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/lessons

To follow the events and understand the most important processes of the international scene.

Understand the transformations elapsed in the last decades, the social, political and

economic organization of the new world.

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

I – INTRODUCTION

– Nature, purpose and methodology of the discipline

– Specificity of the social phenomenon of international relations

II – THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

– Concept of the Theory of International Relations

– Classical School of International Relations (Realistic Theory)

– School of Transnationalism (Idealist Theory)

– Marxist Theory of International Relations

– Theories partial

– Theories of conflict

– Theory of strategy

– Integration of theory

III – SOCIOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The multipolar world

– Japan and the United States

-The BRICs (Brazil, India, Russia and China)

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

International Organizations as actors of International Relations

International Political Systems

– Rules and laws of operation

– Types of international systems

– Geopolitics

– Geostrategy

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