WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES

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Compulsory

This course offers to students advanced knowledge of political science about the key policy-making institutions and selected policies of the world political system. Focus is on the lessening throughput of American hegemony institutions and policies and on the next structure of government of the global political system.

Attinà Fulvio (2011), The global political system, Palgrave Macmillan

• Ayoob Mohammed (2007), Challenging hegemony: political Islam and the North-South divide, in “International Studies Review”, 9, 4, 616-628.
• Chase-Dunn Christopher and Kirk S. Lawrence (2011), The Next Three Futures, Part Two: Possibilities of Another Round of US Hegemony, Global Collapse, or Global Democracy, in “Global Society”, 25, 3, 269-286.
• Nexon Daniel H. and Iver B. Neumann (2017), Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account, in “European Journal of International Relations”.

Students are assessed for the active participation in the class debate and the quality of the discussion papers and ‘final paper’. The latter is the approx. 6000-word-long analysis of one of the class themes. The paper is forwarded by email to the instructor by the exam date.

All the students will participate in the class discussions. They are required to study the chapter on schedule and write a two-page ‘discussion paper’ before the class. The discussion paper is the outline of the key points, concepts, and terms of the chapter, and the student’s remarks about the chapter topics and issue(s). The paper is sent by email to the instructor before the lesson day (normally by Saturday).