copenhagen Consensuses.

13. Neo-liberalism reforms - case studies (Poland, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia, Estonia, Ireland, New Zealand, etc.).

14. Financial and banking systems from the global perspective (Causes of financial and monetary crisis; Free banking (the gold standard)).

15. Social crisis and demographic processes (necessity of social security revolution).

Reading

Dani Rodrik, One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth, Princeton University Press.

Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism

Tom Bethell , The Noblest triumph: Property and Prosperity Throughout the Ages

You Have to Admit It's Getting Better: From Economic Prosperity to Environmental Quality, Editor: Terry L. Anderson

Hanke Steve H. and Stephen J. K. Walters, Economic Freedom, Prosperity, and Equality: A Survey, The Cato Journal, vol. 17, no. 2.

Smith Vernon L., Human Betterment Through Globalization, A speech delivered at "Evenings at FEE" in September 2005.

Ayau Manuel, Not a Zero-Sum Game The Paradox of Exchange, Guatemala: Universidat Francisco Marrougim, 2007.

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Boudreaux Karol, Paul Dragos Aligica, Paths to Property. Approaches to Institutional Change In International Development, The Institute of Economic Affairs 2007.

Regulation Without the State, The Institute of Economic Affairs 2007

Shaohua Chen Martin Ravallion, The Developing World Is Poorer Than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight against Poverty, World Bank, 2008

Introductory Reading:

Mark Skousen, Economic logic: The first No-compromise Free-market textbook in College,

Gwartney James D., Stroup Richard L., What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity.

Tannehill Linda i Morris (1970), The market for liberty,

Golkany Indur M. (2007), The improving state of the World. Why we're living longer, healthier, more comfortble lives on a cleaner planet, Cato Institute.

Advanced Reading:

Mises Ludvig von, Human action. A treatise on economics

Reisman George, Capitalism. A treatise on economics

Research methods in social sciencesSeminarProf. Paweł Karolewskikarole@rz.uni-potsdam.de

Description

The seminar offers an overview of research methods in social sciences. The point of its departure is the basic terminology and concepts of research methods, such as Max Weber’s typology of explaining vs. understanding. Here, the seminar will discuss the issue of what social research consists of.

Next, the seminar will deal with questions concerning the research design. In this part, it will focus on the seminal work in research methods by King, Keohane and Verba. Following this, the seminar will discuss various issues linked to the research strategies. Here, the work of Charles Ragin and Stephen Van Evera will be the basis for discussion. The ensuing part will deal with methodological controversies, in particular those placed at the frontier between quantitative and qualitative methods.

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The final part of the seminar will deal with practical questions of research techniques such as writing excerpts, preparing protocols and term papers.

Reading

Charles C. Ragin (1994): Constructing Social Research, Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

Gary King/Robert P. Keohane/Sindey Verba (1994): Designing Social Inquiry, Princeton: Princeton University Press

Stephen Van Evera (1997): Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Security problems of PolandWorkshopSebastian Płóciennik, Ph.D.; Eugeniusz Smolar, president of the Centre of International Relations, Warsawsebape@onet.eu

Description

Poland, and in general the whole Eastern- and Middle Europe area, have faced massive security problems in its modern history. The countries of the region were existing in a difficult neighborhood of Russia and Germany, two ambitious superpowers of the 19th and 20th century, and under meddling of other, also non European players. The middle Europe was plunged into two world wars as a main stage of confrontation and that, in the second part of the 20th century into the cold war.

After the collapse of communism most of the countries decided to define its security interests over the integration in the Western institutions, like the NATO and the European Union. Another group of countries fell into economic and political stagnation, which led to a lack of a strategic decisions. Another case were the Balkan states, which, with the exception of Slovenia, entered into long year and bloody conflict.

Poland has been in the first group: in the 1990s it joined the NATO and in 2004 the EU. However, this time was not devoid of challenges. It has been, firstly, the weakening position of the United States in the global security system, involved in the difficult “wars against terrorism” in Iraq and Afghanistan. This has had rather a negative impact on the NATO and has created a pressure to rethink in a longer term some elements of the security policy. Secondly, it is the will of the EU to create its own security policy and military structures, which can be attractive for Poland, but might lead to weakening of the transatlantic cooperation. And third, it is the new rise of Russia, driven by high energy prices. Russia is trying to come back at the global stage and its ambitions are particularly perceptible in the

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Middle and Eastern Europe. In other parts of the world we can observe growing influence of other new powers, like China, India, Iran or Brazil, with unclear effect for the global security.

It should me mentioned, that also nature of the security has changed, or better to say, its production. Not a pure military power is important today, the amount of tanks and soldiers, because security must be threatened by other means. In this context we must consider the access to energy resources. Another issue is the challenge of the global terrorism, which need to be answered with a very sophisticated policy involving military power, development policy and nation building.

Having this very broad background we should try to assess the decisions of Polish governments, like engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, support for the post-soviet states in their approach to the West, protest against the North Stream pipeline and attempts to diversify the energy sources, building the anti-missile shield with the USA and the recognition of the independence of Kosovo.

The goal of the seminar is to connect all the questions and search for an optimal security strategy for Poland at the beginning of the 21th century. Students will acquaint with the issues during a short, but very intensive three-days stay in Warsaw. The seminar is organized together with the Center of International Relations (CSM), a leading Polish think tank. In the program there are lectures of experts, a visit in the institutions of the Polish government, as well a tour around the most interesting historical places of Warsaw.

The Networked Information Economy: political and economic consequences of the Internet and blogosphere

SeminarRafał Próchniak, Ph.D.burlap@gmail.com

Description

More-less since the late 1990s, the Internet has become the enabling tool for the free software and later for the free culture movements. Whether we treat these movements as ideology-driven political agendas (Free Software Movement), methodological innovations in production and distribution of information (open source and open access) or pragmatic and incremental improvements to the legal system (Creative Commons), they are a real opportunity to transform power over intellectual and cultural resources. Open collaboration based on different legal and organizational concepts breaks traditional property rights regimes and substitutes corporate hierarchies with horizontal peer to peer structures. Although abolishing private property or destroying corporations is by no means its goal (apart from some rather rare exceptions), it has the power to transform markets and policies towards more open and more inclusive modes of production.

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The course will focus on the transformation from the industrial to the networked information economy. This will include the economic and legal aspects of intellectual property and the Internet, emphasizing the role of the international trade system and international agreements in globalizing standards of production, protection and distribution of information goods. The strategies of open collaboration, first embodied in the free software movement, will be the starting point to discuss the transformation in different areas - from the economics of software production, through mass media and communication networks to patented drugs and agricultural technologies. Poland will be treated as a special case - the industrial information economy was introduced here in its later stage and the question how (or if) it may be transformed to the networked information economy remains open.

Reference to Global Issues in the Course: The Internet itself is a global phenomenon. Each regulation aimed at intellectual property or the Internet is enforced globally. And - from the other side - new methods of production enable global participation to a much more extent than in the industrial information economy.

Program

Introduction

1. Overview of the main topics: knowledge-based economy, Internet and intellectual property.

Legal and Economic Foundations

2. The starting point: the industrial information economy.

3. Property rights: how to establish economic and legal control over resources?

4. Basics of intellectual property rights: copyrights, patents, trademarks.

Transformation to the Networked Information Economy

5. Software: methods of development and protection.

6. Development of the Internet as we know it: the architecture of the World Wide Web, domain names and ISPs.

7. Web 2.0: user-generated content, blogosphere, peer 2 peer networks.

8. Peer production - theory, organization, motivations.

9. Open innovation, free software, open access: practical implementations of the peer production methodology.

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Economic and Political Outlook

10. Expansion of copyright: TRIPS, international harmonization, extended term and range of protection.

11. Commercial vs. non-commercial, amateur vs. professional: culture in the Internet.

12. Commons based strategies for development.

13. Networked information economy in transition countries. Where do we stand?

14. Debate: what to do with copyright?

15. The future of software and the Internet: towards control or participation?

Reading

Yoram Barzel, Economic Analysis of Property Rights

Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks

James Boyle, Software, Shamans and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society

Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet. Illusions of a Borderless World

Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture

Lawrence Lessig, Code version 2.0

Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Richard M. Stallman, The GNU Manifesto

Tiziana Terranova, Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy

Hal R. Varian, Economics of Information Technology

Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It

Introductory Reading

Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture. The Nature and Future of Creativity

Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source

Advanced Reading

David Landes, Richard Posner, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law

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Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation

Rishab Ayer Ghosh (ed.), CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy

Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

Theories of international relationsSeminarProf. Paweł Karolewskikarole@rz.uni-potsdam.de

Description and program

The course gives an overview of various theories in International Relations (IR). First, it is intended to give students a sense of how theories are constructed and what they reflect. Second, the aim is also to discuss some of the major theoretical developments in the field of International Relations. The course will introduce the students not only to different schools of thought but also to different methodologies and styles of research. The readings will focus on theoretical approaches and perspectives such as realism, institutionalism and constructivism. In addition, the course will use an issue-orientated approach by discussing major debates of the discipline of International Relations. It will include the issues of power, alliance-building as well as the role of institutions as, ideas and culture in the IR theory. Moreover, the course will discuss theoretical controversies such the thesis on democratic peace and the role of bureaucratic politics vs. personalities in explaining decision making in international politics.

Reading

Waltz, Kenneth. Theory of International Politics, ch. 3-6.

Axelrod, Robert. “The Emergence of Cooperation among Egoists,” American Political Science Review (June 1981).

Russett, Bruce and John O’Neal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (2001), (chap. 1-5).

Simon, Herbert. Administrative Behavior, 4th edition, 1997 (chap. 1-4).

Jervis, Robert. Perception and Misperception in International Politics, ch.1, 2.

Theory and politics of foreign aidSeminarDominik Kopiński, Ph.D.

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dominik.kopinski@ism.uni.wroc.pl

Description

Participants will be competent in comprehension of various motivations of foreign aid donors and recipients as well as identification and examination of the impact of foreign assistance on the economy of the receiving country.

After completion of the course the student will be skilled at studying the effects of foreign aid and recognize factors that influence its effectiveness. Also, participants will be able to formulate propositions on how to make foreign aid more efficient in terms of achieving development goals, allowing for economic and political challenges facing developing countries today.

Contents: During the course students will learn theoretical aspects, politics and mechanics of foreign aid. Background will be given on the history of foreign aid after the second world war and the theories and ideas upon which the practice of foreign assistance has been formulated. Participants will be provided with the knowledge of objectives and forms of foreign aid (financial, non-financial, technical, conditional etc.), types of foreign aid (multilateral, bilateral, private) and motives of donors as well as recipients. Of particular interests will be the impact of foreign aid on the economy and macroeconomic variables of countries receiving assistance. The course also aims at introduction to the debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid and for that reason will cover key arguments against and in favour of development assistance. Also, the contemporary challenges and issues of foreign aid, efforts and initiatives to increase its effectiveness will be presented and discussed.

Program

1. Introduction to foreign aid

2. Defining foreign/development aid

3. History and origin of foreign aid

4. Bilateral vs. multilateral aid

5. The political and commercial dimensions of aid

6. Public support for aid

7. Charity or duty? The moral case for aid

8. Assessing and measuring aid

9. Aid conditionality

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10. NGOs and foreign aid

11. Video: Foreign Aid and Developing Economies (Discussion)

12. Discussion based on the video Foreign Aid and Developing Economies

13. Why aid is not working?

14. Making aid work better - proposals

15. Essay results, notes, summing up

Reading

Easterly W., The Elusive Quest for Growth. Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, MIT Press, London 2001.

Easterly, W., The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, Penguin Press, New York 2006.

Finn T., Hjertholm P., Foreign aid and development: Lessons learnt and directions for the future, Routledge, London 2001.

Hoy, P., Players and Issues in International Aid, Kumarian Press, 1998.

Lancaster, C., Aid to Africa: So Much to Do, So Little Done, University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Riddell, R., Does Foreign Aid Really Work?, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Sachs, J., The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Penguin Press, New York 2005.

The politics of mass mediaWorkshopNissim Mannathukaren, Ph.D.nmannathukkaren@DAL.CA

Description and program

Human beings do not just inhabit a world that is objective and natural. It is also simultaneously a world that is constructed and subjective. This means that human beings develop and attribute their own meanings to the objective world they inhabit. Media, in the present juncture is one of the main agents of the creation of meanings, in essence, of cultural formation and change. Many contemporary theorists argue that much of reality is in fact, created by media. Modern culture is thus inextricably linked with global flows of media. At the same time, any understanding of media is impossible without understanding the

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larger framework of culture. The seminar will draw upon the rich theoretical debates that characterize the field of cultural studies.

The main question is how to understand media in the present? Can we take the position of some influential theorists like Marshall McLuhan or Jean Baudrillard who have argued that the medium itself is the message? But if we probe further, this appears an incomplete analysis which reduces media to its technological and formal effects. The content and message have no importance here. Therefore, it is imperative that these are analyzed as well along with what is intrinsic to different media technologies. Symbolic forms and media technologies used to disseminate them can ultimately be understood only by placing them in relation to the particular socio-historical context they are produced, distributed and interpreted. Media and the cultural are not autonomous dimensions but shape and are shaped by other dimensions of society like the economic and the political. This seminar will particularly explore the dynamics of media and its linkages with capitalist forms of development which are hegemonic in the present socio-historic context. The task is to go beyond the simplistic notions of mass media as the opium of the masses to understand its multiple and contradictory effects without at the same time ignoring the structural limitations imposed by capitalism. The crucial element that has to be recognized is that even as cultural forms and meanings embodied through mass media mainly legitimize the dominant forms of social relations, they also provide scopes for resisting the same. In that sense, they are not only a terrain for dominance, but also resistance.

The seminar will explore these dimensions by looking at some of the classic theoretical texts as well as examples from empirical contexts, both from the Global South and North. Such an interconnected paradigm is an unavoidable necessity in a globalized world. Some of these questions acquire a particular intensity in the South where the unique conjuncture of tradition and modernity ensure that forums like the mass media have multifarious and thoroughly contradictory effects. For example, the development of communication technologies like the internet have had a significant impact on the cultural meanings of human relationships and interaction especially in the South where the paradox of modern mass media becoming a vehicle for religious revivalism and fundamentalism and other regressive imaginations is more pronounced. Similarly, the irony of mass media offering new avenues of emancipation while continuing to be colonized by a few people is another facet that will be looked at.

Reading

What is Culture?

Raymond Williams, ‘The Analysis of Culture,’ in John Storey, ed., Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, New York, 1998, pp.48-56.

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Karl Marx, ‘Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas,’ in Storey, Cultural Theory, pp. 191-192.

Karl Marx, ‘Base and Superstructure,’ in Storey, Cultural Theory, p. 193.

Frederick Engels, ‘Letter to Joseph Bloch,’ in Storey, Cultural Theory, pp. 194-196.

The ‘Media Society’

Thompson, John. 1995. The media and modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press, Chapters 2 and 3 and 5

Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, Chapter 1.

Dwight Macdonald, ‘A Theory of Mass Culture’, in Storey, Cultural Theory, pp. 22-36.

Raymond Williams, ‘Advertising: the Magic System’, in During, Cultural Studies Reader, pp. 320-338.

The Dream ‘Factory’: Television and Film

Henry Giroux, ‘Hollywood and the Demonization of Youth: Beating up on Kids,’ in Channel Surfing, pp. 35-64.

Brian Larkin, ‘Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities,’ Africa, Vol. 67, No.3 (1997), pp. 406-440.

Moradewun Adejunmobi, ‘English and the Audience of an African Popular Culture: The Case of Nigerian Video Film,’ Cultural Critique 50, Winter 2002 (available online).

Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, ‘Goddess across the Taiwan Strait: Matrifocal Ritual Space, Nation-State, and Satellite television Footprints,’ Public Culture 16(2), pp.209– 238 (available online).

The Rise of Interactive Networks

Castells, Rise of Network Society, Chapter 5.

Thompson, John. 1995. The media and modernity, Chapter 5.

Vicente L. Rafael, ‘The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines, Public Culture, vol. 15 no. 3, 2003.

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Media and Democracy

Kevin Latham, “SMS, Communication, and Citizenship in China’s Information Society,” Critical Asian Studies, 39:2 (2007), 295–314.

Jens Damm, “The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society,” Critical Asian Studies, 39:2 (2007), 273–294.

T. T. Sreekumar, “Cyber kiosks and dilemmas of social inclusion in rural India,” Media Culture Society, 29, 2007.

The Implosion of the ‘Real: Postmodernism and Media

Poster, M (ed) (1988) Jean Baudrillard: selected writings. Cambridge: Polity [Chap 9]

Kellner, D (1989) Jean Baudrillard. Cambridge: Polity. [esp. Section 3]. Also see http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/ke1126.htm

Douglas Kellner, ‘Overcoming the Divide: Cultural Studies and Political Economy,’ in Marjorie Ferguson and Peter Golding, eds., Cultural Studies in Question, London, 1997.

Transitional justice and international criminal tribunals in a comparative perspective (L)LectureProf. Klaus Bachmannklabachmann@web.de

Description and program

The course concentrates on a special form of national and international justice, which has become increasingly popular during the last decade, both as a method of internal transition from dictatorship to democracy and a means of influencing social change from outside in concepts of peace building, conflict transformation and post conflict management. Different disciplines overlap in the TJ literature: ethnology, philosophy, political science, sociology, history and law. Transitional Justice as an academic topic is therefore truly interdisciplinary and global, with so called hybrid tribunals and truth commissions spreading like mushrooms all over the world, from Cambodia, South Africa, Chile, Peru, Argentine to Central and Eastern Europe, West Africa and East Asia.

The lecture provides an overview over the different notions, concepts and approaches to TJ, delivers the basic theoretical assumptions (from different angles) and categories of justice

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(from functional theories to concepts of retributive and restorative justice) and then discusses selected case studies, which have proven very influential politically and in terms of research agendas and the emergence of epistemic communities. Beginning with vetting procedures after World War II in Europe, the lecture brings an introduction into the different bureaucratic forms and proceedings of TJ and then discusses the efficiency and legitimacy of different forms of TJ, including the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg 1945/46. It then turns to more modern forms of TJ, like the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the most recent attempts to do justice after political transformation, like the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The problem of amnesty is addressed, both in the context of South Africa, Spain and Latin America and Central European vetting and prosecution schemes.

Special attention will be given to issues of globalization: In how far can the career of transitional justice and the development of international and internationalized courts be seen as a form of value proliferation, hegemonic discourse from developed countries to less developed ones, from the North to the South – from big countries to small countries? Is this a one – way development, or are there also concepts taking the opposite direction, as with the notion of “Ubuntu” and “reconciliation” in South Africa?

Evaluation and grading:

After the first introductory lectures, students may choose topics from a list in order to write short essays, which must a address one or several TJ issues. Such a paper should have between 5 and 10 pages (1800 letters per page, footnotes but no bibliography) In cases of doubts (if the quality of a paper is under question) the relevant students will have to pass an oral exam. Papers must be submitted the latest during the last lecture (end of January 2010).

Reading

Gary Jonathan Bass: Stay the hand of vengeance : The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. Princeton, Oxford : Princeton University press, 2000.

Romano, C. P.R. (ed.), Internationalized Criminal Courts and Tribunals : Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo, and Cambodia / ed. by Cesare P.R. Romano, Andre Nollkaemper, and Jann K. Kleffner. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Priscilla Hayner: Unspeakable truth. Facing the challenge of Truth Commissions. New York 2001.

Transitional justice and international criminal tribunals in a comparative perspective (S)SeminarProf. Klaus Bachmannklabachmann@web.de

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Description and program

The course continues the topics adressed during the lecture on Transitional Justice on a more interactive basis. The main topics are the same, however, students are now required to deepen their knowledge about the issues dealt with during the lecture, to do there own (limited) research, taking advantage of their cultural background and specific language skills and adopting theoretical concepts to the analysis of the issues. The course is strongly recommended for those students, who intend to dedicate their MA thesis to Transitional Justice or International Criminal Law, the course is complementary to the Master Course of Prof. Bachmann on Methodology.

Students work in a “workshop” atmosphere on the papers they (or other students) submitted at the end of the Lecture, adding theoretical concepts, analyzing methodology and structure of the papers. Students who intend to take part should have passed the Lecture on TJ successfully! Otherwise following the course in the second semester may be very difficult for them.

Students who intend to write their MA thesis on Transitional Justice can use the papers elaborated during the Lecture and Seminar on Transitional Justice as blueprints for their theses.

Evaluation and grading: The basis for grading are the final papers submitted by each participant during the course (until end of June 2010).

Reading

Gary Jonathan Bass: Stay the hand of vengeance : The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. Princeton, Oxford : Princeton University press, 2000.

Romano, C. P.R. (ed.), Internationalized Criminal Courts and Tribunals : Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo, and Cambodia / ed. by Cesare P.R. Romano, Andre Nollkaemper, and Jann K. Kleffner. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Priscilla Hayner: Unspeakable truth. Facing the challenge of Truth Commissions. New York 2001.

Richard A. Wilson: The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State Cambridge Studies in Law & Society 2006

There is an extensive amount of Internet resources and articles on Truth Commissions available at: http://www.feps.pl/transitional-justice

See also:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-transitional/

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Transition of power: concepts, approaches and empirical findingsSeminarProf. Paweł Karolewskikarole@rz.uni-potsdam.de

Description and program

The course deals with concepts, theoretical approaches and empirical findings of the phenomenon of transition of power (TOP). The subject of TOP is anchored in the scholarly debates on transformation. However, the course goes beyond the classical discourse on transformation to democracy and offers a broader theoretical and emprical angle.

It is organized in two thematic blocks. The first block introduces basic conceptual aspects of TOP and discusses theoretical approcches to the subject at hand. Here, the point of depature will be various concepts of power. Next, the course will discuss TOP in democratic politics (representation and citizenship), in the context of systemic transformation (democratisation and revolution), and in the context of societal change (globalization, societal differentiation, supranationalism).

The second block will focus on transition of power in Eastern and Central Europe. Here, the point of departure will be various models of democracy. Against this background, models of democratization, transition to democracy in Eastern and Central Europe (“reforma” versus “ruptura”), and the EU-Eastern enlargement (sovereignty pooling, delegation) will be discussed.

Reading

David Held, Anthony McGrew, and David Goldblatt (eds.), 1999, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Laurence Whitehead and Guillermo A. O'Donnell (eds.), 1986, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies, Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Adam Przeworski, 1991, Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

David Lane, 2007, The Transformation of State Socialism: System Change, Capitalism, or Something Else? Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Varieties of capitalism and institutional changeSeminarSebastian Płóciennik, Ph.D.

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sebape@onet.eu

Description

After the financial crisis 2008-2009 the mainstream economics has entered more intensively into a debate with its more heterodox, interdisciplinary branches. One of the most important issues is to how to define economy as a complex system of institutions. The goal of the seminar is to bring some arguments of the debate closer to the students and present the most important approaches of the institutional economics. The first part of the seminar is a theoretical introduction explaining the issues of growth, complexity and institutions. The second part is devoted to one specific, but increasingly popular approach Varieties of capitalism. The third part consists of case studies applying the institutional perspective.

Program and Reading

Part I: Theoretical fundaments and debates

1. Economic growth

Rodrik, Dany, Growth diagnosis, in: One economics, many recipes. Globalization, Institutions and economic growth, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford 2007, p. 56-84.

2. A paradigm shift in economic growth

Beinhocker, Eric D., The origin of wealth. Evolution, complexity and the radical remaking of economics, Business Book, London 2007. Chapter 1: A paradigm shift, p. 3-77.

3. What are institutions?

North, Dogulass C., Institutional change: a framework for analysis, http://129.3.20.41/eps/eh/papers/9412/9412001.pdf

Hodgson, Goeffrey, What are institutions, Journal of economic issues, XL, March, 1/2006.

4. Institutions and economic growth

Rodrik, Dany, Institutions for high quality growth, in: One economics, many recipes. Globalization, Institutions and economic growth, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford 2007, p. 153-183; Getting institutions right, p. 184-194.

5. New comparative economics

Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, New comparative economics, NBER Working Papers, No. 9608, www.nber.org/papers/w9608

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Part II: Varieties of capitalism approach

6. Varieties of capitalism

Peter A. Hall, David Soskice, An introduction to Varieties of Capitalism, in: Peter A. Hall, David Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism. The institutional foundations of Comparative Advantage. Cambridge, Berlin: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 1-70: www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-924774-9.pdf

7. Relations between institutions. Complementarities

Boyer, Robert, Coherence, diversity and the evolution of capitalism: the institutional complementarity hypothesis, Discussion Papers 076, Interfaces for advanced economic analysis, Kyoto University, 2005.

8. Reformulation of VoC,

Becker, Uwe, Open systemness and contested reference frames and change. A reformulation of the varieties of capitalism theory, Socio-Economic Review, No. 5, 2007, p. 261–286

9. Public debate

Part III: case studies

10. Japan and Germany as economic systems

Yamamura, Kozo, Streeck, Wolfgang, Convergence of diversity? Stability and change in German and Japanese Capitalism, in: Yamamura, Streeck, The end of diversity? Prospects for German and Japanese capitalism, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2003, p. 1-50.

11. Poland: path dependence and informal Institutions

Kochanowicz, Jan, The Polish economy and the evolution of dependency, in: J. Kochanowicz, Backwardness and Modernization. Poland and Eastern Europe in the 16th-20th centuries, Rulington 2006.

Winiecki Jan, Determinants of Catching Up or Falling Behind: Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions, Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2004.

12. Corruption and institutions

Andvig, Jens, Christina, Corruption and fast change, World Development Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 328–340, 2006.

13. Varieties of capitalism in Eastern Europe

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Buchen, Clemens, East European Antipodes: Varieties of Capitalism in Estonia and Slovenia. Varieties of capitalism and hybrid success, Prepared for the Pre-Publication Conference “Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries” at Paisley University on 23-24 September 2005.

14. De Cecco, Marcello, Italy's dysfunctional political economy, West European Politics, Vol. 30, No. 4, 763 – 783, September 2007.

15. Final exam

Welfare economicsSeminar Konrad Czernichowski, Ph.D.kcz@wp.pl

Description

Objective: The subject is designed especially for the students who would like to deepen their knowledge of economics. Welfare economics features an approach of not only describing the economy, but also appraising its working.

Contents: Being conscious of the basic rules in the economics, it is possible to try to give one's own personal opinions. It should give a lot of satisfaction to students interested in this domain of knowledge, which is very important in the international relations. The reached competencies will be verified in practice during one of the last classes through the discussion on the efficiency of the Fair Trade movement.

The aim of the classes is not only to show theoretic aspects of welfare economics, but also to encourage to use them in a day-to-day life. It will be reached by solving tasks. Smart calculations will prove full understanding of such issues, like the role of the state in the economy, the necessary concurrence between companies, nationalisation and privatisation. Moreover, the student will acquire the skill of arguing clearly in favour of certain solutions of the economic policy.

Program

1. Describing the syllabus. The term of welfare economics. Industrial and vertical equity. Pareto-efficient allocation. Marginal product of labour.

2. The second best allocation. Market failure. Reasons for market distortions. Classification of externalities.

3. Internalization of externalities. Costs and benefits of nuclear power plants. Taking decisions in the conditions of determination, risk, uncertainty and ignorance.

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4. Factors influencing in workability of collecting information. Features of products that can be assessed before and after buying them. "Pensioners" and "businessmen". Negative selection of producers. Advertisement as a reliable signal. Low and high context societies.

5. Marginal and average tax rate. Private and public goods.

6. Pure waste. Minimalization of waste appeared after imposing tax on wages. Rising efficiency e.g. by imposing a tax on tobacco. The Laffer curve.

7. Oxford debate "Progressive or flat tax?"

8. Costs and profits of monopoly.

9. Competition. EU competition policy.

10. Range of EU competition rules. Forbidden agreements. Group and individual exclusions. Distributive and vertical agreements.

11. Industrial policy.

12. Nationalization and privatization. Idea of Fair Trade.

13. The crisis of welfare state in Scandinavia?

14. Test.

15. Discussing the results of the test.

Reading

D. Begg, S. Fischer, R. Dornbusch, Economics, McGraw-Hill Education, Maidenhead 2005, pp. 257-331.

www.fairtrade.net, www.ifat.org, www.worldshops.org, www.eftafairtrade.org

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