International Economic Relations

Students must have knowledge about:

– the environment (micro and macro) that condition and dynamize the markets where companies and institutions operate in the international market;

– the decision-making process at the management level, having the analysis of international markets;

– the factors of competition of companies and institutions in international markets.

Theoretical-practical classes with explanation of the syllabus by the professor and group work.

Objectives:

Present the most relevant events and processes in the global environment.

Explain global developments in recent decades and their social, political and economic adjustments.

Describe the international context, with special emphasis on the transformations that have taken place in Europe.

Skills:

Be able to follow events and understand the most important processes on the international scene.

Understand the transformations that took place in the last decade of the 20th century and the social, political and economic processes of the new organisation of the world.

Understand the current situation in the world as well as in contemporary European civilisation.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Nature, purpose and methodology of the discipline

1.2. Specificity of the social phenomenon of international relations

2. THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

2.1. Concept of the Theory of International Relations

2.2. Classical School of International Relations (Realistic Theory)

2.3. School of Transnationalism (Idealist Theory)

2.4. Marxist Theory of International Relations

2.5. Theories partial

2.6. Theories of conflict

2.7. Theory of strategy

2.8. Integration of theory

3. SOCIOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

3.1. The multipolar world

3.1.1. Japan and the United States

3.1.2. The BRICs (Brazil, India, Russia and China)

3.1.3. The rest of the world: Africa, Asia and the Arab countries

3.2. International Organizations as actors of International Relations

3.3. International Political Systems

3.3.1. Rules and laws of operation

3.3.2. Types of international systems

3.3.3. Geopolitics

3.3.4. Geostrategy

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